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    • Financial development and employment: New panel evidence 

      Ayadi, Rym; Ben Naceur, Sami; Goaied, Mohamed ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2021 , Article)
      This paper adds to the recent literature on finance and employment creation by exploring the effect of finance on the labour market, using data on 143 countries from 1995 to 2015. We also examine whether the impact of ...

    • Financial development and environmental quality in UAE: Cointegration with structural breaks 

      Charfeddine, Lanouar; Ben Khediri, Karim ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article Review)
      This study extends the recent work of Shahbaz et al. (2014) by implementing recent unit root tests with multiple structural breaks and regime-switching cointegration techniques considering for one and two unknown regime ...

    • Financial development-economic growth nexus in Pakistan: new evidence from the Markov switching model 

      Rahman, Abdul; Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Cogent OA , 2020 , Article)
      This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980-2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the ...

    • Financial events detection by conceptual news categorization 

      Al-Jaoua, Ali; Al'Jaam, Jihad; Hammami, Helmi; Ferjani, Fethi; Laban, Firas; ... more authors ( IEEE , 2010 , Conference Paper)
      In the scope of Financial Watch project, several targeted events have been required by contacted users in banking and investment domains. Financial news are classified with respect of the list of desired events. In this ...

    • Financial inclusion and ethnic development: Evidence from satellite light density at night 

      Dakhlia, Sami; Diallo, Boubacar; Temimi, Akram ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)
      We contribute to the nascent literature on financial inclusion by taking a meso-level perspective. Focusing on eleven ethnic groups in Nigeria and Senegal, we deal with the paucity of data at subnational levels by combining ...

    • Financial instruments disclosure: The case of Qatari listed banks 

      Mohammadi, Abdolvahid; Mardini, Ghassan H. ( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)
      The aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 7 disclosures on Qatari listed banks. An un-weighted disclosure index and multiple regression analysis were ...

    • Financial Intermediaries and Capital Market Development in Nigeria 

      Ilo, Bamidele M.; Elumah, Lucas O.; Yinusa, Olumuyiwa G. ( Qatar University , 2018 , Article)
      This study investigates the impact of financial intermediaries on capital market development in Nigeria employing co-integration. To capture the activities of financial intermediaries, five proxies were used to explain ...

    • Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth of Jordan 1964-1988 

      Magableh, Ali H. ( Qatar University , 1995 , Article)
      Until recently, the economics and financial literature placed little attention on the role that financial intermediation can play in accelerating the rate of economic development in less Developed Countries (LDCs). This ...

    • Financial leverage and firm performance evidence from amman stock exchange 

      Abu-Abbas, Bassam M.; Alhmoud, Turki; Algazo, Fatima A. ( Universita Carlo Cattaneo , 2019 , Article)
      This study tests the relationship between financial leverage and firm performance. Previous studies found mixed results (e.g., Gill et al. 2011, Mouna et al. 2017, and Abubaker (2015). Some suggest including the effect of ...

    • FINANCIAL LITERACY, CULTURE AND LEVERAGE OF SMALL FIRMS 

      BASHA, SHABEEN TAJ AFSAR (2023 , Dissertation)
      This research examines the relationship between financial literacy and the leverage of small firms, specifically of the legal forms, sole proprietorships, and partnerships. We begin with a cross-section analysis of 73,302 ...

    • Financial literacy, financial development, and leverage of small firms 

      Shabeen Afsar, Basha; Bennasr, Hamdi; Goaied, Mohamed ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      This study examines the relationship between financial literacy and the leverage of small firms, specifically of the legal forms, sole proprietorships, and partnerships. Using a cross-section of 73,302 firms in 22 countries, ...

    • Financial portfolio management through the goal programming model: Current state-of-the-art 

      Aouni, Belaid; Colapinto, Cinzia; La Torre, Davide ( Elsevier B.V. , 2014 , Article)
      Since Markowitz (1952) formulated the portfolio selection problem, many researchers have developed models aggregating simultaneously several conflicting attributes such as: the return on investment, risk and liquidity. The ...

    • Financial progress and the stability of long-run money demand: Implications for the conduct of monetary policy in emerging economies 

      Darrat, A.F.; Al-Sowaidi, S.S. ( Elsevier Inc. , 2009 , Article)
      This paper examines whether recent financial changes in three emerging market economies in the Gulf region (Bahrain, the UAE, and Qatar) have distorted the character and the stability of their underlying long-run money ...

    • Financial reporting in qatar: An empirical analysis 

      Senoun, Aly E. ( Qatar University , 1993 , Article)
      This study is concerned with providing a comprehensive review of financial reporting in Qatar and statistically assessing the quality of such reporting. The methodology adopted is as follows: the relevant accounting ...

    • Financialisation in the Gulf States 

      Qanas, Jalal; Sawyer, Malcolm ( Taylor & Francis , 2022 , Article)
      This paper focuses on financialisation in the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) over the past three decades. The key economic features of the GCC countries relevant for financialisation are outlined. The ...

    • Financing microfinance institutions: subsidies or deposit mobilisation 

      Al-Azzam M. ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)
      According to conventional wisdom, dependence on subsidies cannot achieve the double bottom lines of microfinance institutions (MFIs): outreach and financial sustainability. The application of market-based principles to ...

    • Financing new entrepreneurship: Credit or microcredit? 

      Al-Azzam, Moh'd; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      Building on the theory of information asymmetry, we investigate the impact of conventional banking versus the impact of microfinance on new entrepreneurship. We use a panel dataset collected from 49 developing countries ...

    • Finding Behavioural and Imaging Biomarkers of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) using Artificial Intelligence: A Review 

      Sheikh, Sarah; Shaban, Khaled ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a serious ailment in mental health and is a medical illness that has a debilitating impact on a person's ability to think effectively. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), ...

    • Finding the Nearest Negative Imaginary System with Application to Near-Optimal Controller Design 

      Mabrok, M.A.; Mabrok, Mohamed A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we consider the problem of robust stabilization of linear time-invariant systems with respect to unmodeled dynamics and structure uncertainties. To that end, we first present a methodology to find the nearest ...

    • Fines effect on gas flow in sandy sediments using μCT and pore networks 

      Hannun, Jamal A.; Al-Raoush, Riyadh I.; Jarrar, Zaher A.; Alshibli, Khalid A.; Jung, Jongwon ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      Gas production from hydrate-bearing sediments requires methane dissociation, which induces two-phase gas flow, mobilizing fine clay particles from within saturated pores. Fines migration within sandy sediments results in ...