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Does investment in insurance stocks reap diversification benefits? Static and time varying copula modeling
( Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. , 2021 , Article)The present article investigates the presence of diversification benefits resulting from the dependence structure in stock returns of Islamic and conventional insurance. Our empirical design is based on the use of daily ... -
Does investors' fear gauge in a mature market matter? Evidence from the MENA region
( Institutional Investor, Inc , 2018 , Article)This article examines the notion that less developed markets may be deemed safe havens for international investors. It tests the effect of mature markets' fear on risk and return in less developed markets. The study employs ... -
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 ... -
Does Official development assistance for health from developed countries displace government health expenditure in sub-saharan countries?
( Economics Bulletin , 2016 , Article)This paper empirically examines the foreign aid fungibility in the health sector of 45 Sub-Saharan countries over the period of 1995-2012. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of foreign health aid on government ... -
Does openness enhance financial sector development? The experience of the arab world
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2014 , Article)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine if the simultaneous openness to trade and capital account can promote financial sector development. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a sample of 12 Arab countries ... -
Does Political Risk Affect the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment into the Middle East North African Region
(2013 , Article)Given the political risk in the Middle East North African (MENA) region, this research aimed to unveil the importance of the different components of political risk on the change in foreign direct investment (FDI), ... -
Does renewable energy index respond to the pandemic uncertainty?
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Unlike very recent studies examining the most widely traded commodities (such as; oil and gold) under an overwhelming time pressure and amid high pandemic uncertainty, the effects of world pandemic and economic policy ... -
Does Securitisation Make Monetary Policy Less Effective?
( Taylor & Francis , 2021 , Article)We re-examine the role of monetary policy and its transmission mechanism through the credit channel while focusing on securitisation. We empirically investigate the interactions between securitisation activities and monetary ... -
Does sukuk market development spur economic growth?
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)We investigate the impact of sukuk market development on economic growth using a sample comprising all sukuk-issuing countries spanning the period 1995-2015. We use the system GMM estimator to tackle potential omitted ... -
Does the extent of branchless banking adoption enhance the social and financial performance of microfinance institutions?
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)We examine the impact of the extent of branchless banking adoption on the social and financial performance of an international sample of microfinance institutions (MFIs). We find that increasing the number of branchless ... -
Downpayment, mobility and default: A welfare analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)In this paper, I study the impact of the relaxation of downpayment requirements on home-ownership and default risk in the context of a static spatial life cycle model. Given its quantitative success in matching the U.S. ... -
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 ... -
Dynamic risk spillovers and portfolio risk management between precious metals and global foreign exchange markets
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study examines portfolio management and risk spillovers between four major precious metals (gold, silver, palladium and platinum) and 20 important U.S. exchange markets. To this end, we employ the multivariate DECO-GARCH ... -
Dynamic risk spillovers between gold, oil prices and conventional, sustainability and Islamic equity aggregates and sectors with portfolio implications
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)This paper investigates the time-varying equicorrelations and risk spillovers between crude oil, gold and the Dow Jones conventional, sustainability and Islamic stock index aggregates and 10 associated disaggregated Islamic ... -
Dynamic volatility transmission and portfolio management across major cryptocurrencies: Evidence from hourly data
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study used hourly data to examine the dynamic conditional correlations and hedging strategies in the main cryptocurrency markets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP). Multivariate generalized ... -
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book)Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ... -
Economic Policies and the Possibilities of Unified GCC Currency
( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)The aim of this study is to identify the extent to which the GCC countries can adopt similar economic policies by the time the GCC unified currency is formed in 2010. Among other convergence standards, we examined the ... -
Effect of aggregate, mandatory and voluntary disclosure on firm performance in a developing market: The case of Kuwait
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)This paper examines the relationship between corporate disclosure and firm performance for the case of listed companies in the Kuwait Stock Exchanges (KSE). Our sample contains 51 non-financial firms that represent 42% of ... -
The effect of political risk and corporate governance on bank stability in the MENA region: Did the Arab Spring uprisings matter?
( Cogent OA , 2023 , Article)This study examines the impact of political risk and corporate governance mechanisms (CGM) on bank stability. The research problem was addressed using a sample of 954 bank-year observations from 14 Middle East and North ... -
Effects of board and ownership structure on corporate performance: Evidence from GCC countries
( emerald insight , 2014 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure and board composition on bank performance as measured by Tobin's Q and market to book value in Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) countries. ...