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  • Talent Management Moderating the Relationship between Recruitment for the Highly Skilled and HR Policies 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; Alameh, Kayan; SOB; 198403800; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); bassem.maamari@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-13)
    In an increasingly competitive business environment, organizations seek to improve efficiency through hiring highly skilled employees and managing talent. A corporate goal has always been the avail of clear and applicable ...
  • Option pricing during post-crash relaxation times 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Harmanani, Haidar M.; SAS; SOB; 199490170; 199490150; Computer Science and Mathematics; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb haidar@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-11)
    This paper presents a model for option pricing in markets that experience financial crashes. The stochastic differential equation (SDE) of stock price dynamics is coupled to a post-crash market index. The resultant SDE is ...
  • A Stochastic Chartist–Fundamentalist Model with Time Delays 
    Dibeh, Ghassan; Harmanani, Haidar M.; SAS; SOB; 199490150; 199490170; Computer Science and Mathematics; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb; haidar@lau.edu.lb (2016-04-11)
    A stochastic chartist–fundamentalist model of speculative asset dynamics in financial markets is developed. The model is represented by a stochastic delay-differential equation (SDDE). The SDDE is then solved using ...
  • A post-Keynesian regulatory model of privatization 
    AlHussaini, Wissam; Molz, Rick; SOB; 201204851; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); wissam.alhussaini@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-07)
    Many studies of privatization adopt the neo-liberal model which focuses on financial and economic distributional outcomes, and ignores social costs transferred to the state or broader society. We adopt a post-Keynesian ...
  • Market reaction to capital expenditures of powerful CEOs 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; Raad, Elias; SOB; 200501018; 199590190; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; eraad@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-07)
    Anwar Boumosleh holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Alabama. He has been teaching MBA Corporate Finance and Investments since joining LAU in 2005. He also taught at the University of Central Florida. His research ...
  • Firm Investment Decisions, Dividend Policy, And Director Stock Options 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA) (2016-03-07)
    Since risk plays a role in setting dividend policy and granting stock options to directors, the paper investigates the effect of director compensation structure on the riskiness of the firm’s investment strategy by ...
  • Internal Capital Markets And Equity Restructuring 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; Dah, Abdallah; Dah, Mustafa; SOB; 200501018; 198929040; 200104725; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb; aadah@lau.edu.lb; mustafa.dah@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-07)
    Inefficient internal capital market is often blamed for conglomerate diversification discount. While the positive market reaction to spin-off announcements is in conformity with that claim, the abnormal market return on ...
  • Director Compensation and the Reliability of Accounting Information 
    Boumosleh, Anwar; SOB; 200501018; Department of Finance and Accounting (FINA); anwar.boumosleh@lau.edu.lb (2016-03-03)
    This paper studies the effect of incentive-based compensation on directors' monitoring of management. Using total accruals to measure the level of earnings management, I find that director stock option compensation is ...
  • Econometric Modeling of Gasoline Consumption 
    Nasr, G. E.; Dibeh, G. L.; Badr, E. A.; SOE; SOB; 199390170; 199490150; Electrical Engineering; genasr@lau.edu.lb; gdibeh@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-23)
    This article applies econometric models to investigate determinants of gasoline consumption (GC) in postwar Lebanon (1993–1999). The impact of gasoline price (P) and car registration (CR) on gasoline consumption is ...
  • Value of dynamic revenue-maximizing congestion pricing in a highly congested corridor 
    El Khoury, John; Srour, F. Jordan; SOE; SOB; 200103005; 201204645; Inform. Tech. and Operat. Mgmt.; Inform. Tech. and Operat. Mgmt.; Civil Engineering; john.khoury@lau.edu.lb; jordan.srour@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-16)
    This paper examines the value of utilizing dynamic, revenue-maximizing, congestion pricing on a privately operated tolled route, when the only alternative is a highly congested, public, free-access route. Three methods are ...
