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Ownership structure, corporate performance and failure: Evidence from panel data of emerging market the case of Jordan
( Virtus Interpress , 2009 , Article)This study investigates the impact of ownership structure (mix and concentrate) on a company's performance and failure in a panel estimation using 167 Jordanian companies during 1989-2006. The empirical evidence in this ... -
The Partial and General Equilibrium Effects of the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement
( Taylor & Francis , 2021 , Article)The Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement (GAFTA) is a regional trade agreement among the Arab countries. We incorporate recent advances in the literature to investigate the partial and general equilibrium effects of GAFTA. ... -
The Partial and General Equilibrium Effects of the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement
( Taylor & Francis , 2021 , Article)The Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement (GAFTA) is a regional trade agreement among the Arab countries. We incorporate recent advances in the literature to investigate the partial and general equilibrium effects of GAFTA. ... -
Pass-through of import cost into consumer prices and inflation in GCC countries: Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags model
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper explores the asymmetric response of consumer prices to import costs using a nonlinear approach that investigates the long and the short run asymmetric pass-through. Quarterly data over the period of 1990-2014 ... -
Pedagogical potentials of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to higher educational institutions: A case study of Nigerian based University
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)The research on 'Pedagogical potentials of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to Nigerian based University' is an in depth study to evaluate the potentials of its implementation to the entire teaching and tutoring vertical in Nigerian ... -
Performance Of Tourism Destinations: Evidence From Tunisia
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2017 , Article)This study uses data envelopment analysis and a two-stage procedure to compare the performance of Tunisian tourism destinations and to examine the impact of investment (public and private), economic circumstances, workers ... -
Political tension and stock markets in the Arabian Peninsula
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2021 , Article)This note investigates the effects of the recent political tensions in the Arabian peninsula on the linkages between the stock markets of the leading Gulf Cooperation Council countries by estimating a VAR-GARCH(1,1) model ... -
Political tensions, stock market dependence and volatility spillover: Evidence from the recent intra-GCC crises
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)This study examines the impact of the two recent political and economic crises of March 2014 and June 2017 on the stock market dependence and volatility spillover between Qatar and the other GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, ... -
Political uncertainty and the choice of debt sources
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper studies the effect of political uncertainty on the choice of debt sources. We find a positive relationship between political uncertainty stemming from elections and the proportion of bank loans over total debts, ... -
Portfolio management and dependencies among precious metal markets: Evidence from a Copula quantile-on-quantile approach
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study examines the dependence structure among four major precious metal markets: gold, palladium, platinum, and silver. Using the novel Copula Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (C-QQR) approach of Sim (2016), we show ... -
The prediction of future cash flows based on operating cash flows, earnings and accruals in the French context
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study investigates the aptitudes of the cash-based and accrual-based accounting data for predicting future cash flows from operations in the French context. In addition, our paper aims to investigate the effect of the ... -
PREDICTIONS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC DYNAMICS IN UKRAINE AND QATAR BASED ON GENERALIZED SIR MODEL
( National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute , 2021 , Article)Background. To simulate how the number of COVID-19 cases increases versus time, various data sets and different mathematical models can be used. Since there are some differences in statistical data, the results of simulations ... -
The predictive ability of stock market factors
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to ask whether a range of stock market factors contain information that is useful to investors by generating a trading rule based on one-step-ahead forecasts from rolling and recursive regressions. ... -
Price and volatility spillovers between global equity, gold, and energy markets prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study sets out to provide fresh evidence on the dynamic interrelationships, at both return and volatility levels, between global equity, gold, and energy markets prior to and during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. ... -
Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets
( 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 ... -
The price-volume relationship in Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets
( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)This paper examines the empirical relationship among stock return, trading volume and volatility for the seven stock markets that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council. The dataset includes seven national stock markets for ... -
Public Versus Private Higher Education in Qatar: Quality, Returns and Matching to the Labor Market
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Education is the major driver of growth. Recently, special attention is being given to the mismatch between the education system and the skills required and needed by the labor market. The aim of the present research is ... -
Rational functions: an alternative approach to asset pricing
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This paper shows that asset prices are linear polynomials of various underlying explanatory factors and asset returns being ratios of these polynomials, are rational functions that do not add linearly when averaging. Hence, ... -
Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2014 , Article)This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which ... -
Regime-specific impact of financial reforms on economic growth in Pakistan
( 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 ...