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  • Huson Joher Ali Ahmed, Ph.D

  • Job Title :

    Assistant Professor

  • College :

    College of Business Administration


  • Department :

    Accounting & Finance


Dr. Huson Joher Ali Ahmed is an Australian citizen, from Geelong Victoria. He obtained his Ph.D (Finance) from Malaysian Graduate School of Management, UPM in 2000. A quality-oriented, self-directed and driven academic with 2+ decades of teaching and research experience in Finance. Lastly associated with Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Australia as Senior Lecturer – Finance.

His current research focus on empirical/applied corporate finance and investment, energy finance and housing studies.  He has published more than 35 journal articles, majority of which are index with Scopus.  His publications appear in  Accounting and Finance (ABDC- A), Annals of operation research ABDC- A), international Review of Financial AnalysissABDC- A), Journal of Futures Markets (ABDC: Rank-A), Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money(ABDC: Rank-A), Global Finance Journal (ABDC: Rank-A), Applied Economics(ABDC: Rank-A), Applied Energy(ABDC: Rank-A), Energy Policy(ABDC: Rank-A), Economic Modelling(ABDC: Rank-A), Journal of Policy Modelling(ABDC: Rank-A), Pacific-Basin Finance Journal(ABDC: Rank-A), North American Journal of Economics and Finance(ABDC: Rank-B*), Journal Asian Economics (ABDC: Rank-B) and Applied Economic Letters(ABDC: Rank-B) just to name a few. His papers have been widely cited with total citations of more than 1400.

Committed to teaching excellence at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He   brings the real world into the classroom and provides students with the same the facilities used by the world’s leading banks, corporations, and government agencies to enhance their academic studies across a wide range of disciplines. On the professional leadership, he has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for some top journals including Journal of Banking and Finance (Rank-A*), Economic modelling (Rank-A), Energy economics (Rank-A*) just to name few. He attended and presented some top conferences including American Finance Association conference, Finance Down Under, by University of Melbourne.

Ph.D. (Finance)                                                                                                                                                                                                       2000

 

Putra Business School (PBS) (Formerly known as Malaysian Graduate School of Management), University Putra Malaysia. The PBS is a leading business school accredited by AACSB and ABEST21.

 

MBA (Finance)

School of Management, University of Science Malaysia (USM)                                                                                       1995

 

BBA (Hons)

International Islamic University (IIUM), Malaysia                                                                                                                                             1994

 

 

  1. Billah, M; AHMED, H. J. A; Hossain, M., and  Alam, R. (2025), Dynamic spillover and connectedness between FinTech and Islamic banking markets: Evidence from country-level data with portfolio implications, International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management (forthcoming..), ABDC-B, Q1 (Finance), Index with SSCI. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-11-2024-0538
  2. Azad, A.S.M.S., Hayat, A. & Ahmed, H.J.A (2024). Does the energy sector serve as a hedge and safe haven?. Ann Oper Res 339, 369–395 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-023-05707-6 (ABCD rank-A, Q1)
  3. Ahmed, HJ, Azad, S, Poon, WC and Safiullah, MD (2023): Is there a CSI-leverage nexus?, International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol.89 (ABCD Rank-A, Q1)
  4. Ahmed, H.J, Muttakin, M.B and Khan, A. (2022), Firm-level political risk and corporate innovation: evidence from US listed firms, International Journal of Managerial Finance, (https://www.emerald.com/insight/1743-9132.htm), (ABDC Rank A, Q2) (index in Scopus)
  5. Wadud, IKM., Bashar, O, Ahmed, H.J and Dimovski, W. (2022), Property Price Dynamics and Asymmetric Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty: New Evidence from the Australian Capital Cities, Accounting and Finance. (ABDC Rank A, Q1) (index in Scopus)

 

