Dr. Raheel Safdar

Assistant Professor
PhD (Financial Management),
MBA, BBA, ECAM.
raheel.safdar@uvas.edu.pk
Office Hours: 9 am to 12 am

Dr. Raheel earned his PhD in Financial Management at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China. He did BBA (Hons.) and MBA (Hons.) from University of the Punjab, Pakistan. He has served as Lecturer in Department of Business Administration, G.C. University, Faisalabad, in year 2013. He Joined UVAS Business School as Assistant Professor (Finance) in April 2019. He has been involved in a variety of entrepreneurial ventures in agriculture sector. He believes in continuous learning to keep abreast of rapid developments on business & economic fronts.

Area of Specialization

Finance

Research Interests

  • Asset Pricing & Valuation
  • Cost of Equity Capital
  • Information and Liquidity Risks
  • Corporate Finance & Governance

Publications

  • Market pricing of liquidity risk: Evidence from China. China Finance Review International. 2019
  • Competition, Debt Maturity, and Adjustment Speed in China: A Dynamic Fractional Estimation Approach.  (2020) Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(5), p.106
  • Managerial empowerment and firm risk taking. SAGE Open 9.2 (2019): 2158244019856963.
  • Principal-principal agency conflict and information quality in China: the governance role of audit quality and analyst following. 2019 Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting, Vol. 17, Issue 1. Pp. 42-59.
  • Information risk, stock returns, and asset pricing: evidence from China. 2017.  Accounting Research Journal. Vol. 30, Issue 4.
  • Information risk, stock returns, and the cost of capital in China. 2016. China Finance Review International. Volume. 6 Issue: 1, pp.77-95.
  • Managing accruals for income smoothing: Empirical evidence from Pakistan. 2016. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies. Vol. 6 Issue: 4, pp. 372-387.

Conferences and Seminars

  • Attended the 11th Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial Markets (CAFM 2016), December 2~3, 2016 Seoul, Korea. Organizers: Korean Securities Association; Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies
  • Presented paper titled: Does Liquidity Mediate between Information Quality and the Cost of Equity in China? International Conference on Management, Business & Technology (ICMBT), March, 12~15, 2017, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Organizer: Institute of Business & Management
  • Presented paper titled: Principal-Principal Agency Conflict and Information Quality in China. Asian Economic Outlook and Long-Term Challenges on December 9, 2016. Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Organizers: Asiatic Research Institute; HK Centre for Northeast Asian Studies.