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DR. ADNAN AHMAD

Associate Professor

Institute of Business Studies & Leadership , Garden Campus

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Biography:

Dr. adnan ahmad is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Institute of Business Studies & Leadership, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM).

I have earned my PhD in Accounting from Massey University New Zealand. My thesis investigated stock price synchronicity (co-movement) of stock prices in stock exchanges in a cross-country environment covering 40 capital markets of the world consisting of both developed and developing countries. Specifically, thesis investigated the effects of investor protection institutional environment and the use of firm fundamentals information on investors� decisions in capital markets around the world. Read More...

Postal Address:

Abdul Wali Khan University
Garden Campus
Shiekh Maltoon Mardan KPK, Pakistan.

PROFILE

Academics

Year	Qualification	Institute
2013	Ph.D	Massey University New Zealand
2010	MS / M.Phil	Massey University New Zealand
2001	BS Hons / Master	University of Peshawar
1998	B.A / B.Sc	University of Peshawar
1996	HSSC	BISE Peshawar
1994	SSC	BISE Peshawar

Academic Experience

From	To	Post Held	Organization
2020-08-20		Associate Professor	Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
2013-10-13	2020-08-19	Assistant Professor	Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

Publications (Total No. of Publications 9)

Title	Journal	DOI
The Resilience of Central Bank Interest Rate on the Association of Financial Leverage and Firm Performance	Abasyn Journal of Social Science	0
Growth and Productivity Analysis of Microfinance Sector: A Case Study of Pakistan	Global Social Science Review	010.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).10
Does Voluntary Disclosure improve Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan	NICE Research Journal	0
Corporate Governance and Firm Efficiency: Empirical Study of Pakistan	Review of Economics and Development Studies	0
Pakistani Firms� Efficiency: An empirical Study of Pakistan Stock Exchange through Data Envelopment Analysis	Global Social Science Review	http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).10
The Impact of Corporate Governance on Earnings Management: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan	Journal of Research in Social Sciences	0
The Impact of GDP, Inflation, Exchange Rate, Unemployment and Tax Rate on the Non-Performing Loans of Banks: Evidence from Pakistani Commercial Banks	Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities	0
Assessing Macroeconomic and Country Level Institutional Factors as determinants of Non-performing Loans of Banks: Evidence from Pakistani Commercial Banks	Journal of Managerial Sciences	0
Corporate Governance as a Determinant of Stock Price Synchronicity: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan	Global Regional Review	http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2017(II-I).20

Conferences

Year	Level	Country	City	Conference
2015	International	United States	Kentucky	Teaching Pedagogy and Seminar Development at University of Kentucky, US
2014	International	United States	Atlanta, Georgia	American Accounting Association Atlanta Georgia, United States
2012	International	Australia	Melbourne	PhD Symposium at La Trobe University, Australia.
2011	International	Hong Kong/China	Hong Kong	Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE), Hong Kong
2009	National	New Zealand	Auckland	Auckland Regional Accounting Symposium, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Awards

Year	Awarding Organization	Description
2008	Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan	Overseas Scholarship for MS Leading to PhD
2015	US Department of State	Awarded fellowship/Training at University of Kentucky, US
2012	Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	Best Paper Award in Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand conference for the paper titled, �Investor Protection, Firm Fundamentals Information and Stock Price Synchronicity�
2012	La Trobe University Australia	Best Research Proposal Award, PhD Symposium at La Trobe University Australia. Awarded Travel and Accommodation grant for the conference at Melbourne, Australia.
2011	Massey University New Zealand	Awarded travel and accommodation grant to attend Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong to present my paper.

Memberships

From	To	Title	Organization
2015-04-09	2020-12-26	Member	US Alumni in Pakistan

Courses Taught

Course Code	Type	Title	University	Semester

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Fundings

From	To	Type	Title	Source	Amount
2015-04-09	2015-06-16	Teaching/Fellowship	US-KP Universities Consortium for Post Doc and Teaching Pedagogy	US Department of State	990000
2016-10-10	2016-10-14	Training and Development Program for University Teachers	Continuous Professional Development Program	Higher Education Commission of Pakistan	330000
2016-10-24	2016-10-28	Research Methodology Training for University Teachers and MS/PhD Students	Continuous Professional Development Program	Higher Education Commission of Pakistan	330000

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