Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine if the simultaneous openness to trade and capital account can promote financial sector development. Design/methodology/approach - Based on a sample of 12 Arab countries ...

This article examines the notion that less developed markets may be deemed safe havens for international investors. It tests the effect of mature markets' fear on risk and return in less developed markets. The study employs ...

Purpose: The risk-return relationship is one of the most widely investigated topics in finance, yet this relationship remains one of the most controversial topics. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymmetric ...

This study examines the diversification and hedging properties of Bitcoin (BTC) and gold assets for oil and S&P GSCI investors. We model and forecast the volatility performance of the pairs BTC-oil, gold-oil, BTC-S&P GSCI, ...

This study uses OLS, fixed effect and random effect models to evaluate the lending channel of the monetary policy transmission in Qatar over the 2000-2013 period. The growth in the loans extended by the Qatari banks is ...

The central objective of this study is to investigate the effect of capital structure on corporate failure in the emerging market, in particular Jordan, using a panel data analysis sample representative of 180 Jordanian ...

This paper explores the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using two different environment indicators: the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and the ecological footprint (EF) in Qatar over the 1980-2011 period. ...

Organizations are increasingly interested in using microblogging platforms, such as Twitter, to get rapid feedback in several domains using sentiment analysis algorithms to rate, for example, whether a target audience is ...

The present paper investigates the adverse selection problem by examining the relationship between accident occurrences and deductible choice utilizing a seemingly unrelated probit model that allows for best controls for ...

This study addresses the economic performance of the Egyptian economy during the periods before and after the 25th January upheaval in 2011. It analyses, in particular, the extent to which monetary and fiscal policies ...