Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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The Power to Conserve: A Field Experiment on Electricity Use in Qatar
( National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) , 2023 , Working Paper)High resource users often have the strongest response to behavioral interventions promoting conservation. Yet, litlle is known about how to motivate them. We implement a field experiment in Qatar, where residential customers ... -
Governance in the developing world: Transnational insights on economic development
( Springer , 2023 , Book)This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally. Governance has been pointed out as one of the major weaknesses ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Assessing the impact of energy R&D on green growth in OECD countries: a CS-ARDL analysis
( Springer , 2024 , Article)Since the introduction of the OECD innovation and green growth strategies in 2007 and 2011, respectively, the OECD countries have been actively engaged in supporting green energy R&D to accelerate the development of ... -
Do product offering and service quality affect customer satisfaction in Islamic and conventional banks? Evidence from an oil-based economy
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the effect of product offering and other service quality (SQ) dimensions on the satisfaction of the customers of both Islamic and conventional banks, using evidence from an oil-based ... -
Does employee treatment affect trade credit? An international evidence
( Emerald Publishing , 2024 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to investigate the linkage of employee treatment and trade credit for a sample of 45 countries from 2003 to 2018. It explores the trade credit from a receivable perspective. Design/methodology/approach: ... -
Beyond economic growth goals: can foreign aid mitigate carbon dioxide emissions in developing countries?
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We provide novel and compelling evidence that foreign aid has significant mitigating impacts on carbon dioxide emissions in a comprehensive panel dataset of 127 developing countries from 1995 to 2019. This impact operates ... -
Context-dependent responses to geopolitical risk in Middle Eastern and African stock markets: An asymmetric volatility spillover study
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)This paper examines the asymmetric volatility spillover impact of geopolitical risk on stock market returns across six Middle Eastern and African (MEA) economies: Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, and South ... -
Achieving the sustainable development goals in developing countries: The role of remittances and the mediating effect of financial inclusion
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)This study investigates the pivotal role of remittances in advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within developing countries. While previous literature has acknowledged the potential of remittances in fostering ... -
Club Convergence in Productivity among European Regions: Recent Evidence and Policy Implications
( Center for Economic Integration , 2024 , Article)We use data on 155 NUTS regions, with the objective of i) generating TFP series over 1996-2018, and ii) testing for club-convergence. We also employ a logistic regression to identify the significant club-membership ... -
Cryptocurrencies versus environmentally sustainable assets: Does a perfect hedge exist?
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)In the wake of proliferation of cryptocurrencies and growing concerns regarding their environmental impact, we investigate the dynamic co-movement of digital assets and environmentally sustainable assets. We use daily data ... -
Sukūk development and income inequality
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)This paper investigates the link between sukūk development and income inequality by scrutinizing twenty-two countries’ data from 1995 to 2019. We employ the two-stage Fractional Regression Model to illustrate that sukūk ... -
Non-vetoed matching with status quo
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We consider a matching market where there is an initial matching a priori. Both sides of the market can veto the new matching whenever they would rather keep their initial assignment. We propose a stability notion, called ... -
Does trade openness mitigate environmental degradation in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries? Implications for achieving sustainable development
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2024 , Article)The link between trade openness and CO2 emissions is a key research focus in times of pressing global sustainability needs and ongoing climate change discussions. In this study, we address the critical issue of the impact ... -
Housing markets since Shapley and Scarf
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)Shapley and Scarf (1974) appeared in the first issue of the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and is one of the journal's most impactful publications. As we approach the remarkable milestone of the journal's 50th anniversary ... -
Rawlsian Matching
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We apply the Rawlsian principle to a canonical discrete object allocation problem. A matching is Rawlsian if it is impossible to improve the ranking of assignment for the worst-off agent or reduce the cardinality of the ... -
Capacity design in school choice
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)We study a new variant of the school choice problem in which capacities can be altered by distributing additional seats across schools in response to students' reported preferences. We show that heuristic solutions to this ... -
Do SWF investments matter for bond ratings? The role of corporate governance
( John Wiley and Sons , 2024 , Article)We investigate the impact of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) equity ownership on bonds’ credit ratings of their target firms. Using a sample of 2045 bonds issued by 324 SWF target firms from 16 countries over the period ... -
The impact of macroeconomic variables (MEV) on the stock market returns in MENA countries
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)The study analyses the effect of macroeconomic variables (MEV) on stock returns in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. MEV refers to the monetary and fiscal policy variables besides economic policy uncertainty ...
