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My PhD thesis aims to examine the impact of corporate governance on Saudi firms' performance, focusing on three main areas: board of director characteristics, ownership structure and capital structure. The study uses secondary data obtained from annual reports of all non-financial listed firms in Saudi Arabia over a six-year period from 2009 to 2014. Multiple performance measures including both accounting-based and market-based measures are adopted. A number of firm characteristics including firm size, age, growth, capital expenditure, leverage and industry are employed as control variables. The study utilises quantitative analysis techniques including both descriptive and inferential statistics such as ANOVA, t-tests and regression analysis. A lagged structure method is also employed to address endogeneity problems.

Capital Budgeting and Financial Modelling - Corporate Finance - Investments - Business and Financial Analysis - Capital Market - Business Valuation - Portfolio Management - Corporate Financial Forecasting