Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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Regional Growth, Domestic and Foreign Tourism in NUTS Regions: New Insights from the Old Continent
( SAGE , 2020 , Article)Using regional data encompassing 155 Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) regions across the EU-28 member states, we estimate the effect of tourist arrivals (total, domestic, and foreign) on regional ... -
Tourism Competitiveness in Qatar: Tourists’ Perspectives
( Center for Promoting Ideas , 2021 , Article)The aim of this paper is to develop an evidence-based integrated model of destination competitiveness and apply it to the case of Qatar, given that the country has faced a recent blockade and growing competition from ... -
Can tourism market diversification mitigate the adverse effects of a blockade on tourism? Evidence from Qatar
( SAGE , 2022 , Article)This study examines the effects of an unfavorable political event or environmental hostility, namely, a blockade affecting international tourist inflows, and how tourism market diversification (TMD) could mitigate the ... -
On the complex relationship between different aspects of social capital and group loan repayment
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Do all aspects of social capital improve repayment behavior in group lending programs? The group lending literature typically uses one or few measures of social capital in a linear form, and systematically understates the ... -
Nonlinear unemployment effects of the inflation tax
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Long-run inflation has nonlinear and state-dependent effects on unemployment, output, and welfare. We show this using a standard monetary search model with two shocks – productivity and monetary – and frictions in both ... -
A Model of Endogenous Financial Inclusion: Implications for Inequality and Monetary Policy
( Wiley , 2021 , Article)We propose a monetary model with endogenous credit market participation to study the impact of financial inclusion on inequality and welfare. We find that consumption inequality results from differences in agents' decision ... -
Democracy and Banking Stability: Is the Relationship U-Shaped?
( Springer , 2022 , Article)This study addresses the impact of democracy on the stability of the banking system for a sample of 114 countries over the period 2000-2017. Our findings offer strong evidence for a U-shaped relationship between democracy ... -
How does corruption undermine banking stability? A threshold nonlinear framework
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study assesses the effect of corruption on the occurrence of banking crises for a sample of 38 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider both the direct and the indirect channels through which corruption might ... -
Credit bureaus and financial constraints do corruption matter?
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This study aims to assess whether or not the presence of credit bureaus is associated with more or fewer financing constraints while considering the interfering effect of corruption in a sample of 18 countries in Eastern ... -
Does ICT promote democracy similarily in developed and developing countries? A linear and nonlinear panel threshold framework
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper assesses the impact of ICT adoption on democracy for a panel of 70 countries over the period 2000-2017. We consider two different measures of ICT and check for the stability of the relationship for different ... -
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 corruption impede international trade? New evidence from the EU and the MENA countries
( Statistical Economic and Social Research and , 2015 , Article)This paper uses a gravity trade model to examine the effect of corruption on bilateral trade for a sample of 37 countries representing two regions: the Middle East and North Africa and the European Union during the period ... -
Does ICT diffusion matter for corruption? An Economic Development Perspective
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)This study assess the impact of ICT diffusion on corruption by using instrumental variables method on a panel data set of 175 countries over the period 1996-2014. We check for the stability of the ICT-corruption nexus for ... -
Digitalization and Banking Crisis: A Nonlinear Relationship?
( Springer , 2022 , Article)This study assesses the impact that ICT can have on the occurrence of banking crisis for a sample of 113 countries over the period 1996-2017 while considering the interfering role of corruption and the potential existence ... -
Industrialization, FDI and absorptive capacities: evidence from African Countries
( Springer , 2022 , Article)This paper assesses the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the industrialization of African economies. In particular, we address the nonlinearity issue and investigate the role of the recipient countries' absorptive ... -
Credit bureaus, corruption and banking stability
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)This study assesses the impact that credit bureaus can have on the occurrence of banking crises, using data for 32 countries over the period 2004-2016 while considering the interference effect of corruption. Different ... -
Pedagogical potentials of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to higher educational institutions: A case study of Nigerian based University
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)The research on 'Pedagogical potentials of IEEE 802.11 WLAN to Nigerian based University' is an in depth study to evaluate the potentials of its implementation to the entire teaching and tutoring vertical in Nigerian ... -
Ownership structure and intellectual capital: empirical evidence for Jordanian listed firms
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)The main objective of the current study is to examine the impact of ownership structure on intellectual capital (IC) disclosures from a stakeholder theory perspective. The current study employs a disclosure index approach ... -
Financial development and employment: New panel evidence
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2021 , Article)This paper adds to the recent literature on finance and employment creation by exploring the effect of finance on the labour market, using data on 143 countries from 1995 to 2015. We also examine whether the impact of ... -
The effects of household and firm credit on growth: New evidence from a panel of developed and developing countries
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Article)We use two panel data techniques in a novel large dataset to assess the dynamic interactions of household and enterprise credit with growth in developed and developing countries. Panel vector autoregressive (VAR) results ...
