Browsing by Author "Charfeddine, Lanouar"
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An intra-cryptocurrency analysis of volatility connectedness and its determinants: Evidence from mining coins, non-mining coins and tokens
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Benlagha, Noureddine; Ben Khediri, Karim ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This paper analysis the dynamic of the volatility connectedness between three main categories of the cryptocurrency market (mineable coins, non-mineable coins and tokens). 2022 The Authors -
Analysis Of The Effect Of The European Debt Crisis On The Saudi Arabian Economy
Benlagha, Noureddine; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)This paper investigates the economic impact of the 2009 European debt crisis on Saudi Arabia’s real economy from 2004 Q2 to 2014 Q2 using a structural vector autoregressive model (SVAR). The results of the impulse response ... -
Analysis of the performance of TAM in oil and gas industry: Factors and solutions for improvement
Al-Marri, Abdulhadi Nasser; Nechi, Salem; Ben-Ayed, Omar; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Although it is well recognized that turnaround maintenance (TAM) projects are key determinant of the performance of oil and gas (O&G) companies, little is known about the factors that determine their performance and what ... -
Analysis of the resilience of the Turkey tourism industry to exogenous shocks: new evidence from a NARDL model
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Dawd, Issa ( Taylor & Francis , 2022 , Article)This paper analyses the resilience of the Turkey tourism industry to exogenous shocks over the period from January 1997 to December 2018. Using the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model, our results show strong ... -
The Asymmetric Effects of Government Expenditure Shocks on Private Consumption: Evidence from Arab Resource-Rich Countries
Eid, Ashraf Galal; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( International Journal of Business & Economics , 2022 , Article)This paper aims to examine the asymmetric impact of government expenditure shocks on private consumption in Arab resource-rich countries, particularly the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), using the Nonlinear ARDL ... -
Blockchain-based Supply Chain Financing Solutions for Qatar
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Umlai, Mohamed ( College of Business and Economics, Qatar University , 2021 , Other)When it comes to trade, operations or expansion, access to finance from conventional sources such as financial institutions (FIs) can become a major hurdle for companies (International Chamber of Commerce [ICC], 2020). ... -
Breaks or long range dependence in the energy futures volatility: Out-of-sample forecasting and VaR analysis
Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)The aim of this paper is to propose an empirical strategy that allows the discrimination between true and spurious long memory behaviors. That strategy is based on the comparison between the estimated long memory parameter ... -
Co-explosivity versus leading effects: Evidence from crude oil and agricultural commodities
Ghassen, El Montasser; Malek Belhoula, Mohamed; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Unlike previous studies investigating the interdependence and co-movements between different commodity prices, this paper examined the co-explosivity versus leading effects between the Brent oil prices and agricultural ... -
A Comprehensive Machine and Deep Learning Approach for Aerosol Optical Depth Forecasting: New Evidence from the Arabian Peninsula
Alban, Ahmad Qadeib; Abulibdeh, Ammar; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Abulibdeh, Rawan; Abuelgasim, Abdelgadir ( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Accurate forecasting of environmental pollution indicators holds significant importance in diverse fields, including climate modeling, environmental monitoring, and public health. In this study, we investigate a wide range ... -
COVID-19, cryptocurrencies bubbles and digital market efficiency: sensitivity and similarity analysis
Montasser, Ghassen El; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Benhamed, Adel ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This paper compares the degree of cryptocurrency market efficiency during the pre- and post COVID-19 pandemic with the bubble and non-bubble periods of cryptocurrency markets. Furthermore, it examines and clusters eighteen ... -
Do information and communication technology and renewable energy use matter for carbon dioxide emissions reduction? Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Kahia, Montassar ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study aims to investigate whether information and communication technologies (ICT) and renewable energy consumption can help improve environmental quality for a selected group of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ... -
Do Oil and Gas Revenues Promote Economic Diversification in Qatar?
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Barkat, Karim ( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)The aim of this paper is to explore the short- and long-run asymmetric impact of oil prices shocks and oil and gas revenues changes on the total real GDP, and the level of economic diversification of the Qatar economy. To ... -
Do oil producing countries offer international diversification benefits? Evidence from GCC countries
Mimouni, Karim; Charfeddine, Lanouar; Al-Azzam, Moh'd ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This paper provides evidence of the existence of diversification benefits in international stock markets when oil producing countries are included in a global portfolio. Moreover, it examines whether recent oil shocks and ... -
Does Financial Sector Promote Economic Growth in Pakistan? Empirical Evidences From Markov Switching Model
Rahman, Abdul; Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2020 , Article)This study investigates the financial development-economic growth relationship in Pakistan over the period 1975-2017 using the Markov Switching methodology. The financial development index has been constructed using the ... -
Environment Degradation and Economic Growth in the Qatar Economy: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Air pollution, global greenhouse gases (GHG), water pollution and water resources degradation are among the most serious environmental concerns that encounter the Qatar country. In nowadays, it is commonly known that the ... -
Evolving efficiency of spot and futures energy markets: A rolling sample approach
Khediri, Karim Ben; Charfeddine, Lanouar ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we examine the weak-form efficient market hypothesis of energy markets by testing the random walk behavior of spot and futures prices. We contribute to the financial market efficiency literature by investigating ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Impact of financial literacy, perceived access to finance, ICT use, and digitization on credit constraints: evidence from Qatari MSME importers
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Umlai, Mohamed Ismail; El-Masri, Mazen ( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)This study investigates the role of financial literacy (FL), perceived access to finance (PAF), information communication technology (ICT) usage, and digitization in alleviating the level of credit constraint that micro, ... -
Impact of ICTs Diffusion on Environmental Quality in Qatar
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Al-Maadid, Asma; Hamana, Yosra ( Qatar University , 2019 , Other)Climate change, global warming and environmental degradation in general have been some of humanity’s greatest challenges and there is no doubt about their threatening effects on human life quality, health, and the ...