Faculty Profile

Zinat Alam

Zinat Alam

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

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, Georgia State University, 2010. 
Major: Finance
Degree Specialization: Finance
Dissertation Title: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Project Finance: Cash Flow Volatility and Correlation





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
FINA 3770.401, Finance, Summer 2024 
FINA 3770.501, Finance, Summer 2024 
FINA 6016.001, Seminar in Corporate Finance, Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    FINA 3770.007, Finance, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.009, Finance, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.001, Finance, Summer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.502, Finance, Summer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023 
                    

                    FINA 3770.001, Finance, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.002, Finance, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6950.710, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022 
                    

                    FINA 3770.006, Finance, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.008, Finance, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6950.712, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2022 
                    

                    FINA 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022 
                    

                    FINA 3770.001, Finance, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6016.001, Seminar in Corporate Finance, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6950.710, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021 
                    

                    FINA 3770.003, Finance, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.006, Finance, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6950.710, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2021 
                    

                    FINA 6950.707, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021 
                    

                    FINA 3770.006, Finance, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.008, Finance, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.503, Finance, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020 
                    

                    FINA 3770.007, Finance, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.009, Finance, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    FINA 3770.006, Finance, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    FINA 6016.001, Seminar in Corporate Finance, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    FINA 3770.011, Finance, Fall 2019 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


  
Conference Proceeding
Alam, Z. S., Chen, M. A., Ciccotello, C. S., Ryan, H. E. (2012). Boards in Practice : Director Location, Qualifications, and Credible Contracting.  Leibniz Information Centre for Economics: 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. 
Journal Article
Alam, Z. S., Chen, M. A., Ciccotello, C. S., Ryan, H. E. (2018). Board Structure Mandates: Consequences for Director Location and Financial Reporting. Management Science. 64(10), 4735-4754. 
S., Chen, M. A., Ciccotello, C. S., Ryan, H. E. (2014). Does the Location of Directors Matter? Information Acquisition and Decisions by the Board. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 49(1), 131-164. 
Magazine/Trade Publication
Alam, Z. S., Chen, M. A., Ciccotello, C. S., Ryan, H. E. (2017). Gender, Geography, and the Boardroom. (September/October), 22-26. The Corporate Board. 
Poster
George, D., Vattikuti, V. H., Pitts, J., Alam, Z. S., Xiao, T.  (2023). Transformer-based Stock2Vec for Accurate Company Clustering.  Denton, TX: AI Summer Research Program, University of North Texas. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_-n6OIdevVBkWrpjmdtR7YYGp7kzUW5j
Reprinted Article
S., Chen, M. A., Ciccotello, C. S., Ryan, H. E. (2013). Does the Location of Directors Matter? Information Acquisition and Decisions by the Board.  Boston, MA: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Grant - Research   
Xiao, T. (Principal), Ding, J. (Co-Principal), Albert, M. V. (Supporting), Alam, Z. S. (Supporting), Hartmann, F. (Supporting), Wang, Y. (Supporting), Liang, L. (Supporting), Chen, H. (Supporting), Du, J. (Supporting), Azad, R. K. (Supporting), "NSF REU site: Beyond Language: Training to Create and Share Vector Embeddings across Application," Sponsored by NSF, Federal, $403547 Funded. (2023 – 2025).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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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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