Corporate governance and firm performance in Arab equity markets: Does ownership concentration matter?

By Mohamed Omran, A. Bolbol, Ayten M. Fatheldin. 2008

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Economic policy uncertainty and firm performance (2019, background): “We control our dependent variables with other macroeconomic variables such as Inflation Rate (Beck, DemirgüçKunt, and Maksimovic 2005), Interest Rate (Athanasoglou, Brissimis, and Delis 2008), Foreign Exchange Rate (Baggs, Beaulieu, and Fung 2009), GDP (Omran, Bolbol, and Fatheldin 2008), Money Supp”
Corporate Governance, Islamic Governance and Earnings Management in Oman: A New Empirical Insights from a Behavioural Theoretical Framework (2017, unknown): “are characterised by high levels of concentrated ownership, primarily by families and government (Najib, 2007; Omran et al., 2008; Bishara, 2011).”
Bank ownership, regulation and efficiency: Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region (2017, unknown): “Since the quality of investor protection and bank regulation is relatively weak in the MENA region (Rocha et al. 2011), and ownership is concentrated as a response to poor legal protection of investors (Omran et al. 2008), we expect a positive effect of ownership concentration.”