Basil Al-Najjar
Programme leader (Director) of MSc Investment and Finance-Senior Lecturer in Finance
Department: Accounting and finance
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 5342
- E-mail: b.al-najjar@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
- PhD- Finance (Financial Management -Modelling Financial Management)
- MSc- Finance (Financial Management)
- BBA- Finance and Banking
- PGCertHE
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research Interests
- Corporate Finance
- Capital Structure
- Dividend Policy
- Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure
- Corporate Cash Holdings
Teaching Interests
Roles:
Module leader- Financial Modelling and Data Analysis (MSc Investment and finance)
MSc dissertation supervision
PhD supervision
Biography
Selected Publications (Journals):
Al-Najjar B. (forthcoming) The effect of governance mechanisms on SME cash holdings: Evidence from theUK, Journal of Small Business Management
Al-Najjar B. (forthcoming) The financial determinants of cash holdings: Evidence from some emerging markets, International Business Review
Chen C. and AL-Najjar B. (forthcoming) The determinants of board size and independence: Evidence from China, International Business Review.
Hussainey K. and Al-Najjar B. (forthcoming) Understanding the Determinantsof RiskMetrics/ISS Ratings of the Quality of UK Companies’ Corporate Governance Practice. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.
Al-Najjar, B.(forthcoming, accepted 2010)The determinants of the frequency of board meetings: Evidence from categorical analysis Journal of Applied Accounting Research
Al-Najjar, B. and Anfimiadou A. (2012)Environmental policies and firm value.Business Strategy and the Environment, 20(4) pp. 49-59
Husainey K. and Al-Najjar, B. 2011,Future-Oriented narrative reporting: Determinants and use. Journal of Applied Accounting Research,12 (2), pp. 123-138
Al-Najjar, B. 2011,The determinants of audit committee independence and activity: Evidence from UK. International Journal of Auditing, 15 (1), pp. 191-203.
Al-Najjar, B. 2011, The interrelationship between capital structure and dividend policy: Empirical evidence from Jordanian data. International Review of Applied Economics. 25(2),pp. 209-224.
Al-Najjar, B. and Belghitar, Y., 2011, Corporate cash holdings and dividend payments: Evidence from Simultaneous analysis. Managerial and Decision Economics, 32 (4), pp. 231-241.
Al-Najjar, B., 2011, Empirical modelling of capital structure: Jordanian evidence. Journal of Emerging Market Finance, 10 (1), pp.1-19.
Al-Najjar, B. and Hussainey K., 2011. Revisiting the capital structure puzzle: UK evidence. Journal of Risk Finance, 12 (4) pp. 123-138. (Best paper award-Emerald 2012)
Al-Najjar, B.,2010,Corporate governance and institutional ownership: Evidence from Jordan, Corporate Governance: International Journal of Business in Society, 10 (2), pp. 176-190.
Al-Najjar, B. and Husainey K., 2009, The association between dividend payout and outside directorships, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 10 (1), pp. 4-29.
Al-Najjar, B.,2009, Dividend behaviour and smoothing: Evidence from Jordanian panel data, Studies in Economics and Finance, 26 (3),pp. 182-197.
Al-Najjar. B. and Taylor P., 2008, The relationship between capital structure and ownership structure: Evidence from Jordanian Panel Data, Managerial Finance, 34 (12), pp. 919-933.
Grants and Awards:
British Academy (£7500) to conduct a research about: "BOARD STRUCTURE AND FINANCING DECISIONS in SMEs" from Feb 2010 to Feb 2011.
Top Ten download list for Corporate Governance: Internal Governance, Organization, & Processes eJournal for "The determinants of the frequency of board meetings: Evidence from categorical analysis". November 2011.
Outstanding Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012 for the paper entitled "Revisiting the capital-structure puzzle: UK evidence” published in The Journal of Risk Finance incorporating Balance Sheet"
