Ahmed Hassanein

Board Expertise and Firm Profitability: The Moderating Roles of Product Market Competition and Institutional Quality

This paper investigates the association between board expertise and firm profitability. Using an international sample of 42,623 firm-year observations from 2002 to 2021, we find that firms with greater industry and financial expertise on their boards exhibit significantly higher...

Neuro-Symbolic Frameworks for Corporate Leverage and Debt Maturity: Evidence from Econometric and Machine Learning Models

Forecasting corporate leverage adjustments remains challenging due to persistent financing behavior, firm heterogeneity, and changing macroeconomic conditions. This study investigates whether increasing model complexity improves the forecasting of corporate leverage adjustment by...