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Do employee-friendly practices affect inventory leanness?
( Routledge , 2024 , Article)We examine the impact of employee-friendly practices (i.e. employment quality, training and development, and employee turnover) on inventory leanness. We use the Empirical Leanness Indicator (ELI) as a proxy for inventory ... -
Do supply chain pressures affect consumer prices in major economies? New evidence from time-varying causality analysis
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study explores the dynamic causality between the consumer price index and supply chain pressure index in two large economies. Despite extensive research into the role of supply chains at the firm level, the literature ... -
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 ... -
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo
( Oxford University Press , 2024 , Article)On 5 June 2017, an airspace blockade was imposed on the State of Qatar by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (neighboring countries), and Egypt. We exploit this exogenous increase in air transportation costs toward ... -
Top management inside debt and corporate social responsibility? Evidence from the US
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study provides evidence on the relationship between CEO inside debt and corporate social responsibility (hereinafter, CSR). We find that an increase in CEO inside debt leads to high levels of CSR. This finding is ... -
Sustainability disclosure in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries: Opportunities and Challenges
( American Institute of Mathematical Sciences , 2025 , Article)This study examined the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance of 117 companies across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Qatar from 2021 to 2022 (totaling 234 observations) from the ... -
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 ... -
Do income and consumption growth cause CO2 emissions in Qatar? Implications for climate policy
( Springer , 2024 , Article)Qatar has experienced a remarkable surge in all four components of gross domestic product (GDP)—consumption, government spending, investment, and net exports as well as significant growth in population over the past thirty ... -
Heterogeneous impacts of geopolitical risk factors on stock markets in the Middle East: A quantile regression analysis across four emerging economies
( Elsevier B.V. , 2024 , Article)This study investigates the heterogeneous impacts of eight categories of geopolitical risk on stock market performance across different market conditions in four Middle Eastern economies: Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and ... -
Unraveling the multiscale comovement of green bonds and structural shocks: An oil-driven analysis
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)This paper examines the multiscale comovement between the green bonds issued in developed countries and international oil-driven shocks. We extracted the oil shocks using a structural vector autoregressive model. The ... -
The effects of food affordability on life expectancy in emerging countries
( John Wiley and Sons , 2024 , Article)The relationship between food prices and life expectancy in emerging countries has significant implications for public health and socioeconomic development in these regions. This study examines this relationship using a ... -
Innovation capital disclosure and independent directors: evidence from France
( Springer Nature - Palgrave Macmillan , 2024 , Article)This study aims to understand whether corporate governance mechanisms affect innovation capital disclosure (ICD) provided voluntarily on corporate websites by SBF 120 listed firms in France. The study tests multivariate ... -
Investigating the impact of remittance outflows and oil price on economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
(2023 , Article)Most existing studies have focused on examining the impact of labor remittance outflows on economic growth in the receiving countries, with limited attention given to the sending countries. This study utilizes the nonlinear ... -
Impact of tokenization on financial investments: Exploring connectedness through the case of transport and travel/tourism sectors
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)The advent of tokenization has transformed the financial landscape of the transportation and tourism industries, creating novel investment opportunities in travel and tourism tokens. This study investigates the interplay ... -
Fiscal policy and private investment: some anomalies from Saudi Arabia
(2024 , Article)This article examines the relationship between fiscal policy and private investment in Saudi Arabia, a country heavily dependent on government spending for its economy. Rather than solely analysing aggregate government ... -
Exploring the integration of ChatGPT in education: adapting for the future
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This article aims to explore the advantages of integrating a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology in education. It investigates the use of ChatGPT in personalized learning, assessment and content ... -
Financial performance and carbon emission disclosure
(2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of financial performance on carbon emission disclosure. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression analysis on a sample ... -
Financial literacy, financial development, and leverage of small firms
( Elsevier Inc , 2023 , Article)This study examines the relationship between financial literacy and the leverage of small firms, specifically of the legal forms, sole proprietorships, and partnerships. Using a cross-section of 73,302 firms in 22 countries, ... -
Dynamic connectedness between energy and agricultural commodities: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia–Ukraine conflict
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)This paper investigates the interconnectedness patterns between agricultural commodities, crude oil, and ethanol, along with their determinants before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine conflict. We ... -
Examining the impact of ecological deficit on life expectancy in GCC countries: a nonlinear panel data investigation
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have witnessed remarkable economic growth over recent decades. Arguably, this progress of these major oil and natural gas producers has come to the detriment of the environment ...
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