Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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Entrepreneurship Education: A Global Consideration From Practice to Policy Around the World
( Qatar Foundation , 2015 , Report)As entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum and visibility as an engine of global economic development, it is critical to understand and optimize the role that entrepreneurship education plays. Based on a detailed ... -
Tax Policy Debate Over Tax Incentives in Developing Countries: the Case of Egypt
( School of Taxation and Business Law (Atax), UNSW Business School, UNSW Australia , 2016 , Article)Tax policy is normally formulated and implemented during politically stable periods. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries in the early 1990s have allowed researchers to study tax policy reform in ... -
Impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This study explores the economic growth – energy consumption nexus for two samples of MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs) during the period 1980–2012. Using panel cointegration approach, we found strong evidence for ... -
State and foreign ownership and the value of working capital management
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)In this paper we examine whether state and foreign ownership affect the shape of the value-net working capital (NWC) curve. Using a multinational sample of privatized firms from 54 countries, we provide documentation ... -
How does the tax status of a country impact capital structure? Evidence from the GCC region
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)We investigate whether the tax status of a country has an impact on corporate capital structure. This research question is important and timely given that the empirical literature has not reached a consensus on the effect ... -
A time-varying copula approach for modelling dependency: New evidence from commodity and stock markets
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This paper examines the time-varying conditional dependency between commodity markets and stock markets by applying the rolling-sample technique on the dependence parameter of copula. The dataset consists of the closing ... -
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 Credit–Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
( John Wiley & Sons Ltd. , 2014 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between credit market development and economic growth for a heterogeneous panel of 20 developing and developed countries with varied growth experiences. The empirical ... -
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 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 ... -
Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)CBPP is an important transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa whose control is urgent. Participatory data collection involving 52 focus group discussions in 37 village clusters and key informant interviews, a cross-sectional ... -
Willingness to pay for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia vaccination in Narok South District of Kenya
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) is an economically important trans-boundary cattle disease which affects food security and livelihoods. A conjoint analysis-contingent valuation was carried out on 190 households ... -
The resilience of oil-rich economies to the global financial crisis: Evidence from Kuwaiti financial and real sectors
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This article investigates the resilience of oil-rich economies to the recent global financial crisis, with a particular emphasis on Kuwait as a case study. We explore how the crisis affected the market power of banks and, ... -
Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in the MENA Countries: What Role for Oil?
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2011 , Article)This paper considers the linkage between stock prices and exchange rates in four MENA (Middle East and North Africa) emerging markets. In contrast to the existing evidence that uses a global market index to uncover such a ... -
THE LEVERAGE EFFECT ON THE VALUE PREMIUM VOLATILITY: FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
( Qatar University , 2015 , Article)This paper investigates the leverage effect on the value premium volatility using GARCH and TARCH models utilizing a unique dataset, for twenty nine countries. The findings show that value premium returns are bigger in ... -
Optimal Pricing and order quantity strategies for a firm offering multiple products facing customers cannibalization and random market demand
( Qatar University , 2010 , Article)This paper studies a firm’s profitability problem offering its products into different market segments at differentiated prices. In order to improve the firms’ profitability the firm needs to decide the prices and order ... -
Financial progress and the stability of long-run money demand: Implications for the conduct of monetary policy in emerging economies
( Elsevier Inc. , 2009 , Article)This paper examines whether recent financial changes in three emerging market economies in the Gulf region (Bahrain, the UAE, and Qatar) have distorted the character and the stability of their underlying long-run money ... -
Economic Policies and the Possibilities of Unified GCC Currency
( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)The aim of this study is to identify the extent to which the GCC countries can adopt similar economic policies by the time the GCC unified currency is formed in 2010. Among other convergence standards, we examined the ...
