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The environmental Kuznets curve relationship: a case study of the Gulf Cooperation Council region
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Article)By using panel data over the 1980?2017 period and two alternative indicators of environmental pollution (carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions), this paper investigates the validity of the environmental ... -
The finance-growth nexus: Which factors can interfere?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)The financial sector's role in economic growth is heavily contested by economists. Some argue that economic growth is not caused by finance, but that it responds to changing demands, while others argue the positive effect ... -
The forward premium anomaly in the energy futures markets: A time-varying approach
( 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
( 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
( 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 impact of FIFA's official announcements on the stock market of Qatar: The case of the 2022 World Cup
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)This study examines the impact of the FIFA's official announcements on Doha Stock Exchange (DSE) of Qatar with respect to the 2022 World Cup. Using the abnormal unsystematic volatility method of Hilliard and Savickas (2002), ... -
The Impact of Foreign Agricultural Aid and Total Foreign Aid on Agricultural Output in African Countries: New Evidence from Panel Data Analysis
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2019 , Article)Official Development Assistance may play an important role in increasing the resources to finance the agriculture sector and improve agricultural outcomes in African countries. Although this is a relevant issue, very few ... -
The impact of government expenditure on GDP in the State of Qatar: A nonlinear ARDL approach
( Inderscience Publishers , 2020 , Conference Paper)This study investigates the long run relationship between government expenditure and the GDP in the State of Qatar with a focus on the non-mining and quarrying GDP during the period 1980-2017 using the nonlinear autoregressive ... -
The impact of government spending on non-oil-GDP in Saudi Arabia (multiplier analysis)
( Inderscience Publishers , 2018 , Article)This paper examines the multiplier effect of Government spending on the non-oil Saudi Arabia economic growth. We focus on non-oil GDP rather than total GDP because activity in the oil sector is mainly determined by ... -
The Impact of Liquidity on Debt Maturity After a Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council Region
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This article contributes to the existent literature on corporate debt maturity by studying a new channel through which firms may mitigate the effects of a major economic downturn such as the 2008 global financial crisis. ... -
The Impact of Market-wide Volatility on Time-varying Risk: Evidence from Qatar Stock Exchange
( Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study examines the impact of market-wide volatility on time-varying risk using the heteroscedastic market model with EGARCH (1,1) specification. Using daily sector returns from the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) market ... -
The impact of parallel market exchange rate volatility and oil exports on real GDP in Syria: Evidence from the ARDL approach
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of parallel market exchange rate volatility and trade on real GDP and real GDP growth in the Syrian economy over the period of 1990Q1–2010Q4. To this end, we first construct a parallel ... -
The impact of Sukuk on the performance of conventional and Islamic banks
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This paper examines the impact of Sukuk market development on banks' profitability using a dataset of 71 Islamic banks (IBs) and 146 conventional banks (CBs) spanning 13 countries over the 2003–2014 period. Using a dynamic ... -
The impacts of productivity differentials and oil price on the real exchange rate misalignment: Evidence from a developing country
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2019 , Article)This study examines the impact of oil price and productivity differentials on real exchange rate (RER) misalignment in Syria from 1980 to 2010. In order to do that, this research develops an index for productivity differential ... -
The Impacts of Trade and Financial Developments on Economic Growth in Turkey: ARDL Approach with Structural Break
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This study examines the impacts of trade openness, financial development, and energy imports on per capita real GDP in Turkey over the 1960–2014 period. The results show that there is evidence of a stable relationship in ... -
The inflation-central bank independence nexus: Where do MENA countries stand?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Inflation and its dynamics have been always capturing the attention of economic scholars and policymakers worldwide. Numerous theories in economic literature tried to define the concept of inflation by suggesting different ... -
The influence of CEO departure and board characteristics on firm performance
( 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 ... -
The mechanisms of stagflation in Egypt:The arab spring five years later
( Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite , 2017 , Article)This study addresses the economic performance of the Egyptian economy during the periods before and after the 25th January upheaval in 2011. It analyses, in particular, the extent to which monetary and fiscal policies ... -
The middle east and North Africa: Cursed by natural resources?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)The relationship between natural resource wealth and economic growth has been extensively studied. As opposed to basic intuition, the results of several empirical studies suggest that vast natural capital endowments don’t ... -
The new face of university-business cooperation in Finland
( Oxford University Press , 2016 , Article)This paper analyses the development of university-business cooperation (UBC) in Finland in the context of the University Reform Act of 2009, drawing on the experience of four universities: Aalto University, University of ...