Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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Trade liberalization and relative employment: further evidence from Tunisia
( Springer International Publishing , 2015 , Article)There are increasing studies that address the skill upgrading in developing countries. The theoretical analyses yield different results about which factors affect skill upgrading. The impact of trade openness and technology ... -
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 ... -
Does Financial Sector Promote Economic Growth in Pakistan? Empirical Evidences From Markov Switching Model
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2020 , Article)This study investigates the financial development-economic growth relationship in Pakistan over the period 1975-2017 using the Markov Switching methodology. The financial development index has been constructed using the ... -
Financial development-economic growth nexus in Pakistan: new evidence from the Markov switching model
( Cogent OA , 2020 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980-2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Do information and communication technology and renewable energy use matter for carbon dioxide emissions reduction? Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This study aims to investigate whether information and communication technologies (ICT) and renewable energy consumption can help improve environmental quality for a selected group of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
