Walid Saffar

6.0k citations
66 papers · 4.5k · 3 hit papers · h-index 27

Impact in

  • Accounting top 0.2%
    • Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
    • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
    • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
    • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Papers in

    • Corporate Finance and Governance 54
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance 23
    • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance 10
    • Private Equity and Venture Capital 7
    • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies 18

Walid Saffar

63 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Walid Saffar's Hit Papers

The role of state and foreign owners in corporate risk-taking: Evidence from privatization 2012 · 572 citations
5720+6+12Years since publication100200300400500

Peers

Walid Saffar
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  • Accounting 3.3k
  • Strategy and Management 2.1k
  • Finance 904
  • Economics and Econometrics 1.0k
  • Marketing 233
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All Works

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Political connections and the cost of equity capital
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The role of state and foreign owners in corporate risk-taking: Evidence from privatization
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Political connections of newly privatized firms
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2008521
4 2013277
5 2013261
6 2009243
7 2012205
8 2015198
9 2018162
10 2020112
11 2019106
12 201690
13 201689
14 201389
15 201082
16 201568
17 201266
18 202065
19 201865
20 201257

About Walid Saffar

Walid Saffar is a scholar working on Accounting, Strategy and Management, Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 66 papers that have together received 4.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Corporate Finance and Governance (54 papers), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance (23 papers), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (18 papers), Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (12 papers), Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (10 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (8 papers), Corruption and Economic Development (7 papers) and Private Equity and Venture Capital (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (3.3k citations), Strategy and Management (2.1k citations), Finance (904 citations), Economics and Econometrics (1.0k citations) and Marketing (233 citations). Walid Saffar has collaborated with scholars based in Hong Kong, Canada and United States. Frequent co-authors include Narjess Boubakri, Jean‐Claude Cosset, Omrane Guedhami, Jeffrey Pittman, Dev R. Mishra, Sattar Mansi, Sabri Boubaker, Bryan W. Husted, Dima Jamali and Jeffrey Ng. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Multinational Financial Management and Journal of International Business Studies.

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