  1. Narayan, PK, Gong, Q, and Ahmed, H.J (2022), Is there a pattern in how COVID-19 has affected Australia’s stock returns? Applied Economics Letter. (pg.1-4) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank B, Q3)
  2. Ahmed, H.J(2020), Income expectations, credit to households, and property prices: Evidence from Indonesia and Brazil, Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, Vol. 23, pp. 33-60 ( Q3)

 

  1. Wadud, IKM, Ahmed, H.J, and X Tang, X (2020), Factors affecting delinquency of household credit in the U.S.: does consumer sentiment play a role? North American journal of economics and finance, Volume 52, p. 1-17, (Elsevier)  ( index in Scopus) (Rank-B*)

 

  1. Narayan, PK, Ahmed, H.J, and Narayan, S (2017), Can investors gain from investing in certain sectors? Journal of international financial markets, institutions, and money ,Vol. 48, pp. 160-177. (Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Ahmed, H.J and Wadud, IKM (2017), Oil price volatility and sectoral returns uncertainties: evidence from a threshold-based approach for the Australian equity market, Journal of developing areas, Vol. 51, pp. 329-342. (Tennessee State University) (ABDC Rank B)

 

  1. Wadud, IKM and Ahmed, H.J (2016), Oil price volatility, investment, and sectoral responses: the Thai experience, Journal of developing areas, Vol. 50, pp. 357-379. (Tennessee State University) (ABDC Rank B)

 

  1. Narayan, PK, Ahmed, H.J, and Narayan, S (2015), Do momentum-based trading strategies work in the commodity futures markets?  Journal of Futures Markets, Vol. 35, pp. 868-891. (Wiley) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Narayan, PK, Narayan, S, Popp, S and Ahmed, H.J, (2015), Is the efficient market hypothesis day-of-the-week dependent? Evidence from the banking sector, Applied economics, Vol. 47, pp. 2359-2378. (Taylor & Francis) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Ibrahim, M, and  Ahmed, H.J (2014), Permanent and transitory oil volatility and aggregate investment in Malaysia, Energy Policy, Vol. 67, pp. 552-563, (Elsevier) ( index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Narayan, PK, Ahmed, H.J, Sharma, S, and Prabheesh KP(2014), How profitable is the Indian stock market? Pacific-Basin finance journal, Vol. 30, pp. 44-61, (Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Narayan, PK,  Ahmed, H.J(2014), Importance of skewness in decision making: evidence from the Indian stock exchange, Global finance journal, Vol. 25, pp. 260-269, (Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Bashar, O,  Wadud, ikm, and  Ahmed, H.J (2013), Oil price uncertainty, monetary policy, and the macro economy: The Canadian perspective, Economic Modelling, (2013), Vol. 35, pp. 249-259,  (Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Thuraisamy, K, Sharma, S, and Ahmed, H.J (2013), The relationship between Asian equity and commodity futures markets, Journal of Asian Economics,(2013), Vol. 28, pp. 67-75, (Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank B)

 

  1. Ahmed, H.J, Bashar, O, and Wadud, Ikm (2012), The transitory and permanent volatility of oil prices: What implications are there for the US industrial production? Applied Energy, Vol. 92, pp. 447-455, (Elsevier)  (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Wadud, IKM, Bashar, O  and  Ahmed, H.J (2012), Monetary policy and the housing market in Australia, Journal of Policy Modeling,  Vol. 34, pp. 849-863(Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Ahmed, H.J, and  Wadud, ikm (2011), Role of oil price shocks on macroeconomic activities: An SVAR approach to the Malaysian economy and monetary responses, Energy Policy, Vol. 39, pp. 8062-8069, (Elsevier) (index in Scopus) (ABDC Rank A)

 

  1. Ahmed, H.J (2007), Malaysian unit trust performance: selectivity, market timing and diversification: comparative analysis of single and multi-index models, European journal of economics, finance and administrative sciences, pp. 51-64. (*) (index in Scopus)
  2. Ahmed, H.J (2007), Asymmetric recognition of good and bad news at Malaysian capital market, European journal of economics, finance and administrative sciences,  pp. 15-20. (index in Scopus)

