Business School

Dr Hasibul Chowdhury

Senior Lecturer
School of Business
Affiliate of Centre for Behavioural and Economic Science
Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Science
+61 7 344 31250
Room 320, Colin Clark building (39), St. Lucia Campus
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Researcher biography

Dr Hasibul Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Queensland Business School. Dr Chowdhury holds BBA (Finance) and MBA (Banking) from the University of Dhaka, MBA (Finance) from Tulane University, and PhD (Finance) from the University of Queensland. In addition, he obtained the HEA fellowship (FHEA) from Advance HE, UK. His teaching philosophy is to ensure a high-quality learning environment in the classroom for the students by encouraging active learning methods so that students have clarity in their learning experiences.

Dr Chowdhury's research focuses on corporate finance and executives' labor market incentives. His research work has been published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, European Accounting Review, British Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Research, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, Global Finance Journal, Accounting and Finance, Australian Journal of Management, and Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (JIFMA).

Publications

Journal Articles (24)
Working Paper (1)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Chowdhury, Hasibul, Han, Hien Duc, Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar and Zheng, Jiayi (2025). Institutional shareholder distraction and workplace safety. The British Accounting Review 101671, 101671. doi: 10.1016/j.bar.2025.101671
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hossain, Ashrafee Tanvir, Rahman, Syka and Zheng, Jiayi (2025). Labour investment efficiency and social capital. Accounting & Finance. doi: 10.1111/acfi.70023
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hue Le, Trinh and Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng (2025). Organization capital and labor investment efficiency. Journal of Financial Stability, 77 101384, 101384-77. doi: 10.1016/j.jfs.2025.101384
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hossain, Ashrafee, Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar and Le, Trinh Hue (2025). Corporate sexual orientation equality and dividend payout. The European Journal of Finance, 31 (9), 1197-1224. doi: 10.1080/1351847x.2025.2461212
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hasan, Mostafa Monzur, Luong, Hoang and Xu, Suichen (2024). Do CEOs' industry tournament incentives affect stock liquidity?. Corporate Governance: An International Review. doi: 10.1111/corg.12623
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hossain, Ashrafee and Jha, Anand (2024). Acquisitions and social capital. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 51 (9-10), 2490-2522. doi: 10.1111/jbfa.12787
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Lin, Beiqi, Mei, Shunji, Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng and Zhang, Lei (2024). Does exchange-traded fund ownership affect a firm’s expected crash risk?. European Accounting Review, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-33. doi: 10.1080/09638180.2024.2368129
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Estreich, Timothy, Hossain, Ashrafee and Zheng, Jiayi (2024). U.S. Political corruption and labor investment (in)efficiency. Global Finance Journal, 60 100962, 100962. doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2024.100962
Zheng, Jiayi, Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hossain, Md Safayat and Gupta, Kartick (2023). Tournament-based incentives and media sentiment. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, 19 (2) 100353, 100353. doi: 10.1016/j.jcae.2023.100353
Chowdhury, Hasibul and Rahman, Shofiqur (2023). Do tournament incentives affect corporate dividend policy?. Journal of Banking and Finance, 152 106877, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2023.106877
Heeney, Luke, Yang, Shanelle, Chowdhury, Hasibul and Tan, Kelvin Jui Keng (2023). Corporate cash holdings through economic policy uncertainty: An Australian study. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 79 102008, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2023.102008
Rahman, Shofiqur and Chowdhury, Hasibul (2023). Tournament-based incentives and the lease-versus-buy decision. Journal of Banking and Finance, 148 106730. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2022.106730
Malik, Ihtisham, Chowdhury, Hasibul and Alam, Md Samsul (2023). Equity market response to natural disasters: Does firm's corporate social responsibility make difference?. Global Finance Journal, 55 100801, 100801. doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2022.100801
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hossain, Ashrafee, Masum, Abdullah-Al and Zheng, Jiayi (2022). Does corporate sexual orientation equality affect labor investment efficiency?. Global Finance Journal, 55 100747, 100747. doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2022.100747
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hossain, Ashrafee, Tan, Kelvin and Zheng, Jiayi (2022). Do external labor market incentives improve labor investment efficiency?. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 34 100648, 100648. doi: 10.1016/j.jbef.2022.100648
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hodgson, Allan and Hasan, Mostafa Monzur (2022). Does a competitive external labour market affect corporate social responsibility? Evidence from industry tournament incentives. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 33 100617, 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100617
Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar, Chowdhury, Hasibul and Han, Hien Duc (2021). CEO centrality and stock price crash risk. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 31 100551, 100551. doi: 10.1016/j.jbef.2021.100551
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Faff, Robert and Hoang, Khoa (2021). Using abnormal analyst coverage to unlock new evidence on stock price crash risk. Accounting and Finance, 61 (S1), 1557-1588. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12637
Chowdhury, Hasibul and Shams, Syed (2020). Does firm life cycle have impacts on managerial promotion tournament incentives?. Australian Journal of Management, 46 (4), 031289622097441-628. doi: 10.1177/0312896220974417
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Hodgson, Allan and Pathan, Shams (2020). Do external labour market incentives constrain bad news hoarding? The CEO's industry tournament and crash risk reduction. Journal of Corporate Finance, 65 101774, 101774. doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101774
Chowdhury, Hasibul, Rahman, Shofiqur and Sankaran, Harikumar (2020). Leverage deviation from the target debt ratio and leasing. Accounting and Finance, 61 (2) acfi.12710, 3481-3515. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12710
Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar, Shams, Syed and Chowdhury, Hasibul (2020). Evidence on the trade-off between corporate social responsibility and mergers and acquisitions investment. Australian Journal of Management, 46 (3), 466-498. doi: 10.1177/0312896220950394
Gul, Ferdinand A., Krishnamurti, Chandrasekhar, Shams, Syed and Chowdhury, Hasibul (2020). Corporate social responsibility, overconfident CEOs and empire building: agency and stakeholder theoretic perspectives. Journal of Business Research, 111, 52-68. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.01.035
Faff, Robert, Ali, Searat, Atif, Muhammad, Brenner, Matt, Chowdhury, Hasibul, Cruddas, Leelyn, Joubert, Alison, Malik, Ihtisham, Mi, Lin, Nagar, Vinu, Pullen, Tim, Siegrist, Manuel, Smythe, Steve, Stephenson, Jeff, Zhang, Beile and Kun Zhang (2017). Fantasy pitching. Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, 16 (2), 360-379. doi: 10.24818/jamis.2017.02007

Working Paper

Chi, Danlin, Chowdhury, Hasibul, Eugster, Nicolas and Zheng, Jiayi (2022). Does linguistic complexity of annual reports affect corporate leasing decision?. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4214982

Thesis

Chowdhury, Hasibul Alam (2019). Essays on executive pay disparity. PhD Thesis, School of Business, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/3e5822e