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Reviewing the oil price-GDP growth relationship: A replication study
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper presents a thorough replication of Hamilton (2003) which in turn replicates and extends the findings of four seminal papers regarding the oil price-GDP growth relationship. Firstly, we replicate the empirical ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...