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Zinat S. Alam

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law

College: College of Business

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

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

Current Scheduled Teaching

FINA 3770.402FinanceSpring 2025
FINA 3770.411FinanceSpring 2025
FINA 3770.402FinanceFall 2024 Syllabus
FINA 3770.403FinanceFall 2024 Syllabus
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.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

FINA 3770.401FinanceSummer 5W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.501FinanceSummer 5W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6016.001Seminar in Corporate FinanceSpring 2024 SPOT
FINA 3770.007FinanceFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.009FinanceFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.001FinanceSummer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.502FinanceSummer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
FINA 3770.001FinanceSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.002FinanceSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6950.710Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
FINA 3770.006FinanceFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.008FinanceFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6950.712Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2022
FINA 6950.705Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
FINA 3770.001FinanceSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6016.001Seminar in Corporate FinanceSpring 2022 SPOT
FINA 6950.710Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
FINA 3770.003FinanceFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.006FinanceFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6950.710Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2021
FINA 6950.707Doctoral DissertationSpring 2021
FINA 3770.006FinanceSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.008FinanceSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.503FinanceSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 6950.705Doctoral DissertationFall 2020
FINA 3770.007FinanceFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.009FinanceFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
FINA 3770.006FinanceSpring 2020 Syllabus
FINA 6016.001Seminar in Corporate FinanceSpring 2020
FINA 3770.011FinanceFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
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 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.

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		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

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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):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    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):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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