Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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How does climate change asymmetrically affect economic policy uncertainty in the GCC countries: A multivariate quantile-on-quantile analysis
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study investigates the critical relationship between climate change and EPU in GCC countries from 1980:M1 to 2023:M12, focusing specifically on how temperature changes influence EPU in these economies. The research ... -
Oil price shocks and green investments: Upside risks, hedging, and safe-haven properties
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study investigates the systemic risk spillover from various oil price shocks (demand, supply, and risk) to several green investments covering sustainable, ESG, clean technology, carbon market, clean energy, and green ... -
Debunking the FDI myth: Does foreign investment really spur entrepreneurship in Africa?
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)In this study, we challenge the prevailing belief in entrepreneurship financing research that foreign direct investment (FDI) universally fosters entrepreneurial activity. We hypothesize that FDI's impact on new firm ... -
The effect of climate risk on the human development index using the panel time-varying interactive fixed effects
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study examines the effect of the Climate Risk Index (CRI) on the Human Development Index (HDI) using the innovative panel Time-Varying Interactive Fixed Effect (TV-IFE) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) during the ... -
Climate policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, oil volatility, and global food price volatility: A time-varying analysis
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study investigates the impact of climate policy uncertainty (CPU), geopolitical risk (GPR), economic policy uncertainty (EPU), and oil volatility (OVX) on global food price volatility (VFPI), addressing gaps in the ... -
Oil dependency, political instability and the stock market: A perspective from the Middle East and Africa
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)We examine the time-varying effects of oil price shocks and geopolitical risk on the stock markets of six Middle Eastern and African countries—namely, Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Turkey. Our ... -
Climate change and sustainable development new evidence from the Gulf cooperation Council economies
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study explores the effects of climate change, trade, population, foreign direct investment, GDP, technological innovation, and natural resource rents on sustainable development in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies ... -
Valuation of commodity option prices under a regime-switching model with stochastic convenience yield: Model calibration using flower pollination optimization algorithm
( Elsevier , 2026 , Article)This research work seeks to construct a model for commodity spot prices by incorporating the concept of stochastic convenience yield within a Markov-switching framework. The model presented in this paper applies the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
