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Impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study explores the economic growth – energy consumption nexus for two samples of MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs) during the period 1980–2012. Using panel cointegration approach, we found strong evidence for ...
Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets
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McMaster University
, 2014 , Article)
This paper examines empirically the electricity market integration process for Germany, France and Italy countries by investigating possible price convergence. Two empirical approaches have been considered to investigate ...
Enablers of top management team support for integrated management control systems innovations
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
Top management team (TMT) support has been identified as one of the most important critical factors to the success of management control systems (MCS) innovations. However, prior studies have taken TMT support for MCS ...
Voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of an emerging country: The case of Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
This study sets out to examine empirically the determinants of voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of 25 listed firms of Doha Securities Market (DSM) in Qatar forming approximately 86% of the total firms incorporated ...
Tax Policy Debate Over Tax Incentives in Developing Countries: the Case of Egypt
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School of Taxation and Business Law (Atax), UNSW Business School, UNSW Australia
, 2016 , Article)
Tax policy is normally formulated and implemented during politically stable periods. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries in the early 1990s have allowed researchers to study tax policy reform in ...
Can uncertainty indices predict Bitcoin prices? A revisited analysis using partial and multivariate wavelet approaches
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper uses bivariate and multivariate wavelet approaches to revisit the co-movements between the Volatility Uncertainty Index (VIX) and Bitcoin (BTC). This is achieved by accounting for the impacts of the three major ...
A Qatari perspective on women in the engineering pipeline: an exploratory study
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Taylor & Francis
, 2010 , Article)
Under-representation of women in engineering has received a great deal of attention, but remained limited largely to a Western context. Thus, this article aims to unveil the barriers to progress, tracking the performance ...
Examining the impact of social commerce dimensions on customers' value cocreation: The mediating effect of social trust
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
One of the main aspects of the Web 2.0 revolution has been social commerce that has resulted in many people across the world increasingly engaging with commercial activities over social media platforms. However, the academic ...
Customer satisfaction and its measurement in Islamic banking sector: a revisit and update
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to answer the following questions: How to measure customer satisfaction from the provisioning service of both: Islamic and Conventional banks? Can we trust one tool to measure such ...
The Impacts of Trade and Financial Developments on Economic Growth in Turkey: ARDL Approach with Structural Break
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This study examines the impacts of trade openness, financial development, and energy imports on per capita real GDP in Turkey over the 1960–2014 period. The results show that there is evidence of a stable relationship in ...