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When does uncertainty avoidance promote customer-to-customer intercultural service encounters?
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: Previous literature has reported inconsistent findings regarding the impact of uncertainty avoidance (UA) on intercultural experiences. This includes positive, negative and insignificant associations between UA ...
Modelling the asymmetric responses of price level to oil price changes in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This paper inspects the asymmetric effect of oil price on prices level in Qatar. To achieve that, we proceed by employing a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach on data during the period 1990Q1-2014Q4. ...
Asymmetric responses of money demand to oil price shocks in Saudi Arabia: a non-linear ARDL approach
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
Saudi Arabia is an open oil-based economy with fixed exchange rates; therefore, it has limited monetary policy autonomy. Using non-linear autoregressive distributed lag approach, this article investigates the asymmetric ...
Managing sustainable development through goal programming model and satisfaction functions
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Springer New York LLC
, 2019 , Article)
Managing the sustainable development path of a nation requires the aggregation of incommensurable and conflicting objectives related to economic, environmental and social dimensions. Their aggregation requires some tradeoffs ...
The effect of diversification on risk and return in banking sector: Evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of revenue diversification, non-interest income and asset diversification on the performance and stability of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) conventional ...
Fashion model profiles: the intersection of self, ideal and preferred
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how young female fashion consumers assessed the facial attractiveness of an advertising model. The study focused on the consumers exposed to both local and foreign fashion ...
Corruption and public spending on education and health
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
Existing country and regional studies show that the effect of corruption on public spending on health and education is mixed. This letter reveals that the effect of corruption on health and education spending is significant ...
Return and volatility spillovers in the presence of structural breaks: evidence from GCC Islamic and conventional banks
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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 ...
Time varying market efficiency of the GCC stock markets
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
This paper investigates the time-varying levels of weak-form market efficiency for the GCC stock markets over the period spanning from May 2005 to September 2013. We use two empirical approaches: (1) the generalized ...
Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
The limited number of existing papers that link competition among microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microcredit interest rates, provide inconclusive and counterintuitive results. This paper uses data from 1997 MFIs ...