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DR TURKI ALSHAMMARI

Turki Alshammari
Office Location
Shedadiyah, South Building, 4th Floor, Finance Dept
Professor

Professor, Finance Dept., College of Business Administration, Kuwait University, turki.alshammari@ku.edu.kw, Ph.D. in Finance & Investments (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ), MBA in Finance & Investments (George Washington University), B.S. in Finance and Banking (Kuwait University). Head of the “Entrepreneurship  Development Program” at the Centre of Excellence at the College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. Designed and trained in professional training seminars in several Arab countries. Consultant to several business concerns in Kuwait (one at a time). Published two books on entrepreneurship and in commercial bank management. Published many articles in refereed international business journals. Member of several professional associations. Continuous media commentator on financial and economic issues in Kuwait. Supervised several master's and doctoral theses. Refereed many articles to refereed scientific journals and refereed international conferences. Teaching experience in undergraduate as well as graduate finance and investment courses

Degrees and Certificates
  • Ph.D. in Finance & Investments (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)                                              
  • MBA in Finance & Investments (George Washington University)                                                             
  • B.S. in Finance and Banking (Kuwait University)                                         
Key Responsibilities
  • Head of finance dept.
  • Head of the dept. promotion committee
  • Head of the college promotion committee 
Professional Experience
  • Lecturer in many professional training seminars in the field of finance and investments since 1999 – now. Also,  designed several training seminars in the field of finance and investment for various training institutes
  • Participated in the training seminar supervised by the UNIDO “Training of trainers for New Enterprise Creation
  • Performed many consulting and feasibility studies for the private sector
  • Assigned by a court of law as a financial arbitrator in several legal disputes 
  • Constant media commentator on local and international issues 
  • A head of the Kuwaiti team counterpart to the World Bank team in a study of “Investment Barriers in Kuwait” 
  • Consultant to many private and public entities 
  • Committee member in many government-specialized committees in Kuwait
  • Project Manager at UNDP (Women Empowerment Program). Supervised setting up a new women’s business  incubator.
  • Has been on editorial boards in several scientific refereed journals
  • Has been a member of the board of trustees in several independent government entities such as the Higher Council of Accreditation (2012 – 2014) and the SME Fund (2013 – 2018)
  • Has been a member of the board of directors in Sabah Alahmad Company for Giftedness and Creativity (2015 – now)
  • Vice-dean for Planning, Consultation, and Training, College of Business Administration, Kuwait University (May 2021 – July 2022) 
Publications

Books

 

  • Commercial Banks Operations, Kuwait Bookstore Co.: Kuwait, 1993.

      (The 2nd ed is published by “That Al-salasel”: Kuwait 1999), with Ramadan 

       Alsharrah and Mohd Alasker / the 3rd edition is published by “That Al-salasel”:    

       Kuwait 2006)

 

  • "Small Businesses Set-up and Management" with Dr. Wafa'a Almobaireek, Published by Scientific Publishing Council, , KuwaitUniversity, (2006)

 

Refereed Articles

 

  • “Gulf Cooperation Council Economies: Ways to Improve Their Performance”, Finance and Industry, No. 17, (1999), pp 97-114, with Ramadan Alsharrah

 

  • “Toward More Effective Foreign Investments: Case Study of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation”, The Journal of Energy and Development, Vol. 25, No. 1, Autumn (1999), pp 113-125, with Ramadan Alsharrah.

 

  • “Performance and Value: Kuwaiti Industrial Firms”, Journal of Administrative Sciences, V (9), No (1), (2002); with Adel Al-wegayan.

 

  • “Analysis of Islamic and Commercial Banking Performance: the Case of Kuwait”,         (2003), Journal of Financial and Commercial Studies, Cairo University, Egypt

 

  • “Capital Structure and Performance of Untaxed Entities” Journal of Administrative Sciences,  V(10), No (3), (2004)

 

 

  • “Calendar Anomalies in Kuwait Stock Exchange: Anomalous Evidence”, Journal of Business and Economics Research,  V (2), No (1), (2004)

 

  • “Board Composition, Executive Remuneration, and Corporate Performance: The       Case Of REITs”, Journal of Corporate Ownership & Control

V (2), No (1), (2004)

 

  • "The relationship between the change in dividend and the Change in cash flow and investment: Evidence from Kuwait", European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences, V. 1, No. 2 ( 2005) With Alsaad and Aldehani

     

  • "Return Seasonality in Kuwait Stock Exchange", The Economic Journal, Kuwait,  (2005)

 

  • “Globalization Effects upon the Performance of Kuwait Finance House”, The Scientific Journal, No. 30, Egypt,  (2005)
  • “Investment of Kuwait’s Natural Resources - An Integrated Management Approach to Kuwait’s Environmental Problems”, Journal of North African Economies, 4th edition, Aljeria, (2006), with others
  • "Information Transmission between Small and Large Stock Returns In Kuwait Stock Exchange”. Journal of Global Competitiveness, (2006), With Aldehani
  • “Evolving Market Efficiency”. The Scientific Journal of Business and Economics. (2009), With Alfadli
  • " Encouragement of Entrepreneurship in Affluent Economies: the Case of 

     Kuwait",  International Business and Economics Research Journal, (2010), with Alwugayan

     

  • “Integration of Stock Markets in the GCC Countries: An Application of the ARDL Bounds Testing Model”, European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences, (2010), With Wafaa Sbeiti 

     

  •  “Intellectual Capital in Business Entities”, (2010), “Journal of Economic Research”, Saad Dohleb University, Algeria.

     

  • “Dividend Policies in Emerging Markets” International Review of Business Research Papers, V. 8, No. 2, with Elsadi, Hosni, and Almawazini, (2012)
  • “The National Industries Group (NI): A Case Study”, International Research Journal of Applied Finance, (2012)
  • "Performance Differences between Conventional and Islamic Banks in GCC Countries", Banks and Banks' Systems, (2017)
  • “Performance Effects of Working Capital in Emerging Markets”, International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, (2018)
  • “Cash level and corporate performance: evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries”, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, (2020)

 

  •  “Are Trade Policies Performance Enhancing? The Special Case of GCC Countries”, International Journal of Financial Research, (2020)

 

 

  • “The Determinants of Liquidity Creation of Conventional and Islamic Banks” International Journal of Accounting and Finance, (2021)

 

 

  • Turki Alshammari (2021), “State Ownership and Bank Performance: Conventional vs. Islamic Banks”, Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, V (13) No. (1), pp 141 – 156 

 

 

  • “Moment Approximation of a Money Return Model Employing a Birth and Death

    Diffusion Process with General External Effect”, Studies in Business and Economics, with Basel M. Al-Eideh (2022)

 

  • Alshammari, T. (2022). Efficiency Effect of Managing Working Capital on the Performance of GCC Listed Firms. Journal of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, 48(186), 29-64.

     

  • Alshammari, T., (2023), "GCC Banks’ Capital and Liquidity: Conventional versus Islamic Banks", Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEAS-09-2021-0188