Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy - University of Queensland Master in Business Administration - University of Wisconsin-Madison Bachelor of Social Science Honours - The University of Singapore Certified Management Accountant - Institute of Certified Management Accountants Ariff is a Professor of Finance at Bond University, a private university in Australia. Previously, he held the chair in finance for over 10 years and served as head of Monash University’s Finance faculty for six years. For 14 years, he worked at The National University of Singapore teaching finance, prior to taking the finance chair in Monash. He received his post-graduate education at the University of Wisconsin Madison and The University of Queensland (PhD) after an upper II honours degree from The University of Singapore. He is an author of a leading McGraw-Hill text-book: Investments by Bodie, Ariff, DaSilva, Kane and Marcus while his 4 research books are standard references on share and bond markets in Malaysia and Singapore. His research articles in international journals and books are widely cited. He has worked as a visiting scholar/fellow/professor in several universities: Boston; Harvard; Melbourne; Tokyo (1992; 2008); UCD of Ireland (1991; 2004); University of Evansville (2004); and UUM (CIMB Chair 1997-2002). He served from 2004-2006 as the elected president of the 23-year old Asian Finance Association, which is associated with the Pacific Basin Finance Journal and the International Review of Finance. He is a recipient of three national (ARC) research grants in Australia, and four more awards tenable in Australia, Japan and the USA. He is occasionally invited to give conference speeches. He is a current recipient of a large Australian Research Council grant. His research interests cover a wide area of financial economics: money & finance; corporate performance; exchange rate; investment management & performance; bank risk modeling; taxation; governance; Islamic finance; corporate finance; emerging markets; capital markets; IMF interventions; bank management.
Articles
Accounting earnings response coefficient: An extension to banking shares in Asia Pacific countries (with Cheng Fan Fah), Advance in accounting, incorporating advances in international accounting (2011)
This paper reports new finding on earnings response coefficients for banking firms on how...
Sticky prices and time to equilibrium: Evidence from Asia-Pacific trade-related economies (with Catherine S. F. Ho), Applied economics (2011)
The theoretical relation between exchange rate and prices has been a difficult proposition to find...
Money supply endogeneity and bank stock returns (with Z. E. Badarudin and A. M. Khalid), Applied financial economics (2011)
This article presents results of tests on two related hypotheses on money
supply. The first relates...
A guide to Islamic banking, Banking and Financial Institutions (2011)
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This chapter is a guide to the essential operating principles and practices of Islamic banking...
Banking products - Ethical issues of equitable returns to savings, Ethics in Financial Transactions & Society: The way forward (2011)
Modern banking, which developed with full backing of the loan book some 400 years ago,...
Books
The foundations of Islamic banking: Theory, practice and education, The foundations of Islamic banking: Theory, practice and education (2011)
This comprehensive book brings together eminent Islamic finance scholars to explore the theory, principles and...
Bond markets in Malaysia and Singapore (with Cheng Fan Fah and Neoh Vee Heng), Bond markets in Malaysia and Singapore (2009)
This book is about two bond markets respectively in Malaysia and Singapore. The book describes...
Capital markets in Malaysia: Corporate finance, investment management, banking and corporate governance (with Mohamad Shamsher, Hassan Taufiq, and Nassir Annuar Md), Business papers (2008)
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The study of emergent capital markets has become an established field of financial...
Book Chapters
Ethics-based financial transactions: An assessment of Islamic banking, The Foundations of Islamic Banking- Theory, practice and eductation (2011)
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This is an analytical chapter with the modest aim of assessing a 48-year old experiment...
Performance of Islamic banks and conventional banks (with Mohammad K. Badar, Shamsher M., and Taufiq Hassan), The Foundation of Islamic Banking: Theory, practice and education (2011)
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In this chapter an attempt is made for the first time to assess the financial...
A simple guide to Islamic banking and finance, Handbook for directors of financial institutions (2008)
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This chapter is a guide to the essential principles and practices of Islamic banking...
Corporate governance: The case of Australian banks (with Mohammad Z. Hoque), Corporate governance in banking: A global perspective (2007)
Extract: This chapter attempts to provide a summary report on the status of corporate governance...
Conference Papers
GFC: Origin, consequence and cost (with Ahmed Khalid), New Zealand Governance Centre (NZGC) 2010 Symposium - Global financial crisis: The way forward (2010)
Bank stock returns under money supply endogeneity: Empirical evidence using panel data (with Zatul Effawaty Badarudin and Ahmed M. Khalid), The 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009 (2009)
There is as yet a study of money supply effect on the aggregate bank stock...
Worldwide comparison of financial efficiency of Islamic banks and conventional banks, The centre for Islamic law and society - One-day colloquium: Between radicalism and liberalism? Islamic law in Southeast Asia (2007)
This paper reports policy-relevant findings from a major study on the financial performance of conventional...