Browsing Finance & Economics by Type "Book chapter"
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Assessing the Impact of Major Political and Institutional Factors on New Businesses: The Case of Qatar
( Springer , 2022 , Book chapter)This chapter provides an assessment of the impact of the major political and institutional factors on establishing new businesses in the State of Qatar in the long run using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. ... -
Central banking and income inequality: The impact of monetary policy on income distribution
( Routledge , 2020 , Book chapter)Since the 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis, income inequality and income distribution matters have gained increasing attention not only in academia but also from professionals in advanced economies. Mainstream economists ... -
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 ... -
Corruption and Economic Development
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Corruption is believed to be widespread and it adversely affects countries at different intervals, in different degrees. Corruption scandals show that bribes are commonplace and that even societies that are supposedly free ... -
Do Governance Indicators Predict Inequality? A Panel Non-causality Framework for the Emerging Countries
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book chapter)This investigation aims to explore the causal nexus between governance indicators and income inequality for 15 emerging countries for the period 2002–2019. This study focuses on developing countries because income inequality ... -
FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ... -
Governance and Growth in Developing Countries: New Insights from a Cross-Regional Empirical Analysis
( Springer , 2023 , Book chapter)This paper investigates the impact of governance on growth for a sample of 20 developing countries. We address the complementarity between the various dimensions of governance by constructing a global governance index and ... -
Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Economic growth is an increase in the productive capacity of an economy. The productive capacity can be increased by an increase in factors of production, such as capital, labor, or the level of technology. Economic growth ... -
The finance-growth nexus: Which factors can interfere?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)The financial sector's role in economic growth is heavily contested by economists. Some argue that economic growth is not caused by finance, but that it responds to changing demands, while others argue the positive effect ... -
The inflation-central bank independence nexus: Where do MENA countries stand?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Inflation and its dynamics have been always capturing the attention of economic scholars and policymakers worldwide. Numerous theories in economic literature tried to define the concept of inflation by suggesting different ... -
The middle east and North Africa: Cursed by natural resources?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)The relationship between natural resource wealth and economic growth has been extensively studied. As opposed to basic intuition, the results of several empirical studies suggest that vast natural capital endowments don’t ... -
The role of ICT adoption in curbing corruption in developing countries
( Springer International Publishing , 2017 , Book chapter)Corruption is regarded as a major problem impeding development potentialities, and curbing it is a leading challenge for developing countries. This chapter assesses the possibilities of ICT adoption as a powerful tool for ... -
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Despite the global liberalization of trade, financial and technological flows, there still are tremendous disparities in terms of income per capita and growth rates across countries (Hall and Jones, 1999). Among the plethora ... -
Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Examination of the growth phases in developed and in developing countries and their involvement in international trade shows the importance of trade policies in these countries. In recent decades, many developing countries ... -
Why Gulf Rentier Economies Must Pursue Economic Diversification
( Springer , 2020 , Book chapter)Within the mandate of their national visions, GCC countries have announced several strategies to expand their manufacturing, tourism and financial activities (economic diversification). However, the path towards the ultimate ... -
Workers remittances and economic development: Which role for education?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)In the past decades, international remittance inflows have significantly increased in developing nations. Their importance is being acknowledged due to their scale and growth, which makes them stand out on an aggregate and ... -
Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: The Role of Financial Development
( Springer , 2020 , Book chapter)In this article, we examine the role of financial development as a channel through which migrants’ remittances could affect economic growth in selected countries of the MENA region.