Muhammad Akbar
Professor
Dept. of Finance
Birmingham City University
United Kingdom
Biography
His PhD research covered empirical tests of CAPM, D-CAPM and Higher-Moments CAPM in the emerging equity market of Pakistan. He has an MSc in Finance from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University and a Master of Commerce specializing in Advance Cost and Management Accounting from the University of Peshawar. He is a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the CFA Institute, USA. Muhammad has worked for Bahria University, Islamabad. He was leading the Finance Cluster at the Department of Management Sciences and developed new course modules and academic programs specializing in finance including MSc Finance. Muhammad has been in academia for over 10 years, teaching finance modules such as derivatives investments, investment analysis and portfolio management and multinational financial management to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Derivatives Investments Financial Risk Management Investment Analysis & Management Theory of Finance Financial Econometrics
Research Interest
Asset pricing theory Market efficiency Corporate governance
Publications
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Akbar M, Khan MK, Ali S. The Relationship between EVA and Stock Returns: Empirical Evidence from KSE. Business & Economic Review. 2010;2(2):1-5.
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Ejaz S, Akbar M. Stability of beta over different market phases: an empirical study of Pakistani equity market. Ðктуальні проблеми економіки. 2013(5):512-22.
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Akbar M, Nguyen TT. The explanatory power of higher moment capital asset pricing model in the Karachi stock exchange. Research in International Business and Finance. 2016 Jan 31;36:241-53.
