All Outputs (9)

Does Board Diversity Mitigate Risk? The Effect of Homophily and Social Ties on Risk-Taking in Financial Institutions (2024)
Journal Article
Alzayed, N., Batiz-Lazo, B., & Eskandari, R. (2024). Does Board Diversity Mitigate Risk? The Effect of Homophily and Social Ties on Risk-Taking in Financial Institutions. Research in International Business and Finance, 70(A), 102306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102306

Research Question/Issue This study investigates whether greater board diversity and looser social network ties have an impact on board independence and risk-taking in US financial institutions from 2010 to 2022.The... Read More about Does Board Diversity Mitigate Risk? The Effect of Homophily and Social Ties on Risk-Taking in Financial Institutions.

Revisiting Corporate Governance And Financial Risk-Taking (2023)
Journal Article
Alzayed, N., Eskandari, R., Eshraghi, A., & Yazdifar, H. (2023). Revisiting Corporate Governance And Financial Risk-Taking. International Journal of Finance and Economics, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2896

Corporate governance attributes have varying effects on risk taking when variables are examined separately. We study the effects of a large range of corporate governance attributes on risk taking using a comprehensive US sample. Our findings confirm... Read More about Revisiting Corporate Governance And Financial Risk-Taking.

Bank failure prediction: corporate governance and financial indicators (2023)
Journal Article
Alzayed, N., Eskandari, R., & Yazdifar, H. (2023). Bank failure prediction: corporate governance and financial indicators. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 61(2), 601-631. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-023-01158-z

This paper reiterates the importance of corporate governance in banks. Failure prediction studies have mainly relied on using financial ratios as predictors. The most suitable financial predictors for banks are financial ratios following the CAMEL ra... Read More about Bank failure prediction: corporate governance and financial indicators.

Political connections and seasoned equity offerings (2021)
Journal Article
Nnadi, M., Sorwar, G., Eskandari, R., & Chizema, A. (2021). Political connections and seasoned equity offerings. Journal of Banking and Finance, 133, 106312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106312

This study examines the impact of political connections on seasoned equity offerings. Using seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) from 2001 to 2018 in the USA, we find that politically connected issuers enjoy a lower cost of seasoned equity issuance than... Read More about Political connections and seasoned equity offerings.

The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation (2020)
Journal Article
Liang, L., Alam, M., Sorwar, G., Yazdifar, H., & Eskandari, R. (2021). The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 163, 120488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120488

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the structures of inter-organizational connections and innovation results in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Existing literature shows that inter-organization connections can ben... Read More about The combined network effect of sparse and interlocked connections in SMEs’ innovation.

A review of the relationship between leadership style and innovation : insights and directions for future research (2020)
Journal Article
Rastogi, L., Yazdifar, H., Alam, M., Eskandari, R., & Al Bahloul, M. (2020). A review of the relationship between leadership style and innovation : insights and directions for future research. Journal for Global Business Advancement, 12(5), https://doi.org/10.1504/JGBA.2019.107520

This paper aims to critically reflect on the available literature on leadership style and innovation, and especially to assess the linkages between these variables. It starts with an overview of leadership studies, tracing the historical emergence an... Read More about A review of the relationship between leadership style and innovation : insights and directions for future research.

Causality between cash flow and earnings – evidence from Tehran (Iran) Stock Exchange (2018)
Journal Article
Nasseri, A., Sayyadi, M., Yazdifar, H., Eskandari, R., & Al Bahloul, M. (2018). Causality between cash flow and earnings – evidence from Tehran (Iran) Stock Exchange. Journal of Emerging Market Finance, 17(2), 210-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0972652718776860

This paper employs the data from 155 companies from 27 different industries listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) for the period from 2000 to 2009 to examine the direction of causality between cash flow and earnings after taking consideration of... Read More about Causality between cash flow and earnings – evidence from Tehran (Iran) Stock Exchange.

Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011 (2014)
Journal Article
Bátiz-Lazo, B., Eskandari, R., & Goddard, J. (2015). Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011. Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 11(3), 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2014.07.010

This paper examines the factors determining the citation success of authors who have published via the Internet on the economic and business history of Spain. It departs from the dominant cross-sectional approach to the quantitative assessment of cit... Read More about Online publishing and citation success in the accounting, business and economic history of Spain, 1997–2011.

Foreign Direct Investment and cost of sustainable development goals : implications for FDI decision makers
Journal Article
Syed, Z., Eskandari, R., & Yazdifar, H. (in press). Foreign Direct Investment and cost of sustainable development goals : implications for FDI decision makers. Advances in global business research, 17(1),

Policy makers struggle to understand the limited impact of FDI on achieving Sustainable Development Gaols (SDG). However, they overlook the fact that FDI like any other investment decision is affected by the relative costs and benefits consideratio... Read More about Foreign Direct Investment and cost of sustainable development goals : implications for FDI decision makers.