Ph.D. in Finance, The University of Texas at Dallas
MS, The University of Texas at Dallas
MBA, American University of Beirut
B.A. in Economics, with Distinction, American University of
Beirut
Publications:
The Granular Nature of Large Institutional Investors, Management Science (2020), forthcoming, with Itzhak Ben-David, Francesco Franzoni, and John Sedunov. NBER Working Paper No. 22247 Winner of the 2016 Research Excellence Award from the Center for Global Leadership at Villanova University. Presented at the NBER Summer Institute 2015 Annual Conference, ASSA's American Finance Association 2016 Annual Conference. Featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, August 2016.
Do ETFs Increase Volatility?Journal
of Finance(2018),forthcoming, Rabih
Moussawi with Itzhak Ben-David and Francesco
Franzoni. Presented at the Wharton School's Jacobs Levy 2014
Annual Conference, the American Finance Association 2013
meetings, Investment Company Institute 2013 conference, and
NYSE Euronext-Paris Annual Hedge Fund 2012 Conference.NBER
Working Paper No. 20071. Featured in the NBER Digest,
September 2014.
Corporate Governance and Firm Survival,The
Financial Review(2018), Rabih
Moussawi with Sinan Goktan and Robert Kieschnick.
Winner of the Financial Review Editors' Choice Best Paper
Award - 2018.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs),The
Annual Review of Financial Economics(2017),
with Itzhak Ben-David and Francesco Franzoni.NBER
Working Paper No. 22829. Featured inthe
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and
Financial Regulation, Nov. 2016.
Motivating Innovation in Newly Public Firms,Journal
of Financial Economics(2014), Rabih
Moussawi with Nina Baranchuk and Robert Kieschnick.
Featured inthe
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and
Financial Regulation, February 2014.
The McDonough Family Faculty Research Award, Villanova
School of Business, May 2019.
TheFinancial
ReviewEditors’ Choice Best Paper Award for
2018, April 2019.
Villanova University’s Scholarly Achievement Award,
Villanova University, March 2019.
VSB Teaching Innovation Grant, Villanova School of Business,
May 2017.
Best Paper Award, 2017 Research Excellence Awards, Center
for Global Leadership, Villanova University, February 2017.
Best Paper Award, 2016, India Finance Association
Conference, Emerald – IFC 2016 Best Paper, Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmedabad, India, December 2016.
The ETF Research Academy Grant, 2016, Paris-Dauphine House
of Finance and Lyxor Asset Management, Paris, France, June
2016.
Best Paper Award, 2016 Research Excellence Awards, Center
for Global Leadership, Villanova University, February 2016.
Best Paper Award, 20th Annual Multinational Finance Society
Conference, Izmir, Turkey, July 2013.
Outstanding Ph.D. Student Teacher of the Year, The
University of Texas at Dallas, School of Management, 2004.