Yaqoub Alabdullah is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Business Administration at Kuwait University. He holds a PhD from The University of Missouri – Columbia since 2014. He got his MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010 and his Bachelors in Accounting from Kuwait University in 2008. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of California – Berkeley from 2017-2018. He was the Director of the Financial Trading Center at Kuwait University from 2019-2021. His research interest include Corporate governance, M&A, Payout policy, and Ownership concentration.