Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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A comparative analysis of flipped, online and traditional teaching: A case of female Middle Eastern management students
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study compares performance and perception of students in a management course at a business school in the Middle East. 122 students completed an Introduction to Management course, which was divided into three different ... -
The Impact of Market-wide Volatility on Time-varying Risk: Evidence from Qatar Stock Exchange
( Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study examines the impact of market-wide volatility on time-varying risk using the heteroscedastic market model with EGARCH (1,1) specification. Using daily sector returns from the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) market ... -
Time-varying efficiency of developed and emerging bond markets: Evidence from long-spans of historical data
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Bonds have become an important part of investment portfolios for individuals as well as for institutions, particularly after the recent financial crisis. This paper empirically investigates the Adaptive Market Hypothesis ... -
On the increasing importance of multiple criteria decision aid methods for portfolio selection
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2018 , Article)In 1952, Markowitz published his famous paper on portfolio selection that transformed the field of finance. Although over 65years have passed since then, the mean-variance model remains today the predominant model in ... -
The environmental Kuznets curve relationship: a case study of the Gulf Cooperation Council region
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Article)By using panel data over the 1980?2017 period and two alternative indicators of environmental pollution (carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions), this paper investigates the validity of the environmental ... -
Asymmetric import cost pass-through in GCC countries: Evidence from nonlinear panel analysis
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates the asymmetric impacts of import costs on inflation in GCC countries. We utilize data from GCC countries and their trading partners over the period of 1990:Q1-2014:Q4 to construct a new import cost ... -
Diversification and bank stability in the GCC
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study examines bank diversification strategies and links to financial sector stability. Using a sample of listed and unlisted banks operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over 2001 to 2014 we ... -
What drives energy efficiency? New evidence from financial crises
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Using a sample of 100 countries from 1980 to 2015, this paper investigates the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), imports, gross capital formation, and industry value-added on energy efficiency before and after the ... -
Scale heterogeneity in discrete choice experiment: An application of generalized mixed logit model in air travel choice
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)This study explores to what extent scale heterogeneity (i.e., varying standard deviation of the errors across consumers) is important in air travel choice using data from a stated preference discrete choice experiment. We ... -
Is it possible to improve environmental quality without reducing economic growth: Evidence from the Qatar economy
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article Review)In line with the priorities of the Qatar national vision (QNV) 2030 and its principal pillars, we examine in this paper the energy use - economic growth nexus for Qatar during the period 1970-2014. Using recent development ... -
Fashion model profiles: the intersection of self, ideal and preferred
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how young female fashion consumers assessed the facial attractiveness of an advertising model. The study focused on the consumers exposed to both local and foreign fashion ... -
Bank efficiency and industry growth during financial crises
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Financial crises pose many problems for growth, and in this time of increasing financial instability it is important to fully understand why this happens. Many papers have analyzed the relationship between growth and a ... -
Downpayment, mobility and default: A welfare analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)In this paper, I study the impact of the relaxation of downpayment requirements on home-ownership and default risk in the context of a static spatial life cycle model. Given its quantitative success in matching the U.S. ... -
Mega-sports events and stock market returns: The case of the 2022 World Cup
( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2018 , Article)This study examines the impact of the FIFA's official announcements on Doha Stock Exchange (DSE) of Qatar with respect to the 2022 World Cup. Using the abnormal unsystematic return method of Savickas, our findings reveal ... -
Employee welfare and stock price crash risk
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)We examine whether employee welfare practices are associated with future stock price crash risk. Two competing hypotheses were tested: the stakeholder theory hypothesis & the agency theory hypothesis. According to the ... -
Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)We explore the impact of the Globe and Mail corporate governance index on bond spreads in a sample of Canadian listed companies. The index is composed of four sub-indices—board composition/structure, board compensation, ... -
The impact of parallel market exchange rate volatility and oil exports on real GDP in Syria: Evidence from the ARDL approach
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of parallel market exchange rate volatility and trade on real GDP and real GDP growth in the Syrian economy over the period of 1990Q1–2010Q4. To this end, we first construct a parallel ... -
Long range dependence in an emerging stock market’s sectors: volatility modelling and VaR forecasting
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This study evaluates the sector risk of the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE), a recently upgraded emerging stock market, using value-at-risk models for the 7 January 2007–18 October 2015 period. After providing evidence for true ... -
The Dynamic and Dependence of Takaful and Conventional Stock Return Behaviours: Evidence from the Insurance Industry in Saudi Arabia
( Springer New York LLC , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates the dynamics of volatility in the stock market using competing univariate GARCH specifications. Moreover, it provides a study of the pairwise correlation pattern of stock returns for a wide range ... -
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 ...