Dr. Wissam Abdallah
Chair of the Finance and Accounting Department and an Associate Professor of finance
Ext: 1823
AKSOB 1504
LAU Beirut Campus
Bio
Wissam Abdallah is the Chair of the Finance and Accounting Department and an Associate Professor of finance. He holds a Phd from UMIST. His research interests are in corporate governance and corporate finance including cross-listing, corporate investment, analyst following and forecast error, dividend policy, executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions and firms’ information environment. He has published a number of articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, British Journal of Management, Journal of Financial Research and the European Journal of Finance.
Current Teaching Commitments
- Corporate Finance
- Managerial Finance
- Financial Management
Research Interests
- Cross-listing
- Corporate governance
- CEO compensation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate investment
Publications:
- Abdallah, A., Abdallah, W., Bassam, Y., Rao, U., Saad, M. (2024), Pandemic market dynamics: Analyzing global price informativeness during COVID-19, Journal of Financial Reporting and Accounting. (DOI: 10.1108/JFRA-12-2023-0775)
- Samet, A., Abdallah, W., and Abdallah, A. (2023), The Geography and Determinants of ADR Holdings, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 88, 228-243. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2023.01.009)
- Abdallah, A., Abdallah, W. and Saad, M. (2022), The impact of national culture on the synchronicity of cross-listed firms. Finance Research Letters, 46. (DOI:10.1016/j.frl.2021.102293)
- Abdallah, A., Abdallah, W, and Saad, M. (2020), Institutional characteristics, investment sensitivity to cash flow and Tobin’s q: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region. International Finance, 1-16. (DOI: 10.1111/infi.12366)
- Abdallah, W., M. Goergen and O’Sullivan, N. (2019), The Impact of Cross-listing and Sarbanes-Oxley on Audit Fees: Evidence from UK Firms Listed on US Markets. Available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4203607
- Abdallah, A. and Abdallah, W. (2019), Does cross-listing in the US improve investment efficiency? Evidence from UK firms. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 72, 215-231. (DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2018.12.005)
- Abdallah, A., Abdallah, W. and Salamah, M. (2018), The Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in the European Insurance Industry, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practices, 43(4), 653-703. (DOI: 10.1057/s41288-018-0088-1)
- Abdallah, A. and Abdallah, W. (2017), Do managers of cross-listed firms listen to shareholders in M&A deals? Journal of Corporate Finance, 46, 97-120. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.06.016)
- Abdallah, W., and M. Goergen (2016), The Evolution of Control of Cross-listed Companies, The European Journal of Finance, 22 (15), 1507-1533. (DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2014.100331)
- Abdallah, W., M. Goergen and O’Sullivan, N. (2015), Endogeneity- How failure to correct for it cause wrong inferences and some remedies, British Journal of Management, 26 (4), 569-804. (DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12113)
- Ben Sita, B. and W. Abdallah (2014), Volatility links between the home and the host market for U.K. dual-listed stocks on U.S. markets, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 33, 183-199.(DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2014.08.005)
- Abdallah, A., Abdallah, W. and A. Ismail (2012), Do Accounting Standards Matter to Financial Analysts? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Cross-listing from Different Accounting Standards Regimes on Analyst Following and Forecast Error, The International Journal of Accounting, 47(2), 168-197. (DOI: 10.1016/j.intacc.2012.03.002)
- Abdallah, A., Abdallah, W. and M. Saad (2011), The Effect of Cross-Listing on Trading Volume: Reducing Segmentation versus Signalling Investor Protection, Journal of Financial Research, 34(4), 589-616. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6803.2011.01303.x)
- Abdallah, W. and M. Goergen, 2011, ‘Handling Large Datasets’ in “Challenges and Controversies in Management Research” edited by Catherine Cassell and Bill Lee, UK: Routledge.
- Abdallah, A. Abdallah, W. and Yu Zhu (2009), The market reaction to banks’ overseas listing: evidence from American Depository Receipts, The Journal of Financial Decision Making, 5(2).
- Abdallah, W., and M. Goergen (2008), Does Corporate Control Determine the Cross-listing Location, Journal of Corporate Finance, 14(3), 183-199. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2008.03.003)
- Abdallah, W., and M. Goergen (2008), The Impact of a Cross-listing on Dividend Policy, International Journal of Corporate Governance, 1(1), 49-72.