Ashraf Al Zaman

Saint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business

Professor of Finance

Sobey Building 116

923 Robie Street

Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3

Canada

Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, Canada

923 Robie Street

Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3

Canada

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1.

Cash Holdings, Market Frictions and Monetary Policy: An Investigation of Increase in Cash Holdings

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 04 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2017
Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Bank loan, Cash holding, Interest rate, Monetary policy, Option value

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Management Quality and the Cost of Debt: Does Management Matter to Lenders?

Journal of Banking & Finance 37 (2013), 854-874.
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2013
Mohammad M. Rahaman, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Saint Mary's University - Sobey School of Business and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Management quality, Management practices, Cost of debt, Bank loan contracting, Organizational capital

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The Effect of Supply Chain Power on Bank Financing

Journal of Banking & Finance, 114 (May 2020) 105801.
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2022
Mohammad M. Rahaman, P. Raghavendra Rau, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Saint Mary's University - Sobey School of Business, University of Cambridge and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Supply Chain; Cost of Debt; Bank financing; Product-market Competitiveness; Inventory Control

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Taking a Closer Look at the RRSP and TFSA

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 03 Oct 2015
Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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TFSA, RRSP, Pension

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Resolving the Presidential Puzzle

Financial Management, 40: 331-355, 2011
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 24 May 2019
Oumar Sy, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Dalhousie University and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Politics and Stock Returns: A Rationalization

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jul 2012
Ashraf Al Zaman, Ashraf Al Zaman and Oumar Sy
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business and Dalhousie University
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Asset pricing, CAPM, Presidential puzzle, Cross sectional test

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Trust, Public Institutions, and Pandemic Management: Some Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2021
Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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COVID-19; Pandemic; Trust; Public Institutions; Federal Government; Provincial Government; Health Authorities; Probit Model

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Gridlock versus Harmony: The Effect of Presidential Cycle

Int. J. Portfolio Analysis and Management 1 (3), 2013, pp.288-298
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2013
Oumar Sy, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Dalhousie University and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Gridlock, Harmony, Presidential Cycle, Equity return

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Risk-Sharing Implications for Roth IRA Conversions: Fact and Fiction

Financial Services Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2013
Stephen Horan, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
CFP Board of Standards and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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IRA, Roth IRA, IRA Conversion option, Recharacterization, Risk-return profile

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The Distributional Impacts of Canada's Tax-Free Savings Accounts

Canadian Public Policy 43:4 (Fall - 2017), 331-349
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2018
Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Tax-Free Savings Accounts; TFSA; Survey of Financial Security

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Tax-Deferred Investing with Diversification Concern

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2013
Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Asset allocation, Asset location, Tax-timing, Portfolio diversification

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Is the Presidential Premium Spurious

Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 56, 2020
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Dec 2020
Oumar Sy, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Dalhousie University and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Presidential premium; Presidential puzzle; Spurious regression bias; Data mining; Economic policy uncertainty

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Contribution Limits and Retirement Savings

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Mar 2007
Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business
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Asset allocation and location, Portfolio optimization, Contribution limit

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Overselling Corporate Social Responsibility

Financial Management, forthcoming
Posted: 30 Aug 2023
Najah Attig, Wenyao Hu, Wenyao Hu, Mohammad M. Rahaman, Ashraf Al Zaman and Ashraf Al Zaman
Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Department of Finance and Accounting, Saint Mary's University - Sobey School of Business and Sobey School of Business, St. Mary's University, CanadaSaint Mary's University, Canada - Sobey School of Business

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