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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 ...
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 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), ...
A new theoretical framework to assess Multinational Corporations' motivation for Foreign Direct Investment: A case study on Vietnamese service industries
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose This paper develops a new theoretical framework, based on eclectic paradigm and institution theory, to evaluate Multinational Corporations' (MNCs') incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The new framework ...
Do financial crises alter the dynamics of corporate capital structure? Evidence from GCC countries
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
We study the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the capital structure of GCC firms. We employ a dataset covering a 10-year period from eight sectors to investigate patterns in corporate leverage before and after the ...
Does sukuk market development spur economic growth?
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
We investigate the impact of sukuk market development on economic growth using a sample comprising all sukuk-issuing countries spanning the period 1995-2015. We use the system GMM estimator to tackle potential omitted ...