I am a Dean’s Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the NUS Business School. I am currently the Director of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN), a university-level research institute at NUS. I recently served as the Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Finance) Programme and the Research Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI). 

I have taught in various educational programs, including executive education, in courses involving portfolio theory, equity, fixed income assets, options, futures, investment strategies, and risk management.  My current research interests focus on the effects of geographic factors on various economic outcomes, including sustainability and environmental issues.  I also work on research questions related to the effects of ownership structure on corporate decisions, and the role of various economic agents in disturbing and maintaining market efficiency.

My research has been published or forthcoming in top economics and business journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Review of Finance, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis . My research papers have also been presented at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association annual meetings, and the NBER Summer Institute.  I am also a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute  (ECGI), and a Scientist at the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF).

Research Interests:

• The effects of geographic factors on economic decisions and outcomes, including sustainability and environmental issues

• Corporate finance: Security issuance, financial misconduct, capital structure, internal capital market

• Investments: Mutual fund, institutional investors, equity analysts, local bias

• Behavioral finance

• Corporate social responsibility and corporate environmental performance

• Labor economics: Discrimination

• See my papers here

Teaching Experience: 

Investments, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance

@NUS 

• NUS | FIN 3102 (Investments – BBA elective)

• NUS | FIN 3116 (Options and Futures – BBA elective)

• NUS | FIN 3131 (Fixed Income Securities – BBA elective)

• NUS | BMF 5322 (Introduction to Finance – MSc Finance foundation)

• NUS | BMF 5332 (Foundation of Investments – MSc Finance core)

• NUS | BMD 5301 (Intro to Finance for FinTech Professionals – MSc Digital Financial Technology)

• NUS | BMA 5307 (Options and Futures – MBA elective)

• NUS | FIN 6004 (Empirical Asset Pricing and Microstructure – PhD; co-teaching with Prof. Allaudeen Hameed)

• Rating over the last 5 years: 4.4-4.8 on 1-5 scale

@SMU Dallas

• SMU | FINA 4325 (Advanced Financial Management – BBA junior/senior)

• SMU | FINA 6216 (Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing – MBA elective)

• SMU | FINA 6220 (Options – MBA elective)

@UT Austin

• UT | FIN 357 (Business Finance – BBA junior)

Contact:

Department of Finance

NUS Business School

National University of Singapore

15 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245

Phone: (+65) 6516-1403

sulaeman at nus dot edu dot sg