• LAPE, Université de Limoges, France (2009-2013)
  Doctor of Philosophy in Economics – (Specialization: Money, Finance and Banking)

• CentER Graduate School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (2008-2009)
  Master’s in Finance (Specialization: Corporate Finance & Banking)

• Amsterdam Business School, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007-2008)
  Master’s in International Finance (Specialization: Mathematical Finance)

• Faculty of Economics, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Iran (1997-2000)
  Master’s in Economics

• Higher Education Institute of Banking, Iran (1994-1997)
  Bachelor’s in Banking

Book Review

• Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance. By Daromir Rudnyckyj, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2020, 20(20), 1-4

Guest Editorship

• Special Issue on Islamic Banking: Stability and governance (with Amine Tarazi), Global Finance Journal, 2020, in press. Available online 23 May 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.gfj.2020.100540

Journal Articles

• Flood, Farms and Credit: The Role of Branch Banking in the Era of Climate Change (with Seyed Javad Kashizadeh and Steven Ongena), Journal of Corporate Finance 85, 2024, 102544.

• Formalism versus Purposivism in Islamic Jurisprudence: The Case of Islamic Finance Law, Religions, 2023, 14: 465,
  https: //doi.org/10.3390/rel14040465

• Resilience of Environmental and Social Stocks under Stress: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Kais Bouslah, Christopher Neumann, and Amine Tarazi), Financial Markets, Institutions & Instruments, 2022, Available online 25 June 2022, DOI:10.1111/fmii.12166

• Stock price synchronicity and price informativeness: Evidence from a regulatory change in the U.S. banking industry (with Kais Bouslah and Yeliangzi Zheng), Finance Research Letters, 2020, in press. Available online 12 August 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101678

• Female Board Representation, Risk-taking and Performance: Evidence from dual banking systems (with Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Ahmad Fraz and Arshad Hassan),Finance Research Letters, 2020, in press. Available online 30 May 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101541

• How informative are stock prices of Islamic banks? (with Kais Bouslah, Shatha Qamhieh Hashem and Liang Song), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2020, 66, 1-17.

• Accounting Regulations, Enforcement, and Stock Price Crash Risk: Global Evidence in the Banking Industry (with Ming Li, Dean Johnson, Liang Song and Saipeng Xing), Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, 2019, 15(3), 1-17.

• Lending, the Poor, and Islamic Scripture: Islamic Finance versus Welfare Islam, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2019, 87(2), 460-482.

• Non-interest Income and Bank Lending (with Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi), Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018, 87, 411-426.

• Heterogeneous Market Structure and Systemic Risk: Evidence from Dual Banking Systems (with Paolo Giudici and Shatha Hashem), Journal of Financial Stability, 2017, 33, 96-119.

• Finance-Growth Nexus and Dual-Banking Systems: Relative Importance of Islamic Banks (with Iftekhar Hasan and Amine Tarazi), Journal of Economic Behvior & Organization, 2016, 132, 198-215.

• Islamic banking and finance: Recent empirical literature and directions for future research (with Shahid M. Ebrahim, Philip Molyneux, and Amine Tarazi), Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29(4): 637-670.

• Risk in Islamic Banking (with Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi), Review of Finance, 2013, 17(6), 2035-2096.

Working Papers

• Marketplace Lending: A Resilient Alternative in the Face of Natural Disasters? (with Hossein Doustali and Steven Ongena)
• The Sale of Failed Banks: The Importance of their Branch Networks and of the Acquirers’ Financial Strength (with Amine Tarazi, Morteza Abdollahzadeh and Lawrence J. White), Available at SSRN

• Postgraduate courses: Banking & Finance, Econometrics, Alternative Investment

• Undergraduate courses: International Banking, Investment