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    • Co-movement across european stock and real estate markets 

      Abuzayed, Bana; Al-Fayoumi, Nedal; Bouri, Elie ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      This study questions the reliability of securitized real estate investment trusts (REITs) for reducing risk in European stock investment portfolio during the global and European crisis periods. It considers co-movement and ...

    • Comovement and spillover among energy markets: A Comparison across different crisis periods 

      Rehman, Mobeen Ur; Nautiyal, Neeraj; Ghardallou, Wafa; Vo, Xuan Vinh; Zeitun, Rami ( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Article)
      We compare the comovement and spillover between returns of six developed energy markets during different crisis periods using wavelet multiple correlation and wavelet multiple cross-correlation. The considered countries ...

    • A Comparative Study of Seigniorage: Egypt and Qatar 

      Awad, Ibrahim L. (2023 , Article)
      This study adopts the model of CB’s balance sheet and government budget identity developed by Klein & Neumann (1990) to investigate the question of “Will the effect of monetary seigniorage on CPI inflation and real GDP ...

    • Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence 

      Al-Azzam, Moh'd; Parmeter, Christopher ( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)
      The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...

    • Competition in the Jordanian's Banking Sector 

      Al-Jarrah, Idries M ( EuroJournals, Inc. , 2010 , Article)
      This study investigates the cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan over the 2001-2008 period. It assesses to what extent the relatively high and escalating bank interest margins, in this sector, ...

    • A competitive search approach to exchange rate pass-through 

      Mnasri, Ayman; Lapham, Beverly ( Springer Nature , 2023 , Article)
      We develop an open economy, search theoretic, monetary model with heterogeneous households which is characterized by incomplete pass-through of exchange rate movements to import price indices. Partial pass-through arises ...

    • Conditional dependence structure and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and fiat currencies 

      Mobeen Ur, Rehman; Katsiampa, Paraskevi; Zeitun, Rami; Vo, Xuan Vinh ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      This paper investigates the extreme dependence and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and the currencies of the BRICS and G7 economies. We find time-varying dependence between Bitcoin and all currencies. Moreover, when analysing ...

    • Connectedness of stock markets with gold and oil: New evidence from COVID-19 pandemic 

      Benlagha, Noureddine; El Omari, Salaheddine ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      This paper sets out to explore the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the dynamic connectedness among gold, oil and five leading stock markets by applying a new DCC-GARCH connectedness approach. We find stronger connectedness ...

    • Consumers' Perception and Attitudes Towards Safety of Fruits and Vegetables in Qatar 

      Haq, Munshi Masudul; Kaitibie, Simeon; Gotkepe, Ipek ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Qatar is well known for its natural resources and the country has the highest per capita income in the world, but when it comes to food, the picture is different. The country imports nearly 90% of its food, meaning it is ...

    • Contagion versus Interdependence: The Case of the BRIC Countries During the Subprime Crises 

      Zouhair, Mrabet; Lanouar, Charfeddine; Ajmi, Ahdi Noomen ( Elsevier , 2014 , Book chapter)
      This chapter contributes to the empirical finance literature on modeling co-movement in financial markets by considering the case of the BRIC countries during the subprime crises. To overcome the problem of the time-varying ...

    • Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya 

      Kairu-Wanyoike, S.W.; Kiara, H.; Heffernan, C.; Kaitibie, S.; Gitau, G.K.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      CBPP is an important transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa whose control is urgent. Participatory data collection involving 52 focus group discussions in 37 village clusters and key informant interviews, a cross-sectional ...

    • Conventional and Islamic Banks' Performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries; Efficiency and Determinants 

      Abid, Ihsen; Goaied, Mohamed; Ben Ammar, Mouldi ( Springer , 2019 , Article)
      This paper investigates the cost efficiency levels of the banking sectors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for the period from 2001 to 2015 and provides a comparison of conventional and Islamic banks. We ...

    • Core Tourism Resources and Destination Image for International Tourism 

      Ndubisi, Nelson Oly; Alsowaidi, Saif; Saha, Shrabani; Yap, Ghialy ( ssrn , 2021 , Article)
      This paper examines the effect of core destination resources, namely natural resources, heritage resources and created resources on destination image, and the moderating effects of customer value and destination satisfaction. ...

    • Corporate governance and capital structure: dynamic panel threshold analysis 

      Zeitun, Rami; Goaied, Mohamed ( Routledge , 2022 , Article)
      This paper examines the nonlinear connection between corporate governance (CG) and corporate leverage. Our study applied the dynamic panel threshold model (DPTM) to facilitate the capture of the nonlinear effect of CG on ...

    • Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada 

      Ghouma, Hatem; Ben-Nasr, Hamdi; Yan, Ruiqian ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      We explore the impact of the Globe and Mail corporate governance index on bond spreads in a sample of Canadian listed companies. The index is composed of four sub-indices—board composition/structure, board compensation, ...

    • Corporate governance, bank concentration and economic growth 

      Diallo, Boubacar ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      We examine the effects of bank concentration and corporate governance among firms in terms of economic growth using panel data for 34 countries and 29 manufacturing sectors over the period 1980-2010. We show the following ...

    • Corruption and Economic Development 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Saha, Shrabani ( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)
      Corruption is believed to be widespread and it adversely affects countries at different intervals, in different degrees. Corruption scandals show that bribes are commonplace and that even societies that are supposedly free ...

    • Corruption and Economic Development: New Evidence from the Middle Eastern and North African Countries 

      Saha, Shrabani; Ben Alib, Mohamed Sami ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      This paper analyses the role of economic development in curbing corruption by focusing on political and economic freedoms for a sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2013. In ...

    • Corruption and public spending on education and health 

      Swaleheen M.; Ben Ali M.S.; Temimi A. ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)
      Existing country and regional studies show that the effect of corruption on public spending on health and education is mixed. This letter reveals that the effect of corruption on health and education spending is significant ...

    • Corruption in Africa: What role does ICT diffusion play 

      Sassi, Seifallah; Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)
      This paper assesses the determinants of corruption in Africa and focuses on the effect of ICT diffusion on corruption. Using a sample of 47 African countries over the period from 1996 to 2014, empirical findings provide ...