Dr. Fatema Alaali
Dr. Fatema Alaali currently serves as the Dean of the College of Business and Management and an Assistant Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Management. She teaches various courses in Economics and Finance and supervises students in their final projects.
Before joining AUBH, Dr. Alaali joined Ahlia University, Bahrain, in 2015 as an Assistant Professor of Economics. During her teaching career, she has taught multiple levels of Economics courses such as Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, International Economics, Industrial Organization, Econometrics, and Monetary and Financial Systems. Her experience extends to helping students explore and define their academic, career, and life goals, by serving as an academic advisor to several Economics and Finance undergraduate program students. In addition, she has supervised several undergraduate students in their final projects as well as MBA and Engineering Management students in their theses.
Dr. Alaali gained the fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in the UK (FHEA) in December 2018, demonstrating her commitment to teaching, learning, and students. Her research interests include areas of applied economics and finance, energy and environmental economics, investment and asset pricing. She completed her studies at the University of Bahrain and earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 2004 and in the year 2005, she completed a Master of Arts in Business Administration at the New York Institute of Technology, New York (U.S.). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sheffield, U.K. in 2015.
Publications:
- Analysing the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Asset Prices: Evidence from UK Firms
- Can oil prices help predict US stock market returns? Evidence using a dynamic model averaging (DMA) approach
- The effect of oil and stock price volatility on firm level investment: The case of UK firms
- Economic development and environmental sustainability: evidence from Bahrain
- Do Religion and Spirituality in the Workplace Matter?: Concepts, Perspectives, and Implications