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Gender effects for loss aversion: Yes, no, maybe?
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Springer
, 2019 , Article)
Gender effects in risk taking have attracted much attention by economists, and remain debated. Loss aversion—the stylized finding that a given loss carries substantially greater weight than a monetarily equivalent gain—is ...
Exchange rate pass-through and inflation dynamics in Tunisia: A Markov-switching approach
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Kiel Institute for the World Economy
, 2013 , Article)
This paper studies the effect of exchange rate pass-through on inflation in Tunisia for the period 2001 to 2009. The objective is to track inflation regimes for the Tunisian economy and to forecast its determinants. Using ...
Political tension and stock markets in the Arabian Peninsula
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
This note investigates the effects of the recent political tensions in the Arabian peninsula on the linkages between the stock markets of the leading Gulf Cooperation Council countries by estimating a VAR-GARCH(1,1) model ...
Do information and communication technology and renewable energy use matter for carbon dioxide emissions reduction? Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
This study aims to investigate whether information and communication technologies (ICT) and renewable energy consumption can help improve environmental quality for a selected group of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...
Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
CBPP is an important transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa whose control is urgent. Participatory data collection involving 52 focus group discussions in 37 village clusters and key informant interviews, a cross-sectional ...
Digitalization and Banking Crisis: A Nonlinear Relationship?
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Springer
, 2022 , Article)
This study assesses the impact that ICT can have on the occurrence of banking crisis for a sample of 113 countries over the period 1996-2017 while considering the interfering role of corruption and the potential existence ...
Terrorist attacks and bank financial stability: evidence from MENA economies
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
, 2022 , Article)
This study examines the impact of terrorism on bank stability, represented by bank risk and financial performance. We consider banks from 14 countries located in the Middle East and North Africa region for the period ...
Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an economically important trans-boundary cattle disease which affects food security and livelihoods. A conjoint analysis-contingent valuation was carried out on 190 households ...
THE LEVERAGE EFFECT ON THE VALUE PREMIUM VOLATILITY: FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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Qatar University
, 2015 , Article)
This paper investigates the leverage effect on the value premium volatility using
GARCH and TARCH models utilizing a unique dataset, for twenty nine countries. The
findings show that value premium returns are bigger in ...
Optimal Pricing and order quantity strategies for a firm offering multiple products facing customers cannibalization and random market demand
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Qatar University
, 2010 , Article)
This paper studies a firm’s profitability problem offering its products into different market segments at differentiated prices. In order to improve the firms’ profitability the firm needs to decide the prices and order ...