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    • 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 ...

    • Cryptocurrencies and Finance Theories 

      Abdul Basith, Abdul Quddoos; Elgammal, Mohammed M; Abuzayed, Bana ( Universiti Teknologi MARA. , 2021 , Article)
      Cryptocurrency (CCY) as a new key player in the currency system that has drawn the attention of scholars to examine its influence, relations and the opportunities that it may provide. However, a financial theoretical ...

    • Currency risk and microcredit interest rates 

      Al-Azzam, Moh'd; Mimouni, Karim ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Foreign currency debt provides additional access to capital and offers funds in favorable and flexible terms to microfinance institutions (MFIs). Yet, we find that the use of foreign currency debt, on average, leads to ...

    • Debt maturity, financial crisis and corporate performance in GCC countries: A dynamic-GMM approach 

      Zeitun, Rami; Haq, Munshi Masudul ( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)
      This study investigates the effect of debt financing and debt maturity on corporate performance, using evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC): Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab ...

    • Decomposed oil price shocks and GCC stock market sector returns and volatility 

      Nedal, Al-Fayoumi; Bouri, Elie; Abuzayed, Bana ( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Article)
      This study investigates dynamic mean and tail-based connectedness between decomposed oil price shocks (demand shock, supply shock, and risk shock) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock returns and volatility at the ...

    • Democracy and Banking Stability: Is the Relationship U-Shaped? 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Ben Mim, Sami ( Springer , 2022 , Article)
      This study addresses the impact of democracy on the stability of the banking system for a sample of 114 countries over the period 2000-2017. Our findings offer strong evidence for a U-shaped relationship between democracy ...

    • Destination Competitiveness: The Perceptions of Foreign Tourists Visiting Qatar 

      Saleh, Ali Salman; Alsowaidi, Saif; Saha, Shrabani; Yap, Ghialy ( ssrn , 2021 , Article)
      This paper aims to develop an evidence-based integrated model for destination competitiveness and apply it to the case of Qatar, such that it could be used to identify relevant determinants and rank their contributions to ...