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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 ... -
The influence of CEO departure and board characteristics on firm performance
( CLUTE Institute , 2015 , Article)This paper uses panel data from 271 U.S. firms to empirically examine the relationship between the departure of a firm's CEO and that firm's performance. Results of our analysis reveal a significant relationship between ... -
The elasticity of patent activities with respect to R&D-performing sectors: An empirical study on high-income OECD countries
( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Conference Paper)This study examines the impact of R&D performing sectors, business, higher education, and government, on patent activities in 14 high income OECD countries using dynamic panel data model. In addition, the paper investigates ... -
Pedagogical potentials of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to higher educational institutions: A case study of Nigerian based University
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)The research on 'Pedagogical potentials of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to Nigerian based University' is an in depth study to evaluate the potentials of its implementation to the entire teaching and tutoring vertical in Nigerian ... -
Does corruption impede international trade? New evidence from the EU and the MENA countries
( Statistical Economic and Social Research and , 2015 , Article)This paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the effect of corruption on bilateral trade for a sample of 37 countries representing two regions: the Middle East and North Africa and the European Union during the period ... -
THE LEVERAGE EFFECT ON THE VALUE PREMIUM VOLATILITY: FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
( Qatar University , 2015 , Article)This paper investigates the leverage effect on the value premium volatility using GARCH and TARCH models utilizing a unique dataset, for twenty nine countries. The findings show that value premium returns are bigger in ... -
The resilience of oil-rich economies to the global financial crisis: Evidence from Kuwaiti financial and real sectors
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This article investigates the resilience of oil-rich economies to the recent global financial crisis, with a particular emphasis on Kuwait as a case study. We explore how the crisis affected the market power of banks and, ... -
IT outsourcing intent in academic institutions in GCC countries: An empirical investigation and multi-criteria decision model for vendor selection
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to understand the reasons behind the intent for information technology (IT) outsourcing in academic institutions in GCC countries. It also aims to develop a multi-criteria decision ... -
Exploring digitally enabled service transformation in the public sector: Would institutional and structuration theory concepts keep the research talking ?
( IGI Global , 2016 , Article)Digitally Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) in the Public Sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Albeit complicating the deployment ... -
Breaks or long range dependence in the energy futures volatility: Out-of-sample forecasting and VaR analysis
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)The aim of this paper is to propose an empirical strategy that allows the discrimination between true and spurious long memory behaviors. That strategy is based on the comparison between the estimated long memory parameter ... -
Time varying market efficiency of the GCC stock markets
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)This paper investigates the time-varying levels of weak-form market efficiency for the GCC stock markets over the period spanning from May 2005 to September 2013. We use two empirical approaches: (1) the generalized ... -
Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Economic growth is an increase in the productive capacity of an economy. The productive capacity can be increased by an increase in factors of production, such as capital, labor, or the level of technology. Economic growth ... -
Corruption and Economic Development
( 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 ... -
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Despite the global liberalization of trade, financial and technological flows, there still are tremendous disparities in terms of income per capita and growth rates across countries (Hall and Jones, 1999). Among the plethora ... -
FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ... -
Remittances, institutions and economic growth: A closer look at some proxies for institutions
( Economics Bulletin , 2016 , Article)This paper re-examines the relationship between remittances and economic growth by giving a closer look at the role of institutions. Using data on 55 developing countries over the period 1991-2011 and estimates from empirical ... -
Further evidence on the rationality of interest rate expectations: A comprehensive study of developed and emerging economies
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This study performs unbiasedness and efficiency tests of three-month and twelve-month ahead interest rate forecasts of one short-term and one long-term security of 10 developed and 20 emerging economies by exploiting a new ... -
Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Examination of the growth phases in developed and in developing countries and their involvement in international trade shows the importance of trade policies in these countries. In recent decades, many developing countries ... -
Testing the risk-return tradeoff in the emerging market of Jordan: What role for financial crises?
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)This study investigates the risk-return relationship at sector level in the emerging market of Jordan (ASE) over the period 1999-2014. The results of an unconditional test with a structural breakpoint show that the ... -
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 ...
