Ahmed Aboud

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether lending institutions reward firms for their environmental, social and governance performance and disclosure in terms of lowering their cost of debt capital, and they found that firms with stronger ESG performance have a lower cost-of-debt capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices disclosure and firm value in the Egyptian context and found that firms listed in the ESG index have higher firm value, and that there is a positive association between firms' higher rankings in the index and firm values, as measured by Tobin's q.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effect of the gender of a chief executive officer (CEO) on earnings management using classification shifting and found that female CEOs are more risk-averse than their male counterparts.

TL;DR: In this article, pure CdS and Cu-doped thin films were deposited using the spray pyrolysis technique and characterized using XRD, XPS, AFM, UV-VIS spectroscopy and two probe DC-conductivity measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between tax avoidance, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure, and investigated the effect of CSR on stock market returns.