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Asymmetric impacts of insurance premiums on the non-oil GDP: some new empirical evidence
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Routledge
, 2020 , Article)
In this paper, we study the influence of insurance premium on the non-oil gross domestic product in Saudi Arabia. We implement the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags. The results show that the relationships between ...
Political uncertainty and the choice of debt sources
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper studies the effect of political uncertainty on the choice of debt sources. We find a positive relationship between political uncertainty stemming from elections and the proportion of bank loans over total debts, ...
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 ...
Internet use and insurance growth: evidence from a panel of OECD countries
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This empirical study aimed to investigate the effect of internet use on the demand for insurance using a sample of OECD countries during the period from 2007 to 2017. We employed a battery of panel data models, taking into ...
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 ...
How does corruption undermine banking stability? A threshold nonlinear framework
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This study assesses the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crises for a sample of 38 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might ...
On the complex relationship between different aspects of social capital and group loan repayment
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Do all aspects of social capital improve repayment behavior in group lending programs? The group lending literature typically uses one or few measures of social capital in a linear form, and systematically understates the ...
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 ...
Regional Growth, Domestic and Foreign Tourism in NUTS Regions: New Insights from the Old Continent
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SAGE
, 2020 , Article)
Using regional data encompassing 155 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions across the EU-28 member states, we estimate the effect of tourist arrivals (total, domestic, and foreign) on regional ...
The Islamic Rate of Return Versus the Nominal Rate of Interest: A Macroeconometric Model
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
This paper investigates the question of “will the replacement of the nominal interest rate by the expected Islamic real rate of return have positive consequences on the macroeconomic performance?” The study adopts a dynamic ...