Religiosity and financial distress in US firm

Ines Gharbi; Mounira Hamed-Sidhom; Khaled Hussainey; Janet Ganouati

doi:10.1002/ijfe.1994

Religiosity and financial distress in US firm

Ines Gharbi, Mounira Hamed-Sidhom, Khaled Hussainey, Janet Ganouati

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In our paper, we try to test the global impact of religiosity on firm‘s durability. Given that religious firms are more ethics and take less risk, they avoid the costs of misconduct, and they benefit from the good reputation and the excellent relationship with their stakeholders. So, we predict that higher degrees of religiosity can reduce the financial distress. According to this prediction, we detect that corporates headquarters situated in more religious U.S. counties are probably less to suffer from financial problems. We also note that this negative relation becomes stronger during the crisis period. We conclude that the lack of religiosity is a significant cause of the financial difficulty.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Finance and Economics
Early online date	23 Aug 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1994
Publication status	Early online - 23 Aug 2020

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Religiosity
ethics
risk aversion
financial distress

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ines Gharbi, Mounira Hamed‐Sidhom, Khaled Hussainey & Janet Ganouati. 'Religiosity and financial distress in U.S. firms'. International Journal of Finance & Economics. DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.1994, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijfe.1994. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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