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Islamic versus conventional banks in the GCC countries: A comparative study using classification techniques
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on Islamic finance by investigating the feature of Islamic and conventional banks in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries over the period 2003-2010. We use parametric ...
Risk factors of road accident severity and the development of a new system for prevention: New insights from China
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Road accident fatalities and accident severity costs have become top priorities and concerns for Chinese policymakers. Understanding the principal factors that explain accident severity is considered to be the first step ...
Investigating the dynamic relationship between cryptocurrencies and conventional assets: Implications for financial investors
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Cryptocurrencies are gradually establishing themselves as a new class of assets with unique features, although there remains skepticism and a lack of understanding of their nature. In this study, we compare the financial ...
Evolving efficiency of spot and futures energy markets: A rolling sample approach
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
In this paper, we examine the weak-form efficient market hypothesis of energy markets by testing the random walk behavior of spot and futures prices. We contribute to the financial market efficiency literature by investigating ...
The impact of economic development and social-political factors on ecological footprint: A panel data analysis for 15 MENA countries
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article Review)
This paper extends the work of Al-Mulali and Ozturk (2015) [1] by re-investigating the Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 15 MENA (Middle East and North African) countries using the Ecological Footprint (EF) ...
True or spurious long memory in volatility: Further evidence on the energy futures markets
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
The main goal of this paper is to investigate whether the long memory behavior observed in many volatility energy futures markets series is a spurious behavior or not. For this purpose, we employ a wide variety of advanced ...
Financing new entrepreneurship: Credit or microcredit?
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
Building on the theory of information asymmetry, we investigate the impact of conventional banking versus the impact of microfinance on new entrepreneurship. We use a panel dataset collected from 49 developing countries ...
Innovations and Hotel Performance in the Aftermath Announcement of Qatar Hosting FIFA 2022 World Cup
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Cognizant Communication Corporation
, 2022 , Article)
This article explores innovation processes in tourism within the context of Qatar Hotel sector. A theoretical framework, drawing on the existing literature, is developed to analyze innovation- performance relationships. ...
Financial development-economic growth nexus in Pakistan: new evidence from the Markov switching model
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Cogent OA
, 2020 , Article)
This paper investigates the impact of financial development on economic growth in Pakistan using the Markov Switching Model over the period 1980-2017. The results based on two-state Markov switching model confirm the ...
COVID-19, cryptocurrencies bubbles and digital market efficiency: sensitivity and similarity analysis
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This paper compares the degree of cryptocurrency market efficiency during the pre- and post COVID-19 pandemic with the bubble and non-bubble periods of cryptocurrency markets. Furthermore, it examines and clusters eighteen ...