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    • 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 ...

    • Corruption, lending and bank performance 

      Abuzayed, Bana; Ben Ammar, Mouldi; Molyneux, Philip; Al-Fayoumi, Nedal ( American University of Sharjah , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link between corruption, lending and bank performance. It considers both country- and bank-level corruption. The study finds ...

    • Corruption, lending and bank performance 

      Ben Ammar, Mouldi; Molyneux, Philip; Al-Fayoumi, Nedal ( Elsevier Inc. , 2024 , Article)
      This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link between corruption, lending and bank performance. It considers both country- and bank-level corruption. The study finds ...

    • The cost of financial intermediation in the banking sector of Jordan 

      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, ...

    • Cost-efficiency and financial and geographical characteristics of banking sectors in the MENA countries 

      Al-Jarrah, Idries M.; Al-Abdulqader, Khalid S.; Hammoudeh, Shawkat ( Routledge , 2017 , Article)
      We utilize the translog stochastic frontier model to estimate the cost-efficiency levels for conventional and Islamic, Cooperation Council (GCC) and non-GCC banks in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. The ...

    • COVID-19, cryptocurrencies bubbles and digital market efficiency: sensitivity and similarity analysis 

      Montasser, Ghassen El; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Benhamed, Adel ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      This paper compares the degree of cryptocurrency market efficiency during the pre- and post COVID-19 pandemic with the bubble and non-bubble periods of cryptocurrency markets. Furthermore, it examines and clusters eighteen ...

    • Credit bureaus and financial constraints do corruption matter? 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Siddy Diallo, Boubacar ( Routledge , 2022 , Article)
      This study aims to assess whether or not the presence of credit bureaus is associated with more or fewer financing constraints while considering the interfering effect of corruption in a sample of 18 countries in Eastern ...

    • Credit bureaus, corruption and banking stability 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      This study assesses the impact that credit bureaus can have on the occurrence of banking crises, using data for 32 countries over the period 2004-2016 while considering the interference effect of corruption. Different ...

    • Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers 

      Mohamed, Toka S.; Elgammal, Mohammed M. ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Using international data, we find that Islamic MFIs experience reduced credit risk by offering more groups loans, serving more women, and serving more borrowers in rural locations. Conventional MFIs benefit from fewer group ...

    • The Credit–Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries 

      Seifallah, Sassi; Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( John Wiley & Sons Ltd. , 2014 , Article)
      The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between credit market development and economic growth for a heterogeneous panel of 20 developing and developed countries with varied growth experiences. The empirical ...