Samir Trabelsi
Professor
Goodman School of Business
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Samir Trabelsi is a Professor of Accounting who joined the Faculty of Business in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from HEC Montreal, M.Sc. in Accounting, and a B.Sc. Admin. (Accounting) from the University of Manouba (ISCAE). Prior to joining Brock, Dr. Trabelsi taught at University of Quebec and at University of Manouba (ISCAE). He also worked as a manager of ACF Consulting in Tunisia from 1998-99. He has taught a range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including corporate governance, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Accounting Theory, and Intermediate Accounting.
Research Interest
Dr. Trabelsi's research interests are in the area of voluntary disclosure, corporate governance, mutual fund governance, earning conservatism, and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Dr. Trabelsi won the Best Paper Award at the 2008 Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics (JCAE) and Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory (AJPT) Joint Symposium. He received the 2008 Best Paper Award in the Accounting Division at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. His work is currently supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada through its International Opportunities Fund: Project Grants
Publications
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Trabelsi, S., Labelle, R. and Laurin, C.. The Management of Financial Disclosure on Corporate Websites:A Conceptual Model, Canadian Accounting Perspective. Volume 3, Number 2, Fall, 2004.
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Ben Ali, C., Trabelsi, S. and Summa, M.. Disclosure Quality and Ownership Structure: Evidence from the French Stock Market, Corporate Ownership and Control. Volume 5, Number 2, November, 2007.
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Ben Ameur, H., Bouafi, H., Rostan, P. and Trabelsi, S.. Assessing the Probability of Default on American Firms: A Logistic Regression Approach, Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research. Volume 3, Number 2, December, 2007.
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Trabelsi, S., Labelle, Real and Dumontier, Pascal. Incremental Voluntary Disclosure on Corporate Web Sites, Determinants and Consequences., Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics. Volume 4, Number 2, December, 2008.
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Ben Ali, C., He, Z. and Trabelsi, S.. Analyst Following, Ownership Structure and Stock Liquidity, Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research. Volume 9, Number 1, Fall, 2013.
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Ayadi, M., Kusy, M., Pyo, M. and Trabelsi, S.. Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, and Managerial Risk-Taking, Journal of Theoretical Accounting Research. Volume 11, Number 1, 2015.
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Trabelsi, S., He, Roc, He, Z. and Kusy, M.. A Comparison of Bayesian, Hazard, and Mixed Logit Model of Bankruptcy Prediction, Computational Management Science. Volume 12, Number 1, 2015.
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Ben Omrane, W., He, C., He, Z. and Trabelsi, S.. Forecasting the Yield Curve of Government Bonds: A Dynamic Factor Approach, Managerial Finance. Volume 43, Number 7, June, 2017.
