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How does the tax status of a country impact capital structure? Evidence from the GCC region
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
We investigate whether the tax status of a country has an impact on corporate capital structure. This research question is important and timely given that the empirical literature has not reached a consensus on the effect ...
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 ...
Do oil producing countries offer international diversification benefits? Evidence from GCC countries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper provides evidence of the existence of diversification benefits in international stock markets when oil producing countries are included in a global portfolio. Moreover, it examines whether recent oil shocks 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 ...
Diversification and bank stability in the GCC
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This study examines bank diversification strategies and links to financial sector stability. Using a sample of listed and unlisted banks operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over 2001 to 2014 we ...
Rational functions: an alternative approach to asset pricing
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This paper shows that asset prices are linear polynomials of various underlying explanatory factors and asset returns being ratios of these polynomials, are rational functions that do not add linearly when averaging. Hence, ...
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 ...
Japanese Multinational Corporations and Corporate Tax Change
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Inderscience
, 2021 , Article)
This paper examines the impact of the recent changes in Japanese taxation polices before and after the shift from a global taxation system to a territorial taxation system in 2009 on the income shifting activities of ...
Corruption and public spending on education and health
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
Existing country and regional studies show that the effect of corruption on public spending on health and education is mixed. This letter reveals that the effect of corruption on health and education spending is significant ...
Investigating the dynamic relationship between cryptocurrencies and conventional assets: Implications for financial investors
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Cryptocurrencies are gradually establishing themselves as a new class of assets with unique features, although there remains skepticism and a lack of understanding of their nature. In this study, we compare the financial ...