Oumar Sy
Associate Professor
Email: Oumar.Sy@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3849
Fax: 902-494-1503
Mailing Address:
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Ave, PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- International diversification
- Political economy
- Financial econometrics
- Market efficiency
- Asset pricing
- Portfolio management
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
Education
- PhD (McGill)
- MSc (HEC-Montreal)
- BA (HEC)
Current Teaching
Selected Awards and Honours
- 1999 Best Finance Paper and Best Conference Paper for "Investigating the puzzling intertemporal market risk-return relationship", Atlantic Schools of Business Annual Conference, Halifax
Selected Publications
- Factor investing and risk management: Is smart-beta diversification smart? Nazaire, G., Pacurar, M. & Sy, O. Finance Research Letters, 41, 101854 (2021)
- Is the presidential premium spurious? Sy, O. & Zaman, A.A. Journal of Empirical Finance 56, 94-104 (2020)
- Betas versus characteristics: A practical perspective. Nazaire, G., Pacurar, M. & Sy, O. European Financial Management 26, 1385-1413 (2020)
- Resolving the presidential puzzle. Sy, O. & Zaman, A.A. Financial Management 40(2), 331-355 (2011)
- Corporate governance and ultimate control. Boubakri, N., Guedhami, O. & Sy, O. International Finance Review 9(38), 385-413 (2008)