Herman Sahni

Baldwin Wallace University · School of Business

This paper investigates the nonlinear relationship between tourism and economic growth using a balanced sample of 58 countries in three continental samples (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) for the 2003–2017 period. First, we document an asymmetric threshold effect of tourism on economic growth. By utilizing an endogenous threshold regression model...

By applying threshold analysis and quantile regression techniques, we investigate the linearity of the relationship between tourism receipts and economic growth. We find that a threshold exists, below and above which the relationship between tourism receipts and economic growth changes. In our sample, the threshold for tourism receipts is at 3.82%...

This chapter discusses the economic valuation of agro‐waste with an emphasis on developing countries. Specifically, a general overview of the cost‐benefit analysis technique of economic valuation is outlined to contextualize the costs and consequences of agro‐waste recycling and reclamation programs. We first enumerate all anticipated costs and ben...

This chapter discusses the economic valuation of agro waste with an emphasis on developing countries. Specifically, a general overview of the cost-benefit analysis technique of economic valuation is outlined to contextualize the costs and consequences of agro waste recycling and reclamation programs. We first enumerate all anticipated costs and ben...

This study examines the effect of firm financial efficiency on executive compensation with an emphasis on the US apparel industry. We find that both annual efficiency levels and cumulative efficiency changes obtained from the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) are positively associated with CEO pay. The effect is stronger for technological changes and...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of modern energy access and reliability of energy supply on education outcomes, specifically enrollment and test scores using two waves of India Human Development Survey. Electrification studies have generally focused only on the estimating the impact on two development factors - employment and h...

In this paper, we study the causal relationship between rainfall shock and incidence of domestic violence using the nationally representative India Human Development Survey and Annual Rainfall data. We hypothesize that, in agricultural societies, economic shocks due to scarce rainfall forces married women seek financial support from their natal fam...

Using a large sample of publicly traded firms from 1994-2002, we study the type of firms that female executives prefer to work in. We find that (1) female executives predominantly work in high risk firms and in high risk industries, (2) female CEOs have higher dismissal probability and female non-CEO executives (CFO, COO and President), in general,...

By taking advantage of a new hand-collected dataset on CEO educational networks between 1992 and 2013, this paper studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that is, have extremely large networks). Second, while connected male CEOs are significantly rewarded, female CEOs a...

By taking advantage of a new hand-collected dataset on CEO educational networks between 1992 and 2013, this paper studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that is, have extremely large networks). Second, while connected male CEOs are significantly rewarded, female CEOs a...

By taking advantage of a new hand-collected dataset on CEO educational networks between 1992 and 2013, this paper studies the association between gender and network connections. First, female CEOs are less likely to be “Influential” (that is, have extremely large networks). Second, while connected male CEOs are significantly rewarded, female CEOs a...

Highlights: - The paper proposes a new component that explains the "residual" gender wage gap. - Women have greater time demands for home production than men. - This leads to gender differences in sociability capital. - Gender dispersion in sociability capital causes a gender wage gap in some jobs. Abstract: This paper develops a job-signaling mod...

Highlights: - The paper proposes a new component that explains the "residual" gender wage gap. - Women have greater time demands for home production than men. - This leads to gender differences in sociability capital. - Gender dispersion in sociability capital causes a gender wage gap in some jobs. Abstract: This paper develops a job-signaling mod...

Highlights: - The paper proposes a new component that explains the "residual" gender wage gap. - Women have greater time demands for home production than men. - This leads to gender differences in sociability capital. - Gender dispersion in sociability capital causes a gender wage gap in some jobs. Abstract: This paper develops a job-signaling mod...

Using a large sample of publicly traded firms from 1994-2002, we study the type of firms that female executives prefer to work in. We find that (1) female executives predominantly work in high risk firms and in high risk industries, (2) female CEOs have higher dismissal probability and female non-CEO executives (CFO, COO and President), in general,...

Using a large sample of publicly traded firms from 1994-2002, we study the type of firms that female executives prefer to work in. We find that (1) female executives predominantly work in high risk firms and in high risk industries, (2) female CEOs have higher dismissal probability and female non-CEO executives (CFO, COO and President), in general,...

Using a large sample of publicly traded firms from 1994-2002, we study the type of firms that female executives prefer to work in. We find that (1) female executives predominantly work in high risk firms and in high risk industries, (2) female CEOs have higher dismissal probability and female non-CEO executives (CFO, COO and President), in general,...

Of all the proposals that are voted upon in annual shareholder meetings, proposals aimed at protecting or eliminating shareholder rights are the ones that do not conform to the recommendations made by Institutional Shareholder Services. That is, proposals that eliminate rights pass despite ISS "AGAINST" recommendations and proposals that protect ri...

Anti-takeover provisions, and in some sense, all governance provisions are viewed as vital instruments to prevent value decreasing attempts of takeover. Recent literature focuses on these provisions as instruments which facilitate managerial entrenchment. We study a sample of firms which repeal governance provisions and the reasons behind the repea...