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Resilience in the time of COVID-19: Lessons learned from Middle East and North Africa small- and medium-sized enterprises
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John Wiley & Sons
, 2023 , Article)
We investigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Using firm-level panel data from an enterprise survey, we highlight several new findings. ...
Price and volatility spillovers between global equity, gold, and energy markets prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
This study sets out to provide fresh evidence on the dynamic interrelationships, at both return and volatility levels, between global equity, gold, and energy markets prior to and during the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. ...
Why Gulf Rentier Economies Must Pursue Economic Diversification
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Springer
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Within the mandate of their national visions, GCC countries have announced several strategies to expand their manufacturing, tourism and financial activities (economic diversification). However, the path towards the ultimate ...
The impact of Twitter-based sentiment on US sectoral returns
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper scrutinizes the effect of Twitter-based sentiment on US sectoral returns using data from between 21 June 2010 and 13 April 2020. We apply causality in quantiles as a non-parametric measure, followed by a rolling ...
The simplified tax regime for micro and small enterprises in Egypt: An analysis of the theoretical and implementation issues
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Informit
, 2021 , Article)
Unlike previous studies focusing on the tax regimes of small and medium enterprises ('SMEs'), this article examines and analyses simplified tax regimes for micro, small and medium enterprises ('MSMEs'). Very recently, a ...
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM AT REGIONAL LEVEL: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
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Cognizant Communication Corporation
, 2023 , Article Review)
We undertake a systematic literature review that looks at the economic effects of tourism at subnational levels. This review, the first of its kind to our knowledge, is timely in view of the growing body of research ...
The impact of macroeconomic variables (MEV) on the stock market returns in MENA countries
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2022 , Article)
The study analyses the effect of macroeconomic variables (MEV) on stock returns in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. MEV refers to the monetary and fiscal policy variables besides economic policy uncertainty ...
The impact of terrorism and institutional quality on cost of debt: an analysis on developing countries
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2023 , Article)
This study examines the impact of terrorism and institutional quality on the cost of debt. Considering all observed incidents in 35 countries over the period 1998-2019. Our main finding is that terrorist activity has a ...
Work-from-home, electricity, and water: Evidence from COVID-19 in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Working from home will be key to mitigating harms from future pandemics and has also been proposed as a way to curtail emissions from commuting. This paper exploits a work-from-home order in Qatar to investigate the impacts ...
Volatility Interdependence Between Cryptocurrencies, Equity, and Bond Markets
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Springer
, 2024 , Article)
This paper investigates (i) the return-volatility spillover between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin, (ii) the interdependence between cryptocurrencies' volatility and the US equity and bond markets' volatility, and ...