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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, ...
Risk factors of road accident severity and the development of a new system for prevention: New insights from China
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Road accident fatalities and accident severity costs have become top priorities and concerns for Chinese policymakers. Understanding the principal factors that explain accident severity is considered to be the first step ...
Asymmetric impacts of insurance premiums on the non-oil GDP: some new empirical evidence
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Routledge
, 2020 , Article)
In this paper, we study the influence of insurance premium on the non-oil gross domestic product in Saudi Arabia. We implement the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags. The results show that the relationships between ...
Internet use and insurance growth: evidence from a panel of OECD countries
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This empirical study aimed to investigate the effect of internet use on the demand for insurance using a sample of OECD countries during the period from 2007 to 2017. We employed a battery of panel data models, taking into ...
Key determinants of SMEs’ export performance: a resource-based view and contingency theory approach using potential mediators
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Emerald Publishing Limited
, 2020 , Article)
Purpose: Various barriers discourage small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from entering or expanding their export activities in the international markets, especially SMEs in emerging markets. The purpose of this study ...
Dynamic volatility transmission and portfolio management across major cryptocurrencies: Evidence from hourly data
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This study used hourly data to examine the dynamic conditional correlations and hedging strategies in the main cryptocurrency markets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP). Multivariate generalized ...
The Islamic Rate of Return Versus the Nominal Rate of Interest: A Macroeconometric Model
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
This paper investigates the question of “will the replacement of the nominal interest rate by the expected Islamic real rate of return have positive consequences on the macroeconomic performance?” The study adopts a dynamic ...
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 ...
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 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 ...