Browsing by Author "Charfeddine, Lanouar"
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Impact of ICTs Diffusion on Environmental Quality in Qatar
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Al-Maadid, Asma; Hamana, Yosra ( Qatar University , 2019 , Other)Climate change, global warming and environmental degradation in general have been some of humanity’s greatest challenges and there is no doubt about their threatening effects on human life quality, health, and the ... -
Impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
Kahia, Montassar; Ben Aïssa, Mohamed Safouane; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( 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 ... -
Innovations and Hotel Performance in the Aftermath announcement of Qatar Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Dawd, Issa ( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)The innovation-performance relationships continue to raise an ongoing debate in which the existing literature yields no conclusive results mainly in the tourism sector of resource-rich countries. This paper contributes to ... -
Innovations and Hotel Performance in the Aftermath Announcement of Qatar Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Dawd, Issa ( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2022 , Article)This article explores innovation processes in tourism within the context of Qatar Hotel sector. A theoretical framework, drawing on the existing literature, is developed to analyze innovation- performance relationships. ... -
Investigating the dynamic relationship between cryptocurrencies and conventional assets: Implications for financial investors
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Benlagha, Noureddine; Maouchi, Youcef ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Cryptocurrencies are gradually establishing themselves as a new class of assets with unique features, although there remains skepticism and a lack of understanding of their nature. In this study, we compare the financial ... -
Is digital gold a hedge, safe haven, or diversifier? An analysis of cryptocurrencies, DeFi tokens, and NFTs
Maouchi, Youcef; Fakhfekh, Mohamed; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Jeribi, Ahmed ( Taylor & Francis , 2024 , Article)The crypto assets market is growing rapidly, exposing investors to new risks. As a result, finding viable candidates to hedge and diversify crypto portfolios is a critical and timely topic. In this paper, we explore the ... -
Islamic versus conventional banks in the GCC countries: A comparative study using classification techniques
Khediri, Karim Ben; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Ben Youssef, Slah ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)This paper contributes to the empirical literature on Islamic finance by investigating the feature of Islamic and conventional banks in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the period 2003-2010. We use parametric ... -
Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Jbir, Rafik; Karboul, Jihene ( 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 ... -
Regime-specific impact of financial reforms on economic growth in Pakistan
Rahman, Abdul; Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study uses and proposes a new methodological approach to construct a financial liberalization index on the basis of the dynamic factor model technique. The resulting index is used to investigate the impact of the ... -
Reviewing the oil price-GDP growth relationship: A replication study
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Klein, Tony; Walther, Thomas ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper presents a thorough replication of Hamilton (2003) which in turn replicates and extends the findings of four seminal papers regarding the oil price-GDP growth relationship. Firstly, we replicate the empirical ... -
Risk factors of road accident severity and the development of a new system for prevention: New insights from China
Benlagha, Noureddine; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Road accident fatalities and accident severity costs have become top priorities and concerns for Chinese policymakers. Understanding the principal factors that explain accident severity is considered to be the first step ... -
Short- and long-run asymmetric effect of oil prices and oil and gas revenues on the real GDP and economic diversification in oil-dependent economy
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Barkat, Karim ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)The aim of this paper is to explore the short- and long-run asymmetric impact of oil prices shocks and oil and gas revenues changes on the total real GDP, and the level of economic diversification of the Qatar economy. To ... -
Socially responsible investing and Islamic funds: New perspectives for portfolio allocation
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Najah, Ahlem; Teulon, Frédéric ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of ethical and conventional investments. It examines also whether socially responsible and Islamic investments offer an additional opportunity for domestic investors ... -
The effects of financial inclusion and the business environment in spurring the creation of early-stage firms and supporting established firms
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Zaouali, Sana ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This study investigates the role of financial inclusion and the institutional environment in promoting entrepreneurship. Using the panel vector autoregressive model for a sample of 43 countries over the period from 2001 ... -
The forward premium anomaly in the energy futures markets: A time-varying approach
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Ben Khediri, Karim; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the forward premium anomaly by investigating possible statistical explanations for this puzzling phenomenon in the energy market. To this end, time series of spot and ... -
The impact of economic development and social-political factors on ecological footprint: A panel data analysis for 15 MENA countries
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article Review)This paper extends the work of Al-Mulali and Ozturk (2015) [1] by re-investigating the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 15 MENA (Middle East and North African) countries using the Ecological Footprint (EF) ... -
The impact of energy consumption and economic development on Ecological Footprint and CO2 emissions: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)Reducing the impact of air pollution and global environmental degradation on human health and quality of life for Qatari citizens represents the most important objective of the Qatar National vision 2030. With respect to ... -
The influence of CEO departure and board characteristics on firm performance
Bouaine, Wided; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Arouri, Mohamed; Teulon, Frederic ( CLUTE Institute , 2015 , Article)This paper uses panel data from 271 U.S. firms to empirically examine the relationship between the departure of a firm's CEO and that firm's performance. Results of our analysis reveal a significant relationship between ... -
Time varying market efficiency of the GCC stock markets
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Ben Khediri, Karim ( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)This paper investigates the time-varying levels of weak-form market efficiency for the GCC stock markets over the period spanning from May 2005 to September 2013. We use two empirical approaches: (1) the generalized ... -
A time-varying copula approach for modelling dependency: New evidence from commodity and stock markets
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Benlagha, Noureddine ( 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 ...