Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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Integrating IFRSs into the Accounting Curriculum: Evidence Using a Multiple Triangulation Approach
( NeilsonJournals Publishing , 2022 , Article)This paper investigates accounting students’ opinions and the faculty members’ views on the incorporation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) into the accounting curriculum at Qatar University (QU). A ... -
On the relation between internal corporate governance and bank risk-taking: evidence from gulf cooperative council countries
( Taiwan Institute of Business Administration , 2014 , Article)This study investigates the relationship between ownership structure, board composition and risk-taking of listed banking companies in the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries during 2004-2010. Building on limited ... -
Determinants of Tunisia's exports: A gravity model framework
( International Economic Society Ltd , 2013 , Article)This paper applies the gravity trade model to explain Tunisia's exports pattern with non-traditional partner's countries and to determine the main factors explaining Tunisia's exports with these countries. We estimate our ... -
Japanese multinational corporations and corporate tax change
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)This paper examines the impact of the recent changes in Japanese taxation polices before and after the shift from a global taxation system to a territorial taxation system in 2009 on the income shifting activities of ... -
Diversification and hedging strategies of green bonds in financial asset portfolios during the COVID-19 pandemic
( Routledge , 2023 , Article)In this paper, we investigate whether investors can reap potential diversification or hedging benefits from holding green bonds in a portfolio containing a conventional financial asset during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using ... -
Decomposed oil price shocks and GCC stock market sector returns and volatility
( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Article)This study investigates dynamic mean and tail-based connectedness between decomposed oil price shocks (demand shock, supply shock, and risk shock) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock returns and volatility at the ... -
Corruption, lending and bank performance
( Elsevier Inc. , 2024 , Article)This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link between corruption, lending and bank performance. It considers both country- and bank-level corruption. The study finds ... -
Effects of board and ownership structure on corporate performance: Evidence from GCC countries
( emerald insight , 2014 , Article)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of ownership structure and board composition on bank performance as measured by Tobin's Q and market to book value in Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) countries. ... -
Ownership structure, corporate governance and bank performance: Evidence from gcc countries
( Virtus Interpress , 2011 , Article)The paper examines the effect of ownership structure and board characteristics on bank performance of GCC counties. Evidence indicates that the extent of the foreign ownership level has a significant positive association ... -
The inter and intra discipline linkage between Economics, Business administration and Social sciences
( OpenED Network , 2018 , Article)This study aims at investigating the extent to which six disciplines (Economic, Business administration, Finance and investment, Accounting, Banking and Insurance and risk management) reach out to spaces shared with other ... -
An empirical investigation of trade flows between Australia and its major trading partners
( University of Wollongong , 2014 , Article)This study introduces Net Export (NX) models to examine the determinants of the trade flows between Australia and eight selected trading partner (TP) countries (China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, United ... -
Understanding challenges to food security in dry Arab micro-states: Evidence from Qatari micro-data
( Walter de Gruyter , 2013 , Article)Using Qatar as a case study, we exploit a novel microdata set for 102 raw agricultural imported commodities on a shipment-by-shipment basis over the period January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2010. The data comprise over half a ... -
Determinants of foreign direct and indirect investment in the MENA region
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2015 , Article)Purpose - This study aims to examine the factors affecting the foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows among the 16 economies comprising the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. ... -
Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2012 , Article)Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ... -
Does Government Ownership and Disclosure Affect Performance and Stability of the GCC Banking Sector?
( Cambridge Research Science Institute , 2013 , Article)This paper studies empirically the effect of government ownership and the level of disclosure on the performance and the stability of banks, controlling for regulations, concentration, bank and country specific characteristics. ... -
The price-volume relationship in Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets
( Inderscience , 2011 , Article)This paper examines the empirical relationship among stock return, trading volume and volatility for the seven stock markets that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council. The dataset includes seven national stock markets for ... -
The price-volume relationship in Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets
( Inderscience Publishers , 2015 , Article)This paper examines the empirical relationship among stock return, trading volume and volatility for the seven stock markets that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council. The dataset includes seven national stock markets for ... -
Does Political Risk Affect the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment into the Middle East North African Region
(2013 , Article)Given the political risk in the Middle East North African (MENA) region, this research aimed to unveil the importance of the different components of political risk on the change in foreign direct investment (FDI), ... -
Market liberalization and volatility of returns in emerging markets: The case of Qatar Exchange (QSC)
( Emerald Publishing , 2012 , Article)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether stock market liberalization creates excess stock return volatility in the Qatar Exchange (QSC). Design/methodology/approach – The study utilizes two methods, simple ... -
Bank Characteristics and Liquidity Transformation: The Case of GCC Banks
( Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE) , 2012 , Article)This paper uses a simple measure of liquidity creation to examines empirically the effect of bank capital and other micro and macro-characteristics on liquidity creation. We apply the analysis to data from a sample of ...
