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Is Economic Growth Really Jobless? Empirical Evidence from North Africa
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
North African countries recorded the highest youth unemployment rate in the World during the latest years. The main causes for that situation continue to be at the forefront of the debate among economists, sociologists and ...
On the safe-haven and hedging properties of Bitcoin: new evidence from COVID-19 pandemic
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Emerald Publishing
, 2022 , Article)
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the safe-haven and hedging properties of Bitcoin against a wide variety of conventional assets before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodolog ...
Does investors' fear gauge in a mature market matter? Evidence from the MENA region
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Institutional Investor, Inc
, 2018 , Article)
This article examines the notion that less developed markets may be deemed safe havens for international investors. It tests the effect of mature markets' fear on risk and return in less developed markets. The study employs ...
Modelling the asymmetric responses of price level to oil price changes in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This paper inspects the asymmetric effect of oil price on prices level in Qatar. To achieve that, we proceed by employing a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach on data during the period 1990Q1-2014Q4. ...
The impacts of productivity differentials and oil price on the real exchange rate misalignment: Evidence from a developing country
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
This study examines the impact of oil price and productivity differentials on real exchange rate (RER) misalignment in Syria from 1980 to 2010. In order to do that, this research develops an index for productivity differential ...
Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in the MENA Countries: What Role for Oil?
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
This paper considers the linkage between stock prices and exchange rates in four MENA (Middle East and North Africa) emerging markets. In contrast to the existing evidence that uses a global market index to uncover such a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Does ICT promote democracy similarily in developed and developing countries? A linear and nonlinear panel threshold framework
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
This paper assesses the impact of ICT adoption on democracy for a panel of 70 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider two different measures of ICT and check for the stability of the relationship for different ...
Harnessing cross-region disparities to assess the impact of tourism on regional growth in Europe
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article)
We use regional data across 27 European countries and look into the effect of tourist arrivals on regional growth during 2000–2017. The research is set in an augmented Solow model estimated via a rich and flexible empirical ...