Walid Saffar

Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Hong Kong

Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences

31h-index5.8kcitations80works5.32yr avg

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Research Topics

Corporate Finance and Governance(64), Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance(24), Banking stability, regulation, efficiency(18), Political Influence and Corporate Strategies(18), Corporate Taxation and Avoidance(11)

Publications80 total

Movable assets as collateral in debt financing and effects on trade credit: Evidence from collateral law reforms

4 cited

Journal of Financial Stability·2025· 4 cited

Movables as collateral and corporate credit: Loan-level evidence from legal reforms across Europe

3 cited

Journal of Banking & Finance·2024· 3 cited

Local Agglomeration and Household Mortgage Debt

Management Science·2024

How does asset redeployability affect stock price crash risk?

1 cited

Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting·2024· 1 cited

Firm‐level political risk and bank loan contracting

19 cited

Contemporary Accounting Research·2024· 19 cited

Pay transparency and entrepreneurship

5 cited

Journal of Banking & Finance·2024· 5 cited

Credit default swaps and corporate debt structure

17 cited

Journal of Corporate Finance·2023· 17 cited

Employment Protection and Household Mortgage Debt

4 cited

Journal of Banking & Finance·2023· 4 cited

Private Firm Disclosure Transparency and International IPO Underpricing

SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access

Accounting-Driven Bank Monitoring and Firms’ Debt Structure: Evidence from IFRS 9 Adoption

23 cited

Management Science·2022· 23 cited

Movables as Collateral and Corporate Credit: Loan-Level Evidence from Legal Reforms across Europe

SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access

Elections and CSR Engagement: International Evidence

5 cited

Journal of Business Ethics·2022· 5 cited

Bank Monitoring of Borrowers and Borrowers’ Investment Efficiency: Evidence from the Switch to the Expected Credit Loss Model

SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access

Policy Uncertainty and Textual Disclosure

45 cited

Accounting Horizons·2021· 45 cited

National culture and the choice between bank debt and public debt

20 cited

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal·2021· 20 cited

Does economic policy uncertainty drive the initiation of corporate lobbying?

32 cited

Journal of Corporate Finance·2021· 32 cited

Executive Equity Risk-Taking Incentives and Firms’ Choice of Debt Structure

40 cited

Journal of Banking & Finance·2021· 40 cited

Does Audit Quality Affect Firms’ Debt Structure?

2 cited

PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)·2021· 2 citedOpen Access

How economic policy uncertainty affects the cost of raising equity capital: Evidence from seasoned equity offerings

55 cited

Journal of Financial Stability·2020· 55 citedOpen Access

Competing Creditor Claims and Banks’ Loan Loss Provisions: Evidence From Anti-Recharacterization Laws

SSRN Electronic Journal·2020Open Access

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Frequent Co-authors

Narjess Boubakri(22), Omrane Guedhami(11), Jeffrey Pittman(8), Jean‐Claude Cosset(6), K.C. John Wei(4), Jean-Claude Cosset(3), Bryan W. Husted(3), Jeffrey Ng(3), Sadok El Ghoul(3), Xiao Li(3), Liangliang Jiang(3), Yangyang Chen(3), Dev R. Mishra(2), Dima Jamali(2), Sabri Boubaker(2), Woo‐Jong Lee(2), Chuck C.Y. Kwok(2), Yue‐Cheong Chan(2), Iftekhar Hasan(2), Leon Zolotoy(2)