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Bank risk and performance in the MENA region: The importance of capital requirements (2016)
Journal Article
Bitar, M., Saad, W., Benlemlih, M., & O'brien, D. (2016). Bank risk and performance in the MENA region: The importance of capital requirements. Economic Systems, 40(3), 397-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2015.12.001

This paper benefits from various risk-and non-risk-based regulatory capital ratios and examines their impact on bank risk and performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Our findings suggest that compliance with Basel capital requi... Read More about Bank risk and performance in the MENA region: The importance of capital requirements.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency (2016)
Journal Article
Benlemlih, M., & Bitar, M. (2018). Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency. Journal of Business Ethics, 148(3), 647-671. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3020-2

Using a sample of 21,030 US firm-year observations that represents more than 3000 individual firms over the 1998–2012 period, we investigate the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and investment efficiency. We provide strong a... Read More about Corporate Social Responsibility and Investment Efficiency.