Browsing Finance & Economics by Publisher "Elsevier Ltd"
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A comparative analysis of flipped, online and traditional teaching: A case of female Middle Eastern management students
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study compares performance and perception of students in a management course at a business school in the Middle East. 122 students completed an Introduction to Management course, which was divided into three different ... -
A new theoretical framework to assess Multinational Corporations' motivation for Foreign Direct Investment: A case study on Vietnamese service industries
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Purpose This paper develops a new theoretical framework, based on eclectic paradigm and institution theory, to evaluate Multinational Corporations' (MNCs') incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The new framework ... -
Corruption in Africa: What role does ICT diffusion play
( 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 ... -
Diversification and bank stability in the GCC
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study examines bank diversification strategies and links to financial sector stability. Using a sample of listed and unlisted banks operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over 2001 to 2014 we ... -
Does sukuk market development spur economic growth?
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)We investigate the impact of sukuk market development on economic growth using a sample comprising all sukuk-issuing countries spanning the period 1995-2015. We use the system GMM estimator to tackle potential omitted ... -
Downpayment, mobility and default: A welfare analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)In this paper, I study the impact of the relaxation of downpayment requirements on home-ownership and default risk in the context of a static spatial life cycle model. Given its quantitative success in matching the U.S. ... -
Financial development and environmental quality in UAE: Cointegration with structural breaks
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article Review)This study extends the recent work of Shahbaz et al. (2014) by implementing recent unit root tests with multiple structural breaks and regime-switching cointegration techniques considering for one and two unknown regime ... -
Green bonds’ connectedness with hedging and conditional diversification performance
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)Investments in green assets are becoming increasingly significant, and they present a new asset class for investors. Consequently, the resulting connectedness among these green assets has implications for investments. Our ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Is it possible to improve environmental quality without reducing economic growth: Evidence from the Qatar economy
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article Review)In line with the priorities of the Qatar national vision (QNV) 2030 and its principal pillars, we examine in this paper the energy use - economic growth nexus for Qatar during the period 1970-2014. Using recent development ... -
Local growth and access to credit: Theory and evidence
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)We theoretically and empirically investigate the effects of access to credit on local growth using a Schumpeterian growth model and assuming monopolistic competition between differentiated products of the banking system. ... -
Modelling the symmetric and asymmetric relationships between oil prices and those of corn, barley, and rapeseed oil
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study, using linear and nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Models, investigates the dynamic linkages between oil prices and agricultural commodities. The results from the linear model show that barley, ... -
Modelling the treatment effect of renewable energy policies on economic growth: Evaluation from MENA countries
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)This paper investigates the effects of renewable energy (RE) policies on economic growth in MENA countries. Using the propensity score matching methodology, our empirical analysis, conducted on a sample of 24 economies (17 ... -
Portfolio management and dependencies among precious metal markets: Evidence from a Copula quantile-on-quantile approach
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study examines the dependence structure among four major precious metal markets: gold, palladium, platinum, and silver. Using the novel Copula Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (C-QQR) approach of Sim (2016), we show ... -
Shadow banking, insurance and financial sector stability
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Motivated by the recent financial crisis and the near collapse of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG), we empirically study the link between the insurance sector, the size of the shadow system and financial ... -
Socially responsible investing and Islamic funds: New perspectives for portfolio allocation
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of ethical and conventional investments. It examines also whether socially responsible and Islamic investments offer an additional opportunity for domestic investors ... -
The forward premium anomaly in the energy futures markets: A time-varying approach
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the forward premium anomaly by investigating possible statistical explanations for this puzzling phenomenon in the energy market. To this end, time series of spot and ... -
The impact of FIFA's official announcements on the stock market of Qatar: The case of the 2022 World Cup
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)This study examines the impact of the FIFA's official announcements on Doha Stock Exchange (DSE) of Qatar with respect to the 2022 World Cup. Using the abnormal unsystematic volatility method of Hilliard and Savickas (2002), ...