Najah Attig, Dalhousie University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Dalhousie University profile.

empirical corporate finance corporate policies investment efficiency Tobin's Q managerial learning from stock prices anonymous trading earnings drift fundamental information

Latest papers

Buffering the Storm: Firm Exposure to Social Unrest and Environmental and Social Disclosure
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026 · senior author
Buffering the Storm: Firm Exposure to Social Unrest and Environmental and Social Disclosure
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026 · senior author
Firm-level litigation risk and CEO equity incentives
Finance research letters · 2025

All 51 publications

Latest funding

Stakeholder-centric corporate misconduct and financing frictions: International evidence
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$49,510
Banking on Intelligence: The Role of Private Credit Markets in Advancing AI Investment, Innovation, and Productivity
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$219,000
Institutional Investors and Corporate Restructuring: International Evidence
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$82,854

All 8 grants and awards

51 publications.

01

Buffering the Storm: Firm Exposure to Social Unrest and Environmental and Social Disclosure

Paul Brockman, Najah Attig

SSRN Electronic Journal2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6795403

02

Buffering the Storm: Firm Exposure to Social Unrest and Environmental and Social Disclosure

Paul Brockman, Najah Attig

SSRN Electronic Journal2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6229127

03

Firm-level litigation risk and CEO equity incentives

Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain, Najah Attig, Greg Hebb, Mostafa Monzur Hasan

Finance research letters20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2025.107151

04

Stakeholder-centric corporate misconduct and financing policies: A precautionary tale

Najah Attig, Sadok El Ghoul, Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain

Journal of Banking & Finance20252 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107582

05

Spillover effects of creditor rights on corporate payout policy

Najah Attig, Paul Brockman, Mohammad M. Rahaman

The Journal of Financial Research2025First author

DOI: 10.1111/jfir.70000

06

Stakeholder-Centric Corporate Misconduct and Financing Policies: A Precautionary Tale

Najah Attig, Sadok El Ghoul, Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain

SSRN Electronic Journal2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5635693

07

Bay Street Meets Machine Learning: Predicting Stock Risk Premium

Najah Attig, Chahine Attig

SSRN Electronic Journal2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5349068

08

Firm digital transformation and corporate performance: The moderating effect of organizational capital

Mobina Zareie, Najah Attig, Sadok El Ghoul, Iraj J. Fooladi

Finance research letters202478 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.105032

09

Creditors at the Gate: Effects of Selective Environmental Disclosure on the Cost of Debt

Najah Attig, Mohammad M. Rahaman, Samir Trabelsi

Corporate Governance An International Review202435 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/corg.12599

10

When Supply Chain Strains, Executives’ Gain Wanes: A Tale of Supply Chain Risk and CEO Compensation

Najah Attig, Abdlmutaleb Boshanna, Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain

SSRN Electronic Journal20243 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4709454

Stakeholder-centric corporate misconduct and financing frictions: International evidence

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hossain, Ashrafee T.

Keywords: Corporate misconduct; Corporate Policies; Stakeholders; Cost of financing;

$49,510

Banking on Intelligence: The Role of Private Credit Markets in Advancing AI Investment, Innovation, and Productivity

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Rahaman, Mohammad M.

$219,000

Institutional Investors and Corporate Restructuring: International Evidence

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ghoul, Sadok

Keywords: Institutional ownership; corporate restructuring; manager-employee alliances

$82,854

Rethinking declassification: Dis/closure, infrastructure, aesthetics

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Walters, William H.C.

Keywords: Critical security studies; international political sociology; critical secrecy research; Foucault; governmentality; genealogies of power; securitization theory; poststructuralism

$56,686

THE #METOO MOVEMENT, GENDER DIVERSITY WASHING AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Attig, Najah

Keywords: Gender Diversity; MeToo movement; Social movement; Gender Diversity Washing; Greenwashing; Impression Management; Corporate performance; Price crash risk; Ethics

$49,098

THE #METOO MOVEMENT, GENDER DIVERSITY WASHING AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Attig, Najah

Keywords: Gender Diversity; MeToo movement; Social movement; Gender Diversity Washing; Greenwashing; Impression Management; Corporate performance; Price crash risk; Ethics

$25,500

Flying Under the Radar: The Real Effects of Anonymity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Attig, Najah

Keywords: empirical corporate finance; corporate policies; investment efficiency; Tobin's Q; managerial learning from stock prices; anonymous trading; earnings drift; fundamental information; cost of financing; cross section of stock returns; policy uncertainty

$150,143

Flying Under the Radar: The Real Effects of Anonymity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Attig, Najah

Keywords: empirical corporate finance; corporate policies; investment efficiency; Tobin's Q; managerial learning from stock prices; anonymous trading; earnings drift; fundamental information; cost of financing; cross section of stock returns; policy uncertainty

$60,991

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Sobey School of Business
Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics
Campus Saint-Jean - Académique
Business Ethics
Dhillon
Département de finance
Accounting
Other

Co-authors at Dalhousie University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Sadok Ghoul

Campus Saint-Jean - Académique

19 shared papers, latest 2025

Ashrafee Hossain

Business Ethics

7 shared papers, latest 2025

Mohammad Rahaman

Sobey School of Business

5 shared papers, latest 2025

Abdlmutaleb Boshanna

Dhillon

5 shared papers, latest 2024

Kodjovi Assoe

Département de finance

3 shared papers, latest 2024

Samir Trabelsi

Accounting

3 shared papers, latest 2024

Hamdi Driss

Sobey School of Business

2 shared papers, latest 2020

Jeffrey Pittman

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Ashraf Al Zaman

Sobey School of Business

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Sorin Rizeanu

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2013

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: empirical corporate finance Dear Professor Attig, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Buffering the Storm: Firm Exposure to Social Unrest and Environmental and Social Disclosure" (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "THE #METOO MOVEMENT, GENDER DIVERSITY WASHING AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE: A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]