Mohammad Bitar
Assistant Professor in Finance, Finance, Risk, and Banking division, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham
I hold a PhD degree in Finance from Grenoble Alps University in France and qualified by the French National Council of Universities (CNU). I am currently an assistant professor in finance at the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS), United Kingdom. Prior to my appointment, I worked as an assistant professor in finance at the John Molson School of Business (JMSB), Concordia University, Canada. I also had two post-doctoral fellowships. The first fellowship was at the David O’Brien Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Montreal, Canada. The second fellowship was at the Research Center Dedicated to Banking and Finance, Limoges, France. I teach research methods in banking, bank theory, operations and management, and bank risk management, and measurement courses to MSc. students at NUBS. Previously, I taught analysis of markets and management of financial institutions courses to undergraduate students at JMSB. I also taught courses in financial and monetary economics, international banking systems, financial management and analysis, financial diagnostics, investment choices, financial mathematics, and advanced statistics at Grenoble Alps University.
Areas of Interest:
- Advanced Econometrics
- Data Analysis Techniques
- Data Mining
- Statistics
Education:
- Ph.D. in Finance, Grenoble Alps University, France, 2011–2014
- Master 2, Research Business Management (Finance), Lebanese University, Lebanon (with Grenoble Alps and Aix Marseille Universities), 2010–2011
- Maîtrise, Finance and Financial Institutions, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 2009–2010
- B.A., Finance and Financial Institutions, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 2006–2009
Experience:
- Assistant Professor in Finance, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK, 2019 – Present
- Scholar-in-Residence, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada, 2017 – 2019
- Post-Doctoral Fellow in Finance, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada, 2015 – 2017
- Post-Doctoral Fellow in Finance, Research Center Dedicated to Banking and Finance, University of Limoges, France, 2015 – 2016
Latest Publications:
- Bitar, M., Ben Naceur, S., Ayadi, R., Walker, T. (2020). Basel compliance and financial stability: Evidence from Islamic Banks, Journal of Financial Services Research, forthcoming. (AJG 3)
- Bitar, M., Hassan, M.K., Saad, W. (2020). Culture and the capital–performance nexus in dual banking systems, Economic Modelling 87, 34–58. (AJG 2)
- Bitar, M., Pukthuanthong, K., Walker, T. (2019). Efficiency in Islamic vs. conventional banking: The role of capital and liquidity, Global Finance Journal, in press. (AJG 2)
- Bitar, M. Tarazi, A. (2019). Creditor rights and bank capital decisions: Islamic vs. conventional banks, Journal of Corporate Finance 55, 69–104. (AJG 4)
