Hazem
Daouk
Peter J. &
Stephanie J. Nolan Associate Professor
Dept. of Applied
Economics & Management
On sabbatical leave
until June 2010
35 Quai de Grenelle, Tour de Mars –A-
75015 Paris
France
Fax: (331) 45-78-63-88
E-mail: hd35 at
cornell.edu
Website:
http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd35/
Vita
Research
Impact
· In academia: number of citations (excluding self-cites) is 153.
· In the US media: research featured in Barron’s, Boston Globe [article], Business Week [article], Chicago Tribune, Economic Intuition, Money Magazine, Reuters News and the Washington Post.
· In the foreign media: research
featured in the Economist (UK) [article],
Financial Times (UK), The Age (
· Ranked 269th out of 129,622 total authors on the Social Science Research Network (ssrn.com) in terms of total number of paper downloads (over 17,000).
Selected Working Papers
Evidence
of Institutional Insider Trading Before Merger and Acquisition Announcements
(with G. Li from Securities Litigation & Consulting Group).
Below is the smoking gun figure from the
paper. It shows abnormal volume from institutions starting 30 days before the M&A
announcements!
Is Unlevered Firm Volatility Asymmetric? (with D. Ng).
Presented at the January 2007 American
Finance Association annual meeting.
Market-Wide Short-Selling Restrictions (with A.
Charoenrook).
Conditional Skewness of Aggregate Market Returns (with A.
Charoenrook).
Best Paper in Investments Award Offered by
the Southwestern Finance Association, 2005.
Publications
When No
Law is Better Than a Good Law (with U. Bhattacharya), Review of Finance, 2009, vol 13, p 577-627.
Do
Investors Learn about Analyst Accuracy? A Study of the Oil Futures Market
(with C. Chang and A. Wang), Journal of
Futures Markets, 2009, vol 29, p 414-429.
A Geopolitical Theory of Oil Price Behavior: An Econometric
Evaluation (with A. Slaibi and D. Chapman), Applied Economics, 2009.
Capital Market Governance: Do Securities Laws Affect Market Performance? (with C. Lee and D. Ng), Journal of Corporate Finance, 2006, vol 12, p 560-593.
Switching
Asymmetric GARCH and Options on a Volatility Index (with J. Guo), Journal
of Futures Markets, 2004, vol 24, p 251-282.
The
World Price of Earnings Opacity (with U. Bhattacharya and M. Welker), Accounting
Review, 2003, vol 78, p 641-678.
The World
Price of Insider Trading (with U. Bhattacharya), Journal of Finance,
2002, vol 57, p 75-108. Reprinted in Claessens S. and L. Laeven (ed), 2006, A
Reader in International Corporate Finance, World Bank, Herndon, VA, USA.
Application of Neural Networks to an Emerging Financial Market: Forecasting and Trading the Taiwan Stock Index (with M. Leung and A. Chen), Computers and Operations Research, 2002.
Using
Investment Portfolio Return to Combine Forecasts: A Multiobjective Approach
(with M. Leung and A. Chen), European Journal of Operational Research,
2001, vol 134, p 84-102.
When an
Event Is Not an Event: The Curious Case of an Emerging Market (with U.
Bhattacharya, B. Jorgenson, and C. Kehr), Journal of Financial Economics,
2000, vol 55, p 69-101.
Forecasting
Stock Indices: A Comparison of Classification and Level Estimation Models
(with M. Leung and A. Chen), International Journal of Forecasting, 2000,
vol 16, p 173-190. Reprinted in Batchelor R. and P. Dua (ed), 2002, Financial
Forecasting, Edward Elgar Publishing, Surrey, UK.
Forecasting
Exchange Rates Using General Regression Neural Networks (with M. Leung and
A. Chen), Computers and Operations Research, 2000, vol 27, p 1093-1110.
Selected
Honors & Awards
Reviewer for the National Science Foundation.
Nomination for the Smith Breeden Award for
Best Paper in the Journal of Finance.