Finance & Economics: Recent submissions
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How News affects Stock Prices of Olympics and FIFA host countries
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)As the sports industry continues to grow, mega sports events can have a significant impact on the financial markets. Stock market performance is influenced by sports-related news, however, very few studies have been ... -
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 ... -
Socially responsible investing and Islamic funds: New perspectives for portfolio allocation
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of ethical and conventional investments. It examines also whether socially responsible and Islamic investments offer an additional opportunity for domestic investors ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Understanding citizens' adoption of e-filing in developing countries: An empirical investigation
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)This study develops a research framework by integrating the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology's model with multi-dimensional trust in order to investigate the antecedents of behavioral expectation toward ... -
The corruption-inflation nexus: Evidence from developed and developing countries
( Walter de Gruyter GmbH , 2016 , Article)This paper analyzes the relationship between corruption and inflation for a sample of 100 developing and developed countries representing five regions (Americas, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and ... -
Export market concentration and the potential for export market diversification in the oil and gas sector in a small open economy
( International Economic Society , 2016 , Article)Though small in area and population, the US$ 200 billion Qatari economy is open and driven by the oil and gas sector. Therefore the economy is susceptible to economic shocks in international markets. We illustrate the ... -
Key determinants of inflation and monetary policy in the emerging markets: Evidence from Vietnam
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)The study explores the key determinants of inflation in Vietnam for a period of ten year (2000-2011) using the explanatory variables: past inflation, real income, money supply, exchange rate, interest rate and world oil ... -
Bank concentration, institutional quality, and economic growth: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of institutional quality on the relationship between economic growth and banking sector concentration. Design/methodology/approach: The sample of our study covers 15 Middle ... -
Do financial distress and liquidity crises affect value and size premiums?
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)This study investigates the impact of liquidity crises on the relationship between stock (value and size) premiums and default risk in the US market. It first examines whether financial distress can explain value and size ... -
Do oil producing countries offer international diversification benefits? Evidence from GCC countries
( 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 ... -
The simultaneous estimation of credit growth, valuation, and stability of the Gulf Cooperation Council banking industry
( 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 ... -
Impact of terrorist attacks on stock market volatility in emerging markets
( 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. ... -
Is exchange rate risk priced in microfinance?
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)High microcredit interest rates have often been a source of criticism against the microfinance movement. Research has focused attention on the cost structure of interest rates and more recently on the macroeconomic and ... -
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book)Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ... -
Testing the risk-return tradeoff in the emerging market of Jordan: What role for financial crises?
( Inderscience Publishers , 2016 , Article)This study investigates the risk-return relationship at sector level in the emerging market of Jordan (ASE) over the period 1999-2014. The results of an unconditional test with a structural breakpoint show that the ... -
Dynamic risk spillovers and portfolio risk management between precious metals and global foreign exchange markets
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This study examines portfolio management and risk spillovers between four major precious metals (gold, silver, palladium and platinum) and 20 important U.S. exchange markets. To this end, we employ the multivariate DECO-GARCH ... -
The impact of business and political news on the GCC stock markets
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of business and political news on stock market returns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. For this purpose, it employs a Markov switching model including a separate index ...