Dr. Laleh Samarbakhsh
Overview
Dr. Laleh Samarbakhsh is an associate professor of Finance at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. Her research interests include corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, hedge funds, cryptocurrencies, derivatives, and financial crises. Dr. Samarbakhsh has also performed and published research in financial education and pedagogy. She has presented her research in various international academic conferences, including Financial Management Association, European Financial Management Association, Northern Finance Association, Asian Financial Management Association, Eastern Finance Association, Midwest Finance Association, and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. She currently coordinates and teaches Managerial Finance at TRSM and has taught courses in Personal Finance and Corporate Finance. Dr. Samarbakhsh is the recipient of the 2019 Dean鈥檚 Teaching Award of Excellence.
Since 2019, Dr. Samarbakhsh is appointed an associate editor of (Ranked 鈥淎鈥� in ).
Corporate Finance, Derivatives, Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial crises, Hedge Funds, Cryptocurrencies
| Publications: |
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| 鈥淒id the STOCK Act impact the performance, risk, and flow of Hedge Funds?鈥�, with Shah M., forthcoming at International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2021 |
| 鈥淐OVID-19 and Hedge Fund Equity Ownership鈥�, with Singh A., forthcoming at International Review of Finance, 2021 |
| 鈥淔ixed Income Mutual Fund Performance During and After a Crisis: A Canadian Case鈥�, with Shah M., Journal of Economics and Finance (2021): 1-23. (Lead article) |
| 鈥淔ragmentation in the Bitcoin markets: Evidence from multiple coexisting order books鈥�, with Jeon Y., and Hewitt K., forthcoming at Finance Research Letters, 2020. |
| 鈥淐omponents of Credit Rationing鈥�, with Beyhaghi M., Firoozi F., Jalilvand A., Journal of Financial Stability, 50, (2020): 100762. |
| 鈥淐hinese Economic Policy Uncertainty and U.S. Corporate Investment鈥�, with Lee K., Jeon Y. and Kim I., International Review of Finance (2020) |
| 鈥淲hat makes a board director better connected? Evidence from graph theory鈥�, with Tasic B., Computer Science and Information Systems, 17, no. 2 (2020): 357-377. (Lead article) |
| 鈥淒o clickers work for students with poorer grades and in harder courses?鈥�, with Anderson S., Goss A., Inglis M., Kaplan A., and Toffanin M., Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42, no. 6 (2018): 797-807. |
| 鈥淩emoval of Foreign Property Rule and International Diversification in Canadian Mutual Funds鈥�, with Bates, K., and Senat S., Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Proceedings - Finance Division, 2015. |
| Year | Presentation name |
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| 2021 | The 37th International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), Nantes, France (presenting author) |
| 2020 | AAA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (presenting author) |
| 2020 | CAAA Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK (presenting author; discussant) |
| 2019 | FMA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (presenting author) |
| 2019 | Vietnam International Conference in Finance, Da Nang, Vietnam (presenting author) |
| 2019 | Asian Financial Management Association Conference, Ho Chi Minh City (chair; discussant) |
| 2019 | FMA Applied Finance Conference, New York, NY (presenting author) |
| 2018 | Midwest Finance Association, San Antonio, TX (chair; discussant) |
| 2017 | Asian Financial Management Association Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (presenting author) |
| 2015 | Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Lake Louise, AB (presenting author) |
| 2015 | ASAC Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS (presented by co-author) |
| 2015 | Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (presenting author) |
| 2014 | AABRI International Conference, Savannah, GA (presented by co-author) |
| 2012 | Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Niagara Falls, ON (presenting author) |
| 2012 | Financial Management European Annual Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey (presenting author) |
| 2012 | Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (presenting author) |
| 2012 | Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (presenting author) |
| Year | Research grant / funding |
|---|---|
| 2021 | SOSCIP (Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform) |
| 2020 | MITACS Canada Accelerate Grant |
| 2019 | TRSM Research Development Grant |
| 2019 | Financial Management Association Applied Finance Grant |
| 2017 | SSHRC SIG Grant |
| 2016 |
Royal Bank of Canada IDI Grant |
| 2015 | Office of Vice-President Research & Innovation URO Grant |
| 2015 |
TRSM Dean鈥檚 SRC Grant |