Mondher BOUATTOUR
Research Active Faculty - Associate Professor
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Department
Finance Academic Department -
Teaching specialisations
Finance, Accounting, Cost Control -
Campus
La Rochelle -
Languages
Arabic, French -
Areas of research
Market Finance, Behavioural Finance, Sustainable Finance
Biography
Mondher Bouattour is an Associate Professor of Finance at Excelia Business School and a member of the LGTO research laboratory. He holds a PhD in Management Science from Toulouse University, France. His teaching interests include financial accounting, management control, and corporate finance. His research focuses on a range of topics such as financial asset pricing, sustainable finance, and commodity markets. He also explores issues in behavioral finance, particularly the impact of cognitive biases on price formation. His work has been published in journals including Small Business Economics, Corporate Ownership and Control, Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Risk Finance, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Applied Economics, and Bankers, Markets & Investors. Dr. Bouattour also serves regularly as a reviewer for various academic journals in economics and finance.
2012
PhD in Management Sciences, Université de Toulouse
2006
Master of Science, Management Sciences, FSEGS
2004
Master in Management, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, Tunisia
2018
Member of Individual Monitoring Committee, PhD Student, Université d'Angers, Angers, France
2017
Research Active Faculty - Associate Professor, Excelia, La Rochelle, France
2013-2019
Research Learning Goal Referent
2009-2017
Assistant professor, Research Active Faculty, Excelia, La Rochelle, France
2007-2009
Assistant professor, Institut d'Administration des Affaires, Sfax, Tunisia
Journal articles
BOUATTOUR, M., AMAR, A. B., GALARIOTIS, E., HACHICHA, N. (2026). Geopolitics and the Strait of Hormuz: Evidence from Middle East Stock Markets. Economics Letters, 113153. doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2026.113153.
BEN AMAR, A., LMASRAR, B., BOUATTOUR, M. (2025). Are European and U.S. natural gas futures markets integrated? Insights from network-connectedness and cross-herding analysis. Economics and Business Letters, 14 (2), 106-116. doi:https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.14.2.2025.106-116.
BOUATTOUR, M., HASNAOUI, A., NDODJANG NGANTCHOU, P. (2025). Herding Behavior in French Equity Markets: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs and Large-Cap Firms Before and During the COVID-19 Crisis. Journal of Risk Finance. doi:10.1108/JRF-09-2024-0271.
BOUATTOUR, M., BEN AMAR, A., HACHICHA, N. (2024). How does Hamas–Israel war impact stock markets in the Middle East? Country and sector-level analysis. Applied Economics Letters. doi:10.1080/13504851.2024.2396556.
BOUATTOUR, M., BEN AMAR, A., ISLEIMEYYEH, M., HAMMOUDEH, S., HASNAOUI, A. (2024). Herding behavior in energy commodity futures markets amid turmoil and turmoil-free periods. The Journal of Energy Markets, 17 (2). doi:10.21314/JEM.2024.010.
BEN AMAR, A., BOUATTOUR, M., BELLALAH, M., GOUTTE, S. (2023). Shift contagion and minimum causal intensity portfolio during the COVID-19 and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Finance Research Letters. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.103853.
UYAR, A., KUZEY, C., BOUATTOUR, M. (2023). The moderating effect of public governance on the relationship between corporate governance and stock market development. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics. doi:10.1504/IJBGE.2023.10060366.
BOUATTOUR, M., MILOUDI, A. (2023). Another look at the asymmetric relationship between stock returns and trading volume: Evidence from the Markov switching model. Review of Accounting and Finance.
BEN AMAR, A., BOUATTOUR, M., CARLOTTI, J.-E. (2022). Time-frequency analysis of the comovement between wheat and equity markets. Journal of Risk Finance. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/JRF-01-2022-0018.
BOUATTOUR, M., BENKRAIEM, R., GALARIOTIS, E., MILOUDI, A. (2021). Do investors in SMEs herd ? Evidence from french and UK equity markets. Small Business Economics, 56, 1619-1637. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00284-0.
HAMROUNI, A., BOUATTOUR, M., TOUMI, N., BOUSSAADA, R. (2021). Corporate social responsibility disclosure and information asymmetry: does boardroom attributes matter?.. Journal of Applied Accounting Research.
HAMROUNI, A., JIRAPORN, P., BOUATTOUR, M., UYAR, A. (2019). Does board gender diversity influence dividend policy?. Evidence from France. Economics Bulletin, 39 (4), 2942-2954.
