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Can remittances alleviate energy poverty in developing countries? New evidence from panel data
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Universal energy access in developing countries is a key ingredient to achieve sustainable economic growth and social welfare. Therefore, it is of paramount importance for policymakers to identify potential new factors to ...
Stock price crash risk and leverage dynamics: Evidence from the GCC countries
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
This paper examines the impact of stock price crash risk on capital structure dynamics using a sample of firms located in the GCC region. The results show that a higher exposure to stock price crash risk is associated with ...
A Comparative Study of Seigniorage: Egypt and Qatar
(2023 , Article)
This study adopts the model of CB’s balance sheet and government budget identity developed by Klein & Neumann (1990) to investigate the question of “Will the effect of monetary seigniorage on CPI inflation and real GDP ...
The Asymmetric Effects of Government Expenditure Shocks on Private Consumption: Evidence from Arab Resource-Rich Countries
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International Journal of Business & Economics
, 2022 , Article)
This paper aims to examine the asymmetric impact of government expenditure shocks on private consumption in Arab resource-rich countries, particularly the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), using the Nonlinear ARDL ...
Conditional dependence structure and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and fiat currencies
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
This paper investigates the extreme dependence and risk spillovers between Bitcoin and the currencies of the BRICS and G7 economies. We find time-varying dependence between Bitcoin and all currencies. Moreover, when analysing ...
The impact of Twitter-based sentiment on US sectoral returns
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper scrutinizes the effect of Twitter-based sentiment on US sectoral returns using data from between 21 June 2010 and 13 April 2020. We apply causality in quantiles as a non-parametric measure, followed by a rolling ...
Subsidies vs. deposits and cost inefficiency in microfinance
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
Lending tiny loans to poor clients lacking credit history and enough collateral is an expensive business for microfinance institutions (MFIs). Minimizing cost inefficiency is important if MFIs are to meet their dual mission ...
Modeling and forecasting electricity consumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Machine learning vs. nonlinear econometric time series models
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Accurately modeling and forecasting electricity consumption remains a challenging task due to the large number of the statistical properties that characterize this time series such as seasonality, trend, sudden changes, ...
Understanding digital bubbles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from DeFi and NFTs
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper investigates digital financial bubbles amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a sample of 9 DeFi tokens, 3 NFTs, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, we detect several bubbles overlapping the examined cryptoassets. We also uncover ...
Do oil shocks affect the green bond market?
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This study examines the predictive power of oil shocks for the green bond markets. In line with this aim, we investigated the extent to which oil shocks could be used to accurately make in- and out-of-sample forecasts for ...