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Short- and long-run asymmetric effect of oil prices and oil and gas revenues on the real GDP and economic diversification in oil-dependent economy
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to explore the short- and long-run asymmetric impact of oil prices shocks and oil and gas revenues changes on the total real GDP, and the level of economic diversification of the Qatar economy. To ...
Effect of aggregate, mandatory and voluntary disclosure on firm performance in a developing market: The case of Kuwait
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
This paper examines the relationship between corporate disclosure and firm performance for the case of listed companies in the Kuwait Stock Exchanges (KSE). Our sample contains 51 non-financial firms that represent 42% of ...
Socially responsible investing and Islamic funds: New perspectives for portfolio allocation
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of ethical and conventional investments. It examines also whether socially responsible and Islamic investments offer an additional opportunity for domestic investors ...
The forward premium anomaly in the energy futures markets: A time-varying approach
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the forward premium anomaly by investigating possible statistical explanations for this puzzling phenomenon in the energy market. To this end, time series of spot and ...
Analysis of the resilience of the Turkey tourism industry to exogenous shocks: new evidence from a NARDL model
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Taylor & Francis
, 2022 , Article)
This paper analyses the resilience of the Turkey tourism industry to exogenous shocks over the period from January 1997 to December 2018. Using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model, our results show strong ...
Time varying market efficiency of the GCC stock markets
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
This paper investigates the time-varying levels of weak-form market efficiency for the GCC stock markets over the period spanning from May 2005 to September 2013. We use two empirical approaches: (1) the generalized ...
Do oil producing countries offer international diversification benefits? Evidence from GCC countries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper provides evidence of the existence of diversification benefits in international stock markets when oil producing countries are included in a global portfolio. Moreover, it examines whether recent oil shocks and ...
Investigating the dynamic relationship between cryptocurrencies and conventional assets: Implications for financial investors
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Cryptocurrencies are gradually establishing themselves as a new class of assets with unique features, although there remains skepticism and a lack of understanding of their nature. In this study, we compare the financial ...
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 ...
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 ...