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Stock Prices and Crude Oil Shocks: The Case of GCC Countries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
The aim of this chapter is to identify the effects of oil price volatility on stock market volatility for eight oil exporter or importer countries. Using weekly data for the 2004-15 period, we model the relationship between ...
Testing the risk-return tradeoff in the emerging market of Jordan: What role for financial crises?
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
This study investigates the risk-return relationship at sector level in the emerging market of Jordan (ASE) over the period 1999-2014. The results of an unconditional test with a structural breakpoint show that the ...
Does Official development assistance for health from developed countries displace government health expenditure in sub-saharan countries?
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Economics Bulletin
, 2016 , Article)
This paper empirically examines the foreign aid fungibility in the health sector of 45 Sub-Saharan countries over the period of 1995-2012. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of foreign health aid on government ...
Do financial distress and liquidity crises affect value and size premiums?
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
This study investigates the impact of liquidity crises on the relationship between stock (value and size) premiums and default risk in the US market. It first examines whether financial distress can explain value and size ...
The new face of university-business cooperation in Finland
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Oxford University Press
, 2016 , Article)
This paper analyses the development of university-business cooperation (UBC) in Finland in the context of the University Reform Act of 2009, drawing on the experience of four universities: Aalto University, University of ...
Bank concentration, institutional quality, and economic growth: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of institutional quality on the relationship between economic growth and banking sector concentration. Design/methodology/approach: The sample of our study covers 15 Middle ...
Key determinants of inflation and monetary policy in the emerging markets: Evidence from Vietnam
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
The study explores the key determinants of inflation in Vietnam for a period of ten year (2000-2011) using the explanatory variables: past inflation, real income, money supply, exchange rate, interest rate and world oil ...
The corruption-inflation nexus: Evidence from developed and developing countries
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
, 2016 , Article)
This paper analyzes the relationship between corruption and inflation for a sample of 100 developing and developed countries representing five regions (Americas, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and ...
Export market concentration and the potential for export market diversification in the oil and gas sector in a small open economy
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International Economic Society
, 2016 , Article)
Though small in area and population, the US$ 200 billion Qatari economy is open and driven by the oil and gas sector. Therefore the economy is susceptible to economic shocks in international markets. We illustrate the ...
Understanding citizens' adoption of e-filing in developing countries: An empirical investigation
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
This study develops a research framework by integrating the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology's model with multi-dimensional trust in order to investigate the antecedents of behavioral expectation toward ...