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Rational functions: an alternative approach to asset pricing
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This paper shows that asset prices are linear polynomials of various underlying explanatory factors and asset returns being ratios of these polynomials, are rational functions that do not add linearly when averaging. Hence, ... -
Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2014 , Article)This study re-examines both pure technical and scale efficiency of Australian banks using bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA). The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Remittances, institutions and economic growth: A closer look at some proxies for institutions
( Economics Bulletin , 2016 , Article)This paper re-examines the relationship between remittances and economic growth by giving a closer look at the role of institutions. Using data on 55 developing countries over the period 1991-2011 and estimates from empirical ... -
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) ... -
Resilience in the time of COVID-19: Lessons learned from Middle East and North Africa small- and medium-sized enterprises
( John Wiley & Sons , 2023 , Article)We investigated the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on small- and medium-sized enterprises in Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Using firm-level panel data from an enterprise survey, we highlight several new findings. ... -
Return and volatility spillovers in the presence of structural breaks: evidence from GCC Islamic and conventional banks
( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2019 , Article)The dynamics of return and volatility spillover indices were investigated to reveal the strength and direction of transmission that occurred during a financial crisis. The focus of this study was especially placed on the ... -
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 ... -
Revisiting the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Inflation in Egypt: Why Is the Statistical Association Weak in the Short Run?
( Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies (AIELAS) , 2019 , Article)This study investigates the question of “Why is the statistical association between exchange rate shocks and domestic inflation in Egypt weak?” The study relies on two econometric models, the SVAR model and the Markov ... -
Risk connectedness between energy and stock markets: Evidence from oil importing and exporting countries
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)The surmounted environmental and energy challenges have motivated this study to explore the connectedness nexus between oil/renewable energy and stock markets for oil-exporting (importing) countries. We utilize the dynamic ... -
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 ... -
Risk spillover from crude oil prices to GCC stock market returns: New evidence during the COVID-19 outbreak
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)In this study, we examine oil price extreme tail risk spillover to individual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets and quantify this spillover's shift before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A dynamic conditional ... -
Scale heterogeneity in discrete choice experiment: An application of generalized mixed logit model in air travel choice
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)This study explores to what extent scale heterogeneity (i.e., varying standard deviation of the errors across consumers) is important in air travel choice using data from a stated preference discrete choice experiment. We ... -
Scenario-Based Forecast for Post-Conflict’s Growth in Syria
( Economic Research Forum (ERF) , 2020 , Working Paper)This paper investigates the relationship between the main macroeconomic indicators, namely real GDP, consumer prices and parallel market exchange rate in the Syrian economy during the period 1990-2017. We provide a ... -
Shadow banking, insurance and financial sector stability
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Motivated by the recent financial crisis and the near collapse of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG), we empirically study the link between the insurance sector, the size of the shadow system and financial ... -
Short- and long-run asymmetric effect of oil prices and oil and gas revenues on the real GDP and economic diversification in oil-dependent economy
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)The aim of this paper is to explore the short- and long-run asymmetric impact of oil prices shocks and oil and gas revenues changes on the total real GDP, and the level of economic diversification of the Qatar economy. To ... -
The simplified tax regime for micro and small enterprises in Egypt: An analysis of the theoretical and implementation issues
( Informit , 2021 , Article)Unlike previous studies focusing on the tax regimes of small and medium enterprises ('SMEs'), this article examines and analyses simplified tax regimes for micro, small and medium enterprises ('MSMEs'). Very recently, a ... -
Simulating Yields for Selected Vegetables in Qatar Using Crop, Climate, Soil and Management Information to Improve the Country's Food Security
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Qatar produces only about 8 to 10 percent of food consumed in the country. Domestic production of perishable commodities, primarily vegetables, will be increased by using a combination of hi-tech water-efficient field and ... -
Social health insurance in the Philippines: do the poor really benefit?
( Springer , 2020 , Article)Developing countries have spent a tremendous amount of time and money on social health insurance programs to give the low-income population free access to health care services. Standard economic theory predicts that people ...