Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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COVID-19, cryptocurrencies bubbles and digital market efficiency: sensitivity and similarity analysis
( 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 ... -
Innovations and Hotel Performance in the Aftermath Announcement of Qatar Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup
( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2022 , Article)This article explores innovation processes in tourism within the context of Qatar Hotel sector. A theoretical framework, drawing on the existing literature, is developed to analyze innovation- performance relationships. ... -
Investigating the dynamic relationship between cryptocurrencies and conventional assets: Implications for financial investors
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Cryptocurrencies are gradually establishing themselves as a new class of assets with unique features, although there remains skepticism and a lack of understanding of their nature. In this study, we compare the financial ... -
Evolving efficiency of spot and futures energy markets: A rolling sample approach
( 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 ... -
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 ... -
Financing new entrepreneurship: Credit or microcredit?
( 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 ... -
Terrorism and capital flows: the missed impact of terrorism in big cities
( Routledge , 2021 , Article)This study investigates the effects of four types of terrorist attacks on three types of capital flow. We extend the literature by introducing a new measure of terrorist attacks, namely 'attacks in big cities' and empirically ... -
Short- and long-run asymmetric effect of oil prices and oil and gas revenues on the real GDP and economic diversification in oil-dependent economy
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)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 ... -
Renewable and non-renewable energy use - economic growth nexus: The case of MENA Net Oil Importing Countries
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article Review)This study examines the energy use - economic growth nexus by disaggregating energy use into two types of energy, renewable and non-renewable energy use. Our sample consists of eleven MENA Net Oil Importing Countries (NOICs) ... -
Reviewing the oil price-GDP growth relationship: A replication study
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper presents a thorough replication of Hamilton (2003) which in turn replicates and extends the findings of four seminal papers regarding the oil price-GDP growth relationship. Firstly, we replicate the empirical ... -
The effects of financial inclusion and the business environment in spurring the creation of early-stage firms and supporting established firms
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This study investigates the role of financial inclusion and the institutional environment in promoting entrepreneurship. Using the panel vector autoregressive model for a sample of 43 countries over the period from 2001 ... -
Regime-specific impact of financial reforms on economic growth in Pakistan
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study uses and proposes a new methodological approach to construct a financial liberalization index on the basis of the dynamic factor model technique. The resulting index is used to investigate the impact of the ... -
Islamic versus conventional banks in the GCC countries: A comparative study using classification techniques
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)This paper contributes to the empirical literature on Islamic finance by investigating the feature of Islamic and conventional banks in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the period 2003-2010. We use parametric ... -
Risk factors of road accident severity and the development of a new system for prevention: New insights from China
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Road accident fatalities and accident severity costs have become top priorities and concerns for Chinese policymakers. Understanding the principal factors that explain accident severity is considered to be the first step ... -
Money demand and black market exchange rate: A cointegration approach with structural break
( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)This paper examines different specifications of the money demand function by including both black market exchange rate and oil prices as additional variables in Syria for the period 1990Q1-2009Q4. In order to test the ... -
Analysis of the performance of TAM in oil and gas industry: Factors and solutions for improvement
( 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 ... -
An intra-cryptocurrency analysis of volatility connectedness and its determinants: Evidence from mining coins, non-mining coins and tokens
( 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 -
Enhancing the export activities of small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets
( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2022 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine a conceptual integrated framework for small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) export performance that comprises all potential export determinants and inhibitors. This study also ... -
Tourism research for the GCC region: Current status and future research directions
( SAGE Publications , 2021 , Article Review)Tourism in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has recently been considered by policymakers as a new avenue for economic diversification. Despite the considerable literature concerning the impact of tourism ... -
Analysis of the resilience of the Turkey tourism industry to exogenous shocks: new evidence from a NARDL model
( 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 ...
