Contact Professor Yacine Belghitar
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- Email: yacine.belghitar@cranfield.ac.uk
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Background
Yacine is Professor of Corporate Finance and Head of Finance and Accounting Group. Prior to coming to Cranfield School of Management, Yacine taught and did research at Middlesex and Durham Universities. He held the positions of Research Leader for the group of accounting and finance and Director of the MSc in Finance. He has successfully supervised and externally examined several Doctoral students. He is an independent advisor on corporate financial strategy and governance.
Current activities
Yacine's domain of research is at the intersection of Finance, Small Business and Corporate Strategic Management Decisions. He contributes to the understanding of the effect of managerial risk attitude on the relationship between corporate governance and managerial compensation. His recent research on managerial compensation and risk taking has been funded by ESRC, the UK's most prestigious social science funding body. Yacine is currently serving as the associate editor of Frontiers in Finance and Economics Journal which presents original peer reviewed research in Finance and Economics that is applicable to the business community at large. He serves as an ad-hoc referee in several academic journals and acts as an external examiner of two academic institutions. He is currently supervising two PhD students. He is a frequent contributor to a wide range of national and international conferences. He has published extensively and his papers have appeared in top international academic journals such as Economic Journal, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Small Business Economics.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Fatwa Wijaya I, Moro A & Belghitar Y (2023) Does religiosity affect financing activity? Evidence from Indonesia, Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 32 (2) 670-697.
- Whitehead M & Belghitar Y (2022) Responding to a corruption crisis through disclosure and remedial action: the case of Petrobras, British Accounting Review, 54 (5) Article No. 101119.
- Saade A, Alexiou C & Belghitar Y (2022) Robotization and labor supply in the context of a dynamic monopsony: novel evidence from South Korea, Seoul Journal of Economics (SJE), 35 (3) 207-240.
- Nnadi M, Surichamorn V, Jayasekera R & Belghitar Y (2022) Empirical analysis of debt maturity, cash holdings and firm investment in developing economies, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 27 (3) 3345-3372.
- Moro A, Belghitar Y & Radic N (2022) When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19, Small Business Economics, 58 (2) 943-961.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E, Dropsy V & Mefteh-Wali S (2021) The effect of exchange rate fluctuations on the performance of small and medium sized enterprises: implications for Brexit, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 80 (May) 399-410.
- Moro A, Belghitar Y & Mateus C (2021) National culture and small firms' use of trade credit: evidence from Europe, Global Finance Journal, 49 (August) Article No. 100655.
- Wijaya IF, Moro A & Belghitar Y (2021) Trust in Islamic business-to-business relationships: evidence from Indonesia, British Journal of Management, Available online 26 December 2021.
- Saeed A, Mukarram SS & Belghitar Y (2021) Read between the lines: board gender diversity, family ownership, and risk‐taking in Indian high‐tech firms, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 26 (1) 185-207.
- Gontarek W & Belghitar Y (2021) CEO chairman controversy: evidence from the post financial crisis period, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 56 (2) 675-713.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E & Saeed A (2019) Political connections and corporate financial decision making, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 53 (4) 1099-1133.
- Saeed A, Belghitar Y & Clark E (2019) Political connections and corporate performance: evidence from Pakistan, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 27 (4) 863-889.
- Gontarek W & Belghitar Y (2018) Risk governance: examining its impact upon bank performance and risk-taking, Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments, 27 (5) 187-224.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E & Kassimatis K (2018) A measure of total firm performance: new insights for the corporate objective, Annals of Operations Research, 281 (1-2) 121-141.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E & Deshmukh N (2017) Importance of the fund management company in the performance of socially responsible mutual funds, Journal of Financial Research, 40 (3) 349-367.
- Saeed A, Belghitar Y & Clark E (2017) Political connections and firm operational efficiencies: evidence from a developing country, Review of Managerial Science , 11 (1) 191-224.
- Aboubakr S, Belghitar Y & Yousaf A (2016) Firm-level determinants of gender diversity in the boardrooms: Evidence from some emerging markets, International Business Review, 25 (5) 1076-1088.
- Belghitar Y & Clark E (2015) Managerial risk incentives and investment related agency costs, International Review of Financial Analysis, 38 191-197.
- Abubakr S, Belghitar Y & Clark E (2015) Do political connections affect firm performance? Evidence from a developing country, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade , 52 (8) 1876-1891.
- Belghitar Y & Clark E (2015) Firm Organizational Environment and The Effect of Options Based Compensation Incentives on Accrual Earnings Management, Frontiers in Finance and Economics, 12 (2) 1-29.
- Belghitar Y & Clark E (2014) CONVEXITY, MAGNIFICATION, AND TRANSLATION: THE EFFECT OF MANAGERIAL OPTION‐BASED COMPENSATION ON CORPORATE CASH HOLDINGS, Journal of Financial Research, 37 (2) 191-210.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E & Deshmukh N (2014) Does it pay to be ethical? Evidence from the FTSE4Good, Journal of Banking and Finance, 47 (October) 54-62.
- Abubakr S, Belghitar Y & Clark E (2014) Political Connections and Leverage: Firm-level Evidence from Pakistan, Managerial and Decision Economics, 36 (6) 364-383.
- Abubakr S, Belghitar Y & Clark E (2014) Theoretical motives of corporate cash holdings and political connections: firms level evidence from a developing economy, International Review of Applied Economics, 28 (6) 813-831.
- Al-Najjar B & Belghitar Y (2014) Do corporate governance mechanisms affect cash dividends? An empirical investigation of UK firms, International Review of Applied Economics, 28 (4) 524-538.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E & Mefteh S (2013) Foreign currency derivative use and shareholder value, International Review of Financial Analysis, 29 283-293.
- Belghitar Y & Khan J (2013) Governance mechanisms, investment opportunity set and SMEs cash holdings, Small Business Economics, 40 (1) 59-72.
- Al-Najjar B & Belghitar Y (2013) The information content of cash flows in dividend policy context, Economic Issues, 17 (2) 57-70.
- Belghitar Y & Dixon R (2012) Do venture capitalists reduce underpricing and underperformance of IPOs?, Applied Financial Economics, 22 (1) 33-44.
- Belghitar Y & Clark EC (2012) The effect of CEO risk appetite on firm volatility: An empirical analysis of financial firms, International Journal of the Economics of Business, 19 (2) 195-211.
- Belghitar Y, Clark E & Kassimatis K (2011) The prudential effect of strategic institutional ownership on stock performance, International Review of Financial Analysis, 20 (4) 191-199.
- Al-Najjar B & Belghitar Y (2011) Corporate cash holdings and dividend payments: Evidence from simultaneous analysis, Managerial and Decision Economics, 32 (4) 231-241.
- Belghitar Y & Belghitar GS (2010) The role of critical evaluation in finance education: Insights from an MSc programme, Accounting Education, 19 (6) 569-586.
- Belghitar Y, Clark EC & Judge A (2008) The value effects of foreign currency and interest rate hedging: The UK evidence, International Journal of Business, 3 (1) 44-60.
- Belghitar Y & Parker SC (2006) What happens to nascent entrepreneurs: An econometric analysis of the PSED, Small Business Economics, 27 (1) 81-101.
- Belghitar Y, Parker SC & Barmby T (2005) Wage uncertainty and self-employed labour supply, Economic Journal, 115 (502) 190-207.
Books
- Belghitar Y & Clark E (2011) Capital Budgeting with Political/Country Risk. In: Capital Budgeting Valuation: Financial Analysis for Today’s Investment Projects, USA: Wiley, p. 241-259.
