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  • The model of graded salary increase a solution to the problem of salary compression and inversion in faculty salaries 
    Dagher, Grace K.; Wang, Lei; SOB; 199709080; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); grace.dagher@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • Working sick and out of sorts 
    Dagher, Grace; Ferreira, Aristides I.; Mach, Merce; Martinez, Luis F.; Brewster, Chris; Perez-Nebra, Amalia; Lisovskaya, Antonina; SOB; 199709080; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); grace.dagher@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    A climate of presenteeism has important effects on employee well-being and the organization itself. Our study, based on surveys of health sector employees in six different countries (Brazil, Ecuador, Lebanon, Portugal, ...
  • Managers’ and employees’ differing responses to security approaches 
    Balozian, Puzant; Leidner, Dorothy; Warkentin, Merrill; SOB; 200105333; Department of Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM); puzant.balozian@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Modern organizations face significant information security threats, to which they respond with various managerial techniques. It is widely believed that “one size does not fit all” for achieving employee information security ...
  • Review of IS security policy compliance 
    Balozian, Puzant; Leidner, Dorothy; SOB; 200105333; Department of Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM); puzant.balozian@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    An understanding of insider threats in information systems (IS) is important to help address one of the dangers lurking within organizations. This article provides a review of the literature on insider compliance (and ...
  • ACME International Conference on Pacific Rim Management 
    Dagher, Grace K.; Halawi, Leila A.; Koong, Kai S.; SOB; 199709080; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); grace.dagher@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • 39th Annual Economic and Business History Society Conference 
    El Kallab, Tania; SOB; 200501744; Department of Economics (ECON); tania.kallab@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    The legacy of colonialism has been a major institutional drive of economic performance. Its impact on current growth has raised interest among many scholars and economists; however, its relationship with, and its effect ...
  • Global imbalances 
    El Kallab, Tania; SOB; 200501744; Department of Economics (ECON); tania.kallab@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    Three facts have characterized the pre-crisis debates in macroeconomics: the increase in the US current account de cit, the decline in interest rates and the increase in the share of US assets in global portfolios. ...
  • French colonial trade patterns 
    El Kallab, Tania; Terra, Cristina; SOB; 200501744; Department of Economics (ECON); tania.kallab@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    We investigate how the colonial strategy through the settlement decision a ected French trade patterns. In this regard, we construct a new database relying on various primary historical sources containing information on ...
  • The distributional impact of taxes in Lebanon 
    SOB; 198929040; 199490150; 199390050; Department of Economics (ECON); aadah@lau.edu.lb; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; wshahin@lau.edu.lb; Dah, Abdallah; Dibeh, Ghassan; Shahin, Wassim; Lebanese American University (Lebanese Center for Policy StudiesBeirut, Lebanon, )
    A survey of the impact of Lebanon’s 1993 tax reforms on different groups of the population. The book provides an analysis of the effects of direct taxes on income inequalities and an evaluation of the social and economic ...
  • The political economy of postwar reconstruction in Lebanon 
    SOB; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Dibeh, Ghassan; Lebanese American University (UNU/WIDERHelsinki, Finland, )
  • الاقتصاد السياسي لبناء المواطنية في لبنان 
    ديبة، غسان; SOB; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • The Political Economy of Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Arab Economies 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; SOB; 1199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (The Economic research ForumGiza, Egypt, )
    This paper investigates the role of political institutions and interests in shaping monetary policy in the resource-rich Arab economies. The paper first reviews the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, ...
  • UNDP Conference on Linking Economic Growth and Social Development in Lebanon 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; SOB; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (United Nations Development ProgrammeBeirut, Lebanon, )
  • Resources and the Political Economy of State Fragility in Conflict States 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; SOB; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (UNU/WIDERHelsinki, )
    This paper studies state failure and governance in two conflict-states in the Middle East: Iraq and Somalia. Iraq is currently undergoing a social experiment under which a new form of government is being constructed after ...
  • Conference on Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle-East and North Africa 
    SOB; 199490150; 199390050; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; wshahin@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Greenwood PressWestport, Conn., )
  • A Bayesian estimation of a stochastic predator-prey model of economic fluctuations 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Luchinsky, Dmitry G.; Luchinskaya, Daria D.; Smelyanskiy, Vadim N.; SOB; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    In this paper, we develop a Bayesian framework for the empirical estimation of the parameters of one of the best known nonlinear models of the business cycle: The Marx-inspired model of a growth cycle introduced by R. M. ...
  • Applied simulation and modelling 
    Nasr, G. E.; Dibeh, G.; Abdallah, M.; SOB; SOE; 199390170; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); genasr@lau.edu.lb; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (ACTA PressAnaheim, CA, )
    This paper presents an artificial neural network (ANN) approach to the forecasting of exchange rate movements during periods of currency crises characterized by excessive volatility. The models are built using the feedforward ...
  • Proceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference 
    Nasr, George E.; Dibeh, Ghassan; Achkar, Antoine; SOB; SOE; 199390170; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); genasr@lau.edu.lb; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Society For Computer SimulationSan Diego, Calif., )
    A feedforward neural network model is used to forecast turning points in the business cycle of postwar Lebanon. The NN has as inputs seven indicators of economic activity and as output the probability of a recession. The ...
  • Econometric modeling of electricity consumption in post-war Lebanon 
    Nasr, G. E.; Dibeh, G.; Badr, E.A.; SOB; SOE; 199390170; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); genasr@lau.edu.lb; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This paper applies econometric models to investigate determinants of electrical energy consumption in post-war Lebanon. The impact of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), proxied by total imports (TI), and degree days (DD) ...
  • 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting 
    SOB; 199490150; Department of Economics (ECON); gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University

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