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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 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 renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This study explores the economic growth – energy consumption nexus for two samples of MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs) during the period 1980–2012. Using panel cointegration approach, we found strong evidence for ... -
Impact of renewable energy consumption and financial development on CO2 emissions and economic growth in the MENA region: A panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)Unlike previous studies in the energy-environment literature, this study employed the panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model that was developed by Love and Zicchino [1] to examine the impact of renewable energy and ... -
Impact of terrorist attacks on stock market volatility in emerging markets
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)We use an event study methodology alongside an improved bootstrapping test to evaluate the impact of terrorist attacks on the volatility of stock markets in 12 MENA countries, and test for regional financial integration. ... -
Improving management of future coastal development in Qatar through ecosystem-based management approaches
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article Review)The coastline of Qatar is a rich mosaic of productive and diverse ecosystems including mangrove forests, intertidal mudflats (sabkha), seagrass beds, and coral reefs. These ecologically interconnected ecosystems contain a ... -
Individual water consumption behavior in relation to urban residential dynamics: The Case of Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2021 , Article)The purpose of this study was to analyze different human behavioral components and the data collected from several households regarding their water consumption to fathom public demeanor better and underscore the need for ... -
Industrialization, FDI and absorptive capacities: evidence from African Countries
( Springer , 2022 , Article)This paper assesses the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the industrialization of African economies. In particular, we address the nonlinearity issue and investigate the role of the recipient countries' absorptive ... -
Innovations and Hotel Performance in the Aftermath Announcement of Qatar Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup
( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2022 , Article)This article explores innovation processes in tourism within the context of Qatar Hotel sector. A theoretical framework, drawing on the existing literature, is developed to analyze innovation- performance relationships. ... -
Interbank offered rates in Islamic countries: Is the Islamic benchmark different from the conventional benchmarks?
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Motivated by the size and the growth of the global Islamic financial services industry, 17 Islamic Banks in six Islamic countries, in conjunction with Thompson Reuters, developed an Islamic Interbank Benchmark Rate (IIBR, ... -
Internet use and insurance growth: evidence from a panel of OECD countries
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This empirical study aimed to investigate the effect of internet use on the demand for insurance using a sample of OECD countries during the period from 2007 to 2017. We employed a battery of panel data models, taking into ... -
Investigating the dynamic relationship between cryptocurrencies and conventional assets: Implications for financial investors
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Cryptocurrencies are gradually establishing themselves as a new class of assets with unique features, although there remains skepticism and a lack of understanding of their nature. In this study, we compare the financial ... -
Is Economic Growth Really Jobless? Empirical Evidence from North Africa
( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2019 , Article)North African countries recorded the highest youth unemployment rate in the World during the latest years. The main causes for that situation continue to be at the forefront of the debate among economists, sociologists and ... -
Is exchange rate risk priced in microfinance?
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)High microcredit interest rates have often been a source of criticism against the microfinance movement. Research has focused attention on the cost structure of interest rates and more recently on the macroeconomic and ...
