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Agent-based simulation of west Asian urban dynamics: Impact of refugees

Termos, Ali; Picascia, Stefano; Yorke-Smith, Neil (University of Surrey, 2021)

Rapid international migration of significant populations generates profound implications for countries in West Asia, Europe, and other regions. The motivation of this work is to develop an agent-based model (ABM) to capture ...
An investment-based explanation of currency excess returns

Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Yamani, Ehab A.; Smallwood, Aaron D. (Elsevier Ltd, 2023)

This paper offers an investment-based explanation for currency excess returns using fundamental macroeconomic drivers emanating from physical investment across countries. To obtain valid factors for our proposed production ...
Audit committee effectiveness and non-audit service fees: Evidence from UK family firms

Al-Okaily, Jihad; BenYoussef, Nourhene (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

This study examines whether the presence of an ineffective audit committee at family and non-family firms can influence the firms’ non-audit service purchases from the incumbent auditor. Using a sample of 1736 observations ...
Banking Reform, Risk-Taking, and Accounting Quality: Evidence from Post-Soviet Transition States

Fang, Yiwei; Dbouk, Wassim; Hasan, Iftekhar; Li, Lingxiang (American Accounting Association, 2022)

The drastic banking reform within Central and Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union provides an ideal quasi-experimental design to examine the causal effects of institutional development on accounting ...
Board Interlocks and Initial Public Offering Performance in the United States and the United Kingdom: An Institutional Perspective

Filatotchev, Igor V.; Chahine, Salim; Bruton, Garry D. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2018)

Building on the institutional perspective on capital markets, we examine the process of legitimation that underpins investor valuation of initial public offerings in the context of institutional polycentricism. We focus ...
CEO Network Centrality and the Likelihood of Financial Reporting Fraud

Chahine, Salim; Fang, Yiwei; Hasan, Iftekhar; Mazboudi, Mohamad (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021)

This paper investigates the association between CEO's relative position in the social network and the likelihood of being involved in corporate fraud. Tracing a large sample of US publicly listed firms, we find that CEO ...
Client Acceptance and Engagement Pricing following Auditor Resignations in Family Firms

Khalil, Samer K.; Mazboudi, Mohamad (American Accounting Association, 2016)

This paper investigates whether auditors' client acceptance and pricing decisions following the resignation of the incumbent auditor in family firms are significantly different from those in non-family firms. Relying on ...
Do Mortgage Loans Respond Perversely to Monetary Policy?

Termos, Ali; Saad, Mohsen M. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2016)

We investigate the response of loan growth to monetary policy shocks while controlling for loan securitization. Our major finding is that while commercial and industrial (C&I) loans and consumer loans respond to monetary ...
Do single-stock circuit breakers provide a safety net for Canadian investors?

Switzer, Lorne N.; El Meslmani, Nabil; Tahaoǧlu, Çaģdaš (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021)

This study looks at the market impact of recent regulatory changes in Canada that provide for trading halts on individual stocks that experience large upside or downside movements. The focus is on all stocks traded on the ...
Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers

Wu, Qiang; Dbouk, Wassim; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kobeissi, Nada; Zheng, Li (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

In this paper, we examine the impact of female Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) on corporate innovation. We find that firms with female CTOs are more innovative (as captured by both patent counts and patent citations) than ...
Economic bonding, corporate governance and earnings management: Evidence from UK publicly traded family firms

Al-Okaily, Jihad; BenYoussef, Nourhene; Chahine, Salim (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)

This study examines whether auditor–client economic bonding and corporate governance moderate the adverse effects of principal–principal agency problems on earnings quality in U.K.-listed family firms. We find that although ...
Extreme energy poverty: The aftermath of Lebanon's economic collapse

Dagher, Leila; Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Abi Younes, Oussama (Elsevier Ltd, 2023)

We collect primary data by conducting a survey on 931 Lebanese households who work in seven pre-specified sectors across all Lebanese governorates. The survey was supplemented by five groups of Key Informant Interviews ...
Foreign exchange predictability and the carry trade: A decomposition approach

Anatolyev, Stanislav; Gospodinov, Nikolay; Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Liu, Xiaochun (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

In this paper, we decompose currency returns into multiplicative sign and absolute return components, which exhibit much greater predictability than raw returns, and use the joint conditional distribution of these components ...
Investor relations and IPO performance

Chahine, Salim; Colak, Gonul; Hasan, Iftekhar; Mazboudi, Mohamad (Springer, 2020)

We analyze the value of investor relations (IR) strategies to IPO firms. We find that firms that are less visible and have inexperienced management tend to hire IR consultants prior to the issue date. IR consultants help ...
Investor sentiment and the underperformance of technology firms initial public offerings

Saade, Samer (Elsevier Ltd, 2015)

This research examines the effect of individual and institutional investor sentiment toward the overall market at the time of Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the aftermarket performance of technology IPO shares. The study ...
Out-of-sample exchange rate predictability in emerging markets: Fundamentals versus technical analysis

Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Yamani, Ehab A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)

We provide an in-depth analysis of the predictive ability of models with fundamentals and technical indicators for fourteen emerging market currencies. Our findings suggest that the forecasts from the symmetric Taylor rule ...
“Success by Association”: The Impact of Venture Capital Firm Reputation Trend on Initial Public Offering Valuations

Chahine, Salim; Filatotchev, Igor V.; Bruton, Garry D.; Wright, Mike T. (SAGE Publications Inc., 2021)

Organizational theory recognizes reputation as a central element to understanding the firm. Examining investor valuations of 1,676 initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States from 1990 to 2011, we find that ...
The attenuation effect of social media: Evidence from acquisitions by large firms

Mazboudi, Mohamad; Khalil, Samer K. (Elsevier B.V., 2017)

We examine the role of social media in firm acquisitions. Twitter utilizes the “push” technology that allows firms to reduce information asymmetry by disseminating news to a broader set of investors in a timely manner. ...
The corporate governance and social responsibility nexus in the Lebanese banking industry

Gali, Nazha; Hajjar, Dima; Jamali, Ibrahim I. (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the contrasting views of banks and banking authorities in Lebanon regarding the corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) nexus. Design/methodolo ...

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