Yassine Bakkar
Assistant Professor of Finance, Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast
Yassine Bakkar is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Queen’s Business School at the Queen’s University Belfast, and research member of the Africagrowth Institute. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université de Limoges (LAPE). His primary fields of research include financial economics, financial intermediation, quantitative macroeconomics and empirical banking, with a focus on systemic risk and financial stability issues in the financial markets. He served as visiting researcher (Economist) at the Central Bank of Lithuania and the Central Bank of Malaysia, and consultant for several institutional and EU projects, and got several research grants from e.g.: Institut Louis Bachelier, Robert Bosch Stiftung fund, ANR, Dora+ mobility, Erasmus+, etc. His papers have been published in various academic journals including Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Financial Stability; Economics Letters; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money; Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice; and Applied Economics.
- Financial Economics
- Financial Intermediation
- Macroeconomics
- Empirical Banking
- Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. 2021–2023
- Ph.D., Economics, Université de Limoges–LAPE, France. Thesis: “Systemic risk, bank charter value, capital structure and international complexity: Evidence from developed countries”. 2014–2018
- MSc., Bank: Risks and Markets, Université de Limoges–LAPE, France. 2011–2013
- Assistant Professor in Finance, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, 2021 – Present
- Consultant, Central Bank of Lithuania and Central Bank of Malaysia, 2021–2023
- Post Doctoral Researcher, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, 2018–2021
- Lecturer in Banking and Finance, Université de Limoges–LAPE, France, 2016–2018
- 2024, "Transportation resilience under Covid-19 uncertainty: a traffic severity analysis", Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, (with Q. Peng, L. Wu, W. Liu, R. Kou, & K. Liu).
- 2023, “Does banks’ systemic importance affect their capital structure adjustment process?”, Journal of Banking and Finance (with O. De Jonghe and A. Tarazi).
- 2022, "Borrower- and lender-based macroprudential policies: what works best against bank systemic risk?", Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, (with N. Apergis and A. F. Aysan).
