Dr. Abdel Razzaq Al Rababa’a
Associate Professor of Finance
Biography:
Abdel Razzaq is Associate professor of finance at Al Yamamah university. Before joining the university on August 2024, Dr. Abdel Razzaq was an associate professor in the department of banking and finance at Yarmouk university in Jordan where used to teach more than 10 finance courses for 6 years. He was a teaching assistant at the department of accounting and finance at the University of Stirling where he obtained his PhD in 2017. During his PhD, he was a visiting scholar at the department of statistics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He also worked in the banking sector and had finance positions in some international non-governmental organizations namely the Norwegian refugee council (NRC) and the international rescue Committee (IRC). He received a prestigious certificate in Finance and Technology (FinTech) from the university of Hong Kong.
Publications:
His research interests are mainly in the areas of quantitative behavioral finance and energy economics with most of his published papers are getting published in high ranked finance and economics journals. For example, he managed to publish in the review of quantitative finance and accounting (ABS 3 star), journal of international financial markets institutions and money (ABS 3 star), international journal of finance and economics (ABS 3 star), Energy economics (ABS 3 star), energy journal (ABS 3 star), research in international business and finance (ABS 2 star), journal of behavioral finance (ABS 2 star), the Quarterly review of economics and finance (ABS 2) and other top journals. His ongoing research have to be submitted soon even to higher ranked journals in finance. He is collaborating with co-authors from the UK, US, Jordan, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Conferences:
He presented his working papers in several international conferences such as the World finance conference, the British finance and accounting conference, Sussex young finance scholar conference, ACRN Oxford Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives conference series.
Teaching:
- Research Methods in Stata for Masters Accounting and finance department. University of Stirling.
- Introduction to financial technology, undergraduate course.
- Financial markets and institutions, undergraduate
- International financial management, undergraduate
- International finance, undergraduate
- Advanced financial management, undergraduate
- Essentials of investment, undergraduate
- Financial applications in Excel, undergraduate
- Financial analysis, undergraduate
- International finance, graduate
- Managerial finance, graduate course.
- Undergraduate graduation
Services:
More practically, Dr. Abdel Razzaq plays a major role in establishing the BSc in FinTech program at Yarmouk university as well as establishing the trading room in the department of banking and finance at Yarmouk university.