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Rashiqa Kamal
Associate Professor

Department(s): Finance & Business Law
Office Location: Timothy J Hyland Hall 3521
Phone: (262) 472-5446
Email: kamalr@uww.edu

Awards

Name

Date

Sponsor

Description

Women in Leadership Recognition

March 2017

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Women’s Issues Committee

The leadership program identifies the outstanding work of women on campus. Dr. Kamal was nominated for her exceptional leadership of the Women in Business Committee, and her dedication to issues such as addressing the gender gap in the Business student population.

Education

Degree

Major

School

Year

Ph.D.

Finance

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2008

MBA

Human Resource Management

University of Lucknow, UP, India

2000

Botany, Zoology and Chemistry

University of Lucknow, UP, India

1997

Conferences

Title

Co-Author(s)

Abstract

Teaching Social Justice in the Undergraduate Finance Classroom using the Social Justice Scale (SJS)

To address the lack of diversity in undergraduate economics classrooms, Al-Bahrani (2022) presents five principles of classroom management and student interaction. One of his principles is “Selecting course content that expresses diversity”. This SoTL pro...

ESG, Board Diversity, and Market Returns

On December 1, 2020, NASDAQ proposed a new rule on board diversity, that required boards of NASDAQ-listed firms to have at least one self-identified female director; to have at least one director who self-identifies as Black or African American, Hispanic ...

Do Markets like Mandated Compliance with Social Justice Issues? Evidence form NASDAQ’s New Rule on Board Diversity

CFO Change and firm’s cash flow sensitivity of investments

Bakhtear Talukdar, Edward Lawrence

In this paper we investigate the effect of change in Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a firm on the firm’s cash flow sensitivity of investments (CFSI). Since higher information asymmetry between firm and its investors results in higher external capital co...

Ownership Characteristics of Hispanic- Owned Banks in America

Russ Kashian, Cathy Xue

Existing research has established that minority banks and depository institutions are concentrated in minority-populated areas, tend to serve the interests, and ensure the economic viability of the minority populations, primarily through cultural affinity...

Bridging the Gap Between Management and Finance: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Idiosyncratic Risk

Steven Kihm

Management theorists suggest that entrepreneurially oriented firms manifest higher risk levels than more conservative companies, but entrepreneurial practitioners and their consultants argue that the opposite is true. The purpose of this research is to ex...

Internal CFOs and Cash Flow Sensitivity of Investment

Bakhtear Talukdar

It is a well-documented phenomenon that investment cash flow sensitivity causes underinvestment when cash flows are low, and overinvestment when cash flows are high. The firm’s ability to access external capital is positively correlated to cash flows, thu...

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT, FINANCIAL REPORTING OUTCOMES, AND AUDITOR BEHAVIOR

Franklin Amartey

Enterprise risk management (ERM) offers a new framework for organizations to take a portfolio view of risk management with a goal to minimize the occurrence of enterprise-wide risks to achieve organizational objectives. This paper investigates whether th...

Improving Critical Thinking Using Process Writing Approach

In this study, I intend to examine whether the use of process writing approach improves the critical thinking and writing skills of undergraduate finance students. Process writing approach for a writing assignment allows students to do collaborative work ...

DIRECTOR STOCK OWNERSHIP PLANS AND ACQUISITION ACTIVITY OF FIRMS

Kathleen Farrell

Using Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) model, we examine the effects of director ownership and director plan adoption on the firms’ acquisition activity. We hypothesize that the firms’ acquisition activity increases with directors’ ownership as the directors’ ...

Effect of Regulation FD on Disclosure of Information by Firms

Edward Lawrence, Arun Prakash, George McCabe

The SEC’s fair disclosure (FD) law was aimed at removing the practice of selective disclosure by firms, but critics of the law argued that the law might result in reduced disclosure of information by issuers (firms) thus reducing the overall information i...

Director Stock Ownership Plans and Firm Performance

Kathleen Farrell

We analyze a sample of firms that have adopted director stock ownership plans between 1998 and 2004. These plans require non-employee directors to invest in and hold a specific amount of firms’ stock while they serve as members on the firms’ boards. We ar...

Match Quality and Initial CEO Compensation

Sam Allgood, Kathleen Farrell

Effect of Regulation FD on Disclosure of Information by Firms

Edward Lawrence, Arun Prakash

Effect of Regulation FD on Disclosure of Information by Firms

Edward Lawrence, Arun Prakash

All Publications

Title

Publisher

Type

Details

Date

The role of specific heritage among Hispanic-owned banks in America

Managerial Finance

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 47 Iss. 5 Pg. 656-669

April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2021

Bridging the gap between management and finance: entrepreneurial orientation and idiosyncratic risk

Managerial Finance - Special Issue: Examining Important Financial Issues through Innovative DBA Research

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 47 Iss. 1 Pg. 98-118

January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021

Characteristics of Asian American Banks

Journal of Economics and Finance

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 43 Iss. 3 Pg. 528-551

October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019

Proceedings for the Academy of Business Research Spring 2019 Conference

Conference Proceeding

Vol. Spring 2019 Conference Pg. Page 85

August 2019

Enterprise Risk Management, Financial Reporting Outcomes, and Auditor Behavior

Journal of Accounting and Finance

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 19 Iss. 4 Pg. 18 pages

July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019

Improving Critical Thinking

Conference Proceeding

March 2014

New Evidence from S&P 500 Index Deletions

The International Journal of Business and Finance Research

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 8 Iss. 2 Pg. 1-10

January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Can Morningstar Analyst Ratings predict fund performance?

Journal of Applied Business Research

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 29 Iss. 6 Pg. 1665-1672

December 2013

Do Boards Know When They Hire a CEO That is a Good Match? Evidence from Initial Compensation

Journal of Corporate Finance

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 18

July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2012

Additions to S&P 500 Index: Not So Informative Any More

Managerial Finance

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 38 Iss. 4 Pg. 380-402

January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012

Analysis of the Governance Characteristics of a Distressed Company

Troy University Business and Economic Review

Journal Article, Academic Journal

Vol. 32 Iss. 2 Pg. 4-8

July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2009

Rashiqa Kamal Associate Professor

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Rashiqa Kamal
Associate Professor