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Volatility forecasting, downside risk, and diversification benefits of Bitcoin and oil and international commodity markets: A comparative analysis with yellow metal
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
This study examines the diversification and hedging properties of Bitcoin (BTC) and gold assets for oil and S&P GSCI investors. We model and forecast the volatility performance of the pairs BTC–oil, gold–oil, BTC–S&P GSCI, ...
A time-varying copula approach for modelling dependency: New evidence from commodity and stock markets
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper examines the time-varying conditional dependency between commodity markets and stock markets by applying the rolling-sample technique on the dependence parameter of copula. The dataset consists of the closing ...
How does the tax status of a country impact capital structure? Evidence from the GCC region
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
We investigate whether the tax status of a country has an impact on corporate capital structure. This research question is important and timely given that the empirical literature has not reached a consensus on the effect ...
Impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study explores the economic growth – energy consumption nexus for two samples of MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs) during the period 1980–2012. Using panel cointegration approach, we found strong evidence for ...
Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets
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McMaster University
, 2014 , Article)
This paper examines empirically the electricity market integration process for Germany, France and Italy countries by investigating possible price convergence. Two empirical approaches have been considered to investigate ...
Enablers of top management team support for integrated management control systems innovations
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
Top management team (TMT) support has been identified as one of the most important critical factors to the success of management control systems (MCS) innovations. However, prior studies have taken TMT support for MCS ...
Tax Policy Debate Over Tax Incentives in Developing Countries: the Case of Egypt
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School of Taxation and Business Law (Atax), UNSW Business School, UNSW Australia
, 2016 , Article)
Tax policy is normally formulated and implemented during politically stable periods. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries in the early 1990s have allowed researchers to study tax policy reform in ...
Can uncertainty indices predict Bitcoin prices? A revisited analysis using partial and multivariate wavelet approaches
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper uses bivariate and multivariate wavelet approaches to revisit the co-movements between the Volatility Uncertainty Index (VIX) and Bitcoin (BTC). This is achieved by accounting for the impacts of the three major ...
A Qatari perspective on women in the engineering pipeline: an exploratory study
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Taylor & Francis
, 2010 , Article)
Under-representation of women in engineering has received a great deal of attention, but remained limited largely to a Western context. Thus, this article aims to unveil the barriers to progress, tracking the performance ...
Examining the impact of social commerce dimensions on customers' value cocreation: The mediating effect of social trust
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
One of the main aspects of the Web 2.0 revolution has been social commerce that has resulted in many people across the world increasingly engaging with commercial activities over social media platforms. However, the academic ...