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The Impact of Foreign Agricultural Aid and Total Foreign Aid on Agricultural Output in African Countries: New Evidence from Panel Data Analysis
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Official Development Assistance may play an important role in increasing the resources to finance the agriculture sector and improve agricultural outcomes in African countries. Although this is a relevant issue, very few ...
Effects of pro-growth policies on employment: evidence of regional disparities
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
The main objective of our research is to study the direct impact of pro-growth economic policies on employment creation globally and regionally, as evidence has countered policy-makers’ expectation that output growth leads ...
The Dynamic and Dependence of Takaful and Conventional Stock Return Behaviours: Evidence from the Insurance Industry in Saudi Arabia
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Springer New York LLC
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates the dynamics of volatility in the stock market using competing univariate GARCH specifications. Moreover, it provides a study of the pairwise correlation pattern of stock returns for a wide range ...
Examining pecking order versus trade-off theories of capital structure: New evidence from Japanese firms
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This study empirically tests the traditional trade-off model against the pecking order model of capital structure using data from the Japanese listed companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. A pooled sample of 1,362 publicly ...
Cost-efficiency and financial and geographical characteristics of banking sectors in the MENA countries
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
We utilize the translog stochastic frontier model to estimate the cost-efficiency levels for conventional and Islamic, Cooperation Council (GCC) and non-GCC banks in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. The ...
Bank concentration and schumpeterian growth: Theory and international evidence
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MIT Press Journals
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and bank concentration.We introduce imperfect competition within the banking system according to the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, and we theoretically and ...
Political tensions, stock market dependence and volatility spillover: Evidence from the recent intra-GCC crises
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
This study examines the impact of the two recent political and economic crises of March 2014 and June 2017 on the stock market dependence and volatility spillover between Qatar and the other GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, ...
The Determinants of Sukuk Market Development
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
The objective of this article is to empirically investigate the structural, financial, developmental, institutional, and macroeconomic determinants of Sukuk market development for a sample of 13 countries over the period ...
The impact of government spending on non-oil-GDP in Saudi Arabia (multiplier analysis)
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
This paper examines the multiplier effect of Government spending on the non-oil Saudi Arabia economic growth. We focus on non-oil GDP rather than total GDP because activity in the oil sector is mainly determined by ...
The Impact of Market-wide Volatility on Time-varying Risk: Evidence from Qatar Stock Exchange
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Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This study examines the impact of market-wide volatility on time-varying risk using the heteroscedastic market model with EGARCH (1,1) specification. Using daily sector returns from the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) market ...