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Ahmed El-Masry

 

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Dr Ahmed El-Masry

  • Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Financial Management, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
  • Address: Room 232a, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752585671
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 232249
  • Email: ahmed.el-masry@plymouth.ac.uk


Role

Dr Ahmed El-Masry (PhD, MBA, BBA) is an Associate Professor of Financial Management at Plymouth Business School, UK. His teaching interests are: corporate finance and international finance. His research interests are: risk management, capital structure, credit ratings, dividend policy, M&As, m-banking, Islamic banking & Finance, online reporting and corporate governance. His papers appear in Managerial Finance, Journal of Operational Research Society, Expert Systems with Application, Cross-Culture Management: International Review, Maritime Policy and Management. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Business and Finance and a member of editorial boards and reviewers of several international journals such as British Accounting Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Research in International Business and Finance, International Research Journal of Insurance Markets and Companies, International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management, and Frontiers in Finance and Economics. He is a co-editor of new book published in 2001 by IGI global: Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications (with A. G. Abdel-Wahab). ISBN10: 1-61692-818-2. He is a contributor and reviewer of the Encyclopaedia in CSR, to be published by Springer in 2011/12.

 

Qualifications & background

  • PhD, MBA, BCom
  • PGCer in Higher Education
  • Fellow of the the British Academy of Higher Education

 

Professional membership

  • A member of the British Accounting & Finance Association
 


Teaching interests

  • Corporate Finance,
  • International Finance and
  • Financial Management
 

Staff serving as external examiners
BA External examiner at London School of Economics (2004- 2008)
BA External examiner at Glasgow Caledonian Business School (2008- 2012)
BA External examiner at Middlesex Business School (2009- 2013)
BA External examiner at American International (Richmond) University in London (2010- 2014)  


Research interests

  • Risk management,
  • Exchange rate risk and its determinants,
  • Dividends policy,
  • Corporate governance,
  • Mergers and acquisitions,
  • Capital structure,
  • Privatisation,
  • Stock market anomalies,
  • Islamic Finance

 

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Maritime Logistics, Economics and Finance (CEMLEF) 

Other research

 

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

 


Conferences organised
SWAG-BAA Conference, Plymouth Business School, 8 September 2006  

Books
Abdel-Wahab, AG. & El-Masry, AAA.  (2010)  Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries.  Information Science Reference 
Chapters
El-Masry, AA. & Kamal, N.  'Company Directors and CSR' Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility  Springer Reference & Database Publishing 
El-Masry, AA. & Kamal, N.  'Corporate Responsibility Index' Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility  Springer Reference & Database Publishing 
El-Masry, AA. & Kamal, N.  'Global Governance and CSR' in Idowu S (ed.)  Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility  Springer Reference & Database Publishing 
El-Masry, AA. & Kamal, N.  'Institutes of Directors and CSR' Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility  Springer Reference & Database Publishing 
El-Masry, AA. & Kamal, N.  'Shareholder rights' in Idowu S (ed.)  Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility  Springer Reference & Database Publishing 
El-Masry, AA. & Kamal, N.  'Socially Responsible Management (SRM)' in Idowu S (ed.)  Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility  Springer Reference & Database Publishing 
Conference Papers
Elsayed, A., El-Masry, AA. & Elbeltagi, I.  (2010)  'Corporate governance, firm characteristics and Internet financial reporting: evidence from Egyptian Listed Companies' 7th Workshop on Corporate Governance.  Brussels, Belgium  21/06/2010 - 22/06/2010 
Journals
Articles
Elsayed, ANE., El-Masry, AA. & Elbeltag, IM.  (2010)  'Corporate governance, firm characteristics and internet financial reporting: evidence from Egyptian listed companies' Corporate Ownership & Control  7  (4),  pp 397 - 426
El-Masry, AA.  (2010)  'Corporate governance, ownership structure and firm performance of Egyptian Listed Companies' Corporate Ownership and Control Journal  8  (1),  pp 535 - 551
Elsayed, A., Elbeltagi, I. & El-Masry, AA.  (2010)  'Online disclosure: an analysis of Egyptian listed companies' Corporate Ownership and Control Journal  8  (1),  pp 552 - 568
El-Masry, AA., Pointon, J. & Olugbode, M.  (2010)  'The exposure of shipping firms’ stock returns to financial risks and oil prices: a global perspective' Maritime policy and Management  37  (5),  pp 453 - 473 , DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2010.503713
El-Masry, AA. & Mekhaimer, M.  (2009)  'Stock market anomalies in emerging markets: some evidence from the Egyptian stock market' Journal of International Business and Finance  1  (2),  pp 137 - 168
Abd-Elsalam, O., El-Masry, AA. & Elsegini, S.  (2008)  'Board composition, ownership structure and dividend policies in an emerging market: Further evidence from CASE 50' Managerial Finance  34  (12),  pp 953 - 964
Abdou, H., Pointon, J. & El-Masry, A.  (2008)  'Neural nets versus conventional techniques in credit scoring in Egyptian banking' EXPERT SYST APPL  35  (3),  pp 1275 - 1292 , DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.030
Abdou, H., Pointon, J. & El-Masry, AA.  (2008)  'Neural nets versus conventional techniques in credit scoring in Egyptian banking' Expert Systems with Applications  35,  pp 1275 - 1292
Abd-Elsalam, O. & El-Masry, AA.  (2008)  'The impact of Board independence and ownership structure on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting of Irish listed companies' Managerial Finance  34  (12),  pp 907 - 918
Ezat, A. & El-Masry, AA.  (2008)  'The impact of corporate governance on the timeliness of corporate internet reporting by Egyptian listed companies' Managerial Finance  34  (12),  pp 848 - 867
Pointon, J. & El-Masry, A.  (2007)  'Competitive advantage and the cost of equity in international shipping' J OPER RES SOC  58  (9),  pp 1138 - 1145 , DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602285

