Finance & Economics
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The Cultural Drivers of Self-Employment in MENA: Exploring the Roles of Internal Locus of Control and Religiosity
(2025 , Article)What drives individuals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to pursue self-employment: internal or external personal attributes? How do these factors vary across different countries and economic contexts? ... -
The Social Role of Central Banking in Promoting an Equitable and Sustainable Society
( Taylor and Francis , 2025 , Book chapter)Central Banks are very important and powerful institutions as they perform three key roles inside an economy. First, they are "the Bank of Banks" to ensure a well-functioning financial system and financial stability through ... -
Beyond the Pitch: Logistics and Sustainability at the FIFA World Cup
( Springer , 2025 , Book chapter)This case study delves into an important aspect of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022-sustainability. The main aim of the case study is to comprehend whether financial performance can be balanced along with sustainability when ... -
Assessing Foreign Aid's Influence on Tourism Demand for Developing Economies: When More Isn't Better
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2025 , Article)The existing literature has largely overlooked the effects of foreign aid on tourism demand in developing countries, and the channels through which this relationship operates. This study fills this gap by examining the ... -
Sectorial Connectivity Behavior in Times of Turmoil: A Comparison of a Geopolitical and Health Crises
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)This research investigates the network connectivity of Qatar's stock market during periods of volatility. It shows how connectivity between sectors altered prior to, during, and after the lockdown, as well as after the ... -
Navigating the Energy Transition in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States: The Role of Industrial Policies in Fostering Sustainable Economic Competitiveness
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have relied on their abundant oil and gas resources, which have shaped their economic and social structures. The comparative advantage of the oil/gas sectors encouraged the development ... -
Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Personal Belief, and Employment in Qatar and Kuwait: An Empirical Analysis
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)This study assesses the impact of personality traits and personal beliefs on employment status (e.g., unpaid employment/unemployment, part-time paid job, full-time paid job, and self-employment) in Qatar and Kuwait. We use ... -
Long-Term Prospective Follow-Up of Spinal Interventional Pain Procedures and Physical Therapy Compliance on Outcomes in Chronic Pain Patients
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2025 , Article)Background/Objective: The long-term implications of spinal interventional pain procedures (IPPs) remain underexplored. This study aimed to evaluate pain intensity, overall health quality, and disability over a four-year ... -
Stock-market responses, oil-price dynamics, and geopolitical risk in the MEA region
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)This paper examines the symmetric and asymmetric effects of oil-price shocks and geopolitical risk (GPR) on the stock-market performance of six Middle Eastern and African economies during the period 2002-2023, utilizing ... -
Entrepreneurship and income inequality: a quantile approach from global panel data
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)This paper explores the relationship between entrepreneurship and income inequality, drawing from unbalanced panel data from 104 countries between 2001 and 2023, sourced from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the ... -
Geopolitical risk and the volatility of GCC stock markets around the war on the Gaza Strip
( Routledge , 2025 , Article)We investigate the short- and long-term interconnectedness between geopolitical risk (GPR) and the volatility of six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets during the recent war on the Gaza Strip (GS). Applying a ... -
The asymmetric relationship between monetary policy and the institutional investors march into cryptocurrencies
( Inderscience Publishers , 2025 , Article)Using monthly data from April 2017 to June 2023, this study explores the factors associated with the rising institutional investments in cryptocurrencies, focusing on US monetary policy. We employ nonlinear autoregressive ... -
Climate Change and Energy Security Risk: Do Green Patents, Institutional Quality, and Human Capital Make a Difference?
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2025 , Article)Climate change poses a significant threat to global energy security, yet the mechanisms through which this relationship unfolds-and the factors that buffer their adverse impacts-remain underexplored. This study examines ... -
Monetary Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models and Inflation Persistence
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2025 , Article)The paper investigates the capacity of New Keynesian (NK) models to explain inflation persistence without relying on ad hoc backwards-looking mechanisms or external source of inertia. It explores various features of NK ... -
Harnessing digital technologies in circular supply chains: The role of technological opportunism capability and technological turbulence
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study investigates the role of digital technologies (DTs) in enhancing circular supply chain capability (CSCC), as well as the role of technological opportunism capability (TOC) as an enabler and technological turbulence ... -
Gold for global airline stock indices during COVID-19: Hedge or safe-haven asset?
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)We examine whether airline industry investors can gain hedging and/or safe-haven benefits from holding gold in a portfolio of global and regional airline stocks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using daily data from June 8, ... -
Climate change, renewable energy, and Gulf Cooperation Council stock market dynamics: A quantile vector autoregression and wavelet quantile framework
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council region's heavy reliance on oil revenue presents unique challenges and opportunities in transitioning to a sustainable economic model. This study employs quantile vector autoregression and wavelet ... -
Unveiling sectoral markets' responses to climate risks in Qatar: A quantiles analysis
( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)This study examines the influence of Physical Climate Risk (PCI) and Transitional Climate Risk (TCI) on various sectoral markets in Qatar, employing Multivariate Quantile-on-Quantile Regression (m-QQR) while considering ... -
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 ...
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