Professor Mohamed Ariff presents guest lecture on Endogenous Money Supply and Bank Stock Returns

Professor Mohamed Ariff, Professor of Finance at Bond University, Australia, presented a guest lecture entitled 'Endogenous Money Supply and Bank Stock Returns' at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences on January 4, 2012.

About the speaker

Mohamed Ariff is a Professor of Finance at Bond University, a private university in Australia. Previously, he held the chair in finance for over 10 years and served as head of Monash University’s Finance faculty for six years. For 14 years, he worked at The National University of Singapore teaching finance, prior to taking the finance chair in Monash. He received his post-graduate education at the University of Wisconsin Madison and The University of Queensland (PhD) after an upper II honours degree from The University of Singapore. He is an author of a leading McGraw-Hill text-book: Investments by Bodie, Ariff, DaSilva, Kane and Marcus while his 4 research books are standard references on share and bond markets in Malaysia and Singapore. His research articles in international journals and books are widely cited. He has worked as a visiting scholar/fellow/professor in several universities: Boston; Harvard; Melbourne; Tokyo (1992; 2008); UCD of Ireland (1991; 2004); University of Evansville (2004); and UUM (CIMB Chair 1997-2002).

He served from 2004-2006 as the elected president of the 23-year old Asian Finance Association, which is associated with the Pacific Basin Finance Journal and the International Review of Finance. He is a recipient of three national (ARC) research grants in Australia, and four more awards tenable in Australia, Japan and the USA. He is occasionally invited to give conference speeches. He is a current recipient of a large Australian Research Council grant. His research interests cover a wide area of financial economics: money & finance; corporate performance; exchange rate; investment management & performance; bank risk modeling; taxation; governance; Islamic finance; corporate finance; emerging markets; capital markets; IMF interventions; bank management.