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  • Attribution of poverty among youth in Lebanon 
    Aintablian, Sebouh (2018-03-27)
    The present paper is based on causal attribution theory, investigating how Lebanese youth attribute poverty. Using the Chi-square methodology, the researcher examined the relationships between poverty and a set of independent ...
  • Bank monitoring and environmental risk 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Mcgraw, Patricia A.; Roberts, Gordon S. (2016-05-10)
    They are grateful for helpful comments from Nobu Hibara, Edward Kane, Lawrence Kryzanowski, James Kolari, Donald Fraser, Hwan Shin, Pauline Shum, Peter Tryfos, and the anonymous referee, as well as from participants at the ...
  • Corporate governance, ownership structure and bank performance 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Al Boustany, Wajih (Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, 2018-03-27)
    We study the relationship between ownership structure and performance for a sample of 89 commercial, investment, specialized, and Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the period 1998-2003.) ...
  • Demutualisation, initial public offerings and long-run market performance of Canadian life insurance companies 
    Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    We examine alternative hypotheses for the demutualisation of a sample of Canadian life insurance companies (1999-2000) as well as short-run and long-run market effects of demutualisation on firm performance. Our results ...
  • A fabricated ceiling? 
    Mora, Nada; Aintablian, Sebouh (2018-03-28)
    We test whether security prices react to an independent, unanticipated and simultaneous change in the bond rating procedure. It has been problematic in the literature to ascertain whether a borrower's bond price reacts ...
  • Foreign currency borrowing by small firms in emerging markets 
    Mora, Nada; Neaime, Simon; Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    This paper investigates what induces small firms in an emerging market economy to borrow dollar credit from domestic banks. Our data are from a unique survey of firms in Lebanon. The findings complement studies of large ...
  • The Impact of Holidays on Stock Market Performance 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Chamseddine, Bassel (2019-07-10)
  • Initial public offerings in Canada 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Mouradian, Suzanne (2018-03-28)
    We study a sample of 199 Canadian IPOs for the period 1993-2001 and find that high underpricing in certain industries may explain the long-term underperformance. Also, issues offered during hot-issue periods have higher ...
  • Market reaction to corporate loan announcements and mergers of financial institutions 
    Aintablian, Sebouh (York University, 2018-03-27)
    In this thesis, we conduct three empirical studies examining market response to corporate loan announcements in Canada, the relationship between lender environmental liability and bank loan announcements, and the market ...
  • Market response to announcements of mergers of Canadian financial institutions 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Roberts, Gordon S. (2016-05-10)
    This study examines a sample of mergers of Canadian Financial Institutions during the 1990’s to determine whether in-pillar, cross-pillar and foreign mergers are value-enhancing, and to determine possible sources of synergies ...
  • A note on market response to corporate loan announcements in Canada 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; Roberts, Gordon S. (2017-10-12)
    This note validates the key results of prior studies of bank loan announcement effects using a common data set drawn from the Canadian capital market. Announcements of bank loans are associated with positive abnormal returns ...
  • The role of toeholds on asymmetric information in mergers and acquisitions 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; El Khoury, Wissam; M'Chirgui, Zouhaier (2018-03-27)
    Purpose This paper aims to examine empirically the role of toeholds in reducing asymmetric information in mergers and acquisitions by establishing a relationship between the toehold and some relevant characteristics of ...
  • A simulation on the presence of competing bidders in mergers and acquisitions 
    Aintablian, Sebouh; El Khoury, Wissam (2018-03-27)
    The current paper applies Monte Carlo simulation on the presence of competing bidders in mergers and acquisitions. We present a new approach for quantifying uncertainty and use a Brownian model where “the presence of a ...
  • Stock index-linked debt and shareholder value 
    Roberts, Gordon S.; Vijayraghavan, Vasumathi; Aintablian, Sebouh (2016-05-10)
    French banks and non-financial companies issue index-linked debt whose value at maturity is indexed to the CAC 40 or to a basket of European indices. This paper examines stock announcement effects associated with these ...

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