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  • Could financial liberalization ignore informal finance? a commentary 
    Shahin, Wassim (2016-05-05)
    This commentary argues that the literature as well as policy-makers could not afford to ignore the effects of financial liberalization on informal finance even if the direction of the resulting change in economic activity ...
  • Investigating the interest rate impact of changing secret bank deposit laws 
    Shahin, Wassim; English, Mary (2016-05-05)
    Banks in many countries are governed by secrecy laws regarding the bank-customer relation-ship. Lately, many countries have been pressured to tighten secrecy laws to combat the abuse of bank secrecy by ill-gotten and ...
  • Combating political hostage‐taking 
    Shahin, Wassim; Islam, Muhammad (2016-05-05)
    Rational actor models have examined the effects of increasing punishment or the probability of apprehension on terrorists activities including hostage‐taking. This paper attempts to introduce a policy tool in the form of ...
  • Unorganized loan markets and monetary policy instruments 
    Shahin, Wassim (2016-05-05)
    The paper uses a portfolio balance model to examine the relationship between monetary policy instruments and the unorganized loan rate. Predicting the direction of the change in this rate as a result of varying a policy ...
  • Applying economic methodology to the war on terrorism 
    Shahin, Wassim; Islam, Muhammad (2016-05-05)
    The application of economic methodology to the problem of terrorism is discussed. Theoretical and empirical results are discussed with particular focus on the September 11 attack and the retaliatory response by the United ...
  • Economic methodology applied to political hostage-taking in light of the Iran-Contra affair 
    Islam, Muhammad; Shahin, Wassim (2016-05-05)
  • Effect of internal audit function on corporate governance quality 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Elgammal, Walid; Bayoud, Mirna M. (2016-04-27)
    The internal audit function is a compliance mechanism that promotes good corporate governance. Recent studies detected a need to improve corporate governance structures in developing countries. This study evaluates the ...
  • Effects of ethical practices on corporate governance in developing countries 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Messarra, Leila Canaan; Elgammal, Walid (2016-04-27)
    Companies in some developing countries, such as those in the Middle East and North Africa region, do not place high importance on ethical behavior and practices within the organization. The aim of this study is to examine ...
  • 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 ...
  • Job satisfaction of the modern information-system-using nurse in Lebanon 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; Chaanine, Johnny C. (2016-04-14)
    Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the impact of healthcare information system usage on the job satisfaction of nurses in Lebanon. It incorporates the role of training and user participation as factors leading to ...
  • The Impact of Social Media on the Political Interests of the Youth in Lebanon at the Wake of the Arab Spring 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; El Zein, Hala (2016-04-14)
    Across the world, youth are embracing the concepts of freedom of speech, right to opinion, and modern information technology in all its aspects and are trying to find use for it. The Arab Spring revolutions that began in ...
  • Changing management history, gender moderating pay to job satisfaction for IS users 
    Maamari, Bassem E. (2016-04-13)
    Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the impact of pay on job satisfaction. Moreover, it studies the changes in the structure of the work force, as well as in the way work is done, on the pay to job satisfaction ...
  • Talent Management Moderating the Relationship between Recruitment for the Highly Skilled and HR Policies 
    Maamari, Bassem E.; Alameh, Kayan (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. (2017-05-23)
    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. (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 (2016-05-10)
    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 (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 (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 (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 (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 ...

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