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  • Measuring the Oil Risk Effect on Industry Volatility Shocks 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; SOB; 200603722; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); bernard.bensita@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    I examine the information sequential hypothesis in complementary oil markets. Unlike the underreaction hypothesis suggested as an explanation to the lagged negative oil effect of financial return, a sequential information ...
  • An Empirical Study of the Mixture of Time and Movements in Prices 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; SOB; 200603722; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); bernard.bensita@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Swedish School of Economics and Business AdministrationHelsinki, Finland, )
    This paper investigates the persistent pattern in the Helsinki Exchanges. The persistent pattern is analyzed using a time and a price approach. It is hypothesized that arrival times are related to movements in prices. Thus, ...
  • Test of the clustering hypothesis in the Helsinki Exchanges 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; SOB; 200603722; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); bernard.bensita@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Swedish School of Economics and Business AdministrationHelsinki, Finland, )
    This paper investigates the clustering pattern in the Finnish stock market. Using trading volume and time as factors capturing the clustering pattern in the market, the Keim and Madhavan (1996) and the Engle and Russell ...
  • Volatility patterns of the constituents of FTSE100 in the aftermath of the U.K. Brexit referendum 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; SOB; 200603722; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); bernard.bensita@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    I investigate how sentiment contributed to the build-up of volatility of the constituents of the FTSE100 in the aftermath of the ”yes” to the UK Brexit referendum of Thursday June 23, 2016. Sentiment is estimated as the ...
  • Estimating the beta-return relationship by considering the sign and the magnitude of daily returns 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; SOB; 200603722; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); bernard.bensita@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    We test the beta-return relationship under the working assumption that beta is realized under constrained but innovative trading environments. Specifically, we estimate a residual beta risk as the difference between a ...
  • Sustainability of family business entrepreneurships in the Middle East 
    SOB; 201200959; 198403800; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); Maamari, Bassem E.; Jannoun, Ahmad M.; bassem.maamari@lau.edu.lb; philippe.zgheib@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IGI GlobalHershey, PA, )
    The sustainability of family businesses with their integral component of entrepreneurial venturing are the result of decades of developmental processes. The role that these family businesses play in any economy can only ...
  • Insiders and outsiders in corporate governance 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; PHD; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (The University of Alabama, )
    A common feature of large-public firms in the United States is that the owners of the firm typically do not manage the firm''s assets. Instead, professional managers are hired to operate the firm, creating the potential ...
  • Corporate Governance and the diversification discount 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; Cline, Brandon N.; Hyder, Fawzi Jaber; Yore, Adam S.; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    We examine whether the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has a major role in reducing the diversification discount and enhancing internal capital markets efficiency. The act proposes new rules and regulations on financial practice and ...
  • Should the Outsiders be Left Out? Director Stock Options, Expectations and Earnings Management 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; Cline, Brandon N.; Yore, Adam S.; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    We examine the potential confounding effects that awarding outside directors stock options may have on the quality of financial disclosure. By aligning their interests with those of shareholders, directors should be more ...
  • Inside Directors, Managerial Competition, and the Asymmetric Information Problem 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; Reeb, David M.; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    We posit that placing insiders on the board facilitates information flows to outside directors, mitigates the CEO's role as information gatekeeper, and allows managers to be more independent of the CEO. We find that inside ...
  • Internal capital markets and CEO power 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This paper examines the relationship between the organizational hierarchy at the highest management level and the allocation of internal financial resources within a firm. A measure of CEO influence is devised that reflects ...
  • Corruption In Public Procurement And Social Welfare 
    Toukan, Amjad; SOB; 200904980; Department of Economics (ECON); amjad.toukan@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    There are several reasons why a firm would want to pay a bribe to a high-level official when bidding for a large scale project. One reason is to induce the corrupt official and/or his agent to manipulate their evaluation ...
  • Essays on corruption and governance 
    Toukan, Amjad; PHD; SOB; 200904980; Garfinkel, Michelle; Ranjan, Priya; Saari, Donald; Department of Economics (ECON); Skaperdas, Stergios; amjad.toukan@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (University of California, Irvine, )
    Nearly 2500 years ago, the old Indian treatise entitled "Arthashastra" had recognized the impact of corruption on the conduct of the economy. Corruption is not just an economic problem, however; it is also associated with ...
  • Learning organizations 
    Rouhana, Amal; Chams, Nour; SOB; 199429230; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); amal.rouhana@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In this article, the researchers explore the relationship between the three types of commitment i.e. affective, continuance and normative and the seven components of learning organization. The aim of the study is to examine ...
  • Un prêteur de dernier recours ou un marché des titres comme base du développement financier 
    Fakih, Ali; MS in Business; SOB; 201105198; Department of Economics (ECON); Dudley, Léonard; AFakih@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Universite de Montreal, )
  • Colloque Pour les jeunes chercheurs 
    Fakih, Ali; SOB; 201105198; Department of Economics (ECON); AFakih@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Centre interuniversitaire québécois de statistiques socialesMontreal, )
  • Quelle est la contribution de la réallocation de la main-d'oeuvre à la croissance de la productivité? 
    SOB; 201105198; Department of Economics (ECON); AFakih@lau.edu.lb; Fakih, Ali; Clark, Robert; Dostie, Benoit; Lebanese American University (Centre sur la productivité et la prospérité, HEC MontréalMontréal, Québec, )
  • Trois essais en Èconomie du travail avec des donnees canadiennes sur les milieux de travail et les employes 
    Fakih, Ali; PHD; SOB; 201105198; Dostie, Benoit; Parent, Daniel; Department of Economics (ECON); AFakih@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Universite de Montreal, )
  • Determinants of Vacation Leave and Relations to Work Hours and Wages in Canadian Establishments 
    Fakih, Ali; SOB; 201105198; Department of Economics (ECON); AFakih@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Using a nationally representative sample of employees and workplaces from Statistics Canadaís Workplace Employee Survey (WES) 1999-2005, we provide new evidence on the determinants of vacation leave and its relationship ...
  • Determinants of Domestic Workers' Employment 
    Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid; SOB; 201105198; 200200185; Department of Economics (ECON); AFakih@lau.edu.lb; walid.marrouch@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (IZAGermany, )
    This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers’ employment using a unique micro-level dataset on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central ...

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