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GCC Hydrocarbon Economies and COVID: Old Trends, New Realities
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book)The book considers the impact of COVID-19 on the GCC member states through the prism of challenges faced by their hydrocarbon sector. Yet, the publication's discourse is not solely focused on the problems experienced by ... -
Gender effects for loss aversion: Yes, no, maybe?
( Springer , 2019 , Article)Gender effects in risk taking have attracted much attention by economists, and remain debated. Loss aversion—the stylized finding that a given loss carries substantially greater weight than a monetarily equivalent gain—is ... -
Global financial crisis, ownership structure and firm financial performance: An examination of listed firms in Australia
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2017 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the financial performance of listed firms on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) over two sample periods (1998-2007 and 2008-2010) before and during the global financial crisis ... -
Globalization and obesity in the GCC countries
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have some of the highest obesity rates in the world. At the same time, the GCC countries have become increasingly integrated in the global economy as they attempt to diversify ... -
Governance and long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms in Australia
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms from the agency theoretic perspective. The analysis is focused on investigating ... -
Government debt and stock price crash risk: International Evidence
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We add to the literature on the economic outcomes of government debt and argue that government debt increases crash risk via two channels: (i) hoarding bad news and (ii) tax avoidance. Based on a large international sample, ... -
Government ownership, business risk, financial leverage and corporate performance: Evidence from gcc countries
( Virtus Interpress , 2012 , Article)This study investigates the effect of government ownership structure, business risk and financial leverage among other variables (size, age and growth) on a company’s performance in a panel data, using 191 companies from ... -
Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2012 , Article)Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ... -
Green bonds’ connectedness with hedging and conditional diversification performance
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)Investments in green assets are becoming increasingly significant, and they present a new asset class for investors. Consequently, the resulting connectedness among these green assets has implications for investments. Our ... -
Harnessing cross-region disparities to assess the impact of tourism on regional growth in Europe
( Taylor & Francis , 2020 , Article)We use regional data across 27 European countries and look into the effect of tourist arrivals on regional growth during 2000–2017. The research is set in an augmented Solow model estimated via a rich and flexible empirical ... -
Hedging UK stock portfolios with gold and oil: The impact of Brexit
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic co-movements and portfolio management strategies between UK stock indices (aggregate market index and sector indices) and each of gold and crude oil futures markets, during ... -
How Do Bank Features and Global Crises Affect Scale Economies? Evidence from the Banking Sectors of Oil-Rich GCC Emerging Markets
( Routledge , 2021 , Article)This study investigates the types of scale economies (SE) for the exchange-listed banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the 2000-2016 period, using the stochastic frontier for modeling banking technology ... -
How does corruption undermine banking stability? A threshold nonlinear framework
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study assesses the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crises for a sample of 38 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might ... -
How does the tax status of a country impact capital structure? Evidence from the GCC region
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)We investigate whether the tax status of a country has an impact on corporate capital structure. This research question is important and timely given that the empirical literature has not reached a consensus on the effect ... -
How News affects Stock Prices of Olympics and FIFA host countries
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)As the sports industry continues to grow, mega sports events can have a significant impact on the financial markets. Stock market performance is influenced by sports-related news, however, very few studies have been ... -
The impact of business and political news on the GCC stock markets
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of business and political news on stock market returns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. For this purpose, it employs a Markov switching model including a separate index ... -
Impact of financial literacy, perceived access to finance, ICT use, and digitization on credit constraints: evidence from Qatari MSME importers
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)This study investigates the role of financial literacy (FL), perceived access to finance (PAF), information communication technology (ICT) usage, and digitization in alleviating the level of credit constraint that micro, ... -
Impact of global health crisis and oil price shocks on stock markets in the GCC
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This study examines the impact of global COVID-19 cases and oil price shocks on the stock markets in the GCC. Using the Kalman filter to generate the unexpected oil price shocks, we find that, with the exception of Oman, ... -
The impact of government policies on FDI decision of multinational corporations: an application to the Vietnamese service industry
( Inder science Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)There has been an upsurge in competition amongst Asian countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) resulting in higher government incentives given by the host countries. Whereas most of the empirical studies ... -
Impact of ICTs Diffusion on Environmental Quality in Qatar
( Qatar University , 2019 , Other)Climate change, global warming and environmental degradation in general have been some of humanity’s greatest challenges and there is no doubt about their threatening effects on human life quality, health, and the ...