Publications

This study examines the dynamic interconnectedness and dependence between the USA’s corporate bond market (CMD) and economic and equity market uncertainties, as well as geopolitical risk.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands ready to impact all aspects of business, from optimizing operations to personalizing services and enhancing customer value. However, many organizations grapple with implementing AI solutions due to a lack of necessary infrastructure and mechanisms.

Despite numerous efforts by policymakers, trade among African countries remain abysmal. In this paper, we investigate whether democracy affects intra-Africa trade of goods.

This research connects the literature on crisis manage-ment and on firm f lexibility to investigate human resource (HR) strategies in response to unexpected crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

We examine the impact of liberal judge ideology, as an exogenous proxy for litigation risk, on real earning management. Our main findings suggest that U.S. firms headquartered in circuits that are more likely to be dominated by liberal judges engage in less real earnings management.

e examine the efect of regional favoritism on the access of frms to credit. Using frm level data on a large sample of 29,000 frms covering 47 countries, we investigate the
hypothesis that frms in the birth regions of national political leaders have better access to