Dr. Suha Alawi

Associate Professor of Finance, King Abdulaziz Uinversity, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Suha Alawi

Associate Professor of Finance, King Abdulaziz Uinversity, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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2 March 2022 in Journal of Risk and Financial Management

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Impact of Financial Innovation and Institutional Quality on Financial Development in Emerging Markets

Financial innovation and institutional quality play a key role in financial development. This study investigates the impact of financial innovation and institutional quality on financial development in an emerging markets setting. We used the sample of 17 emerging markets based on the availability of data from the period 1990–2020. Data were extracted from the World Development Indicator database. In this study, panel unit root, fully modified ordinary least squares and Pedroni Integration tests were applied to analyze the data. We find that financial innovation and institutional quality are significantly and positively related to financial development. Better financial innovation increases financial development, whereas low institutional quality in an emerging market can deteriorate financial development.

14 March 2022 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research

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Information transmission in regional energy stock markets

Muhammad Abubakr Naeem

20 December 2021 in International Journal of Financial Studies

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The Role of Ownership Structure and Board Characteristics in Stock Market Liquidity

Corporate governance plays a significant role in the value of shareholders and share prices, hence stock market liquidity is affected. Previous research has mainly focused on the issue in developed markets, whereas in developing countries there is a need to analyze the influence of corporate governance on stock market liquidity. Therefore, the present study aims to examine the impact of ownership structure and board characteristics on stock market liquidity of non-financial firms of South Asian countries such as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India. The data in the study is collected from the DataStream for the 2011–2020 period. The study uses a fixed effect model for the analysis of the data and hypotheses testing and generalized method of moments (GMM) is used to check the robustness of the results. The findings of the study indicate that institutional ownership, board size, board independence, and CEO duality have a significant and positive impact on stock market liquidity, whereas managerial ownership has a significant and negative effect on stock market liquidity.

30 November 2020 in Risks

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Portfolio Construction by Using Different Risk Models: A Comparison among Diverse Economic Scenarios

We aim to construct portfolios by employing different risk models and compare their performance in order to understand their appropriateness for effective portfolio management for investors. Mean variance (MV), semi variance (SV), mean absolute deviation (MaD) and conditional value at risk (CVaR) are considered as risk measures. The price data were extracted from the Pakistan stock exchange, Bombay stock exchange and Dhaka stock exchange under diverse economic conditions such as crisis, recovery and growth. We take the average of GDP of the selected period of each country as a cut-off point to make three economic scenarios. We use 40 stocks from the Pakistan stock exchange, 92 stocks from the Bombay stock exchange and 30 stocks from the Dhaka stock exchange. We compute optimal weights using global minimum variance portfolio (GMVP) for all stocks to construct optimal portfolios and analyze the data by using MV, SV, MaD and CVaR models for each subperiod. We find that CVaR (95%) gives better results in each scenario for all three countries and performance of portfolios is inconsistent in different scenarios.

18 March 2024 in International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues

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The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility, Ownership Structure, and Gender Diversity in Firm Performance

Suha Alawi

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is now at the heart of corporate sustainability, and as such should have a significant impact on firm performance. However, the ownership structure (OS) is one element in the inner functioning of corporate governance (CG). Further, diversity by gender is one of the variables affecting FP. This paper examines the impact of CSR, ownership structure and gender diversity on FP. That is, we use panel data from non-financial firms in South Asian economies. Data for the years 2010-2022 are drawn from players 'DataStream. We use fixed effect, GMM (generalized method of moments) analysis and propensity score matching to study the data. However, we discover CSR and ownership concentration as well as institutional ownership and gender diversity have positive impacts on FP. study provides the policy implications for both investors and firms. As FP increases with more CSR activities, investors prefer to invest in firms that are more socially connected. Firms should provide more chances to the women on the board to improve performance. Further, ownership structure helps to overcome agency costs, therefore, investors are more attracted to provide funds to the firms that have a higher share of concentrated and institutional ownership.

1 January 2019 in Asian Economic and Financial Review

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Relationship between Capital Requirement, Ownership Structure, and Financial Performance in Saudi Arabian Listed Companies

Suha Alawi

About Me

Dr Suha Alawi is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics & Administration at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr Alawi was awarded her Ph.D. in Finance from Bath University in 2013 (UK) and a Master’s degree in Finance & Investment in 2007 from Exeter University (UK). She was appointed the head of the finance department in 2014 until 2020. She has published many studies in high impact factor journals and has been awarded a research grant from KAU. Her research focuses on studying implementation and consequences of market regulation, corporate governance, green finance, and international finance. In addition, she is a board member of Al Faisaliah Women Welfare Society and has been the Deputy Finance Director since 2020, and has been a member of the Scientific Association of Investment and Finance since 2014. Furthermore, Dr Alawi is a member of the advisory committee for establishing the Private University Hospital at KAU and a member of the executive committee to create the Financial Sustainability Plan for KAU. Dr Alawi has an extensive working experience inside and outside the Kingdom in several international financial institutions, including the HSBC group in Jeddah and the Royal Bank of Scotland in the UK.

Dr. Suha Alawi

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