Zinat S. Alam

Previous Scheduled Teaching

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. 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper.

Journal Article

• Alam, Z.S., Hossain, M.M. (2026). Covid-19, Political Orientation, and Residential Real Estate Returns. Real Estate Economics. 54 (2) 249-579. Wiley.
• Alam, Z.S., Hossain, M., Wang, L. (2025). The Economic and Cultural Motives of Green Price Premium. The British Accounting Review. 57 (5) (Special Issue: Green and Climate Finance) Elsevier.
• Alam, Z.S., Ghosh, C., Ryan, H.E., Wang, L. (2025). Discretion in Pay Ratio Estimation. Journal of Banking and Finance. 173 Elsevier.
• Behpour, S., Mohammadi, M., Albert, M.V., Alam, Z.S., Wang, L., Xiao, T. (2021). Automatic Trend Detection: Time-Biased Document Clustering. Knowledge-Based Systems. 220 ScienceDirect.
• 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. (The Corporate Board, 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. Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Boston, MA, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Fard, A. (Principal), Alam, Z.S. (Co-Principal), Rakowsky, D. (Co-Principal), "Summer Research Grant," sponsored by Dean's office, University of North Texas, $8000 Funded. (2025).
• Alam, Z.S. (Co-Principal), Wang , L. (Co-Principal), Wang, L. (Co-Principal), "Zero Equity Pay: Why do Some Firms Skip CEO Equity Compensation," sponsored by University of North Texas, Local, $10000 Funded. (2025 - 2025).
• 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).
• Alam, Z.S. (Co-Principal), Ghosh, C. (Co-Principal), Ryan Jr., H.E. (Co-Principal), Wang , L. (Co-Principal), "Discretion in Pay Ratio Estimation.," sponsored by University of North Texas, Local, $5000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
• Alam, Z.S. (Co-Principal), Hossain, M. (Co-Principal), Wang , L. (Co-Principal), "The Cultural Origin Green Price Premium," sponsored by University of North Texas, Local, $10000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).