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  • Light at the end of the tunnel 
    Itani, Omar S.; Hollebeek, Linda D. (2021-02-05)
    Consumer behavior is changing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus compelling attraction sites to find new ways of offering safe tours to visitors. Based on protection motivation theory, we develop and test a model ...
  • Dysfunctional behavior of external auditors the collision of time budget and time deadline evidence from a developing country 
    Nehme, Rabih; Al Mutawa, Abdullah; Jizi, Mohammad (2021-02-05)
    The general goal behind this research is to gain a better understanding of factors leading to dysfunctional behavior of auditors. The role of auditors has been a controversial issue especially after the recent accounting ...
  • The impact of board composition on the level of ESG disclosures in GCC countries 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Jizi, Mohammad; Tabaja, Hala Hussein (2021-02-03)
    Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of board composition on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in the Gulf countries. Despite the vast literature on the significance of ESG disclosure on ...
  • Does corporate governance spillover firm performance? A study of valuation of MENA companies 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Issam Jizi, Mohammad (2021-01-26)
    Purpose The aim of the paper is to examine the association of corporate governance (CG), the firms’ characteristics and the financial performance of firms operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region after ...
  • Do social responsibility disclosures show improvements on stock price? 
    Jizi, Mohammad; Nehme, Rabih; Salama, Aly (2021-01-26)
    The 2007 financial crisis was the largest shock to the financial markets not only to the United States but the world as a whole since 1930. Lack of information and confusion in financial markets causes sharp declines in ...
  • Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure 
    Jizi, Mohammad Issam; Salama, Aly; Dixon, Robert; Stratling, Rebecca (2021-01-26)
    There is a distinct lack of research into the relationship between corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the banking sector. This paper fills the gap in the literature by examining the impact ...
  • From Amazon.com to Amazon.love 
    Ramadan, Zahy; Farah, Maya F.; El Essrawi, Lea (2021-01-05)
    The trend of incorporating assistive conversational agents into people's lives has followed the unprecedented expansion in the usage of artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon, in particular, has been a key trendsetter in ...
  • The Influence of Board Composition on Sustainable Development Disclosure 
    Jizi, Mohammad (2020-12-03)
    Despite knowing the potential effect of social reporting on firms' continuity, there is limited research into the influence of the composition of boards of directors on CSR disclosure. This paper adds to the emerging CSR ...
  • The efficiency of corporate boards and firms’ audit fees 
    Nehme, Rabih; Jizi, Mohammad (2020-12-03)
    Purpose The quality of financial reporting for the financial institutions is vital for the public, as the negative consequences of manipulated financial statements will not only affect shareholders but also the regulators’ ...
  • Board gender diversity and firms’ equity risk 
    Jizi, Mohammad Issam; Nehme, Rabih (2020-12-03)
    Purpose There is a growing attention toward the importance of women’s participation on corporate boards in enhancing board governance and decision-making quality. The literature lacks sufficient empirical evidence on the ...
  • Board monitoring and audit fees 
    Jizi, Mohammad; Nehme, Rabih (2020-12-03)
    Purpose This paper aims to examine whether CEO/chair dual roles influence board monitoring-audit fees nexus. The impact of corporate governance on audit fees literature is lacking in the banking sector, which is subject ...
  • From cognition to action 
    Alnakhli, Hayam; Singh, Rakesh; Agnihotri, Raj; Itani, Omar S. (2020-12-01)
    Purpose This study aims to investigate salespersons’ self-monitoring and its effect on adaptive selling behavior. As salespeople are constantly facing different customers with various needs and want and engaging in a ...
  • “Us” to co-create value and hate “them” 
    Itani, Omar S. (2020-12-01)
    Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of identity-based relationships, customer brand identification and peer identification, in driving customer outcomes including customer experiential hedonic ...
  • Economic Development and COVID-19 Cases 
    Marrouch, Walid; Sayour, Nagham (CIRANO, 2020-10-05)
    This note provides preliminary evidence on the determinants of the COVID-19 infection and death cases using a sample of 217 countries and territories. We control for a number of country characteristics. These include GDP ...
  • Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon 
    Fakih, Ali; Makdissi, Paul; Marrouch, Walid; Tabri, Rami V.; Yazbeck, Myra (IZA, Institute of Labor Economics, 2020-10-05)
    This paper uses the 2013 World Value Survey, as well as the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Arab Barometer, to analyze the dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most ...
  • A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions 
    Fakih, Ali; Makdissi, Paul; Marrouch, Walid; Tabri, Rami V.; Yazbeck, Myra (2020-10-05)
    Stochastic dominance comparisons of distributions based on ordinal data arise in many areas of economics. This paper develops a testing procedure for such comparisons under survey sampling from large finite populations ...
  • Is there a garbage Kuznets curve? 
    Baalbaki, Rayan; Marrouch, Walid (2020-10-05)
    This note examines the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for municipal solid waste in 33 OECD countries between 1995 and 2012. Wang's (2013) flexible polynomial model is utilized. The results show that there exists ...
  • Effect of gasoline prices on car fuel efficiency 
    Marrouch, Walid; Mourad, Jana (2020-10-05)
    This paper explores how gasoline prices affect the sales of new and used cars in Lebanon. Using a rich dataset on monthly imported cars from 2000 to 2016, a vector autoregressive analysis is used to model different consumer ...
  • Adaptation Effectiveness and Free-Riding Incentives in International Environmental Agreements 
    Benchekroun, Hassan; Marrouch, Walid; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray (2020-09-23)
    While an international agreement over the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions proves to be elusive, there is a large and growing support for investment in developing more effective technologies to adapt to climate ...
  • Economics of international environmental agreements 
    Kayalica, Ozgur; Cagatay, Selim; Mihci, Hakan (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-09-15)

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