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  • Pegging to the dollar and the feasibility of the proposed currency area in the GCC 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2017-02-22)
    The aim of this paper is to examine the general progress of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in moving towards economic integration, as part of their proposed currency union in 2010. It also aims at analyzing the expected ...
  • A comparative study of RSA based digital signature algorithms 
    Haraty, Ramzi A.; El-Kassar, A. N.; Shebaro, Bilal M. (2017-01-31)
    A digital signature is a mechanism designed to allow secure communication through an insecure medium and can be traced in many applications where privacy is required. A digital signature is an electronic signature that can ...
  • Reasons behind the non-application of the activity based costing system in developing countries, case of Lebanon 
    ElGammal, Walid; Zakka, Janine Saba; El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Dandash, Ghiwa (2016-12-21)
    The Activity Based Costing (ABC) system, despite its spread in the developed countries and the recognition of its importance in the developing countries, is not adopted in the service industry in Lebanon while costing ...
  • American versus Arab/Islamic family businesses 
    Sonfield, Matthew C.; Lussier, Robert N.; Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (2016-12-21)
    Purpose – The purpose of this research was to compare the use of non-family-members in the higher-level management team of Arab/Islamic family businesses versus American family businesses. Design/methodology/approach – ...
  • Planning for succession in family businesses 
    Sonfield, Matthew C.; Lusier, Robert N.; Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (2016-12-21)
    This article compares a sample of US family businesses with a sample of Arab/Islamic family businesses from Egypt, Kuwait and Lebanon, with regard to the degree to which top management has formulated specific plans for the ...
  • A perspective on leadership in small businesses 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Morin-Delerm, Sophie (2016-12-21)
    This study contributes to the understanding of the needs, traits and skills that govern the behavior of leaders of small businesses in Lebanon. The data were collected using a questionnaire that was filled out by 155 owners ...
  • Wage discrimination in Lebanon as related to experience and education 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Sharifi, Hazar (2016-12-21)
    This paper explores the existence of a wage gap between the two genders using a sample of 6081 individuals and tests the effect of experience and educational backgrounds on widening or narrowing this gap. The findings ...
  • Islam, entrepreneurship and business values in the Middle East 
    Pistrui, David; Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (2016-12-21)
    Entrepreneurship has become a defining business trend around the world, especially in economies transitioning towards free market systems. The Middle East, specifically the Gulf Region is a growing, lucrative marketplace ...
  • Family contributions to entrepreneurial development in Lebanon 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Pistrui, David; Huang, Wilfred; Welsch, Harold (2016-12-21)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to profile the characteristics, attributes and growth orientations of Lebanese entrepreneurs, including the relationships, roles, and contributions that family and culture make and ...
  • An exploratory study on a new corporate governance mechanism 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane (2016-12-21)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore relationships between different governance configurations and firm survival. The objective is to describe the alternative mechanisms through which the owning family takes ...
  • Family and cultural factors impacting entrepreneurship in war time Lebanon 
    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane; Pistrui, David; Huang, Wilfred V.; Welsch, Harold P. (2016-12-21)
    This study profiles the characteristics, attributes and growth orientations of Lebanese entrepreneurs including the relationships, roles and contributions that family and culture play in the development of private SMEs. ...
  • R&D and innovation in food processing firms in transition countries 
    Fakih, Ali; Ghazakian, Pascal L. (2016-12-20)
    We examine the implications of the liberalised economic conditions associated with the economic transformations in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ...
  • US energy policies and variance in the GCC stock markets 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; Haidar, Ranim (2016-12-15)
    We investigate the impact of bills about energy policy, introduced and discussed in the US Congress, on the conditional variance process of the five largest Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. Using an augmented ...
  • Causality-in-variance of prices of oil products 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; Abosedra, Salah (2016-12-15)
    This paper investigates causality-in-variance between the price of crude oil and the prices of refined oil products using US data. The cross-correlation function is applied on both normal and abnormal squared standardized ...
  • Volatility links between the home and the host market for U.K. dual-listed stocks on U.S. markets 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; Abdallah, Wissam (2016-12-15)
    We investigate how idiosyncratic and systematic effects impact the volatility risk of U.K. cross-listed stocks. Under the hypothesis that more stock followers enhance information effects on volatility, we examine whether ...
  • Volatility spillovers 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; Abosedra, Salah (2016-12-15)
    This paper provides evidence on the lead, the contemporaneous and the lagged transmission mechanism of extreme shocks across energy products. Our findings reveal a weak leadership of crude oil in guiding hedgers against ...
  • Volatility links between US industries 
    Ben Sita, Bernard (2016-12-15)
    This article investigates volatility linkages across 30 US industries in terms of volatility leadership impact and interdependence dynamics. The volatility spillover index of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009 Diebold, F. X. and ...
  • The role of trading intensity estimating the implicit bid–ask spread and determining transitory effects 
    Ben Sita, Bernard; Westerholm, P. Joakim (2016-12-15)
    In this paper, we investigate the information content of trading intensity applying the Madhavan, Richardson and Roomans (1997) structural model to express trading intensity as trading momentum in duration and volume. Using ...
  • Autocorrelation of the trade process 
    Ben Sita, Bernard (2016-12-15)
    This study investigates how duration-based trading intensity modifies the first-order autocorrelation and the transitory variance of the trade process. Because prices are conditional expected values, a structural model in ...
  • Monitoring the efforts versus aligning the incentives of managers with those of their stakeholders 
    Toukan, Amjad (2016-12-14)
    I examine the case where a firm bids on a private contract. To win the award, the firm may choose to comply with a demand by the corrupt manager for a share of the value of the project to avoid being excluded from trade. ...

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