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Bakhtear Talukdar
Associate Professor

Department(s): Finance & Business Law
Office Location: Timothy J Hyland Hall 3515
Phone: (262) 472-7036
Email: talukdam@uww.edu

Awards

Name

Date

Sponsor

Description

Summer Research Grants

2019

UW-Whitewater

Summer Research Grants: $4,000

Research Incentive Grants for scholarly publication

2017

UW-Whitewater

Research Incentive Grants for scholarly publication: $4,000

FIU Presidential Fellowship

2012

Florida International University

FIU Presidential Fellowship; the highest scholarship of the university, 2012-2015. Award Amount: $90,000.00

William J. Fulbright scholarship

2009

The U.S. Departments of State

William J. Fulbright scholarship, 2009-2011: $98,452

Education

Degree

Major

School

Year

Ph.D

Finance

Florida International University

2016

MBA

Finance

Willamette University

2011

MBA

Finance

University of Dhaka

2005

BBA

Finance & Banking

University of Dhaka

2004

Conferences

Title

Co-Author(s)

Abstract

An Analysis of Short Positions with Fundamentals to Predict Returns

Anisur Rahman and A. M. Parhizgari.

Short selling can be driven by various motivations, such as anticipation of negative returns, hedging, etc., which cause short positions to contain heterogeneous information. However, past studies focus primarily on short positions to predict negative sto...

Insider ownership, corporate diversification, and firm value: Evidence from REITs

Kenneth Soyeh and Ali M Parhizgari

We examine the link between REIT insider ownership and property type diversification. Also, we investigate whether property-focused REITs with more insider equity holdings have a higher market value measured by Tobin’s Q. REITs provide an ideal setting to...

Does the CFO Appointment Affect the Firm's Information Environment?

Suchi Mishra, Arun Upadhyay, and Kannan Raghunandan

Executive Compensation and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Insurance Industry in the United States

Deanne Butchey, Therese Pactwa, and Jerry Haar

We investigate the relationship between executive compensation, its characteristics, and the firm's financial performance in the insurance industry, in an effort to determine which executive pay policies are more effective in promoting specific financial ...

Market Return and Risk Factors for the Emerging Economies

Ali M Parhizgari

This paper creates daily factors (much like Fama and French) and monthly aggregate idiosyncratic volatility measures for 15 emerging economies. Unlike Fama and French, the lack of balance sheet data at the firm level and other data deficiencies are bypass...

Financial Performance and Compensation Alignment of Male and Female CEOs

Shahnaz Abdullah, and Lal Chugh

The objective of the paper is to analyze the alignment of compensation and financial performance of male and female CEO’s in some selected Fortune 500 companies. Using agency theory, this paper empirically estimates the magnitude of financial alignment, a...

Market Return and Risk Factors for the Emerging Economies

Ali M Parhizgari

Intraday Volume-Volatility Relationship in Pre and Post Decimalization Era

Shahid Hamid and Rafiqul Bhuyan

We examine the volume and volatility relationship on 200 randomly selected US stocks for a period of 10 years. Using Hansen’s GMM (generalized method of moments) technique with half-hour trading interval, when we conduct our research without incorporating...

Do Female CEOs Add Value for Stockholders? A Case Study of Yahoo!

Shahnaz Abdullah, and Lal Chugh

This paper presents an analysis of financial performance of male and female CEO’s in Yahoo, Inc. which has appointed two female CEOs in the last five years. The study uses two metrics to evaluate the financial performance of CEOs. The one uses event study...

All Publications

Title

Publisher

Type

Details

Date

Board independence and analysts’ forecast accuracy: R&D perspective

Journal of Economics and Business