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A comparative analysis of flipped, online and traditional teaching: A case of female Middle Eastern management students
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)This study compares performance and perception of students in a management course at a business school in the Middle East. 122 students completed an Introduction to Management course, which was divided into three different ... -
A new theoretical framework to assess Multinational Corporations' motivation for Foreign Direct Investment: A case study on Vietnamese service industries
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Purpose This paper develops a new theoretical framework, based on eclectic paradigm and institution theory, to evaluate Multinational Corporations' (MNCs') incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The new framework ... -
A risk-based availability estimation using Markov method
( Emerald Group Publishing , 2014 , Article)Purpose: Asset intensive process industries are under immense pressure to achieve promised return on investments and production targets. This can be accomplished by ensuring the highest level of availability, reliability ... -
Are Investors Concerned with Stock Market Upgrades? Evidence from Multivariate Framework Analysis
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This study aims to examine the return and volatility responses to the announcement of stock market upgrades. It measures the direct effects of the recent Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) upgrade of the Qatar, ... -
Asymmetric impacts of foreign exchange rate on the demand for money in Turkey: new evidence from nonlinear ARDL
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)Using the nonlinear ARDL bounds test for cointegration, this empirical study explores the long and the short run asymmetric impact of exchange rate shocks on the demand for money in Turkey from 1986:Q1 to 2014:Q4. Two ... -
Asymmetric import cost pass-through in GCC countries: Evidence from nonlinear panel analysis
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates the asymmetric impacts of import costs on inflation in GCC countries. We utilize data from GCC countries and their trading partners over the period of 1990:Q1-2014:Q4 to construct a new import cost ... -
Asymmetric responses of money demand to oil price shocks in Saudi Arabia: a non-linear ARDL approach
( 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 ... -
Bank concentration and schumpeterian growth: Theory and international evidence
( MIT Press Journals , 2018 , Article)This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and bank concentration.We introduce imperfect competition within the banking system according to the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, and we theoretically and ... -
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 ... -
Bank efficiency and industry growth during financial crises
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Financial crises pose many problems for growth, and in this time of increasing financial instability it is important to fully understand why this happens. Many papers have analyzed the relationship between growth and a ... -
Banking Concentration and Financial Stability. New Evidence from Developed and Developing Countries
( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2018 , Article)In this paper, we analyze the relationship between banking concentration and financial stability for a sample of 156 developed and developing countries during the period 1980-2011. Our study first examines the direct effect ... -
Breaks or long range dependence in the energy futures volatility: Out-of-sample forecasting and VaR analysis
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Article)The aim of this paper is to propose an empirical strategy that allows the discrimination between true and spurious long memory behaviors. That strategy is based on the comparison between the estimated long memory parameter ... -
Can uncertainty indices predict Bitcoin prices? A revisited analysis using partial and multivariate wavelet approaches
( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)This paper uses bivariate and multivariate wavelet approaches to revisit the co-movements between the Volatility Uncertainty Index (VIX) and Bitcoin (BTC). This is achieved by accounting for the impacts of the three major ... -
Competition and microcredit interest rates: international evidence
( 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 ... -
Control of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia: Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and practices in Narok district of Kenya
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)CBPP is an important transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa whose control is urgent. Participatory data collection involving 52 focus group discussions in 37 village clusters and key informant interviews, a cross-sectional ... -
Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)We explore the impact of the Globe and Mail corporate governance index on bond spreads in a sample of Canadian listed companies. The index is composed of four sub-indices�board composition/structure, board compensation, ... -
Corporate governance, bank concentration and economic growth
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)We examine the effects of bank concentration and corporate governance among firms in terms of economic growth using panel data for 34 countries and 29 manufacturing sectors over the period 1980-2010. We show the following ... -
Corruption and Economic Development
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Corruption is believed to be widespread and it adversely affects countries at different intervals, in different degrees. Corruption scandals show that bribes are commonplace and that even societies that are supposedly free ... -
Corruption and Economic Development: New Evidence from the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)This paper analyses the role of economic development in curbing corruption by focusing on political and economic freedoms for a sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries over the period 1984-2013. In ... -
Corruption and public spending on education and health
( 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 ...
