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Entrepreneurship and genetics: New Evidence
( Elsevier Inc , 2019 , Article)This paper seeks to better understand the differences in entrepreneurship rates across administrative regions and countries. Using several measures of entrepeneurship, as well as regional and panel data of countries, it ... -
Entrepreneurship Education: A Global Consideration From Practice to Policy Around the World
( Qatar Foundation , 2015 , Report)As entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum and visibility as an engine of global economic development, it is critical to understand and optimize the role that entrepreneurship education plays. Based on a detailed ... -
Environment Degradation and Economic Growth in the Qatar Economy: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Air pollution, global greenhouse gases (GHG), water pollution and water resources degradation are among the most serious environmental concerns that encounter the Qatar country. In nowadays, it is commonly known that the ... -
Evaluating the lending channel of monetary transmission in Qatar
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2017 , Conference Paper)This study uses OLS, fixed effect and random effect models to evaluate the lending channel of the monetary policy transmission in Qatar over the 2000-2013 period. The growth in the loans extended by the Qatari banks is ... -
Evaluating the riskiness of the banking sector of Jordan
(2012 , Article)This study employs panel data analysis that controls for bank specific variables to evaluate the systematic, non-systematic and total risk of the banking sector of Jordan over the period 2001-2009. The total risk is measured ... -
Evidence of adverse selection in automobile insurance market: A seemingly unrelated probit modelling
( Cogent OA , 2017 , Article)The present paper investigates the adverse selection problem by examining the relationship between accident occurrences and deductible choice utilizing a seemingly unrelated probit model that allows for best controls for ... -
Evolving efficiency of spot and futures energy markets: A rolling sample approach
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we examine the weak-form efficient market hypothesis of energy markets by testing the random walk behavior of spot and futures prices. We contribute to the financial market efficiency literature by investigating ... -
Examining pecking order versus trade-off theories of capital structure: New evidence from Japanese firms
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study empirically tests the traditional trade-off model against the pecking order model of capital structure using data from the Japanese listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A pooled sample of 1,362 publicly ... -
Examining the Monetary Policy Transmission in Jordan: The Bank-Lending Channel
(2016 , Article)This study examines the relevance of banking lending channel in Jordan using OLS, fixed effect model and random effect over the period 2001-2012. The growth in bank loans of all the sixteen local banks operating in Jordan ... -
Exchange rate pass-through and inflation dynamics in Tunisia: A Markov-switching approach
( Kiel Institute for the World Economy , 2013 , Article)This paper studies the effect of exchange rate pass-through on inflation in Tunisia for the period 2001 to 2009. The objective is to track inflation regimes for the Tunisian economy and to forecast its determinants. Using ... -
Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in the MENA Countries: What Role for Oil?
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2011 , Article)This paper considers the linkage between stock prices and exchange rates in four MENA (Middle East and North Africa) emerging markets. In contrast to the existing evidence that uses a global market index to uncover such a ... -
Exploring digitally enabled service transformation in the public sector: Would institutional and structuration theory concepts keep the research talking ?
( IGI Global , 2016 , Article)Digitally Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) in the Public Sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Albeit complicating the deployment ... -
Export market concentration and the potential for export market diversification in the oil and gas sector in a small open economy
( International Economic Society , 2016 , Article)Though small in area and population, the US$ 200 billion Qatari economy is open and driven by the oil and gas sector. Therefore the economy is susceptible to economic shocks in international markets. We illustrate the ... -
The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs
( Springer , 2022 , Article)We investigate the effects of offshoring on job security using matched employer-employee data from Sweden. Between 1997 and 2011, the share of offshoring firms fell from around 25 to 22% while offshoring per worker within ... -
Extreme linkages of carbon futures, energy markets, and economic indicators: A copula approach
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)The interdependence of carbon allowances and different energy sources in extreme market behavior is still unsettled in the literature. Using different types of static and time-varying copulas, this piece of research aims ... -
Fashion model profiles: the intersection of self, ideal and preferred
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how young female fashion consumers assessed the facial attractiveness of an advertising model. The study focused on the consumers exposed to both local and foreign fashion ... -
FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ... -
Financial development and employment: New panel evidence
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2021 , Article)This paper adds to the recent literature on finance and employment creation by exploring the effect of finance on the labour market, using data on 143 countries from 1995 to 2015. We also examine whether the impact of ... -
Financial development and environmental quality in UAE: Cointegration with structural breaks
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article Review)This study extends the recent work of Shahbaz et al. (2014) by implementing recent unit root tests with multiple structural breaks and regime-switching cointegration techniques considering for one and two unknown regime ... -
Financial development-economic growth nexus in Pakistan: new evidence from the Markov switching model
( Cogent OA , 2020 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980-2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the ...