Finance & Economics
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Investigating the impact of remittance outflows and oil price on economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
(2023 , Article)Most existing studies have focused on examining the impact of labor remittance outflows on economic growth in the receiving countries, with limited attention given to the sending countries. This study utilizes the nonlinear ... -
Impact of tokenization on financial investments: Exploring connectedness through the case of transport and travel/tourism sectors
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)The advent of tokenization has transformed the financial landscape of the transportation and tourism industries, creating novel investment opportunities in travel and tourism tokens. This study investigates the interplay ... -
Innovation capital disclosure and independent directors: evidence from France
( Springer Nature - Palgrave Macmillan , 2024 , Article)This study aims to understand whether corporate governance mechanisms affect innovation capital disclosure (ICD) provided voluntarily on corporate websites by SBF 120 listed firms in France. The study tests multivariate ... -
Fiscal policy and private investment: some anomalies from Saudi Arabia
(2024 , Article)This article examines the relationship between fiscal policy and private investment in Saudi Arabia, a country heavily dependent on government spending for its economy. Rather than solely analysing aggregate government ... -
Financial performance and carbon emission disclosure
(2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of financial performance on carbon emission disclosure. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression analysis on a sample ... -
Financial literacy, financial development, and leverage of small firms
( Elsevier Inc , 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, ... -
Exploring the integration of ChatGPT in education: adapting for the future
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This article aims to explore the advantages of integrating a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology in education. It investigates the use of ChatGPT in personalized learning, assessment and content ... -
Numerical simulation for fractional optimal control problems via euler wavelets
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2024 , Article)This paper suggests employing Euler wavelets to provide a precise and effective computational approach for certain fractional optimal control problems. The primary objective of the approach is to transform the fractional ... -
Mortgage debt and domestic and outbound travel expenditures: International evidence
( SAGE , 2024 , Article)We explore the relationship between the mortgage debt of households and their spending on domestic and outbound tourism and travel. We estimate a dynamic panel data model for a sample of 27 countries for 2010-2021, and ... -
Examining the impact of ecological deficit on life expectancy in GCC countries: a nonlinear panel data investigation
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have witnessed remarkable economic growth over recent decades. Arguably, this progress of these major oil and natural gas producers has come to the detriment of the environment ... -
Dynamic connectedness between energy and agricultural commodities: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia–Ukraine conflict
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)This paper investigates the interconnectedness patterns between agricultural commodities, crude oil, and ethanol, along with their determinants before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine conflict. We ... -
The Power to Conserve: A Field Experiment on Electricity Use in Qatar
( National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) , 2023 , Unpublished Work)High resource users often have the strongest response to behavioral interventions promoting conservation. Yet, litlle is known about how to motivate them. We implement a field experiment in Qatar, where residential customers ... -
Governance in the developing world: Transnational insights on economic development
( Springer , 2023 , Book)This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally. Governance has been pointed out as one of the major weaknesses ... -
Governance and Growth in Developing Countries: New Insights from a Cross-Regional Empirical Analysis
( Springer , 2023 , Book chapter)This paper investigates the impact of governance on growth for a sample of 20 developing countries. We address the complementarity between the various dimensions of governance by constructing a global governance index and ... -
Do Governance Indicators Predict Inequality? A Panel Non-causality Framework for the Emerging Countries
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book chapter)This investigation aims to explore the causal nexus between governance indicators and income inequality for 15 emerging countries for the period 2002–2019. This study focuses on developing countries because income inequality ... -
Assessing the impact of energy R&D on green growth in OECD countries: a CS-ARDL analysis
( Springer , 2024 , Article)Since the introduction of the OECD innovation and green growth strategies in 2007 and 2011, respectively, the OECD countries have been actively engaged in supporting green energy R&D to accelerate the development of ... -
Do product offering and service quality affect customer satisfaction in Islamic and conventional banks? Evidence from an oil-based economy
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effect of product offering and other service quality (SQ) dimensions on the satisfaction of the customers of both Islamic and conventional banks, using evidence from an oil-based ... -
Does employee treatment affect trade credit? An international evidence
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the linkage of employee treatment and trade credit for a sample of 45 countries from 2003 to 2018. It explores the trade credit from a receivable perspective. Design/methodology/approach: ... -
Beyond economic growth goals: can foreign aid mitigate carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries?
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We provide novel and compelling evidence that foreign aid has significant mitigating impacts on carbon dioxide emissions in a comprehensive panel dataset of 127 developing countries from 1995 to 2019. This impact operates ... -
Context-dependent responses to geopolitical risk in Middle Eastern and African stock markets: An asymmetric volatility spillover study
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)This paper examines the asymmetric volatility spillover impact of geopolitical risk on stock market returns across six Middle Eastern and African (MEA) economies: Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, and South ...
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