BOUATTOUR, M., MARTINEZ, I. (2019). Efficient market hypothesis : an experimental study with uncertainty and asymmetric information. Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 22 (4). doi:10.4000/fcs.3821.
BENKRAIEM, R., BOUATTOUR, M., MILOUDI, A., VIGNERON, L. (2017). Corporate leverage and the terms of employment: evidence from French small businesses before and during the global crisis. Applied Economics, 49 (23), 2286-2297. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1237755.
BOUATTOUR, M., R.BENKRAIEM, A.MILOUDI, "Disposition effect and investor underreaction to information", Corporate Ownership & Control, 2016, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 378-392
MILOUDI, A., M.BOUATTOUR, R.BENKRAIEM, "Relationships between Trading Volume, Stock Returns and Volatility: Evidence from the French Stock Market ", Bankers, Markets & Investors, 2016, no. 144, pp. 44-58
BOUATTOUR, M., A.MILOUDI, "Finance comportementale et dynamique des prix des actifs: Une application par la méthode expérimentale", Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, 2016, no. 113, pp. 113-136
BOUATTOUR, M., A.MILOUDI, "Finance comportementale et dynamique des prix des actifs: une application par la méthode expérimentale", Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, 2016, vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 113-136
BOUATTOUR, M. (2015). La sous-réaction des investisseurs à l'information : les apports de la finance comportementale. Revue du Financier (213), 42-52.
BOUATTOUR, M., Y.BOUJELBENE, "La réaction des actionnaires aux annonces de dividendes des firmes françaises : un test par les théories de signalisation et de surinvestissement", Revue du Financier, 2007, no. 167, pp. 17-39
BOUATTOUR, M., "The information content of dividend increase announcements: Evidence from the french stock Exchange", i-managers Journal on Management, 2007, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 34-41
Books
BOUATTOUR, M., Les marchés financiers: Entre l'efficience informationnelle et le comportement de l'investisseur, Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2016
Proceedings from scholarly meetings
ALI BENYAHIA, A., BOUATTOUR, M., BEN AMAR, A. (2026). Do Investors Herd in Hydrogen Stocks? Quantitative Finance and Data Analytics Meeting. Actes.
KEREBEL, A., BOUATTOUR, M. (2023). La neutralité carbone des banques. 19ème congrés de l'Aderse .
BOUATTOUR, M., HAMROUNI , A., BEN FARHAT, N., BOUSSAADA, R. (2021). Corporate Social Responsability disclosure and information asymmetry: the moderating role of boardroom attributes. 20ème conférence internationale de gouvernance (CIG). 10-12 mai 2021, Université de Sherbrooke.. Congrès International de Gouvernance .
MILOUDI, A., M.BOUATTOUR, R.BENKRAIEM, "Relationships between trading volume, stock returns and volatility: Evidence from the french stock market" in 5th International Conference of the Financial Engeneering and Banking (FEBS), 5th International Conference, 2015, Nantes, France
BOUATTOUR, M., "Comment l'effet de disposition altère la formation des prix sur les marchés financiers?" in 9ème Colloque International en Finance et Assurance, 9ème Colloque International en Finance et Assurance, 2014, Djerba, Tunisia
BOUATTOUR, M. (2013). Impact de l'effet de disposition sur la formation des prix sur les marchés financiers., International Finance Conférence 7. International Finance Conférence 7.
BOUATTOUR, M., MARTINEZ, I. (2013). Etude expérimentale de l’efficience informationnelle semi-forte., Congrès du réseau des IAE. Congrès du réseau des IAE.
BOUATTOUR, M., Y.BOUJELBENE, "Annonce de dividende, signalisation et risque de surinvestissement. Vérifications sur le marché boursier français", Association Française de Finance (AFFI), 2007
Papers presented at academic or professional meetings
BENKRAIEM, R., BOUATTOUR, M., GALARIOTIS, E., MILOUDI, A. (2019). Do investors in SMEs herd and to what extend is their behavior different from that of Blue chips? Evidence from French and UK Equity Markets. The 9th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS), 30th May – 1st June 2019, University of Economics, Prague..
BOUATTOUR, M., I.MARTINEZ, "Efficient market hypothesis: an experimental study with uncertainty and asymmetric information " in Journée des 3F, 2018, MSH Dijon (France)
BOUATTOUR, M., "Do investors herd differently on blue-chop, micro- and small-cap stocks ?" in Small Business Economics, Accounting and Finance, 2017, La Rochelle
BOUATTOUR, M., "Disposition effect and underreaction to information: Possible application for SMEs?", 2016, Audencia workshop on: Small business economics, accounting and finance, Nantes (France)