Browsing by Author "Zeitun, Rami"
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Asymmetric pass through of energy commodities to US sectoral returns
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)The influence of the international energy market on different economic aspects has increased significantly, especially after an escalation in the financialization of the energy market. Likewise following this trend, the ... -
Asymmetric volatility and conditional expected returns: Evidence from emerging market sectors
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: The risk-return relationship is one of the most widely investigated topics in finance, yet this relationship remains one of the most controversial topics. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymmetric ... -
Capital structure, tax effect, financial crisis and default risk: Evidence from emerging market
( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)The central objective of this study is to investigate the effect of capital structure on corporate failure in the emerging market, in particular Jordan, using a panel data analysis sample representative of 180 Jordanian ... -
Comovement and spillover among energy markets: A Comparison across different crisis periods
( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Article)We compare the comovement and spillover between returns of six developed energy markets during different crisis periods using wavelet multiple correlation and wavelet multiple cross-correlation. The considered countries ... -
Conditional dependence structure and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and fiat currencies
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)This paper investigates the extreme dependence and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and the currencies of the BRICS and G7 economies. We find time-varying dependence between Bitcoin and all currencies. Moreover, when analysing ... -
Corporate governance and capital structure: dynamic panel threshold analysis
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This paper examines the nonlinear connection between corporate governance (CG) and corporate leverage. Our study applied the dynamic panel threshold model (DPTM) to facilitate the capture of the nonlinear effect of CG on ... -
Debt maturity, financial crisis and corporate performance in GCC countries: A dynamic-GMM approach
( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)This study investigates the effect of debt financing and debt maturity on corporate performance, using evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC): Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab ... -
The determinants of capital structure: The case of long-term debt constraint for Jordanian firms
( Virtus Interpress , 2008 , Article)This paper contributes to the capital structure literature by investigating the determinants of capital structure of Jordanian companies with the constraint of inadequate long-term debt as their source of financing and ... -
Diversification potential of Asian frontier, BRIC emerging and major developed stock markets: A wavelet-based value at risk approach
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)This study examines the portfolio risk and the co-movements between each of the BRIC emerging and South Asian frontier stock markets and each of the major developed stock markets (U.S., UK and Japan), using the wavelet ... -
Do financial crises alter the dynamics of corporate capital structure? Evidence from GCC countries
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)We study the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the capital structure of GCC firms. We employ a dataset covering a 10-year period from eight sectors to investigate patterns in corporate leverage before and after the ... -
Do oil shocks affect the green bond market?
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This study examines the predictive power of oil shocks for the green bond markets. In line with this aim, we investigated the extent to which oil shocks could be used to accurately make in- and out-of-sample forecasts for ... -
Do product offering and service quality affect customer satisfaction in Islamic and conventional banks? Evidence from an oil-based economy
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effect of product offering and other service quality (SQ) dimensions on the satisfaction of the customers of both Islamic and conventional banks, using evidence from an oil-based ... -
Does minority management affect a firm's capital structure? Evidence from Japan
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This study evaluates the effect of minority management (MG) on capital structure for a sample of listed Japanese companies over three sectors. We used a dynamic panel, threshold-based model that can control for endogeneity ... -
Dynamic performance, financial leverage and financial crisis: Evidence from GCC countries
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of financial leverage on firm’s performance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Additionally, this paper investigates the impact of recent financial ... -
Global financial crisis, ownership structure and firm financial performance: An examination of listed firms in Australia
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the financial performance of listed firms on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) over two sample periods (1998-2007 and 2008-2010) before and during the global financial crisis ... -
Governance and long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms in Australia
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms from the agency theoretic perspective. The analysis is focused on investigating ... -
Government ownership, business risk, financial leverage and corporate performance: Evidence from gcc countries
( Virtus Interpress , 2012 , Article)This study investigates the effect of government ownership structure, business risk and financial leverage among other variables (size, age and growth) on a company’s performance in a panel data, using 191 companies from ... -
Green bonds’ connectedness with hedging and conditional diversification performance
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)Investments in green assets are becoming increasingly significant, and they present a new asset class for investors. Consequently, the resulting connectedness among these green assets has implications for investments. Our ... -
How do US sectoral markets connect in calm and crisis? A quantile-based network analysis
( Routledge (Taylor & Francis Ltd.) , 2025 , Article)This work investigates how the return coherence of the US sectoral market changed during/post COVID-19 from the pre-pandemic period. We sampled daily data for a pre-COVID-19 period from January 2018 to November 2019 and a ... -
How does the tax status of a country impact capital structure? Evidence from the GCC region
( 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 ...
