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Date Presenter's name Paper's title Presentation Schedule 2010/11 25-Nov-10 Dr. Selini Katsaiti Evaluating Health Care Costs Generated by Risky Consumption Goods' 30-Dec-10 Prof. Abdulnasser Hatemi-J Estimating Optimal Hedge Ratio with Unknown Structural Breaks 13-Jan-11 Dr. Mohamed Belkhir Market Discipline of Bank Risk and the too-Big-to-Fail Protection: Evidence From Risk Management Decisions 21-Apr-11 Dr. Amany El Anshasy Fiscal Policy, Governance, and the Growth Performance in Resource Abundant Economies: Do Institutional Qualities Matter? 5-May-11 Dr. Wasseem Mina Property Rights Protection and International Lending in MENA Countries 12-May-11 Dr. Chiraz Labidi IPO Pricing and Market Activity Cycles in the MENA Region 19-May-11 Dr. Fernando Zanella Quality Certification & Economic Performance in the UAE 26-May-11 Dr. Haitham A. Al-Zoubi A New Look at the Forward Premium "Puzzle" 2-Jun-11 Dr. Emilie Rutledge ‘Women, Labour Market Nationalisation Polices and Human Resource Development in the Arab Gulf States’ 9-Jun-11 Prof. Mazin Al Janabi Modeling of Coherent Risk-Capital Structures Presentation Schedule 2011/12 22-Sep-11 Prof. Azzeddine M. Azzam A Welfare Measure of Consumer Vulnerability to Rising Prices of Food Imports: The Case of the UAE 27-Oct-11 Dr. Anup Nandialath; HEC Paris Open Market Stock Repruchases and Takeovers: Attraction or Deterrence?

3-Nov-11 Prof. Mazin Al Janabi On The Modeling of Coherent Economic Capital Structure 8-Dec-11 Dr. Alexei Alexandrov Firms Should be Risky at the Margin 12-Jan-12 Prof. Abdunasser Hatami Asymmetric Causality Tests with an Application in Finance 26-Jan-12 Dr. Zakaria Boulanouar Determinants of Capital Structure in Unlisted New Zealand Firms 16-Feb-12 Dr. Abdullah Al Madani The Market Tomorrow TMT 24-May-12 Dr. Aktham AlMaghaireh The Determinants of Bank Efficiency in the GCC Countries 14-Jun-12 Dr. Fernando Zanella Targeting Cost and Inflation Rate Presentation Schedule 2012/13 27-Sep-12 Prof. Azzeddine Azzam, University of Food Price Policy and Household Welfare: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates Nebraska–Lincoln 11-Oct-12 Dr. Louis Jaeck Interest Group, Biofuel Trade and ecological Protectionism 6-Dec-12 Prof. Joze Damijan, University of Growing Lemons and Cherries? Pre- and Post- Acquisition Performance of Foreign- Ljubljana Acquired Firms in the New EU Member States 13-Dec-12 Prof. Joze Damijan, University of Impact of Firm Heterogeneity on Direct and Spillover Effects of FDI:Micro Evidence from Ljubljana Ten Transition Countries 17-Jan-13 Mr. Mohammed Alameh Zephyr database provided by Bureau van Dijk 14-Feb-13 Dr. Wasseem Mina United Arab Emirates FDI Outlook 28-Feb-13 Prof. Abdulnasser Hatemi On the Pricing and Hedging of Options during a Financial Crisis 18-Apr-13 Dr. Louis Jaeck TBD The Impact of EMU Enlargement on Structural Reforms: a Public Choice Approach

9-May-13 Prof. Rebecca Morton of NYU Corruption in Committees: An Experimental Study of Information Aggregation through Voting 16-May-13 Dr. Louis Jaeck Paradox of Voting and Diffusion of Democratic Ideology: The Case of France 23-May-13 Dr. Osama Sweidan Inflation Targeting and the Uncertainty Level in Developing Countries 30-May-13 Dr. Wassseem Political Risk Guarantees and Debt: The Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties Presentation Schedule 2013/14 3-Oct-13 Dr. Selini Katsaiti New Evidence on the determinants of Obesity: The case of UAE 24-Oct-13 Dr. Mrittika Shamsuddin Testing a Roy Model with Multiple Markets: The Case of International Migrants from Bangladesh 7-Nov-13 Dr. Osiris Parcero Foreign Ownership and Local firms’ Capital labor Ratio: the Case of Abu Dhabi 14-Nov-13 Dr. Osama Sweidan Exchangae Rate Pass-through into Consumer Price Index in Jordan 21-Nov-13 Dr. Amany El Anshasy Energy Efficiency and the Energy Mix: What Works for the Environment? A Heterogeneous Panel Approach 28-Nov-13 Mr. Mohammed Alameh Bankscope Training 12-Dec-13 Prof. Jeffery Nugent; University of When Do Firms Choose to Train? The Roles of Labor Regulations, Their Enforcement, and Southern California Firm and Industry Characteristics 16-Jan-14 Mr. Jun Saito Corporate Governance in UAE 23-Jan-14 Ms. Viktoria Miskova Zawya Promotional Presentation 30-Jan-14 Dr. Emilie Rutledge Parental Influence on Female Vocational Decisions in the Arabian Gulf

20-Feb-14 Dr. Wasseem Mina Social Cohesion and Capital Flows in MENA Countries 27-Feb-14 Dr. Louis Jaeck Political Economy of Labor Market Reforms in Eastern European Countries: Eirect versus Indirect Political Influence 6-Mar-14 Prof. Abdulnasser Hatemi-J On the Interaction between Government Spending and Economic Performance in Sweden: An Asymmetric Approach 20-Mar-14 Prof. Eduardo Roca Brics and pigs in the presence of uncle Sam and big brothers: Who Drive Who? Evidence Based on Asymmetric Causality Test 24-Apr-14 Dr. Osiris Parcero My Experience with Mobile Learning: Challenges and Tips 1-May-14 Dr. Osiris Parcero Income Inequality and the Resource Curse 15-May-14 Prof. Abdulnasser Hatemi-J A New Model for Stochastic Volatility 22-May-14 Dr. Osiris Parcero Is There a Premium in The Size of Nations? 29-May-14 Dr. Wasseem Mina & Dr. Louis Jaeck Labor Market Flexibility and FDI in GCC Countries? 19-Jun-14 Dr. Fernando Zanella Are Costs Really Sticky? Evidence from Publicly Listed Companies in the UAE