Who are we?
We created this website to provide students with course notes [or summaries] and researchers with various academic services. These services include guidance on research topics, managing data, and econometric modelling. We also provide several tailor-made databases on countries’ regulation (e.g. the law and finance literature, banking regulation and supervision, etc.), cultural values (e.g. the World Value Surveys, the Hofstede index, the GLOBE index, the Schwartz index, etc.), religion, languages, legal origins, distance and geography, as well as several customized macroeconomic and institutional variables. These variables are often used by researchers who publish in top tier journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance.
The bankingmonitor.com team is managed by Dr. Mohammad Bitar. Dr. Bitar has several years of experience in teaching, student supervisions, and financial and economic research.
Managing director: Dr. Mohammad Bitar
“This website is as an attempt to address different gaps related to teaching and research in the area of finance and financial economics. Teaching techniques and research methodologies have quickly developed in recent years. Data mining and advanced econometrics are now considered the cornerstone for research and a requirement for publications in highly ranked finance and economics journals.”
Mohammad Bitar holds a Ph.D. degree in Finance from Grenoble Alps University, France. Dr. Bitar works currently as an assistant professor in finance at the Nottingham University School of Business. Prior to this, he worked worked as an LTA assistant professor in finance at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University (Canada). Dr. Bitar had two post-doctoral fellowships. The first fellowship was at the David O’Brien Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Montreal, Canada. The second fellowship was at the Research Center Dedicated to Banking and Finance, Limoges, France.
Dr. Bitar research interests are in banking regulation, corporate governance, institutional environment, fintech, and mergers and acquisitions. His articles have been published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, Economic Modelling, Emerging Markets Review, Economic Systems, Revue Economique, and Revue d’Economie Financiere. He serves as a referee for numerous finance and economic journals and was the recipient of the 2016 SAB Best Paper Award. His research has repeatedly been listed among the 10% most downloaded papers on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN).
Dr. Bitar teaches Bank Risk Measurement, and Management, Bank Theory, Operations, and Management, Research Methods in Banking, and Corporate Finance to MSc. students at the Nottingham University School of Business. Between 2017 and 2019, he taught courses in Management of Financial Institutions and Analysis of Markets at the John Molson School of Business. Previously, he taught courses in Financial and Monetary Economics, International Banking Systems, Financial Management and Analysis, Financial Diagnostics, Investment Choices, Financial Mathematics, and Advanced Statistics at Grenoble Alps University.
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Research team:
Imen Ben Slimene is an Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting at the Upper-Alsace University (France). She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting) from Grenoble Alps University. Dr. Ben Slimene research interests are in financial reporting, corporate governance and audit regulation. She is particularly interested in how economic, behavioral, regulatory and political factors affect management decision-making processes. Her research has been funded by the order of the Accountant, the French National Association of Chartered Accountant, and the Francophone Association of Accounting.
Dr. Ben Slimene research findings have been presented at numerous conferences such as the European Accounting Association conference, the American Accounting Association conference, and the European Auditing Research Network.
Dr. Ben Slimene is currently the head of the International Business Management program at the Upper-Alsace University. She teaches Financial Accounting, Financial Auditing and Corporate Finance at the same university.
Stefanie Kibsey
Stefanie Kibsey is a coordinator in Risk Management Strategies, Chemicals Management Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada (Government of Canada). Ms. Kibsey specializes in advancing sustainability policy, finance and economic research. Her interests and areas of expertise include environmental change and resilience, ESG, environmental protection and pollution prevention, and socio-ecological systems.
Ms. Kibsey is a published author and editor on the topics of sustainable investing, sustainable financial systems and meeting the sustainable development goals, and sustainable real estate. Peviously, she managed McGill University’s Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED). She also coordinated the sustainability programs and research projects of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, and shaped the new curriculum for the Sustainable Investment Professional Certification (SIPC) program at Concordia University.
Gary Ng
Gary Ng is currently a PhD candidate in finance at JMSB. His research focuses on sustainability and sustainable finance. Mr. Ng also worked as independent consultant for business consulting. His clientele includes the National Research Council (Canada) and local software start-up company. Gary Ng was a lecturer at JMSB and taught Introduction to Corporate Finance and Analysis of Markets.
