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Lawrence Kryzanowski

Finance, Concordia University
Verified email at concordia.ca
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Towards an integrated global framework to assess the impacts of land use and management change on soil carbon: current capability and future vision

…, SC Davis, DDEB Richter, L Kryzanowski… - Global Change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… on C limate C hange ( IPCC ) T ier 1 methodologies commonly underpin project‐scale carbon
accounting for changes in land use and management and are used in frameworks for L ife …

The impact of the dimensions of social performance on firm risk

K Bouslah, L Kryzanowski, B M'zali - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of the individual dimensions of social performance (SP) on
firm risk (total and idiosyncratic) using 16,599 firm-year observations over the period 1991–…

[HTML][HTML] Social performance and firm risk: Impact of the financial crisis

K Bouslah, L Kryzanowski, B M'zali - Journal of Business Ethics, 2018 - Springer
This paper examines the impact of the recent financial crisis (2008–2009) on the relation
between a firm’s risk and social performance (SP) using a sample of non-financial US firms …

Using artificial neural networks to pick stocks

L Kryzanowski, M Galler, DW Wright - Financial Analysts Journal, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
Can an artificial neural network (ANN) with automatic learning discriminate between stocks
that provide positive returns and those that provide negative returns? The ANN employs a …

Policy uncertainty and corporate credit spreads

MS Kaviani, L Kryzanowski, H Maleki… - Journal of Financial …, 2020 - Elsevier
We find a significant positive relation between changes in policy uncertainty and changes in
credit spreads. Macroeconomic conditions, including general uncertainty, do not explain this …

Modeling the effects of fertilizer application rate on nitrous oxide emissions

…, E Pattey, TW Goddard, LM Kryzanowski… - Soil Science Society …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The attribution of N 2 O emission factors to N inputs from chemical fertilizers requires an
understanding of how those inputs affect the biological processes from which these emissions …

The contrarian investment strategy does not work in Canadian markets

L Kryzanowski, H Zhang - Journal of Financial and Quantitative …, 1992 - cambridge.org
This paper tests the overreaction hypothesis using monthly data for stocks listed on the
Toronto Stock Exchange over the 1950–1988 period. Unlike De Bondt and Thaler (1985), (1987), …

Natural disasters and risk aversion

M Bourdeau-Brien, L Kryzanowski - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The havoc brought by extreme weather events triggers well-documented adverse effects on
human health, communities’ resources and economic development. In this paper, we focus …

Political corruption and corporate payouts

AT Hossain, T Hossain, L Kryzanowski - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
Firms headquartered in more corrupt US environments (states) provide higher payouts to
their shareholders. Our results are robust to, for example propensity score matching, …

The impact of natural disasters on the stock returns and volatilities of local firms

M Bourdeau-Brien, L Kryzanowski - The Quarterly Review of Economics …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of major natural disasters on the stock returns and volatilities
of US firms. We find that a small proportion of catastrophes have a significant impact on …