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Faten Ben Bouheni Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate

Faten.BenBouheni@menlo.edu650.543.3846

Florence Moore 301

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Education

  • Ph.D., Finance, Telecom Ecole De Management, 2014
  • M.A., Economy and Continuous Development, Carthage High Commercial Studies Institute, 2012
  • M.A., Risk Management in Finance and Insurance, University of Cergy Pontoise, 2010
  • B.A., Finance and Accountancy Techniques, High Institute for Accountancy and Management, 2008
Faten.BenBouheni@menlo.edu650.543.3846

Florence Moore 301

Biography

Dr. Faten Ben Bouheni is an Associate Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Menlo College. Her research spans sustainable finance, FinTech and artificial intelligence, banking performance and risk, asset pricing, and REITs and real estate markets.

She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Télécom Business School and a Research Accreditation (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) from Cnam, France. Before joining Menlo’s full-time faculty, she taught at San Francisco State University and San Diego State University, and was Associate Professor of Finance and Accounting and Head of International Research at ISC Business School in Paris.

Dr. Ben Bouheni founded and chairs the Finance Hybrid Conference series, serves as Vice President of the Menlo Faculty Senate, and advises the Menlo Real Estate Club, the Investing Club, and the Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge team. She is a member of the American Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, the Urban Land Institute, and Financial Women of San Francisco.

https://fatenbenbouheni.com/

Courses Taught

  • International Finance
  • Principles of Finance
  • FinTech
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Real Estate Economics & Market Analysis
  • Quantitative Modeling for FinTech
  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Principles of Real Estate
  • Behavioral Finance and Economics

Recent Publications

  • “Financial Inclusion and Financial Development across Nations throughout the Economic Cycle” (with Elena Margarint and James Boyer) – Forthcoming at International Journal of Finance & Economics
  • “ESG Initiatives and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Environmental and Diversity Practices in S&P 500 Firms” (with Manish Tewari and Dima Leshchinskii), Accounting and Auditing, 2026  [link]
  • “FinTech Landscape and Sustainable Economy in the GCC Region,” in Green Growth Opportunities and Sustainable Finance in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region, Gulf Studies, vol. 24, pp. 217–240, Springer, 2025  [link]
  • “Credit Sales and Risk Scoring: A FinTech Innovation” (with Manish Tewari, Andrew Salamon, Payson Johnston, and Kevin Hopkins), FinTech, 4, 31, 2025  [link]
  • “Business Cycle, Banking Risk-Taking, and Technological Change: European Evidence” (with Mouwafac Sidaoui, Margaux Theol, and Mondher Bellalah), Bankers, Markets, and Investors, Vol. 180, No. 1, 2025  [link]
  • “Banking-as-a-Service: American and European G-SIBs Evidence” (with Mouwafac Sidaoui, Dima Leshchinskii, Bryan Zaremba, and Mousa Ahmad Albashrawi), Journal of Risk Finance, 2025  [link]
  • “Do IPOs Explain Housing Prices?” (with M. Tewari, S. Xavier, and P. Ramanlal), Real Estate Finance, Vol. 41, No. 2, Fall 2024  [link]
  • “An Econometric Understanding of Fintech and Operating Performance” (with M. Tewari, M. Sidaoui, and A. Hasnaoui), Review of Accounting and Finance, 2023  [link]
  • “Common Risk Factors and Risk-Return Trade-off for REITs and Treasuries” (with M. Tewari), Journal of Asset Management, 2023  [link]
  • “Over-Optimism, Credit Expansion and Banks’ Risk and Return” (with M. Tewari), Banking and Finance Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2022  [link]
  • “FinTech and Islamic Banking Growth: New Evidence” (with M. Sidaoui, Z. Arslankhuyag, and S. Mian), Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 535–557, 2022  [link]
  • “Private Equity and Human Capital” (with J. Roussel and A. Guillard), Revue d’économie financière, Vol. 146, Iss. 2, pp. 335–355, 2022  [link]
  • “The Impact of Research and Development (R&D) on Economic Growth: New Evidence from Kernel-Based Regularized Least Squares” (with J.J. Minviel), Journal of Risk Finance, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 583–604, 2022  [link]
  • “Persistent Inefficiency, Transient Inefficiency, and Firm Unobserved Heterogeneity: A Comparison of Two Frontier Approaches Using Simulated and Real Data” (with J.J. Minviel and Y. Kudawoo), Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 2022  [link]
  • “Nonparametric Analysis of Nonperforming Loans of European Islamic Banks over the Economic Cycle” (with E. Margarint and H. Obeid), Annals of Operations Research, 2021  [link]

Recent Research Projects

  • “Exit Route Divergence and the Valuation Premium Paradox in Biopharma Venture Capital: Evidence from the Post-Peak Funding Cycle (2020–2025)” (with Steven T. Rosen) — under review at Financial Innovation
  • “Common Risk Premia for Stocks and Bonds” (with Amine Lahiani and Chanaka Edirisinghe) — under review at International Review of Financial Analysis
  • “Sustainable Finance & Venture Capital Backing: Risk-Return Profiles and Management Quality of Tech & Real Estate Firms” (with Galien Del Vecchio) — under review at International Review of Economics and Finance
  • “Venture Capital Funding, Innovation, and Overvaluation: Evidence From U.S. Startup Financing From 2015 To 2025” ((with Steven T. Rosen) — under review at Journal of Product Innovation Management
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