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Civil Conflict, Cash Transfers, and Child Nutrition in Yemen
(2021 , Article)
The most dramatic outcomes of protracted civil conflict include increased malnutrition among children and the resulting consequences for lifelong health and prosperity. Little is known about how to mitigate the nutritional ...
On the safe-haven and hedging properties of Bitcoin: new evidence from COVID-19 pandemic
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Emerald Publishing
, 2022 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the safe-haven and hedging properties of Bitcoin against a wide variety of conventional assets before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodolog ...
Short- and long-run asymmetric effect of oil prices and oil and gas revenues on the real GDP and economic diversification in oil-dependent economy
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to explore the short- and long-run asymmetric impact of oil prices shocks and oil and gas revenues changes on the total real GDP, and the level of economic diversification of the Qatar economy. To ...
Does ICT promote democracy similarily in developed and developing countries? A linear and nonlinear panel threshold framework
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper assesses the impact of ICT adoption on democracy for a panel of 70 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider two different measures of ICT and check for the stability of the relationship for different ...
Harnessing cross-region disparities to assess the impact of tourism on regional growth in Europe
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article)
We use regional data across 27 European countries and look into the effect of tourist arrivals on regional growth during 2000–2017. The research is set in an augmented Solow model estimated via a rich and flexible empirical ...
Pass-through of import cost into consumer prices and inflation in GCC countries: Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags model
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper explores the asymmetric response of consumer prices to import costs using a nonlinear approach that investigates the long and the short run asymmetric pass-through. Quarterly data over the period of 1990-2014 ...
The impact of ownership structure and corporate governance on capital structure decisions in the UAE
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2022 , Article)
This paper investigates how ownership and corporate governance influence the capital structure decisions within an emerging market context, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 2008 to 2019. We employ panel models ...
Asymmetric pass through of energy commodities to US sectoral returns
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
The influence of the international energy market on different economic aspects has increased significantly, especially after an escalation in the financialization of the energy market. Likewise following this trend, the ...
Co-explosivity versus leading effects: Evidence from crude oil and agricultural commodities
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Unlike previous studies investigating the interdependence and co-movements between different commodity prices, this paper examined the co-explosivity versus leading effects between the Brent oil prices and agricultural ...
A new perspective on the linkages between tourism demand and business cycles
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2022 , Article)
Business cycles, that is, the irregular fluctuations in economic activity,affect tourism demand—this is a stylized fact in tourism research. And itis well-founded. After all, as incomes rise, so does the consumption ofgoods ...