Other academic activities

Conferences:

  1. The currency risk exposure of UK companies, The IABE 2006 Conference, 15th to 18th October 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  2. Credit scoring models for personal loans in the Egyptian banking sector, The IABE 2006 Conference, 15th to 18th October 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  3. Bank behaviour and Islamic bank customers: Some evidence from UAE banks, The IABE 2006 Conference, 15th to 18th October 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  4. The matching principle in the Islamic accounting thought, The IABE 2006 Conference, 15th to 18th October 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  5. The accounting measurement bases in both Islamic and conventional thought, The IABE 2006 Conference, 15th to 18th October 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  6. Is accounting information value-relevant in the emerging Egyptian stock market?, The IABE 2006 Conference, 15th to 18th October 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  7. On the determinants of exchange rate exposure of UK industries, The IABE 2005 Conference, 16th to 19th October 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  8. Does foreign exchange rate exposure matter?- some evidence from UK nonfinancial companies, The IABE 2005 Conference, 16th to 19th October 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. www.iabe.org

  9. Is accounting information value-relevant in the emerging Egyptian stock market?, Financial Reporting and Business Communications Conference, 7th to 8th July 2005, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK. www.cardiff.ac.uk/carbs/

  10. The determinants of exchange rate exposure of UK nonfinancial companies, The Global Finance Conference, 26th to 29th June 2005, Dublin, Ireland. www.gfc2005.org/2005/

  11. The exchange rate exposure of UK nonfinancial companies: Industry-level analysis, The European Financial Management Association Conference, 30th June to 3rd July 2004, Basil, Switzerland. www.efmaefm.org

  12. The exchange rate exposure of UK industries, the BAA Annual Conference, 14th to 16th April 2004, The University of York, UK. www.shef.ac.uk/~baa/

  13. A survey of derivatives use of UK nonfinancial companies, the Fourth Annual Conference of the International Economics and Finance Society, City University, London, November 28-29, 2003. www.iefs.org.uk

Doctoral Conferences

  1. A survey of derivatives use of UK nonfinancial companies, the Federal School Conference, Manchester, UK, May 2003. www.man.ac.uk
  2. Exposure to exchange rate movements by UK nonfinancial companies, the Federal School Conference, Manchester, UK, May 2002. www.man.ac.uk 
  3. Managing foreign exchange exposure in UK industrial companies, the Federal School Conference, Manchester, UK, May 2001. www.man.ac.uk

  

 


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