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

Factors correlated with equity market risk premiums in developed and emerging markets (with Vijaya B. Marisetty), Quantitative finance (2010)

Traditional time series or cross-sectional regression procedures yield mixed evidence on maintained hypotheses about the...

 

Sticky prices and time to equilibrium: Evidence from Asia-Pacific trade-related economies (with Catherine S. F. Ho), Applied economics (2010)

The theoretical relation between exchange rate and prices has been a difficult proposition to find...

 

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What factors discriminate developed and emerging capital markets? (with Guoma Alrgibi and Louis Murray), Applied economic letters (2010)

This article identifies variables that might help an analyst to classify a stock market as...

 

The determinants of bank capital ratios in a developing economy (with Rubi Ahmad and Michael J. Skully), Asia-Pacific financial markets (2009)

This paper reports new findings on the determinants of bank capital ratios. The results are...

 

Money supply behaviour in emerging economies: A comparative analysis (with Zatul E. Badarudin and Ahmed M. Khalid), Journal of the Asia Pacific economy (2009)

This paper reports new evidence consistent with the post-Keynesian hypothesis of money endogeneity for hitherto...

 

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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...

 

Fixed income markets: Malaysia and Singapore (with F. F. Cheng and W. H. Neo), , (2009)
 

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

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

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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...