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On the relative efficiency of conventional and Islamic banks: a DEA-window approach
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Inderscience
, 2013 , Article)
This paper explores the relative efficiency of 65 conventional and Islamic banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) over the period from 2002 to 2010. The empirical results ...
Global financial crisis, ownership structure and firm financial performance: An examination of listed firms in Australia
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the financial performance of listed firms on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) over two sample periods (1998-2007 and 2008-2010) before and during the global financial crisis ...
Governance and long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms in Australia
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Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the long-term operating performance of family and non-family firms from the agency theoretic perspective. The analysis is focused on investigating ...
Dynamic performance, financial leverage and financial crisis: Evidence from GCC countries
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Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of financial leverage on firm’s performance in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Additionally, this paper investigates the impact of recent financial ...
Green bonds’ connectedness with hedging and conditional diversification performance
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2023 , Article)
Investments in green assets are becoming increasingly significant, and they present a new asset class for investors. Consequently, the resulting connectedness among these green assets has implications for investments. Our ...
Comovement and spillover among energy markets: A Comparison across different crisis periods
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2023 , Article)
We compare the comovement and spillover between returns of six developed energy markets during different crisis periods using wavelet multiple correlation and wavelet multiple cross-correlation. The considered countries ...
Debt maturity, financial crisis and corporate performance in GCC countries: A dynamic-GMM approach
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2015 , Article)
This study investigates the effect of debt financing and debt maturity on corporate performance, using evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC): Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab ...
Government ownership, business risk, financial leverage and corporate performance: Evidence from gcc countries
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Virtus Interpress
, 2012 , Article)
This study investigates the effect of government ownership structure, business risk and financial leverage among other variables (size, age and growth) on a company’s performance in a panel data, using 191 companies from ...
The determinants of capital structure: The case of long-term debt constraint for Jordanian firms
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Virtus Interpress
, 2008 , Article)
This paper contributes to the capital structure literature by investigating the determinants of capital structure of Jordanian companies with the constraint of inadequate long-term debt as their source of financing and ...
Do financial crises alter the dynamics of corporate capital structure? Evidence from GCC countries
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
We study the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on the capital structure of GCC firms. We employ a dataset covering a 10-year period from eight sectors to investigate patterns in corporate leverage before and after the ...