Abed AL-Nasser Abdallah

Dr. Abed Al-Nasser Abdallah is Professor of Accounting and Interim Chief Operating Officer at AUS. He gained his PhD in Accounting and Finance from the Lancaster University Management School.

In this position, Dr. Abdallah has responsibility for Finance, IT and IT Security, Sustainability, Human Resources and Employee Services, Facilities, Campus Development and Auxiliary Operations.

Before joining AUS, Dr. Abdallah held the position of assistant professor of accounting at University of Bath, UK. His research interests include international listing of shares, information disclosure, corporate governance, earnings management, mergers and acquisitions, corporate risk disclosure, analyst following and management accounting. His teaching interest comprises both financial and managerial accounting for the undergraduate and graduate (MSA, MBA, EMBA) levels. He has taught EMBA courses in the UK, Athens and Oman. He has also been involved in the executive education programs at University of Bath and AUS. He has eight years of industry experience (1991-1998) as an accountant, chief accountant and manager. Dr. Abdallah served as the Head of the Department of Accounting in the AUS School of Business Administration from September 1, 2020 to May 31, 2023, after which he was appointed as the Interim Chief Operating Officer at AUS.

Teaching Areas

Financial and managerial accounting, and accounting for governments and not-for-profit organizations, for both undergraduate and MBA/EMBA

Research Areas

Managerial accounting, financial accounting, international listing of shares, financial disclosure, corporate governance, earnings management, Islamic versus conventional institutions, and financial analysts' activities

Education

• PhD, Accounting And Finance, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, 2004
• MS, Accounting And Finance, Essex University, United Kingdom, 2000
• Other, License Degree In Management And Marketing, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 1995
• Other, License Degree In Accounting And Finance, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 1994

Professional Experience

• American University of Sharjah
  • Interim Chief Operations Officer Jun 2023 -
  • Head and Professor of Accounting Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
  • Associate Professor of Accounting Sep 2011 - Sep 2020
  • Assistant Professor Of Accounting Aug 2006 - Aug 2011
• Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd - Master Dissertation Supervisor (Summer time) Jul 2016 - Oct 2021
• University of Bath - Assistant Professor Of Accounting Aug 2004 - Aug 2006

Publications

• Abed Abdallah And Heba Abouelsood. Shadow Banking and capital adequacy
• Anis Samet, Abed Abdallah And Wissam Abdallah. The Geography and Determinants of ADR Holdings, Quarterly Review Of Economics And Finance, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023
• Abed Abdallah And Rana Hamdan. The relationship between CRS and firm performance: A literature review
• Wissam Abdallah, Svetlana Mira And Abed Abdallah. National culture and corporate investment efficiency, International Review Of Financial Analysis
• Abed Al Nasser Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Mohsen Saad. The impact of national culture on the synchronicity of cross-listed firms, Finance Research Letters
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Mohsen Saad. Do Institutional Characteristics of Developing Economies Influence Investment Sensitivity to Cash Flow and Tobin’s q? The Case of the MENA Region, International Finance, 3 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah And Wissam Abdallah. Does cross-listing in the US improve investment efficiency? Evidence from UK firms, The Quarterly Review Of Economics And Finance, 4 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019
• Abed Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Feras Salama. The Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in the European Insurance Industry, The Geneva Papers On Risk And Insurance-issues And Practice, 2018
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah And Wissam Abdallah. Does cross-listing increase managers' propensity to listen to the market in M&A deals?, Journal Of Corporate Finance, 4 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah And Ahmad Ismail. Corporate governance practices, ownership structure, and corporate performance in the GCC countries, Journal Of International Financial Markets, Institutions And Money, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017
• Abed Abdallah, Mostafa Hassan And Patrick Mcclelland. Islamic financial institutions, corporate governance, and corporate risk disclosure in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Journal Of Multinational Financial Management, 2015
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah, Mostafa Hassan And Patrick Mcclelland. Islamic financial institutions, corporate governance, and corporate risk disclosure in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Journal Of Multinational Financial Management, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2015
• Aa Abdallah And Mostafa Hassan. The determinants of corporate risk disclosure in the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, 2014
• Abed Abdallah And Wissam Abdallah. Is it really a bonding, an avoidance, or a characteristics choice? An analysis of foreign listing on low versus high investor protection markets, Journal Of Corporate Ownership And Control, 2014
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah, Musa Darayseh And Elaine Waples. Incomplete Contract, Agency Theory and Ethical Performance: A Synthesis of the Factors Affecting Owners' and Contractors' Performance in the Bidding Construction Process, Journal Of General Management, 1 June 2013
• Ahmad Ismail And Abed Alnasser Abdallah. Acquirer's return and the choice of acquisition targets: does acquisition experience matter?, Applied Economics, 4 May 2013
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Ahmad Ismail. Do accounting standards matter to financial analysts? An empirical analysis of the effect of cross-listing from different accounting standards regimes on analyst following and forecast error, The International Journal Of Accounting, June 2012
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Mohsen Saad. The effect of cross-listing on trading volume: reducing segmentation versus signaling investor protection, Journal Of Financial Research, 2 December 2011
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah And Christos Ioannidis. Why do firms cross-list? International evidence from the US market, The Quarterly Review Of Economics And Finance, May 2010
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah, Wissam Abdallah And Yu Zhu. The Market Reaction to Banks' Overseas Listing: Evidence from American Depositary Receipts, Journal Of Financial Decision Making, 2009
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah. Do regulations matter? The effects of cross-listing on analysts' coverage and forecast errors: A comparative analysis, Review Of Accounting And Finance, 2008
• Abed Alnasser Abdallah And Wei Li. Why Did ABC Fail at the Bank of China?, Management Accounting Quarterly, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2008