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The effects of financial inclusion and the business environment in spurring the creation of early-stage firms and supporting established firms
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This study investigates the role of financial inclusion and the institutional environment in promoting entrepreneurship. Using the panel vector autoregressive model for a sample of 43 countries over the period from 2001 ...
Conventional and Islamic Banks' Performance in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries; Efficiency and Determinants
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Springer
, 2019 , Article)
This paper investigates the cost efficiency levels of the banking sectors of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for the period from 2001 to 2015 and provides a comparison of conventional and Islamic banks. We ...
What determines the dependence between stock markets - crisis or financial and economic fundamentals?
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This paper investigates the economic and financial fundamentals that determine the dynamic linkage between Qatar and a set of selected international stock markets. To this end, we used different dynamic copula constructions ...
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, ...
Trade liberalization and relative employment: further evidence from Tunisia
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
There are increasing studies that address the skill upgrading in developing countries. The theoretical analyses yield different results about which factors affect skill upgrading. The impact of trade openness and technology ...
Asymmetric impacts of foreign exchange rate on the demand for money in Turkey: new evidence from nonlinear ARDL
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
Using the nonlinear ARDL bounds test for cointegration, this empirical study explores the long and the short run asymmetric impact of exchange rate shocks on the demand for money in Turkey from 1986:Q1 to 2014:Q4. Two ...
Currency risk and microcredit interest rates
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Foreign currency debt provides additional access to capital and offers funds in favorable and flexible terms to microfinance institutions (MFIs). Yet, we find that the use of foreign currency debt, on average, leads to ...
Hedging UK stock portfolios with gold and oil: The impact of Brexit
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic co-movements and portfolio management strategies between UK stock indices (aggregate market index and sector indices) and each of gold and crude oil futures markets, during ...
Fashion model profiles: the intersection of self, ideal and preferred
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how young female fashion consumers assessed the facial attractiveness of an advertising model. The study focused on the consumers exposed to both local and foreign fashion ...
Bank efficiency and industry growth during financial crises
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Financial crises pose many problems for growth, and in this time of increasing financial instability it is important to fully understand why this happens. Many papers have analyzed the relationship between growth and a ...