Dr Ihtisham Malik

Lecturer in Finance

School of Business

+61 7 344 31248

i.malik@business.uq.edu.au

Room 317A, Colin Clark Building (39), St. Lucia Campus

Researcher biography

Ihtisham is a Lecturer in Finance at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. He earned his Phd from University of Queensland in 2020 and was recipient of highly competitive International Post-graduate Research Scholarship and UQ Centennial Scholarship. Ihtisham has a decade-long teaching experience, in and outside of Australia. During this time, he has taught different undergraduate and postgraduate finance courses (such as Asset Pricing, Managerial Finance, Derivatives and Banking, to name a few) in both face-to-face and online modes. Currently, Ihtisham is working with Executive Education at The University of Queensland Business School where he is Academic Lead for the joint public sector finance program with the Queensland Treasury Corporation.

Ihtisham is also actively involved in finance research and has published scholarly work pertaining to climate risk, asset pricing, and insider trading in a number of highly ranked academic journals. He has secured several internal and external travel grants, from within UQ, and other prestigious organizations (e.g., American Finance Association), to present his research findings internationally. Recently, one of his research papers won Best PhD paper award at Financial Research Network (FIRN) Doctoral symposium.

Publications

Journal Articles (9)

Conference Papers (8)

Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Treepongkaruna, Sirimon, Chan, Kam Fong and Malik, Ihtisham (2023). Climate policy uncertainty and the cross-section of stock returns. Finance Research Letters, 55 (Part A) 103837, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2023.103837

Zaman, Rashid, Asiaei, Kaveh, Nadeem, Muhammad, Malik, Ihtisham and Arif, Muhammad (2023). Board demographic, structural diversity, and eco-innovation: International evidence. Corporate Governance: An International Review. doi: 10.1111/corg.12545

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. doi: 10.1016/j.gfj.2022.100801

Malik, Ihtisham A. and Faff, Robert (2022). Industry market reaction to natural disasters: do firm characteristics and disaster magnitude matter?. Natural Hazards, 111 (3), 2963-2994. doi: 10.1007/s11069-021-05164-z

Rahman, Dewan, Malik, Ihtisham, Ali, Searat and Iqbal, Jamshed (2021). Do co-opted boards increase insider profitability?. Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, 17 (3) 100265, 100265. doi: 10.1016/j.jcae.2021.100265

Malik, Ihtisham A., Faff, Robert W. and Chan, Kam F. (2020). Market response of US equities to domestic natural disasters: industry-based evidence. Accounting and Finance, 60 (4) acfi.12484, 3875-3904. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12484

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

Malik, Ihtisham Abdul, Siyal, Ghamz-e-Ali, Bin Abdullah, Alias, Alam, Arif, Zaman, Khalid, Kyophilavong, Phouphet, Shahbaz, Muhammad, Baloch, Siraj Ullah and Shams, Tauqeer (2014). Turn on the lights: Macroeconomic factors affecting renewable energy in Pakistan. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 38, 277-284. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.05.090

Malik, Ihtisham Abdul and Amjad, Shehla (2013). Foreign direct investment and stock market development in Pakistan. Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, 12 (3), 226-242. doi: 10.1108/JITLP-02-2013-0002

Conference Papers

Treepongkaruna, Sirimon, Fong Chan, Kam and Malik, Ihtisham (2023). Climate policy uncertainty and the cross-section of stock returns. Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL United States, 11-14 October 2023.

Alsaiari, Hatem, Malik, Ihtisham and Ali, Searat (2023). Climate policy uncertainty and corporate default risk. British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA) Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing SIG and the Northern Area Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 13-15 December 2023.

Chowdhury, Hasibul , Malik, Ihtisham , Sun, Hui and Ali, Searat (2022). Natural disasters and corporate default risk. New Zealand Finance Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, 8-9 December 2022.

Malik, Ihtisham, Hodgson, Allan, Faff, Robert and Xiong, Zhengling (2020). Does corporate insider trading predict natural disaster outcomes?: evidence from tropical storms in the US. 43rd Annual Congress European Accounting Association (EAA), Bucharest, Romania, 27-29 May 2020.

Malik, Ihtisham, Hodgson, Allan, Faff, Robert and Xiong, Zhengling (2019). Does corporate insider trading predict natural disaster outcomes?: evidence from tropical storms in the U.S.. 9th Annual Finance Research Network Conference (FIRN 2019), Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, 20-22 November 2019.

Malik, Ihtisham, Faff, Robert and Chan, Kam Fong (2019). Price reactions of U.S. equities to natural disasters: industry-based evidence. 2019 New Zealand Finance Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, 18-20 December 2019.

Malik, Ihtisham, Hodgson, Allan and Faff, Robert (2019). Natural disaster and the profitability of insider trading. 12th International Accounting and Finance Doctoral Symposium, Milan, Italy, 9-11 June 2019.

Malik, Ihtisham, Faff, Robert and Chan, Kam Fong (2017). Natural disaster risk, and price returns and volatilities of financial assets. 10th International Accounting and Finance Doctoral Symposium, Warsaw, Poland, 12-14 June 2017.

Thesis

Malik, Ihtisham Abdul (2020). Equity price reaction to natural disasters. PhD Thesis, School of Business, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.555