Research

Publications

1. Sarker, M. S., & Elnahas, A. (2025). CEO cultural heritage and corporate social responsibility. Journal of Corporate Finance, 102857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2025.102857

2. Sarker, M. S. R., Mazumder, S., & Amin, M. R. (2023). Oil price uncertainty, workplace misconduct, and cash holding. International Review of Financial Analysis, 89, 102757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102757

3.  Amin, M. R., Akindayomi, A., Sarker, M. S. R., & Bhuyan, R. (2023). Climate policy uncertainty and corporate tax avoidance. Finance Research Letters, 58, 104581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.104581

4.  Sarker, M. S. R., Pokojovy, M., & Kim, S. (2019). On the performance of variable selection and classification via rank-based classifier. Mathematics, 7(5), 457. https://doi.org/10.3390/math7050457 

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Under Review

1. CEO’s Creative Culture, Corporate Science, and Innovation. with Ahmed Elnahas and Siamak Javadi. (Under Review) 

                         -     Scheduled for presentation at the FMA Annual Meeting, Tampa, 2026, 

                         -     Presented at 64th Southwestern Finance Association, February 12-14, 2025, San Antonio, TX.

2. Biodiversity Risk Disclosure and CEO Risk-Taking Incentives. with Md Ismail Haidar and Hasibul Chowdhury.

                    -        Presented at 64th Southwestern Finance Association, February 12-14, 2025, San Antonio, TX.

                    -        Presented at 65th Annual Southern Finance Association Meeting, November 19-22, 2025

Working Papers

1. Artificial Intelligence Risk and Corporate Decision-Making: Evidence from 10-K Disclosures. with Pascal Létourneau

-        Supported by the CoBE Summer Research Grant, 2025. Submitted to the New Ideas Session, 2026 FMA Annual Meeting.

2. CEO Cultural Heritage and Debt Contracting.  – with Hasibul Chowdhury, Wenbin Hu, and Ahmed Elnahas.

                   -     Presented at Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, October 22-25, 2025.

                   -     New Zealand Finance Meeting, December, 2025.

                   -     Scheduled for presentation, 66th Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, November 2026, Palm Springs, CA.

3. CEO Inherited Uncertainty Avoidance and Workplace Misconduct. With Ahmed Elnahas and Md Ismail Haidar.

                  - Scheduled for presentation, 66th Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, November 2026, Palm Springs, CA.

4.  Workplace Gun Rights and Labor Investment Efficiency. – with Md Ismail Haidar.

-        Presented at 65th Annual Southern Finance Association Meeting, November 19-22, 2025.

-     Presented at  Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, March 2026, Dallas, TX.

5. Mandatory Disclosure and Debt Conservatism: Evidence from Data Breach Notification Laws.  – With Md Ismail Haidar.

-        Scheduled for presentation, 66th Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, November 2026, Palm Springs, CA.

6. The Effect of COVID-19 Uncertainty on Corporate Default Risk: International evidence – with Md Ismail Haidar, and Andre Varella Mollick.

-        Presented at 63rd Southwestern Finance Association 2024. Las Vegas, Nevada.

-        Presented at 16th International Risk Management Conference 2023, Florence, Italy) (Virtually)

7. Corporate LGBTQ+ Inclusion and Credit Ratings: Evidence from U.S. Firms.  With Md Rezwan Hossain Ratul and Majidul Islam.

                        -     Scheduled for presentation, 66th Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting, November 2026, Palm Springs, CA.

    -      Presented at the 64th Southwestern Finance Association Meeting, February 2025, San Antonio, TX

Research Grant

1. Awarded CoBE Summer Research Grant,  2025-2026, College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, $1000 for "Navigating Artificial Intelligence Risk and Corporate Decision-Making: Evidence from 10-K Disclosures"

Honors & Awards

1. Awarded Best doctoral student paper, 63rd Southwestern Finance Association 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada: $500.

2. Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, 2023-2024, Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship.

3. PhD Student Research Excellence Award Finance, 2023-2024, Department of Finance, Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship.

Conference Proceedings

Rao, R., Rahman, M., & Sarker, M. S. (2026, February). Evaluating Ethereum Gas Fee Dynamics. In SoutheastCon 2026 (pp. 1-6). IEEE. 10.1109/SoutheastCon63549.2026.11476637