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  • Eid, Dany, Y. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2006)
    This thesis studies the implications of introducing the public sector domination in what it used to be a private sector business. It is related to the mobile technology in Lebanon which shifted from a former prosperous management to an operator on the Lebanese government's payroll. Comparing the previous Cellis era to the new Alfa epoch revealed that the former days were much better in terms of management. With all the outside interference and the relation to Syrian officials, the Lebanese GSM sector was in state of outmost glory and technological advancements compared to its worldwide ...
  • Mehanna, Charbel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    Nowadays, the whole world is facing a global climate change due to GHG emissions. Transportation is the second source of air pollution in the world. This thesis is treating the green consumerism within the automotive industry. Specifically, it assesses the factors that influence the willingness of consumers in Lebanon to buy a "green" car in an attempt to reduce air pollution and therefore climate change. This study is an environmental economic study in that it uses a Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) and assesses Willingness to Pay (WTP) of consumers for environmental protection. In addition, ...
  • El Souri, Diala (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
    Purpose – this paper aims to understand how familiar the Lebanese are with environmentally friendly FMCG and explore the major factors affecting behavior towards these products. In addition to understanding who the Lebanese green conscious consumer is. Ultimately, to have a distinctive study available in Lebanon as a reference for future studies. Design/methodology/approach – this research is mainly confirmatory since it is based on a previous research; however it has an explanatory aspect as well since there were no similar studies published in Lebanon. A deductive approach is used since ...
  • Al Sharif, Farah (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    Purpose: This study investigates the impact of earnings management on financial performance and the market liquidity for a sample of UK seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) between 2000 and 2020. This study also examines the occurrence of earnings management activities and their impact on market liquidity and financial performance around crucial events such as IFRS, the financial crisis, and Brexit. Design/methodology/approach: The sample consists of all UK SEOs, excluding financial industries, between the 1st of January 2000 and the 31st of December 2020. Univariate and multivariate analyses are ...
  • Karam, Iline (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
    Purpose - This paper aims at investigating the impact of bank liquidity on the risk-taking behavior of the Lebanese commercial banks. Methodology - To achieve this objective, this study considers the impact of seven variables, namely, liquidity, size, capital, profitability, loan ratio, efficiency and revenue diversification by using a panel data of audited financial statement of Lebanese commercial banks for the period from 2008 to 2015. Three models were tested depending on the definition of risk and eight hypotheses were investigated using the fixed effect model. Findings - Empirical ...
  • Hamade, Hazar (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021-04)
    Purpose - The banking sector in many MENA countries has recognized noticeable bank consolidation, which has dropped the number of banks and raised market concentration. This might raise questions about the impact of such increase in concentration on the soundness of the banking sector and consequently on the financial stability. Therefore, this study examines the impact of concentration on the financial stability of MENA banking sectors. Design/Methodology/Approach – the study adopts the FM-OLS panel method on 15 MENA banking sectors covering the period 1996-2016. Findings – ...
  • Souk, Jana Toufic (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    Purpose – The term Brexit, the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, is linked with the uncertainty raised due to the ambiguity of the economic relationship to be adopted between the U.K and the EU. This uncertainty is translated directly into a significant fluctuation of the British pound. Therefore, this research highlights the impact of the Brexit referendum on the British pound against the Euro, test the relationship between exchange rate volatility and U.K’s exports to Eurozone countries (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, ...
  • Abi Farraj, Nermeen (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    Purpose – The purpose of this thesis is to assess if natural disasters impact the volatility of 19 property-liability insurers in the United States of America (USA) and 3 stock indices over a 10-year period using GARCH (1,1), IGARCH (1,1), EGARCH (1,1) and GJR-GARCH (1,1). Additionally, we implement the Value at Risk (VaR) and Extreme Value Theory (EVT) method to generate the worst loss over a target horizon that will not be exceeded with a given level of confidence. In this regard, this thesis will be a pioneer in examining the performance of capital markets in a context of unusually high ...
  • Saliba, Karim Khalil (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020-02)
    Purpose – This thesis has two objectives. The first one is to test empirically the level of interdependence across major stock markets returns, namely, US, EU, and Asia in terms of return and volatility spillover. The second one is to evaluate the impact of news announcements on their stock market volatility. Design/methodology/approach – To model the volatility of the three above mentioned stock markets we apply a battery of univariate time series models from the GARCH family. Dickey Fuller unit root test is used in order to ensure that the three return series are stationary. The mean equation ...
  • Ghaoui, Jessica Melhem (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2012)
    Contracting overseas construction projects is usually considered a “high risk business”, mostly because of a lack of adequate overseas environmental information and overseas construction experience. Managing risk is one of the primary objectives of firms operating internationally, nevertheless, the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the international management firm vary in their use of those terms and tend to look at particular categories of risk. In recent years, owners and contractors have aggressively pursued international business opportunities and projects, but in the face of the ...
