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Professor Ali Ataullah

Professor Of Finance

The Open University Business School

ali.ataullah@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

I started my academic career as a research associate in 2004 in Loughborough University. Prior to joining the Open University as a Professor in Finance in August 2017, I was a reader in corporate finance and the director of postgraduate research programme in the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University. 

Research interests

My current research interests include personal and corporate finance. I have published in academic journals of international excellence, including Abacus, Accounting and Business Research, British Journal of Management, European Financial Management, European Journal of Finance, Financial Review and Human Resources Management (US).

I welcome high quality PhD applications in corporate finance, organisational economics and public finance. My ongoing research focuses on the significance of asymmetric information and agency problems within organisations (public and private). 

Teaching interests

I have extensive teaching experience in Financial Management & Corporate Policy, Advanced Corporate Finance, Financial Risk Management and Financial Derivatives at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have also taught on full-time and executive MBA programmes. 

Publications

Journal Article

What explains delays in public procurement decisions? (2023)

Social capital, environmental justice and carcinogenic waste releases: US county-level evidence, 1998–2019 (2023)

Institutional Investor Heterogeneity and Corporate Response to the Covid‐19 Pandemic (2022)

Corporate diversification and downsizing decisions: International evidence from sharp and sudden performance shocks (2022)

Residual Government Ownership in Public-Private Partnership Projects (2021)

Optimistic Disclosure Tone and Conservative Debt Policy (2018)

Time-varying managerial overconfidence and corporate debt maturity structure (2018)

Employee Productivity, Employment Growth, and the Cross-Border Acquisitions by Emerging Market Firms (2014)

Insider Trading and Financing Constraints (2014)

Corporate Diversification, Information Asymmetry and Insider Trading (2012)

A modified Corrado test for assessing abnormal security returns (2011)

Large Shareholders, the Board of Directors and the Allocation of Cash Proceeds from Corporate Asset Sell-offs (2010)

Non‐linear equity valuation (2009)

A wave function for stock market returns (2009)

The Distributional Properties of the Debt to Equity Ratio: Some Implications for Empirical Research (2007)

Equity prices as a simple harmonic oscillator with noise (2007)

Real (adaptation) options and the valuation of equity: some empirical evidence (2006)

Economic reforms and bank efficiency in developing countries: the case of the Indian banking industry (2006)

Financial repression and liability of foreignness in developing countries (2004)

Financial liberalization and bank efficiency: a comparative analysis of India and Pakistan (2004)

Report

Disabilities, Long-term Illnesses and Financial Wellbeing (2024)