تصفح حسب المؤلف "Mrabet, Zouhair"
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A new quadratic asymmetric error correction model: does size matter?
Mnasri, Ayman; Mrabet, Zouhair; Alsamara, Mouyad ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Article)We introduce a new quadratic asymmetric error correction model that comprehensively accounts for both sign and size asymmetries. We also propose a test protocol that allows to rigorously identify different sources of ... -
Asymmetric responses of money demand to oil price shocks in Saudi Arabia: a non-linear ARDL approach
Alsamara, Mouyad; Mrabet, Zouhair; Dombrecht, Michel; Barkat, Karim ( 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 ... -
Can government expenditure help reconstruct the Syrian economy in the post-conflict period? evidence from the SVAR and nonlinear ARDL models
Mrabet, Zouhair; Alsamara, Mouyad; Mimouni, Karim; Shikh Ebid, Ahmad ( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)This paper explores the viability of the fiscal policy in the reconstruction of the Syrian economy. We use the Structural VAR estimation technique to assess the response of real GDP to shocks in government expenditures and ... -
Can human development and political stability improve environmental quality? New evidence from the MENA region
Mrabet, Zouhair; Alsamara, Mouyad; Mimouni, Karim; Mnasri, Ayman ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)We investigate the effects of human development and political stability on environmental quality and examine whether they are viable tools for improving environmental policies. The literature finds that countries can reduce ... -
Do economic downturns affect air pollution? Evidence from the global financial crisis
Alsamara, Mouyad; Mimouni, Karim; Mrabet, Zouhair; Temimi, Akram ( Routledge , 2021 , Article)This paper investigates the impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on CO2 emissions within the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis framework. Using a sample of 68 countries for the period 1960 to 2014, we unveil ... -
Does Official development assistance for health from developed countries displace government health expenditure in sub-saharan countries?
Barkat, Karim; Mrabet, Zouhair; Alsamara, Mouyad ( Economics Bulletin , 2016 , Article)This paper empirically examines the foreign aid fungibility in the health sector of 45 Sub-Saharan countries over the period of 1995-2012. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of foreign health aid on government ... -
Investigating the impact of remittance outflows and oil price on economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
Mouyad, Alsamara; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Most existing studies have focused on examining the impact of labor remittance outflows on economic growth in the receiving countries, with limited attention given to the sending countries. This study utilizes the nonlinear ... -
Managing sustainable development through goal programming model and satisfaction functions
Nechi, Salem; Aouni, Belaid; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Springer New York LLC , 2019 , Article)Managing the sustainable development path of a nation requires the aggregation of incommensurable and conflicting objectives related to economic, environmental and social dimensions. Their aggregation requires some tradeoffs ... -
Modelling the asymmetric responses of price level to oil price changes in Qatar
Mrabet, Zouhair; Alsamara, Mouyad; Al-Marri, Shahad Salem S. A.; Al-khayat, Zainab Ali ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This paper inspects the asymmetric effect of oil price on prices level in Qatar. To achieve that, we proceed by employing a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach on data during the period 1990Q1-2014Q4. ... -
Money demand and black market exchange rate: A cointegration approach with structural break
Al Samara, Mouyad; Lanouar, Charfeddine; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Inderscience Publishers , 2017 , Article)This paper examines different specifications of the money demand function by including both black market exchange rate and oil prices as additional variables in Syria for the period 1990Q1-2009Q4. In order to test the ... -
Pass-through of import cost into consumer prices and inflation in GCC countries: Evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lags model
Alsamara, Mouyad; Mrabet, Zouhair; Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)This paper explores the asymmetric response of consumer prices to import costs using a nonlinear approach that investigates the long and the short run asymmetric pass-through. Quarterly data over the period of 1990-2014 ... -
Scenario-Based Forecast for Post-Conflict’s Growth in Syria
Alsamara, Mouyad; Mrabet, Zouhair; Shikh Ebid, Ahmad ( Economic Research Forum (ERF) , 2020 , Working Paper)This paper investigates the relationship between the main macroeconomic indicators, namely real GDP, consumer prices and parallel market exchange rate in the Syrian economy during the period 1990-2017. We provide a ... -
Testing the Kuznets Curve hypothesis for Qatar: A comparison between carbon dioxide and ecological footprint
Mrabet, Zouhair; Alsamara, Mouyad ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article Review)This paper explores the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using two different environment indicators: the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and the ecological footprint (EF) in Qatar over the 1980-2011 period. ... -
The asymmetric effects of oil price on economic growth in Turkey and Saudi Arabia: New evidence from nonlinear ARDL approach
Alsamara, Mouyad Kassm; Mrabet, Zouhair; Elafif, Mohamed; Gangopadhyay, Partha ( Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics , 2017 , Article)The immediate purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the potential asymmetric oil price effects on real GDP growth in two different countries with differing dependence on oil from the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and ... -
The determinants of stock market index in Syria during the conflict period: Linear versus nonlinear approach
Alsamara, Mouyad; Yaghi, Kinan; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics , 2020 , Article)The main purpose of this paper is to examine the long and the short-rum impact of the macroeconomic variables on the stock market index in Syria during the period 2010:Q1 - 2017:Q4. In addition, this paper aims to investigate ... -
The impact of economic development and social-political factors on ecological footprint: A panel data analysis for 15 MENA countries
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Mrabet, Zouhair ( 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) ... -
The impact of economic development on environmental degradation in Qatar
Mrabet, Zouhair; AlSamara, Mouyad; Jarallah, Shaif Hezam ( Springer New York LLC , 2017 , Article)This study investigates the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis by employing the ecological footprint (EF) as an indicator of environmental degradation in Qatar over the 1980?2011 period. The results of the ... -
The Impacts of Trade and Financial Developments on Economic Growth in Turkey: ARDL Approach with Structural Break
Alsamara, Mouyad; Mrabet, Zouhair; Barkat, Karim; Elafif, Mohamed ( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This study examines the impacts of trade openness, financial development, and energy imports on per capita real GDP in Turkey over the 1960–2014 period. The results show that there is evidence of a stable relationship in ... -
Trade liberalization and relative employment: further evidence from Tunisia
Charfeddine, Lanouar; Mrabet, Zouhair ( Springer International Publishing , 2015 , Article)There are increasing studies that address the skill upgrading in developing countries. The theoretical analyses yield different results about which factors affect skill upgrading. The impact of trade openness and technology ...