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Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Corporate governance"

Browsing Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Corporate governance"

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  • The effect of corporate governance mechanisms on IPO performance : the case of U.S. equity real estate investment trusts 
    Choucair, Stephanie Antoine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to shed more light on the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the Initial Public Offering (IPO) performance of U.S. Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) in the short and long run. Design/methodology/approach: I conduct multi-linear regressions on a sample of 89 US REIT IPO for the years 2003 to 2016. I compute the market adjusted excess returns for each of the first 5 days following the IPO to measure short-run IPO performance and the semi-annual cumulative abnormal returns for each of the three years following the IPO to measure ...
  • The sectoral impact of ESG on financial performance of firms in emerging countries 
    Iskandar, Sahar (Notre Dame University-Louaize., 2019-06)
    Purpose – The thesis aims to empirically investigate the impact of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) activities on corporate financial performance (CFP) of emerging countries’ listed firms operating in seven specific Global Industry Classification Standards (GICS) sectors. Design/methodology/approach – Using secondary data, this study covers 3999 observations from 635 listed companies in emerging countries for the period 2011- 2017. Our sample includes firms belonging to seven specified GICS sectors. The thesis uses panel corrected standard errors to estimate the effect of ...

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