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Asymmetric determinants of Bitcoin's wild price movements
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Emerald Publishing
, 2022 , Article)
Purpose: The present work endeavors to explore the potential nonlinear and asymmetric effects of supply fundamental properties of Bitcoin mining process (velocity, size and stock of Bitcoins, cost of production and mining ...
Online peer-to-peer lending: A review of the literature
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
This study reviews the literature of online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending from 2008 until 2020 as an emergent but fast spreading phenomenon in the context of digital finance. Previous literature is geographically skewed towards ...
Do economic downturns affect air pollution? Evidence from the global financial crisis
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
This paper investigates the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on CO2 emissions within the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis framework. Using a sample of 68 countries for the period 1960 to 2014, we unveil ...
Impact of U.S. presidential elections on stock markets’ volatility: Does incumbent president's party matter?
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of U.S. presidential elections on the volatility of stock market returns. We investigate two hypotheses that could explain election impact on stock market volatility, ...
Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: The Role of Financial Development
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Springer
, 2020 , Book chapter)
In this article, we examine the role of financial development as a channel through which migrants’ remittances
could affect economic growth in selected countries of the MENA region.
What are the drivers of inefficiency in the Gulf Cooperation Council banking industry? A comparison between conventional and Islamic banks
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper analyses the efficiency and productivity of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banks using an innovative nonparametric methodology that not only considers undesirable outputs but also determines the contribution ...
The impact of government expenditure on GDP in the State of Qatar: A nonlinear ARDL approach
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This study investigates the long run relationship between government expenditure and the GDP in the State of Qatar with a focus on the non-mining and quarrying GDP during the period 1980-2017 using the nonlinear autoregressive ...
The impact of technological change on new trade: Evidence from the container revolution
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
We estimate the impact of the container revolution on new trade in temperature-sensitive products. Our identification strategy is justified by a historical narrative suggesting that the containerization of bilateral trading ...
The prediction of future cash flows based on operating cash flows, earnings and accruals in the French context
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This study investigates the aptitudes of the cash-based and accrual-based accounting data for predicting future cash flows from operations in the French context. In addition, our paper aims to investigate the effect of the ...
Systemic risk for financial institutions in the major petroleum-based economies: The role of oil
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International Association for Energy Economics
, 2020 , Article)
We examine the relationship between oil returns and systemic risk of financial institutions in major petroleum-based economies. By estimating ΔCoVaR, we observe the presence of remarkable increases in risk levels during ...