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Exchange rate pass-through and inflation dynamics in Tunisia: A Markov-switching approach
( Kiel Institute for the World Economy , 2013 , Article)This paper studies the effect of exchange rate pass-through on inflation in Tunisia for the period 2001 to 2009. The objective is to track inflation regimes for the Tunisian economy and to forecast its determinants. Using ... -
Does Government Ownership and Disclosure Affect Performance and Stability of the GCC Banking Sector?
( Cambridge Research Science Institute , 2013 , Article)This paper studies empirically the effect of government ownership and the level of disclosure on the performance and the stability of banks, controlling for regulations, concentration, bank and country specific characteristics. ... -
Does Political Risk Affect the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment into the Middle East North African Region
(2013 , Article)Given the political risk in the Middle East North African (MENA) region, this research aimed to unveil the importance of the different components of political risk on the change in foreign direct investment (FDI), ... -
On the relative efficiency of conventional and Islamic banks: a DEA-window approach
( Inderscience , 2013 , Article)This paper explores the relative efficiency of 65 conventional and Islamic banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) over the period from 2002 to 2010. The empirical results ... -
Team Satisfaction and Student Group Performance: A Cross-Cultural Study
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2013 , Article)The authors examined the relationship between team satisfaction and students' performance in group projects in two universities, one from the United States and one from Qatar. The results showed that there is a significant ... -
Taxing intellectual property transactions in developing countries : the case of pharmaceutical indusrty in Egypt and India
( LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing , 2013 , Book)Strengthening the protection measures of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in compliance with the TRIPS agreement creates a need for an appropriate tax treatment of IPR by developing countries. This need is important to ... -
Determinants of Tunisia's exports: A gravity model framework
( International Economic Society Ltd , 2013 , Article)This paper applies the gravity trade model to explain Tunisia's exports pattern with non-traditional partner's countries and to determine the main factors explaining Tunisia's exports with these countries. We estimate our ... -
Understanding challenges to food security in dry Arab micro-states: Evidence from Qatari micro-data
( Walter de Gruyter , 2013 , Article)Using Qatar as a case study, we exploit a novel microdata set for 102 raw agricultural imported commodities on a shipment-by-shipment basis over the period January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2010. The data comprise over half a ... -
Using A Gravity Apprch To Explain Food Imports For Improved Food Security In Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)Today, food security is a global problem. The Qatar National Food Security Programme describes the dimensions of food security in Qatar in terms of food quality, physical availability, and affordability, alongside the ... -
True or spurious long memory in volatility: Further evidence on the energy futures markets
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)The main goal of this paper is to investigate whether the long memory behavior observed in many volatility energy futures markets series is a spurious behavior or not. For this purpose, we employ a wide variety of advanced ... -
Contagion versus Interdependence: The Case of the BRIC Countries During the Subprime Crises
( Elsevier , 2014 , Book chapter)This chapter contributes to the empirical finance literature on modeling co-movement in financial markets by considering the case of the BRIC countries during the subprime crises. To overcome the problem of the time-varying ... -
On the relation between internal corporate governance and bank risk-taking: evidence from gulf cooperative council countries
( Taiwan Institute of Business Administration , 2014 , Article)This study investigates the relationship between ownership structure, board composition and risk-taking of listed banking companies in the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries during 2004-2010. Building on limited ... -
An empirical investigation of trade flows between Australia and its major trading partners
( University of Wollongong , 2014 , Article)This study introduces Net Export (NX) models to examine the determinants of the trade flows between Australia and eight selected trading partner (TP) countries (China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United ... -
Does openness enhance financial sector development? The experience of the arab world
( Emerald Group Holdings Ltd. , 2014 , Article)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine if the simultaneous openness to trade and capital account can promote financial sector development. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a sample of 12 Arab countries ... -
Effects of board and ownership structure on corporate performance: Evidence from GCC countries
( emerald insight , 2014 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure and board composition on bank performance as measured by Tobin's Q and market to book value in Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) countries. ... -
Price convergence and integration in the Germany, France and Italy electricity markets
( 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 ... -
A risk-based availability estimation using Markov method
( Emerald Group Publishing , 2014 , Article)Purpose: Asset intensive process industries are under immense pressure to achieve promised return on investments and production targets. This can be accomplished by ensuring the highest level of availability, reliability ... -
The current assessment of foreign direct investment in the Middle East and North African region
( Inderscience Publishers , 2014 , Article)This research aims to assess the growth and the current status of foreign direct investment (FDI) in a sample of 16 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2011. Our goal is to give some insight ... -
The effects of second language on ethical judgement in accounting
( Inderscience , 2014 , Article)The number of participants in accounting practices and academia who use English as their second language is significant and growing. Many of them are involved in making ethical judgements based on information provided in ... -
Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2014 , Article)This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which ...
