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Performance Of Tourism Destinations: Evidence From Tunisia
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This study uses data envelopment analysis and a two-stage procedure to compare the performance of Tunisian tourism destinations and to examine the impact of investment (public and private), economic circumstances, workers ...
Asymmetric responses of money demand to oil price shocks in Saudi Arabia: a non-linear ARDL approach
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
Saudi Arabia is an open oil-based economy with fixed exchange rates; therefore, it has limited monetary policy autonomy. Using non-linear autoregressive distributed lag approach, this article investigates the asymmetric ...
The Politics of Sovereign Credit Spreads
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article Review)
Using a large sample of 35 developing countries for the period 1993-2009, we provide strong and robust evidence that the political institutions in place play a significant role in explaining sovereign spreads. In particular, ...
Determinants of Intra-GCC Food Trade
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Taylor and Francis Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Using panel data for six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 1995-2014, we assess the impacts of several major economic variables on intra-GCC food exports, and on GCC food exports to the world. The GCC customs ...
Are Investors Concerned with Stock Market Upgrades? Evidence from Multivariate Framework Analysis
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
This study aims to examine the return and volatility responses to the announcement of stock market upgrades. It measures the direct effects of the recent Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) upgrade of the Qatar, ...
Cost-efficiency and financial and geographical characteristics of banking sectors in the MENA countries
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
We utilize the translog stochastic frontier model to estimate the cost-efficiency levels for conventional and Islamic, Cooperation Council (GCC) and non-GCC banks in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. The ...
The Determinants of Sukuk Market Development
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
The objective of this article is to empirically investigate the structural, financial, developmental, institutional, and macroeconomic determinants of Sukuk market development for a sample of 13 countries over the period ...
The role of ICT adoption in curbing corruption in developing countries
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Springer International Publishing
, 2017 , Book chapter)
Corruption is regarded as a major problem impeding development potentialities, and curbing it is a leading challenge for developing countries. This chapter assesses the possibilities of ICT adoption as a powerful tool for ...
Improving management of future coastal development in Qatar through ecosystem-based management approaches
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article Review)
The coastline of Qatar is a rich mosaic of productive and diverse ecosystems including mangrove forests, intertidal mudflats (sabkha), seagrass beds, and coral reefs. These ecologically interconnected ecosystems contain a ...
The impact of FIFA's official announcements on the stock market of Qatar: The case of the 2022 World Cup
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
This study examines the impact of the FIFA's official announcements on Doha Stock Exchange (DSE) of Qatar with respect to the 2022 World Cup. Using the abnormal unsystematic volatility method of Hilliard and Savickas (2002), ...