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Financial development and environmental quality in UAE: Cointegration with structural breaks
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article Review)
This study extends the recent work of Shahbaz et al. (2014) by implementing recent unit root tests with multiple structural breaks and regime-switching cointegration techniques considering for one and two unknown regime ...
Modelling the symmetric and asymmetric relationships between oil prices and those of corn, barley, and rapeseed oil
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This study, using linear and nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Models, investigates the dynamic linkages between oil prices and agricultural commodities. The results from the linear model show that barley, ...
Is exchange rate risk priced in microfinance?
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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 ...
Managers' autonomy, strategic control, organizational politics and strategic planning effectiveness: An empirical investigation into missing links in the hotel sector
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
This article reports on the impact of managerial autonomy and strategic control on organizational politics and show how the latter influence effectiveness of strategic planning. In doing so, it outlines particular directions ...
SME international business models: The role of context and experience
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper addresses two questions through a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts. First, which business models for international markets prevail among SMEs and do they configure into ...
Sustainable development in Asian manufacturing SMEs: Progress and directions
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
This article identifies the factors that influence the environmental, social and financial performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector in Asia. Asian SMEs play an important role in ...
Our Sociomaterial Entanglement with AI
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
, 2024 , Article)
Contrary to the frenzy of hyperbolic rhetoric preaching artificial intelligence (AI) as an economic imperative for nations, the way it is entangled with all aspects of our lives calls for inquiry into its meaning beyond a ...
The forward premium anomaly in the energy futures markets: A time-varying approach
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the forward premium anomaly by investigating possible statistical explanations for this puzzling phenomenon in the energy market. To this end, time series of spot and ...
The switching impact of financial stability and economic growth in Qatar: Evidence from an oil-rich country
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper investigates the relationship between financial stability and economic growth in the Qatar economy over the period 1980:Q1–2013:Q4. The paper estimates the short- and long-run impact of real GDP growth on real ...
Empirical evidence on the long and short run determinants of health expenditure in the Arab world
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper empirically examines the determinants of health care spending for 18 Arab world countries for the period 1995–2015 by using recently developed panel cointegration techniques. We conducted the same estimations ...