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Can human development and political stability improve environmental quality? New evidence from the MENA region
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
We investigate the effects of human development and political stability on environmental quality and examine whether they are viable tools for improving environmental policies. The literature finds that countries can reduce ...
Pass-through of import cost into consumer prices and inflation in GCC countries: Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags model
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper explores the asymmetric response of consumer prices to import costs using a nonlinear approach that investigates the long and the short run asymmetric pass-through. Quarterly data over the period of 1990-2014 ...
Evaluating the lending channel of monetary transmission in Qatar
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
This study uses OLS, fixed effect and random effect models to evaluate the lending channel of the monetary policy transmission in Qatar over the 2000-2013 period. The growth in the loans extended by the Qatari banks is ...
Dynamic volatility transmission and portfolio management across major cryptocurrencies: Evidence from hourly data
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This study used hourly data to examine the dynamic conditional correlations and hedging strategies in the main cryptocurrency markets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Ripple (XRP). Multivariate generalized ...
Hedging UK stock portfolios with gold and oil: The impact of Brexit
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic co-movements and portfolio management strategies between UK stock indices (aggregate market index and sector indices) and each of gold and crude oil futures markets, during ...
Does openness enhance financial sector development? The experience of the arab world
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Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine if the simultaneous openness to trade and capital account can promote financial sector development. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a sample of 12 Arab countries ...
Risk spillover from crude oil prices to GCC stock market returns: New evidence during the COVID-19 outbreak
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
In this study, we examine oil price extreme tail risk spillover to individual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets and quantify this spillover's shift before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A dynamic conditional ...
Do economic downturns affect air pollution? Evidence from the global financial crisis
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
This paper investigates the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on CO2 emissions within the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis framework. Using a sample of 68 countries for the period 1960 to 2014, we unveil ...
Capital structure, tax effect, financial crisis and default risk: Evidence from emerging market
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
The central objective of this study is to investigate the effect of capital structure on corporate failure in the emerging market, in particular Jordan, using a panel data analysis sample representative of 180 Jordanian ...
Using Deep Learning to Predict Stock Movements Direction in Emerging Markets: The Case of Qatar Stock Exchange
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Deep learning approaches have been utilized to predict stocks. In this study, we use convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict stocks direction in Qatar stock exchange (QE) as a case of emerging markets. Prediction in ...