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Strategy-proof size improvement: is it possible?*
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2022 , Article)
The number of assigned agents (i.e., size) is an important parameter in object allocations. While size maximality clashes with individual rationality and strategy-proofness, it can still be possible to increase the size ...
Sukuk market development and Islamic banks’ capital ratios
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper investigates the impact of Sukuk market development on Islamic banks’ capital ratios using a sample comprising 230 Islamic banks spanning the period 2005–2014. We characterize Islamic bank capital along multiple ...
A new perspective on the linkages between tourism demand and business cycles
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2022 , Article)
Business cycles, that is, the irregular fluctuations in economic activity,affect tourism demand—this is a stylized fact in tourism research. And itis well-founded. After all, as incomes rise, so does the consumption ofgoods ...
Impact of financial literacy, perceived access to finance, ICT use, and digitization on credit constraints: evidence from Qatari MSME importers
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Springer Nature
, 2024 , Article)
This study investigates the role of financial literacy (FL), perceived access to finance (PAF), information communication technology (ICT) usage, and digitization in alleviating the level of credit constraint that micro, ...
Bank Characteristics and Liquidity Transformation: The Case of GCC Banks
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Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE)
, 2012 , Article)
This paper uses a simple measure of liquidity creation to examines empirically the effect of bank capital and
other micro and macro-characteristics on liquidity creation. We apply the analysis to data from a sample of ...
Does the extent of branchless banking adoption enhance the social and financial performance of microfinance institutions?
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Taylor & Francis
, 2023 , Article)
We examine the impact of the extent of branchless banking adoption on the social and financial performance of an international sample of microfinance institutions (MFIs). We find that increasing the number of branchless ...
Credit risk in Islamic microfinance institutions: The role of women, groups, and rural borrowers
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Using international data, we find that Islamic MFIs experience reduced credit risk by offering more groups loans, serving more women, and serving more borrowers in rural locations. Conventional MFIs benefit from fewer group ...
Market power in GCC banking sector
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Consulting Publishing Company
, 2011 , Article)
This study attempts to find whether market concentration has been a main driver for market power in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) banking industry over the period of 2002-2008. Using the methodology of the new empirical ...
Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2014 , Article)
This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which ...
Determinants of Tunisia's exports: A gravity model framework
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International Economic Society Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
This paper applies the gravity trade model to explain Tunisia's exports pattern with non-traditional partner's countries and to determine the main factors explaining Tunisia's exports with these countries. We estimate our ...