  • Nasr, Maysam A. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2019-06)
    Purpose: This study investigates the impact of risk disclosure practices on stock return volatility, market liquidity, and financial performance for insurance companies in UK and Canada before and after IFRS adoption. Design/methodology/approach: The sample is divided into two groups; 14 insurance companies in UK and 12 ones in Canada. Univariate and Multivariate analysis were conducted to examine the impact of risk disclosure practices on stock return volatility, market liquidity, and financial performance for insurance companies before and after the implementation of IFRS with and without ...
  • Abou Chedid, Tatiana (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2023-05)
    Purpose – Previous researches have shown a gap in empirical testing, particularly in measuring the variability of supply chain factors. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the relationship between the variability of supply chain disruption factors and the financial performance of companies operating in the automotive sector in Europe. Design/methodology/approach – This study will use the panel data regression methodology. This method will allow us to analyze the effect of supply chain disruptions over time and across multiple companies and countries, and control for both individual ...
  • Bteich, Marion (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
    Purpose: this study explores the impact of terrorism on daily Brent crude oil returns and volatility. From mid-1987 till end of 2013, we examine how successful terrorist attacks with high and low intensity and carried out in the most oil-dependent Middle Eastern and African countries affect Brent dynamics. We also investigate the degree to which attacks against oil businesses and facilities play a role in altering Brent returns and affecting their fluctuations. Design/methodology/approach: we gathered from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) all the daily terrorist attacks performed against ...
  • Rizk, Daniel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2012)
    The main purpose of this study is to show the importance of building a sales team in the business, and how crucial it is to maintain a solid commercial strategy, accurately tailored and professionally supervised, driving the company to success. This study summarizes the results of Radisson beauty s.a.r.l starting with its formation, and the different processes that the company took to create a well-organized and successful sales team. Throughout this process, each member of the sales team was required to submit a questionnaire and was deeply interviewed to assess his progress, the collected ...
  • Nammour, Joe (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
    Purpose: the objective of this study was to analyze the individual and work factors that influence employee retention in the Lebanese insurance companies by reviewing the managers’ and employees’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach: the information of this analysis was obtained through exploratory interviews and analyzed questionnaire results using the coding system and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Findings: the results of the study support the predicting factors (individual and job related) mentioned in the research. The analysis showed that gender, marital status, ...
  • Balmanian, Alvart Garabed (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose: This study investigates whether managers withdraw from a M&A deal once they observe a negative cumulative abnormal return. Moreover, it assesses whether their decision changes with respect to factors such as the listing status of the firm, its macro industry, and target size. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 767 M&A US deals over the period 2005-2014 and applying an Event Study methodology, Cumulative Abnormal Returns (CAR) are calculated and introduced in a Logit model to assess the above mentioned matter. Findings: Results show that managers do listen to the market ...
  • Nehme, Romeo G. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Purpose - the thesis will be studying and analyzing the financial and stock market in the presence of Islamic finance in Asia as a first step and in the Saudi Arabian market as a second step, before overlooking the status of the Lebanese Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach: after defining Islamic finance and explaining its laws and regulations and the instruments used, Islamic finance will be compared to conventional finance. The results will be based on data collected from both: - Islamic and non-Islamic financial markets (Asian countries) during, before and after the financial ...
  • Salloum, Tania Boutros (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
    Changes have been the password of the healthcare industry for the last three decades. It is known that the healthcare field is affected by three factors: quality, cost and operations (standard of care). These three factors are affecting each other and they are in constant change. Customer demand for better quality of care and safe patient care is increasing; new technologies and medical innovation are emerging every minute. Therefore change is inevitable in a modern healthcare system if standards of patient care are to be maintained and improved. In all businesses and in the healthcare ...
  • El Haddad, Pierre (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    Purpose - This paper has two purposes; attempting to identify a CSR decision making model and exploring the perception of Lebanese business leaders on Green Economy, CSR and their inter-relationships. Design/methodology/approach - Qualitative and Deductive in nature, this paper uses 14 semi-structured and the thematic analysis framework to describe the perception of Lebanese business leaders in the exploratory study, and to test the developed proposition of the CSR decision making model in the conceptual research. Findings - The findings provide evidence to confirm the CSR decision ...
  • Bou Abdo, Celine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2017)
    Purpose: The objective of this thesis is to estimate and compare the capital requirements of an SME portfolio belonging to a Lebanese Commercial Bank under different regulatory frameworks, Basel I, Basel II and Basel III, in addition to illustrating the calculation of the capital adequacy ratio to comply with the requirements of BDL and BCCL. Design/methodology/approach: The sample used consists of a portfolio of loans granted by a Lebanese commercial bank to 1,099 different clients as of June 30, 2017. The study aims first at demonstrating the several approaches (Standardized Approach, IRB ...

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