Browsing by Author "Bassil, Charbel"
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Can immigration moderate the adverse effects of political instability on international tourism? A case study of Australia
( Sage , 2023 , Article)We estimate the impact of political instability and the population of immigrants in Australia on the flow of international tourist arrivals. We hypothesize that political instability has a short-term negative effect while ... -
Club Convergence in Productivity among European Regions: Recent Evidence and Policy Implications
( Center for Economic Integration , 2024 , Article)We use data on 155 NUTS regions, with the objective of i) generating TFP series over 1996-2018, and ii) testing for club-convergence. We also employ a logistic regression to identify the significant club-membership ... -
The Cultural Drivers of Self-Employment in MENA: Exploring the Roles of Internal Locus of Control and Religiosity
(2025 , Article)What drives individuals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to pursue self-employment: internal or external personal attributes? How do these factors vary across different countries and economic contexts? ... -
Harnessing cross-region disparities to assess the impact of tourism on regional growth in Europe
( Taylor & Francis , 2020 , Article)We use regional data across 27 European countries and look into the effect of tourist arrivals on regional growth during 2000–2017. The research is set in an augmented Solow model estimated via a rich and flexible empirical ... -
Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Personal Belief, and Employment in Qatar and Kuwait: An Empirical Analysis
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)This study assesses the impact of personality traits and personal beliefs on employment status (e.g., unpaid employment/unemployment, part-time paid job, full-time paid job, and self-employment) in Qatar and Kuwait. We use ... -
Is tourism in Lebanon subject to permanent or transitory exogenous shocks?
( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2014 , Article)The tourism industry makes a significant contribution to Lebanese gross domestic product (GDP). Lebanon has been rocked by political instability and regional conflicts over the past several decades. These exogenous shocks ... -
Manufacturing and productivity in MENA: a long-term perspective
( Economic Research Forum (ERF) , 2022 , Article)Productivity in the manufacturing sector is key for economic growth and employment opportunities in most developing economies. This column looks at total factor productivity (TFP) – the portion of output growth that comes ... -
Mortgage debt and domestic and outbound travel expenditures: International evidence
( SAGE , 2024 , Article)We explore the relationship between the mortgage debt of households and their spending on domestic and outbound tourism and travel. We estimate a dynamic panel data model for a sample of 27 countries for 2010-2021, and ... -
Personality Traits and Beliefs Effects on Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence from the MENA Region
( Academy of Management , 2025 , Conference)This study investigates the effects of personality traits and beliefs, more specifically the internal locus of control (ILC) and religiosity on self-employment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, controlling ... -
Regional Growth, Domestic and Foreign Tourism in NUTS Regions: New Insights from the Old Continent
( SAGE , 2020 , Article)Using regional data encompassing 155 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions across the EU-28 member states, we estimate the effect of tourist arrivals (total, domestic, and foreign) on regional ... -
Terrorism and inbound tourism: Does immigration have a moderating effect?
( SAGE , 2019 , Article)This article investigates the impact of terrorism on bilateral tourism flows within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. It also examines the moderation effect of immigration in the destination ... -
Terrorism and tourism demand: a case study of Lebanon, Turkey and israel
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)Using a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model, this paper examines the impact of domestic and transnational terrorism on tourism demand (as measured by visitor arrivals) to Lebanon, Turkey and Israel. The distinguishing ... -
TFP in the Manufacturing Sector: Long-Term Dynamics, Country and Regional Comparative Analysis
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)We employ a recent empirical strategy to estimate country-specific and time-varying total factor productivity (TFP) levels for the manufacturing sector of 63 countries over 40 years. The methodology is based on estimated ... -
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM AT REGIONAL LEVEL: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2023 , Article Review)We undertake a systematic literature review that looks at the economic effects of tourism at subnational levels. This review, the first of its kind to our knowledge, is timely in view of the growing body of research ... -
Tourism and productivity in NUTS regions: revisiting the tourism-led-efficiency hypothesis
( Taylor & Francis , 2024 , Article)We employ data on 155 NUTS regions over 1996–2018 and assess the relationship between tourism and regional total factor productivity (TFP). We expand in two directions the literature on the Tourism-Led-Efficiency hypothesis ... -
Tourism research for the GCC region: Current status and future research directions
( SAGE Publications , 2021 , Article Review)Tourism in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has recently been considered by policymakers as a new avenue for economic diversification. Despite the considerable literature concerning the impact of tourism ... -
Volatility Interdependence Between Cryptocurrencies, Equity, and Bond Markets
( Springer , 2024 , Article)This paper investigates (i) the return-volatility spillover between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin, (ii) the interdependence between cryptocurrencies' volatility and the US equity and bond markets' volatility, and ...
