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Does Financial Sector Promote Economic Growth in Pakistan? Empirical Evidences From Markov Switching Model
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2020 , Article)
This study investigates the financial development-economic growth relationship in Pakistan over the period 1975-2017 using the Markov Switching methodology. The financial development index has been constructed using the ...
Sukuk market development and Islamic banks’ capital ratios
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper investigates the impact of Sukuk market development on Islamic banks’ capital ratios using a sample comprising 230 Islamic banks spanning the period 2005–2014. We characterize Islamic bank capital along multiple ...
Does Blockade Deter Inbound Tourism? An Evidence from Qatar
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ssrn
, 2020 , Article)
While tourism research on Qatar has been growing, the area is still understudied with many untapped research opportunities. This research focuses on the impact of the blockade on international tourist arrivals to Qatar. ...
Scenario-Based Forecast for Post-Conflict’s Growth in Syria
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Economic Research Forum (ERF)
, 2020 , Working Paper)
This paper investigates the relationship between the main macroeconomic indicators, namely
real GDP, consumer prices and parallel market exchange rate in the Syrian economy during the
period 1990-2017. We provide a ...
Central banking and income inequality: The impact of monetary policy on income distribution
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Since the 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis, income inequality and income distribution matters have gained increasing attention not only in academia but also from professionals in advanced economies. Mainstream economists ...
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 ...
Funding liquidity risk and banks' risk-taking: Evidence from Islamic and conventional banks
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of funding liquidity risk on the risk-taking behaviour of Islamic and conventional banks. Using bank-level and country-level data from 18 countries over the period ...
Co-movement across european stock and real estate markets
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This study questions the reliability of securitized real estate investment trusts (REITs) for reducing risk in European stock investment portfolio during the global and European crisis periods. It considers co-movement and ...
The determinants of stock market index in Syria during the conflict period: Linear versus nonlinear approach
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Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
, 2020 , Article)
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the long and the short-rum impact of the macroeconomic variables on the stock market index in Syria during the period 2010:Q1 - 2017:Q4. In addition, this paper aims to investigate ...
Stock market dependence in crisis periods: Evidence from oil price shocks and the Qatar blockade
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper examines the correlation and the dependence patterns of the Qatar stock market with other markets using copula statistical theory and exploiting new datasets covering the period August 1998 to June 2018. To ...