Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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Financial Literacy in the Modern Economy: Bridging the Knowledge Gap for Entrepreneurs and Beyond
( Springer , 2025 , Book chapter)This chapter underscores the critical role of financial literacy, especially for entrepreneurs, in today's rapidly changing economic landscape. The significance of this subject is evident, yet recent studies from the ... -
An Economic Analysis of Qatar's Decision to Host the FIFA World Cup 2022
( Springer , 2025 , Book chapter)A high-ranking policymaker in Qatar who sought expert advice approached Ahmed, an economic consultant to explore the multifaceted impacts of having hosted the FIFA World Cup 2022. In evaluating the economic impact of hosting ... -
The Effects of Mega-Events on Government Spending Multipliers: Evidence from the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
( Springer , 2025 , Book chapter)Ahmad, a senior economist in Qatar, analyzed the impact of government spending on economic growth and diversification, focusing on the lead-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He found that government spending, despite several ... -
Competing Institutional Logics in Corporate ESG: Evidence From Developing Countries
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2025 , Article)Drawing on competing institutional logics theory, we examine the institutional complexity of corporate sustainability practices in an underexplored context of developing economies. Analyzing 11,757 firm-year observations ... -
Does ESG Influence Bank Profitability? A Comparison Between Islamic and Conventional Banks
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2025 , Article)This research investigates the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on the performance of 67 banks across 13 countries, with a specific focus on comparing Islamic banks (IBs) and Conventional banks ... -
Waitlist engineering in discrete object allocations with outside option
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2025 , Article)This study pursues how waitlists should be designed to achieve desirable outcomes in object allocation models with outside option. We adapt the usual stability notion to our setting and call it "sure stability." Our first ... -
The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on Environmental Innovation and the Mediating Role of the CSR Committee
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2025 , Article)This study investigates how the corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee mediates the relationship between board gender diversity (BGD) and environmental innovation in European countries. This research analyzed data ... -
Dynamics of market power and stability in GCC banking: econometric analysis and policy implications
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study provides a thorough analysis of the market power within the banking sector of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the period from 2000 to 2023, by employing robust econometric models and indices. ... -
Impact of green and energy efficiency policies on environmental sustainability: Evidence from dynamic panel threshold model
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This paper investigates the effectiveness of green and energy efficiency policies in improving environmental quality across a group of 63 countries during the period 2006–2019. To achieve this, the study first develops a ... -
Board gender diversity and ESG performance balance in GCC firms
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This paper examines the transformative role of board gender diversity in shaping both the absolute performance and strategic prioritization of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions in Gulf Cooperation ... -
Factors influencing asymmetries in Saudi Arabia's housing market
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)The article aims to examine the determinants of the asymmetries in the housing prices index (HPI) in 13 Saudi Arabian administrative regions. The authors employ a panel Vector Auto-regressions during the period 2014Q1-2023Q4 ... -
Global insights on wage and employee turnover in microfinance
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)Microfinance institutions (MFIs) face high operating costs partially due to employee turnover while striving to balance financial sustainability with their social mission. This study examines the relationship between wages ... -
National innovation capacity and the drivers of energy efficiency R&D in the OECD
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)Achieving COP28′s target to double global energy efficiency improvements by 2030 requires understanding how environmental regulations and market forces jointly shape energy R&D investment. This paper examines how environmental ... -
Maximizing crop yield and economic benefit through water and nitrogen optimization in bell pepper
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)Considering climate change-induced water scarcity and excessive fertilizer use, boosting agricultural productivity has become a worldwide concern, particularly in Qatar's harsh climate. Adopting well-coordinated strategies ... -
The temporal variability in the returns of socially responsible funds to structural oil shocks
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)In this paper, we investigate the potential presence of returns comovement between socially responsible investment (SRI) funds and oil shocks based on daily data from March 8, 2016 to June 11, 2021. According to the seminal ... -
Do employee-friendly practices affect inventory leanness?
( Routledge , 2024 , Article)We examine the impact of employee-friendly practices (i.e. employment quality, training and development, and employee turnover) on inventory leanness. We use the Empirical Leanness Indicator (ELI) as a proxy for inventory ... -
Do supply chain pressures affect consumer prices in major economies? New evidence from time-varying causality analysis
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study explores the dynamic causality between the consumer price index and supply chain pressure index in two large economies. Despite extensive research into the role of supply chains at the firm level, the literature ... -
How do US sectoral markets connect in calm and crisis? A quantile-based network analysis
( Routledge (Taylor & Francis Ltd.) , 2025 , Article)This work investigates how the return coherence of the US sectoral market changed during/post COVID-19 from the pre-pandemic period. We sampled daily data for a pre-COVID-19 period from January 2018 to November 2019 and a ... -
The gravity of distance: evidence from a trade embargo
( Oxford University Press , 2024 , Article)On 5 June 2017, an airspace blockade was imposed on the State of Qatar by Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (neighboring countries), and Egypt. We exploit this exogenous increase in air transportation costs toward ... -
Top management inside debt and corporate social responsibility? Evidence from the US
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study provides evidence on the relationship between CEO inside debt and corporate social responsibility (hereinafter, CSR). We find that an increase in CEO inside debt leads to high levels of CSR. This finding is ...
