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  • Determinants of Audit Fees 
    El-Gammal, Walid (2016-04-27)
    This paper studies the views of external auditors and client's representatives (accountants, financial controllers and internal auditors) about the factors that affect determining audit fees and provides evidence whether ...
  • Determinants of deposits in Lebanese commercial banks-evidence from non-resident depositors 
    El Khoury, Rim; Kanj, Olga (2023-09-12)
    Motivated by the continuous increase of non-residents deposits in Lebanon, this paper will try to investigate the determinants of these inflows from the perspective of foreign depositors. Through the use of 65 questionnaires ...
  • Determinants of dividend payout ratio 
    Elgammal, Walid (Asian Society of Management & Marketing Research, 2018-03-29)
    This paper studies the determinants of the dividends payout ratio. The factors affecting the dividends payout ratio are to be identified. The study focuses only on the cement and construction industry within the MENA region ...
  • Determinants of Domestic Workers' Employment 
    Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (IZA, 2017-07-10)
    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 ...
  • Determinants of effective succession in family businesses and their influence on decision making 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; El Maalouf, Nicole (2018-04-11)
    To discover new determinants of effective succession in family businesses and their influence on decision making, six Lebanese family businesses were interviewed using a qualitative approach. Those determinants include the ...
  • The determinants of ESG in the banking sector of MENA region: a trend or necessity? 
    El Khoury, Rim; Nasrallah, Nohade; Alareeni, Bahaaeddin (2023-07-10)
    Purpose As reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) information is not yet mandatory in all countries, it is intriguing to understand ESG’s underlying driving mechanisms. This study aims to investigate ESG ...
  • Determinants of longevity and success in Lebanese family businesses 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Djoundourian, Salpie (2016-05-10)
    This article explores the characteristics of Lebanese family businesses using a sample of 114 firms and tests various propositions regarding the relationships between correlates of effective succession planning and longevity. ...
  • Determinants of non-resident deposits in commercial banks: empirical evidence from Lebanon 
    Kanj, Olga; El Khoury, Rim (2023-09-15)
    Given the fact that the government debt is financed by commercial banks in Lebanon, there is a need to uncover and study the determinants of commercial bank deposits. This paper investigates empirically the main determinants ...
  • The determinants of sovereign default 
    Zeaiter, Hussein; Chakrabati, Avik (2016-05-16)
    A vast and growing empirical literature aims at identifying key determinants of sovereign default. The literature is extensive and controversial. Can policy-makers use this body of research to learn anything that can help ...
  • Determinants of Vacation Leave and Relations to Work Hours and Wages in Canadian Establishments 
    Fakih, Ali (2017-07-11)
    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 ...
  • Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth? 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir (2019-06-13)
    This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries’ data for the period 2005–2016. Using the ...
  • Did the intensity of countries’ digital transformation affect IT companies’ performance during covid-19? 
    El Khoury, Rim; Nasrallah, Nohade; Harb, Etienne G. (2023-08-31)
    This study explores the impact of the intensity of countries’ digital transformation on the performance of 3961 global companies in the Information Technology sector in 2020. We analyse the impact of e-government index, ...
  • Difference-form persuasion contests 
    Toukan, Amjad; Skaperdas, Sterigios; Vaidya, Samarth (2017-04-07)
    We explore the equilibrium properties of two types of “difference-form” persuasion contest functions derived in Skaperdas and Vaidya in which contestants spend resources to persuade an audience. We find that both types of ...
  • The differential impact of IFRS adoption on aspects of seasoned equity offerings in the UK and France 
    Harakeh, Mostafa; Lee, Edward; Walker, Martin (2020-01-10)
    We examine the potential for IFRS to influence the market for SEOs in the UK and France. The divergence between the UK domestic accounting standards and IFRS is minor (low-divergence firms) whereas domestic accounting ...
  • Digital technology management and educational innovation 
    Beyrouti, Nouri (2018-03-16)
    Universities have discovered that learning need not dwell inside the confines of the four traditional classroom walls. The internet provides a vital link to information like never before. As the number of internet users ...
  • Digital transformation framework 
    Tarhini, Abbas; Tarhini, K. (2019-09-16)
    Today, with increased global awareness to protect natural resources and secure private assets, digital transformation is becoming an obligation in large public enterprises such as modern utility firms and armed forces that ...
  • Dining behavior exhibited by Lebanese consumers during the month of Ramadan 
    Ladki, Said M. (2015-11-02)
    The purpose of this study is to report about the dining behavior exhibited by Lebanese consumers during the month of Ramadan. Five factors with eigenvalues of 1.0 or more emerged from the factor analysis, which explained ...
  • Director Compensation and the Reliability of Accounting Information 
    Boumosleh, Anwar (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 ...
  • Disruptions versus more disruptions 
    Farah, Maya F.; Ramadan, Zahy B. (2018-03-15)
    Technology, particularly Self-Service Technology (SST), has reshaped the way an individual interacts with a certain brand or retailer. In 2015, Amazon, known for its progressive usage of technology, launched the Dash Button, ...
  • The distributional impact of taxes in Lebanon 
    Unknown author (Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, 2017-08-31)
    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 ...

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