Education

PhD in Finance: the University of Iowa. 2016 - 2021
MBA: Indiana State University. 2013 - 2014
BSc in Mechatronics Engineering: Al-Balqa Applied University, Amman, Jordan. 2007 - 2011

Employment

University of New Orleans. Assistant Professor of Finance. August, 2023-Present
California State University, Fullerton. Assistant Professor of Finance. August, 2021-July, 2023

"Competition and Innovation Revisited: A Product-Level View." With Jon Garfinkel. Review of Financial Studies. (2024)
"The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers." with Amrita Nain and Yiming Qian. Journal of Corporate Finance. (2022) (Download).
"Academic Publishing Behavior and Pay Across Business Fields." with Jon Garfinkel and James Weston. Financial Management (2024) (Download).
"Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers." with Amrita Nain. Journal of Corporate Finance (2024) (Download).

"Competition Shocks and Executive Compensation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Breakthrough Designations." with Erik Lie, Jon Garfinkel and Steve Irlbeck. (Download) [REJECT & RESUBMIT - JOURNAL OF FINANCE]
- - Presented at: MFA 2024 Meetings, AFA 2024 Meetings*, NBER Executive Compensation 2023*, FMA 2023* (semi-finalist for best paper award), Northeast Business and Economics Conference 2022*, California Corporate Finance Conference 2023, University of New Orleans Research Seminar
"Dusting Off the Old Ones: Drug Licensing to Startups, Innovation Success and Efficiency." with Josh Krieger and Jiajie Xu. (Download)
- - Presented at: MFA 2024, FMA 2022, EFA 2023*, 2023 Bates White Life Sciences Symposium*; 34th Mitsui Finance Symposium*; China International Conference in Finance (CICF) 2023*

* Presented by Coauthor

"Drug Development Shocks and Rival Bank Loans." with Jon Garfinkel, Josh Krieger, Xuelin Li and Richard Thakor
"Patent Challenges and Financial Performance: Evidence from PTAB." with Sepehr Roudini

Adhoc Referee:
- International Review of Economics and Finance
- International Review of Finance
- Journal of Corporate Finance
- Journal of Banking & Finance
Conference Discussant: FMA 2020, FMA 2022, California Corporate Finance Conference 2023, MFA 2025

Seminar in Empirical Corporate Finance (University of New Orleans): Fall 2023, Spring 2024.
Administrative Finance (MBA-level) (California State University, Fullerton): Summer 2023, (University of New Orleans): Fall 2023, Spring 2024.
Financial Management I (California State University, Fullerton): Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023. Average Teaching Evaluations 4.5/5.
Investment Management (University of Iowa): Spring 2021. Teaching Evaluations 5.6/6.
Introductory Financial Management (University of Iowa): Summer 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019. Average Teaching Evaluations 5.3/6.
Principles of Risk Management & Insurance (University of Iowa): Teaching assistant for 1 semester.
Empirical Research Software Workshop (University of Iowa): I organized and taught a workshop for software used in finance research, including Stata, Python and SAS. (Access Workshop Material).

Finalist for Best Paper Award, FMA 2023
CSUF Scholar Excellence Award 2023: College of Business and Economics, Cal State Fullerton
University of Iowa Post Comprehensive Research Fellowship, 2020
Best PhD Instructor 2019, Tippie College of Business, the University of Iowa
Best PhD Research Paper Award 2018, Department of Finance, Tippie College of Business, the University of Iowa
University of Iowa PhD Recruitment Fellow, August 2016 – May 2021

"Why Do Prescription Drug Prices Increase? State Medicaid Expansion, Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance." with Tarek Zaher and Amrita Nain. International Journal of Finance. (2022) (Download)
"CEO Social Capital and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility of the Firm: Bonding and Bridging Effects." with Marwan Alshammari. International Journal of Finance. (2022) (Download)
"Governance, Regulations, Trade Openness and FDI Inflows: Empirical Study." with Marwan Ahmad Alshammari and Milos Pavlovic. International Journal of Economics and Finance (2015).