Faculty Profile

Amir Fard

Title
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department
Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law
College
College of Business

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2019. 
Major: Business Administration
MBA, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, 2014. 
Major: Business Administration





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
FINA 4300.001, Financial Statement Analysis and Liquidity Management, Summer 2024 


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    FINA 4300.001, Financial Statement Analysis and Liquidity Management, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    FINA 4300.002, Financial Statement Analysis and Liquidity Management, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    FINA 4500.003, International Finance, Spring 2024 Syllabus
                    

                    FINA 4300.001, Financial Statement Analysis and Liquidity Management, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 4300.002, Financial Statement Analysis and Liquidity Management, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 4500.001, International Finance, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Journal Article
Kang, S., Chung, C. Y., Fard, A.  (2023). Does geographic or market proximity matter? Evidence from institutional investor monitoring on earnings attributes in US cross-listed stocks. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/boer.12433
Chung, C. Y., Fard, A., Sul, H. K. (2023). The effect of corporate annual report quality on the relationship between institutional blockholder monitoring and firm's information environment. International Review of Finance. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/irfi.12430
Chung, C. Y., Fard, A.  (2023). The equity premium puzzle and two assets: GMM estimation. Applied Economics Letters. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2023.2177588
Oh, H., Chung, C. Y., Fard, A.  (2023). Tacit vigilance in an emerging economy: An institution-based perspective of passive blockholder monitoring. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0275531922002537
Chung, C. Y., Fard, A.  (2022). Institutional Investors and Earnings Management in the Korean Stock Market. Global Economic Review. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1226508X.2022.2151030
Kim, D. S., Chung, C. Y., Fard, A.  (2022). Effects of 10-K readability on institutional blockholder monitoring of risk management. Applied Economics Letters. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2022.2103075
Fard, A., I., Wang, B.  (2022). Don't interfere with my rights! Employee rights violation and the cost of bank loans. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fmii.12167
Fard, A., Javadi, S., Kim, I.  (2020). Environmental regulation and the cost of bank loans: International evidence. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1572308920300966



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    
			This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
				
      
					
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			This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
				
      
					
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