Dr Nader Virk
Profiles

Dr Nader Virk

Lecturer in Finance

Plymouth Business School (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business)

Programme Manager for MSc's in Accounting and Finance and Finance and Investment 2015-2018

Qualifications

D.Sc. Hanken School of Economics, Finland
M.Sc. Hanken School of Economics, Finland
MPA Quaid e Azam Univeristy, Pakistan
B.Sc. Punjab University, Pakistan

Professional membership

Financial Managment Association, European Financial Management Association

Roles on external bodies

Project evaluator for the European Commision EASME-SME Instrument 2015-

Key publications

Virk NS 2012 'Equity Premium Puzzle: A Finnish Review' International Journal of Economics and Finance 4, (2) , DOI Open access
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Teaching interests

Asset Pricing, Investment Management, Financial Managment

Staff serving as external examiners

PhD thesis examiner for NUST Business School Pakistan 2015-

Research interests

Equity market anomalies, market efficiency, institutional investor preferences and emerging markets.

Key publications

Virk NS 2012 'Equity Premium Puzzle: A Finnish Review' International Journal of Economics and Finance 4, (2) , DOI Open access

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Gabbori D, Awartani B, Maghyereh AI & Virk N 2021 'Are herding transmissions in the gulf cooperation council stock markets regional or international?' Review of Behavioral Finance ahead-of-print, (ahead-of-print) , DOI
Butt HA & Virk NS 2020 'Momentum crashes and variations to market liquidity' International Journal of Finance & Economics , DOI
Gabbori D, Awartani B, Maghyereh A & Virk N 2020 'OPEC meetings, oil market volatility and herding behaviour in the Saudi Arabia stock market' International Journal of Finance & Economics 26, (1) 870-888 , DOI
Korkeamäki T, Virk N, Wang H & Wang P 2019 'Learning Chinese? The changing investment behavior of foreign institutions in the Chinese stock market' International Review of Financial Analysis 64, 190-203 , DOI Open access
Nawaz T & Virk N 2019 'Religious entrenchment and agency costs' Economics Letters , DOI Open access
Awartani B, Javed F, Maghyereh A & Virk N 2018 'Time-varying transmission between oil and equities in the MENA region: New evidence from DCC-MIDAS analyses' Review of Development Finance 8, (2) 116-126 , DOI Open access
Butt HA & Virk NS 2018 'Market downturns, zero investment strategies and systematic liquidity risk' Finance Research Letters , DOI Open access
Virk NS & Javed F 2016 'European equity market integration and joint relationship of conditional volatility and correlations' Journal of International Money and Finance , DOI Open access
Butt HA & Virk NS 2016 'Momentum profits and time varying illiquidity effect' Finance Research Letters 20, 253-259 , DOI Open access
Virk NS & Butt HA 2015 'Liquidity and Asset prices: An Empirical Investigation of the Nordic Stock Markets' European Financial Management 21, (4) 672-705 Author Site Publisher Site , DOI
Virk NS & Butt HA 2014 'Specification errors of asset-pricing models for a market characterized by few large capitalization firms' Journal of Economics and Finance Author Site Publisher Site Open access
Virk NS 2013 'Empirical Evidence for State and Time Separable Preferences: Case Finland' Applied Financial Economics 23, (24) Author Site Publisher Site , DOI
Virk NS 2012 'Equity Premium Puzzle: A Finnish Review' International Journal of Economics and Finance 4, (2) , DOI Open access
Virk NS 2012 'Stock returns and macro risks: Evidence from Finland' Research in International Business and Finance 26, (1) 47-66 , DOI Open access
Posters
Virk NS Virk NS 'Stock Returns and Macro Risks: Evidence from Finland' , DOI

Other academic activities

Reviewing scientific work from journals Journal of International Money and Finance, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, European Journal of Finance, Financial Review, Managerial Finance