Moustafa Abu El Fadl, Ph.D., CFA
Associate Professor of Finance
Location
Raised in Cairo, Egypt, Moustafa Abu El Fadl graduated with a bachelor's in business administration and finished his graduate studies and received a master's in investment finance. Moustafa won a scholarship to come to the United States to pursue further graduate studies in business. After receiving an MBA from the University of Arizona, he attained his CFA (Charter Financial Analyst) designation and masters in economics and earned his Ph.D. in finance from Old Dominion University in Virginia. He also worked in the investment banking industry, specifically in the merger and acquisitions department.
Moustafa's keen interest in making an impact on the field of financial research, he founded and launched the International Journal of Bonds and Derivatives (IJBD) and currently serves as the editor-in-chief. He is particularly interested in giving authors the potential to improve their work and publish with no excessive waiting periods or fees that can often burden new scholars, specifically international scholars. IJBD is published by Inderscience Publishers. Moustafa strives to progress the IJBD to be among the top journals in the field of bonds and derivatives.
Moustafa is an active scholar and has published 12 scholarly articles and presented more than 10 working papers in prestigious finance conferences.
Moustafa has a wide portfolio of teaching experience. He teaches Business Finance Concepts, Advanced Corporarte Finance, Security Analysis and Valuation, Investments, Financial Market and Institutions, Fixed Income, Personal Finance, Introduction to Business, Derivatives , and Portfolio Management.
Credentials
Education
Expertise
Business consulting
Finance
Financial analysis
Financial management
Interdisciplinary teaching
Board Certifications and Licenses
Research
Selected publications
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl & Ehab Yamani "Currency news and international bond markets." North American Journal of Economics and Finance 58 (2021) 101555 (ELSEVIER). Listed in both ABDC, and ABS . Impact factor 2.772 , and cite factor 2.4
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Interrelationships between Crude Oil Price Shocks, Stock Market, and Foreign Exchange Market: Evidence from USA Market." Journal of Applied Business and Economics Vol. 22, No. 4, 2020. Listed in the ABDC, which AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet (SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization for Short-Term Portfolios." Journal of Accounting and Finance Vol. 17, No. 7, 2017. Cabell's acceptance rate of 20%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Individual Foreign Exchange Investors, Return Predictability, and Market Timing." Annals of Financial Economics Vol. 12, No. 1, 2017. Cabell's acceptance rate of 10%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Cross-Listing Premium or Market Timing." Banking and Finance Review Vol. 2, No. 2, 2017. Cabell's acceptance rate of 20%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet.(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Zero Interest rates and a cross-section of stock returns." International Journal of Bonds and Derivatives Vol. 3, No. 3, 2017. Cabell's acceptance rate of 20%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet.(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl, Kyungsub S Choi., Abby Boris., "Mobile Stock Trading Platforms and Individual Investors' Financial Performance." Annals of Management Science Vol. 5, No. 1, December 2016, 1-17. Cabell's acceptance rate of 20%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet (SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Do IPO Firms Manage Earnings?". Accounting and Finance Research, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2013. Indexed in databases such as Econlit, EBSCO, and many others. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Is there a post listing anomaly for IPOs overseas listing?". Asian Journal of Empirical Research, 2013, 3(9):1131-1155, the Impact factor of 0.38 per the publisher's documentation. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Market Timing and Earnings Management: Evidence from Cross-Listing." International Research Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 2, No. 11, 2011, ISSN 2229 – 6891. Cabell's acceptance rate of 30%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet(SA).
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Does the Choice of Benchmarks Matter: The Characteristic Index Vs. The Market Index". American Journal of Social and Management Sciences ISSN Print: 2156- 1540, ISSN Online: 2151-1559, 2011. Double-blind peer review.
§ Moustafa Abu El Fadl "Why do Companies Cross List" The Post Listing Anomaly Explained in the International Research Journal of Finance and Economics Vol. 8, No. 54, 2010. Cabell's acceptance rate of 6%. AACSB affirms as a scholarly research outlet(SA).
Other scholarly activity
- Referred Conference Presentations
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- Accepted Private Information and Predicting Returns (FMA 2020)
- Presented: Forex Trading and Achieving Alpha Using Neural Forecasting Techniques World Finance Conference (2020)
- Presented: Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization and short-term portfolio investors. Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2017.
- Presented: Cross-Listing Premium or Market Timing. Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2017.
- Discussant “Standalone Firms, Conglomerates, and Bond Returns” Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2017
- Discussant “DEA Portfolio Modelling: The Case of Socially Responsible Investing” Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2017
- Presented “Short Term Foreign Currency Forecasting.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2017.
- Discussant “Normal Return Gaps.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2017
- Presented “Short Term Portfolio Optimization: Empirical Evidence.” Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2016.
- Presented “Individual Currency Traders, Alpha and Predicting Forex Movements”
- Discussant “Bank Executives’ Multiple Directorships and Career Outcomes.” Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2016.
- Discussant “An Evaluation of the Equilibrium Value of the Euro, its Predecessors and their Constituent Currencies based on Economic Fundamentals.” Southern Finance Association (SFA), Nov 2016.
- Presented “Individual Day traders and Portfolio Optimization. World Finance Conference, July 2016.
- Session Chair, “Portfolio Management and Performance Evaluation,” World Finance Conference, July 2016.
- Discussant “Do as I say not as I Do: How Much risk the Bankers take with their Own Money? World Finance Conference, July 2016.
- Presented “Individual Currency Traders Performance and Market Timing.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2016.
- Discussant “Knowledge Protection, Shareholder Wealth, and Firm Behavior.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2016.
- Presented “The Performance of High-Frequency Individual Equity Traders.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2015.
- Discussant “Term Structure and Risk Premium for Persistence in Durable Goods Consumption.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2015.
- Session Chair “Foreign Institutional Investors.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2015.
- Conference Proceeding Published: Abu El Fadl, M., Abbey, B. S. and Choi, K. "Effect of IT Trading Platform on Financial Risk-Taking and Portfolio Performance," The 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 5-8, 2015, Grand Hyatt, Kauai, Hawaii.
- Conference Proceeding Published: Choi, K., Abu El Fadl, M. and Abbey, B. S. “An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Financial Trader's Decision-making and Financial Software Applications,” The 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), August 7 - 10, 2014, Savannah, GA
- Presented “Cross-Listing and Earnings Management.” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2012
- Discussant “, The Role of Bondholders Coordination in Freeze-out Exchange, Offers” Eastern Finance Association (EFA). April 2012