Search
Now showing items 71-80 of 89
Breaking down the export barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises: Focus group study across Vietnam
(
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2021 , Article)
This paper attempts to empirically analyse the motivations and barriers among Vietnamese businesses in undertaking export activities. The study applies thematic analysis method and categorisations developed from extant ...
Does investment in insurance stocks reap diversification benefits? Static and time varying copula modeling
(
Bellwether Publishing, Ltd.
, 2021 , Article)
The present article investigates the presence of diversification benefits resulting from the dependence structure in stock returns of Islamic and conventional insurance. Our empirical design is based on the use of daily ...
Do labor remittance outflows retard economic growth in Qatar? Evidence from nonlinear cointegration
(
Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper explores the effects of remittance outflows on real GDP per capita in the Qatar economy. While few works investigated the impact of remittance outflows on economic growth for remitting countries, they did not ...
Systemic risk spillover across global and country stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic
(
Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Uncovering the tail risk spillover among global financial markets helps provide a more comprehensive understanding of the information transmission in extreme market conditions such as the COVID-19 outbreak. In this paper, ...
Tourism research for the GCC region: Current status and future research directions
(
SAGE Publications
, 2021 , Article Review)
Tourism in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has recently been considered by policymakers as a new avenue for economic diversification. Despite the considerable literature concerning the impact of tourism ...
Financial development and employment: New panel evidence
(
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
This paper adds to the recent literature on finance and employment creation by exploring the effect of finance on the labour market, using data on 143 countries from 1995 to 2015. We also examine whether the impact of ...
Financing new entrepreneurship: Credit or microcredit?
(
Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
Building on the theory of information asymmetry, we investigate the impact of conventional banking versus the impact of microfinance on new entrepreneurship. We use a panel dataset collected from 49 developing countries ...
Dividend policy and religion: International evidence from firms with Islamic Label
(
Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper builds on prior research and argues that religion, as an informal cultural institution, may impose constraints on corporations. The framework of Shariah-compliant firms presents a unique opportunity to investigate ...
Assessing the Impact of Major Political and Institutional Factors on New Businesses: The Case of Qatar
(
Springer
, 2022 , Book chapter)
This chapter provides an assessment of the impact of the major political and institutional factors on establishing new businesses in the State of Qatar in the long run using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. ...
Regional Growth, Domestic and Foreign Tourism in NUTS Regions: New Insights from the Old Continent
(
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 ...