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How Do Bank Features and Global Crises Affect Scale Economies? Evidence from the Banking Sectors of Oil-Rich GCC Emerging Markets
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
This study investigates the types of scale economies (SE) for the exchange-listed banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the 2000-2016 period, using the stochastic frontier for modeling banking technology ...
Industrialization, FDI and absorptive capacities: evidence from African Countries
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Springer
, 2022 , Article)
This paper assesses the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the industrialization of African economies. In particular, we address the nonlinearity issue and investigate the role of the recipient countries' absorptive ...
Corruption and Economic Development: New Evidence from the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper analyses the role of economic development in curbing corruption by focusing on political and economic freedoms for a sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2013. In ...
A comparative analysis of flipped, online and traditional teaching: A case of female Middle Eastern management students
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This study compares performance and perception of students in a management course at a business school in the Middle East. 122 students completed an Introduction to Management course, which was divided into three different ...
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 ...
Contagion versus Interdependence: The Case of the BRIC Countries During the Subprime Crises
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter contributes to the empirical finance literature on modeling co-movement in financial markets by considering the case of the BRIC countries during the subprime crises. To overcome the problem of the time-varying ...
Mega-sports events and stock market returns: The case of the 2022 World Cup
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Cognizant Communication Corporation
, 2018 , 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 return method of Savickas, our findings reveal ...
The Dynamic and Dependence of Takaful and Conventional Stock Return Behaviours: Evidence from the Insurance Industry in Saudi Arabia
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Springer New York LLC
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates the dynamics of volatility in the stock market using competing univariate GARCH specifications. Moreover, it provides a study of the pairwise correlation pattern of stock returns for a wide range ...
Bank concentration and schumpeterian growth: Theory and international evidence
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MIT Press Journals
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and bank concentration.We introduce imperfect competition within the banking system according to the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, and we theoretically and ...
Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets
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McMaster University
, 2014 , Article)
This paper examines empirically the electricity market integration process for Germany, France and Italy countries by investigating possible price convergence. Two empirical approaches have been considered to investigate ...