  • Can agents measure up? A comparative study of an agent-based and on-line optimization approach for a drayage problem with uncertainty 
    Srour, Jordan; Tamas, Mahr; De Weerdt, Mathijs; Zuidwijk, Rob; SOB; 201204645; Civil Engineering; jordan.srour@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-11)
    Experiments studying the behavior of agent-based methods over varying levels of uncertainty in comparison to traditional optimization methods are generally absent from the literature. In this paper we apply two structurally ...
  • Corporate Performance 
    Ismail, Hussein; SOB; 1995054570; Department of Management Studies (MNGT) (2016-02-02)
    Recent evidence consistently shows that corporate performance has an important effect on job satisfaction. This study aims to contribute further to this novel field of research by examining the relationship between corporate ...
  • Exploring Employee Involvement in Hotels in Lebanon 
    Ismail, Hussein; SOB; 199504570; Department of Management Studies (MNGT); hismail@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-02)
    Many large companies in the Arab world have been emphasizing HRM in their organizations as they learned about the benefits of HRM in the west. But what is the real picture? This case study of international luxury hotels ...
  • Privately Held or Publicly Owned? Large Shareholders and Corporate Control 
    Toukan, Amjad; SOB; 200904980; Department of Economics (ECON); amjad.toukan@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-02)
    This paper examines the decision to go public in the presence of large and dispersed shareholders. The decision to go public and the shape of the ownership structure itself depend on the particular combination of concentrated ...
  • Launching A Weaning Food in a Developing Country 
    Amine, Lyn S.; Cavusgil, S.Tamer; Vitale, Edward; SOB; 197529040; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); evitale@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-02)
    Discusses the various stages in the launch of a new weaning food in Morocco. Highlights inherent problems in marketing a product in Morocco, including government inefficiencies and weaknesses in the retailing infrastructure. ...
  • Marketing supplementary food products in LDCs 
    Vitale, Edward; Cavusgil, S.Tamer; Amine, Lyn S.; SOB; 197529040; Department of Hospitality Management and Marketing (HMKT); evitale@lau.edu.lb (2016-02-02)
    Developing country governments as well as a number of international agencies have become directly involved in the past two decades in the production and marketing of supplementary food products. This article discusses the ...
  • The economics of oil, biofuel and food commodities 
    Marrouch, Walid; Bahel, Eric; Gaudet, Gerard; SOB; 200200185; Department of Economics (ECON); walid.marrouch@lau.edu.lb (2016-01-28)
    We study the effects on the food price of introducing biofuels as a substitute for fossil fuel in the energy market. Energy is supplied by a price-leading oil cartel and a competitive fringe of farmers producing biofuel. ...
  • Short-run price and income elasticity of gasoline demand 
    Marrouch, Walid; Ben Sita, Bernard; Abosedra, Salah; SOB; 200603722; 200200185; Department of Economics (ECON); bernard.bensita@lau.edu.lb; walid.marrouch@lau.edu.lb (2016-01-28)
    We empirically estimate the demand for gasoline in the presence of multiple shifts caused by structural breaks using monthly data from Lebanon covering the period 2000:M1–2010:M12. Consistent with most studies in the ...
  • Emission taxes when pollution depends on location 
    Marrouch, Walid; Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard; SOB; 200200185; Department of Economics (ECON); walid.marrouch@lau.edu.lb (2016-01-28)
    It is well known that an efficient pollution taxation scheme should charge each source according to its specific marginal contribution to social damages. Despite significant advances in environmental assessment, geographic ...
  • Bargaining with linked disagreement points 
    Marrouch, Walid; Leroux, Justin; SOB; 200200185; Department of Economics (ECON); walid.marrouch@lau.edu.lb (2016-01-28)
    In the context of bilateral bargaining,we deal with issue linkage by developing a two-issue-two-players cooperative bargaining model. The axioms we propose focus on the role of the disagreement points. A family of bargaining ...

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