Samar Ashour is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her primary research focus is empirical finance. Her research interests include Investments, Empirical Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance, Banking, Analyst’s forecasts, and International Finance. Dr. Ashour is serving as an Associate Editor of Research in International Business and Finance. Her papers have been published in several academic outlets including Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Economics and Finance, and Managerial Finance. Dr. Ashour also contributes to the research community as she refereed other scholars work in leading journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Research in International Business and Finance, and Managerial Finance. Her research papers were presented at many national and international conferences including the Financial Management Association conference, Latin FMA conference, Applied FMA conference, Midwest Financial Association annual meeting, Eastern Financial Association annual meeting, and South eastern Financial Association among others.
Dr. Ashour has taught eight different courses to MBA and undergraduate students at both University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Arkansas and University of Texas at Arlington including International Financial Management (MBA 624), Topics in Corporate Finance (MBA621), Financial Modeling, Investments, Financial Analysis, International Finance, Principles of Finance, and Corporate Finance.
