Senior Lecturer
Overview
Dewan Rahman is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at UQ Business School. He teaches Asset Pricing, Finance, and Investment & Portfolio Management in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He finds teaching to be very rewarding and enjoys interacting with students. Dewan is also active in supervising higher degree research (PhD) students. He is currently accepting new students.
Dewan's research primarily focuses on Insider Trading, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Disclosures. He presented papers at conferences such as American Finance Association Annual Meeting, Australasian Finance & Banking Conference, AFAANZ Annual Conference, New Zealand Finance Meeting, among others. Dewan's research work has been published in academic journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Accounting Review, and Accounting and Business Research. He was awarded the 2020 ECR excellence in research award from UQ Business School. Dewan's research work on insider trading has received significant media attention being syndicated across 10 outlets, including Conversation, Business News Australia, and featured in UQ Business School's industry research magazine, Momentum.
Dewan holds a PhD in Finance (with Endeavour Scholarship) from the University of Queensland, MSc in Finance (with Commonwealth Scholarship) from the University of Strathclyde, and BBA (Finance) and MBA (Finance) from the University of Dhaka.
Research Interests
- Insider Trading
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Disclosures
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Publications
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Journal Article: Does managerial pay disparity influence BHC default risk?
Ali, Searat, Iqbal, Jamshed, Malik, Ihtisham and Rahman, Dewan (2024). Does managerial pay disparity influence BHC default risk?. International Review of Economics & Finance, 92, 1250-1269. doi: 10.1016/j.iref.2024.02.032
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Journal Article: Firm-level political risk and equity issuance
Rahman, Dewan, Haque, Anamul, Kabir, Muhammad and Bin Hasan, Shehub (2024). Firm-level political risk and equity issuance. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 91 101944, 101944. doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2024.101944
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Journal Article: Does board independence influence annual report readability?
Rahman, Dewan and Kabir, Muhammad (2023). Does board independence influence annual report readability?. European Accounting Review, 1-28. doi: 10.1080/09638180.2023.2223590
Grants
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Cross-listing, the legal bonding hypothesis and insider trading
(2023–2024) Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
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Climate regulatory risk and eco-friendly innovation
(2022–2023) Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
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Do employee-friendly workplaces reduce rent seeking activities?
(2019–2021) AFAANZ Research Grants
Supervision
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Technology Spillovers, Information Environment, and Corporate Outcomes
Doctor Philosophy
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Proxy Contest, Board Interlocks and Insider Trading
Doctor Philosophy
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Coopetition and debt structure
Doctor Philosophy
Publications
Journal Article
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Does managerial pay disparity influence BHC default risk?
Ali, Searat, Iqbal, Jamshed, Malik, Ihtisham and Rahman, Dewan (2024). Does managerial pay disparity influence BHC default risk?. International Review of Economics & Finance, 92, 1250-1269. doi: 10.1016/j.iref.2024.02.032
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Firm-level political risk and equity issuance
Rahman, Dewan, Haque, Anamul, Kabir, Muhammad and Bin Hasan, Shehub (2024). Firm-level political risk and equity issuance. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 91 101944, 101944. doi: 10.1016/j.intfin.2024.101944
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Does board independence influence annual report readability?
Rahman, Dewan and Kabir, Muhammad (2023). Does board independence influence annual report readability?. European Accounting Review, 1-28. doi: 10.1080/09638180.2023.2223590
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Does product market competition influence annual report readability?
Rahman, Dewan, Kabir, Muhammad, Ali, Muhammad Jahangir and Oliver, Barry (2023). Does product market competition influence annual report readability?. Accounting and Business Research, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-32. doi: 10.1080/00014788.2023.2165031
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The readability of 10-K reports and insider trading profitability
Rahman, Dewan and Oliver, Barry (2022). The readability of 10-K reports and insider trading profitability. Australian Journal of Management, 47 (3), 031289622110251-578. doi: 10.1177/03128962211025118
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Do co-opted boards increase insider profitability?
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
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Does exposure to product market competition influence insider trading profitability?
Rahman, Dewan, Kabir, Muhammad and Oliver, Barry (2021). Does exposure to product market competition influence insider trading profitability?. Journal of Corporate Finance, 66 101792, 1-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101792
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Does board independence constrain insider opportunism?
Rahman, Dewan, Faff, Robert and Oliver, Barry (2020). Does board independence constrain insider opportunism?. Australian Journal of Management, 46 (3), 031289622094638-522. doi: 10.1177/0312896220946384
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Crash risk and debt maturity: evidence from Australia
Hasan, Mostafa, Rahman, Dewan, Taylor, Grantley and Oliver, Barry (2020). Crash risk and debt maturity: evidence from Australia. International Journal of Managerial Finance, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 377-400. doi: 10.1108/ijmf-12-2019-0467
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Evidence of strategic information uncertainty around opportunistic insider purchases
Rahman, Dewan, Oliver, Barry and Faff, Robert (2020). Evidence of strategic information uncertainty around opportunistic insider purchases. Journal of Banking & Finance, 117 105821, 105821. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2020.105821
Conference Publication
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CEO buying: strategic news tone dispersion around purchasing months
Rahman, Dewan (2017). CEO buying: strategic news tone dispersion around purchasing months. AFA 2018 American Finance Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA USA, 5-7 January 2018. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell.
Other Outputs
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Essays on insider trading and governance
Rahman, Dewan Mostafizur (2019). Essays on insider trading and governance. PhD Thesis, School of Business, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.353
Grants (Administered at UQ)
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Cross-listing, the legal bonding hypothesis and insider trading
(2023–2024) Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
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Climate regulatory risk and eco-friendly innovation
(2022–2023) Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
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Do employee-friendly workplaces reduce rent seeking activities?
(2019–2021) AFAANZ Research Grants
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Current Supervision
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Technology Spillovers, Information Environment, and Corporate Outcomes
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Proxy Contest, Board Interlocks and Insider Trading
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Coopetition and debt structure
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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International Evidence on the Relationship between Telecommunication Infrastructure and IPO Underpricing
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Completed Supervision
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Three Essays on Irrational Managerial Characteristics
(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
