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Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book)Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ... -
Economic Policies and the Possibilities of Unified GCC Currency
( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)The aim of this study is to identify the extent to which the GCC countries can adopt similar economic policies by the time the GCC unified currency is formed in 2010. Among other convergence standards, we examined the ... -
Effect of aggregate, mandatory and voluntary disclosure on firm performance in a developing market: The case of Kuwait
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2018 , Article)This paper examines the relationship between corporate disclosure and firm performance for the case of listed companies in the Kuwait Stock Exchanges (KSE). Our sample contains 51 non-financial firms that represent 42% of ... -
The effect of political risk and corporate governance on bank stability in the MENA region: Did the Arab Spring uprisings matter?
( Cogent OA , 2023 , Article)This study examines the impact of political risk and corporate governance mechanisms (CGM) on bank stability. The research problem was addressed using a sample of 954 bank-year observations from 14 Middle East and North ... -
Effects of board and ownership structure on corporate performance: Evidence from GCC countries
( emerald insight , 2014 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure and board composition on bank performance as measured by Tobin's Q and market to book value in Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) countries. ... -
The effects of food affordability on life expectancy in emerging countries
( John Wiley and Sons , 2024 , Article)The relationship between food prices and life expectancy in emerging countries has significant implications for public health and socioeconomic development in these regions. This study examines this relationship using a ... -
Effects of pro-growth policies on employment: evidence of regional disparities
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)The main objective of our research is to study the direct impact of pro-growth economic policies on employment creation globally and regionally, as evidence has countered policy-makers’ expectation that output growth leads ... -
Empirical evidence on the long and short run determinants of health expenditure in the Arab world
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This paper empirically examines the determinants of health care spending for 18 Arab world countries for the period 1995–2015 by using recently developed panel cointegration techniques. We conducted the same estimations ... -
An empirical investigation of trade flows between Australia and its major trading partners
( University of Wollongong , 2014 , Article)This study introduces Net Export (NX) models to examine the determinants of the trade flows between Australia and eight selected trading partner (TP) countries (China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United ... -
Employee welfare and stock price crash risk
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)We examine whether employee welfare practices are associated with future stock price crash risk. Two competing hypotheses were tested: the stakeholder theory hypothesis & the agency theory hypothesis. According to the ... -
Energy Demand Estimation and Forecasting in Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference)The economic theory provides a rationale for linking the energy demand to a number of variables that might affect it. Starting from that, the empirical analyses specify a number of alternative specifications of the energy ... -
Enhancing the export activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine a conceptual integrated framework for small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) export performance that comprises all potential export determinants and inhibitors. This study also ... -
Entrepreneurship and genetics: New Evidence
( Elsevier Inc , 2019 , Article)This paper seeks to better understand the differences in entrepreneurship rates across administrative regions and countries. Using several measures of entrepeneurship, as well as regional and panel data of countries, it ... -
Entrepreneurship Education: A Global Consideration From Practice to Policy Around the World
( Qatar Foundation , 2015 , Report)As entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum and visibility as an engine of global economic development, it is critical to understand and optimize the role that entrepreneurship education plays. Based on a detailed ... -
Environment Degradation and Economic Growth in the Qatar Economy: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference)Air pollution, global greenhouse gases (GHG), water pollution and water resources degradation are among the most serious environmental concerns that encounter the Qatar country. In nowadays, it is commonly known that the ... -
Evaluating the lending channel of monetary transmission in Qatar
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2017 , Conference)This study uses OLS, fixed effect and random effect models to evaluate the lending channel of the monetary policy transmission in Qatar over the 2000-2013 period. The growth in the loans extended by the Qatari banks is ... -
Evaluating the riskiness of the banking sector of Jordan
(2012 , Article)This study employs panel data analysis that controls for bank specific variables to evaluate the systematic, non-systematic and total risk of the banking sector of Jordan over the period 2001-2009. The total risk is measured ... -
Evidence of adverse selection in automobile insurance market: A seemingly unrelated probit modelling
( Cogent OA , 2017 , Article)The present paper investigates the adverse selection problem by examining the relationship between accident occurrences and deductible choice utilizing a seemingly unrelated probit model that allows for best controls for ... -
Evolving efficiency of spot and futures energy markets: A rolling sample approach
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we examine the weak-form efficient market hypothesis of energy markets by testing the random walk behavior of spot and futures prices. We contribute to the financial market efficiency literature by investigating ... -
Examining pecking order versus trade-off theories of capital structure: New evidence from Japanese firms
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study empirically tests the traditional trade-off model against the pecking order model of capital structure using data from the Japanese listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A pooled sample of 1,362 publicly ...
