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Omrane Guedhami

Professor, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina
Verified email at moore.sc.edu
Cited by 18927

Country-level institutions, firm value, and the role of corporate social responsibility initiatives

SE Ghoul, O Guedhami, Y Kim - Journal of International Business Studies, 2017 - Springer
Drawing on transaction cost theories and the resource-based view of a firm, we posit that
the value of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives is greater in countries where an …

Does corporate social responsibility affect the cost of capital?

S El Ghoul, O Guedhami, CCY Kwok… - Journal of banking & …, 2011 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the cost of equity capital
for a large sample of US firms. Using several approaches to estimate firms’ ex ante cost of …

Do state and foreign ownership affect investment efficiency? Evidence from privatizations

R Chen, S El Ghoul, O Guedhami, H Wang - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
Using the high-power setting of newly privatized firms from 64 countries, we examine the
relationship between ownership type and firm-level capital allocations as captured by the …

Corporate social responsibility in emerging market economies: Determinants, consequences, and future research directions

N Boubakri, S El Ghoul, O Guedhami… - Emerging Markets Review, 2021 - Elsevier
The last two decades have witnessed a growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR)
worldwide by corporations, investors, policy makers, and researchers across different …

Does CSR matter in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

KH Bae, S El Ghoul, ZJ Gong, O Guedhami - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
The debate over how firm stakeholder engagement is tied to preserving shareholder wealth
has received growing attention in recent years, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis…

Family control and corporate social responsibility

S El Ghoul, O Guedhami, H Wang… - Journal of Banking & …, 2016 - Elsevier
We investigate the impact of family control on corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance.
Using newly collected data on the ultimate ownership structure of publicly traded firms …

National culture: The missing country-level determinant of corporate governance

D Griffin, O Guedhami, CCY Kwok, K Li… - Journal of International …, 2017 - Springer
It is well known that firm-level corporate governance practices vary mainly between rather
than within countries, but country-level factors such as legal and financial institutions explain …

[HTML][HTML] The heterogeneous and evolving roles of sovereign wealth funds: Issues, challenges, and research agenda

N Boubakri, V Fotak, O Guedhami, Y Yasuda - Journal of International …, 2023 - Springer
We introduce this special issue on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) with a discussion on the
four big themes currently affecting their behavior and performance: (1) the impact of recent …

Political connections and the cost of equity capital

N Boubakri, O Guedhami, D Mishra, W Saffar - Journal of corporate finance, 2012 - Elsevier
Motivated by recent research on the costs and benefits of political connection, we examine
the cost of equity capital of politically connected firms. Using propensity score matching …

Corporate social responsibility and credit ratings

N Attig, S El Ghoul, O Guedhami, J Suh - Journal of business ethics, 2013 - Springer
This study provides evidence on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR)
and firms’ credit ratings. We find that credit rating agencies tend to award relatively high …