 

  1. Ahmed, H.J, Hassan, A, and Nasir, A (2005), The relationship between trading volume, volatility and stock market returns A test of mixed distribution hypothesis for a pre and post crisis on Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Vol. 2, pp. 146-158. (Index in SCOPUS) (ABDC Rank B)

 

Research and Scholastic Collaborations

Effectively developed research collaborations with the following team:

  • Professor Guohua: North Texas University, US.
  • Professor Paresh Narayan Kumar: Monash University, Australia
  • Professor Mansor Ibrahim: INCEIF, Malaysia
  • Associate Professor Poon Wei Chin: Monash University Malaysia
  • Associate Professor Arifur Khan, Deakin University, Australia
  • Associate Professor Susan Sharma, Deakin University, Australia
  • Dr. Aziz Hayat: Department of Finance, DBS, Deakin University, Australia
  • Dr. Sohel Azad: Department of Finance, DBS, Deakin University
  • Dr. Mokhtarul Wadud: University of Sydney
  • Dr. Omar Bashar: Department of Economics, DBS, Deakin University, Australia
  • Dr. Mohammad Muttakin, Department of Accounting, DBS, Deakin University, Australia

 

 

CERTIFICATION

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    WORK EXPERIENCE

College of Business Administration, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU)                                                               Aug 2021 – Present

Assistant Professor of Finance. (AACSB Accredited)

 

https://faculty.pmu.edu.sa/PMUFaculties/Details/haliahmed

As the assistant professor of finance, I have been assigned to lecture both courses for undergraduate level and graduate level courses including regular MBA and executive MBA program. Currently I am also involved supervising independent research for MBA students . I am also serving as course coordinators for Financial Investment, International Finance, and Financial Statement Analysis. Recently I was also involved developing the curriculum for Master of Science in finance at PMU.

 

Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Australia                                                                                                                        2009– 2020

Deakin Business School is an internationally accredited business school in the top 1% of business schools globally. Deakin Business School is one of only 150 schools worldwide to hold both AACSB and EQUIS accreditation.

Senior Lecturer, Finance (Deakin University)                                                                                                                                      2016 – 2020

 

Lecturer, Finance    (Deakin University)                                                                                                                                                       2009 – 2015

 

 

School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, Malaysia (Australian Branch Campus)                                    Sep 2005 – Dec 2008

Senior Lecturer, Finance/Head of Department

  • Appointed as an acting head of the department in 2006, later appointed as the Head of the department from 1st January 2007 for two years.
  • As the head of the department within the School of Business, I was involved in the recruitment process, peer performance evaluation of staff members, curriculum design, and laisse the department with the Main campus at Bentley, Australia.
  • Through my leadership, the department of finance and Banking, introduced a virtual stock trading program to give exposure to student’s real-life trading environment and to enrich student learning experiences. The students learned much from their involvement in the exposure.

 

Jeddah Community College, King Abdul Aziz University, Saudi Arabia                                                                           Oct 2004 – Sep 2005

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

 

University Putra Malaysia (UPM)                                                                                                                                            Jun 2000 – Oct 2004

LECTURER

My Academic career began with UPM, where I had the opportunities to teach regular undergraduate program, executive undergraduate program, MBA program, master of science in finance program and doctoral program. Within same period, I managed to supervise more than 10 undergraduate projects, 39 MBA projects, 11 master of science theses, and 2 doctoral theses. I also served in various committee as part of the university services.

 

INVESTMENTS

SECURITY AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

MONEY AND BANKING

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

ADVANCED FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

ADVANCED ASSET PRICING

EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE

MARKET MICRO-STRUCTURE AND ASSET PRICING

HOUSING AND ENERGY RESEARCH

GEOPOLITICAL RISK AND THE INVESTMETN BEHAVIOUR

  • Member, Western Finance Association (WFA)
  • Member, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)
  • Member, American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM)