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Simulating Yields for Selected Vegetables in Qatar Using Crop, Climate, Soil and Management Information to Improve the Country's Food Security
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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 ...
The inflation-central bank independence nexus: Where do MENA countries stand?
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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?
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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 finance-growth nexus: Which factors can interfere?
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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 ...
Workers remittances and economic development: Which role for education?
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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 ...
Impact of terrorist attacks on stock market volatility in emerging markets
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
We use an event study methodology alongside an improved bootstrapping test to evaluate the impact of terrorist attacks on the volatility of stock markets in 12 MENA countries, and test for regional financial integration. ...
Further evidence on the rationality of interest rate expectations: A comprehensive study of developed and emerging economies
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study performs unbiasedness and efficiency tests of three-month and twelve-month ahead interest rate forecasts of one short-term and one long-term security of 10 developed and 20 emerging economies by exploiting a new ...
Do oil producing countries offer international diversification benefits? Evidence from GCC countries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper provides evidence of the existence of diversification benefits in international stock markets when oil producing countries are included in a global portfolio. Moreover, it examines whether recent oil shocks and ...
Breaks or long range dependence in the energy futures volatility: Out-of-sample forecasting and VaR analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to propose an empirical strategy that allows the discrimination between true and spurious long memory behaviors. That strategy is based on the comparison between the estimated long memory parameter ...
The simultaneous estimation of credit growth, valuation, and stability of the Gulf Cooperation Council banking industry
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
We use a simultaneous equations model to study the relationship between bank stability, performance and credit growth for 59 GCC banks over the period 2004-2012. To derive our results, we use a dynamic panel estimation ...