• Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada 

      Ghouma, Hatem; Ben-Nasr, Hamdi; Yan, Ruiqian ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      We explore the impact of the Globe and Mail corporate governance index on bond spreads in a sample of Canadian listed companies. The index is composed of four sub-indices—board composition/structure, board compensation, ...
    • Employee welfare and stock price crash risk 

      Ben-Nasr H.; Ghouma H. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      We examine whether employee welfare practices are associated with future stock price crash risk. Two competing hypotheses were tested: the stakeholder theory hypothesis & the agency theory hypothesis. According to the ...