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Foreign ownership and the financing constraints of firms operating in a multinational environment
(North-Holland, 2022-07)We examine the effects of foreign ownership as well as other firm-specific variables on enterprises' access to credit in 135 underdeveloped nations using micro survey data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. The ... -
Dealing with dimension reduction in financial panel data
(University of Pavia, Department of Economics and Management, 2022-06)In this paper, we present a fully data-driven statistical approach to building a syn thetic index based on intrinsic information of the considered ecosystem, namely the financial one. Among the several methods made available ... -
Performance Measurement and Cash Distribution in Real Estate Private Equity Financing
(El Khazindar Business Research and Case Center, The American University in Cairo School of Business, 2020)This case deals with the challenges of corporate decision-making under conditions of uncertainty in the real estate sector in Egypt. The board of a real estate company must make decisions on new project expansion and ... -
Correction to: Are Happier Nations More Responsible? Examining the Link Between Happiness and Sustainability
(Springer Netherlands, 2021-11)The paper uses aggregate data from 152 countries to analyze the association between happiness and sustainability. Our paper provides new evidence on happiness and sustainability. Taking a psychological approach, happiness ... -
Financial Development, Institutions, Gender and Entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates
(AESS, 2021-09)The paper explores the role of financial development on entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates by using data on new business registration and new business density over the period 2006-2018. The country is undergoing ... -
A data-driven approach to measuring financial soundness throughout the world
(University of Pavia, Department of Economics and Management, 2021-02)We use a fully data-driven approach and information provided by the IMF’s finan cial soundness indicators to measure the soundness of a country’s financial system around the world. Given the nature of the measurement ... -
On The Efficiency Of The Capital Market In Greece: Price Discovery And Causality In The Athens Stock Exchange And The Athens Derivatives Exchange
(World Scientific, 2004)The chapter examines the interactions, using high frequency data, between the price series of the share price index of futures contracts traded on the Athens Derivatives Exchange and the underlying spot asset - the FTSE/ASE-20 ... -
The Efficiency of Capital Market Microstructure in Greece
(Springer, Boston, MA, 2002)The auction principles, clearance, settlement, and depository facilities of the Greek stock market are described. An autoregressive model is found to characterize the time series properties of stock returns and volatility ... -
Understanding the EU-Turkey Sectoral Trade Flows During 1990-2016: a Trade Gravity Approach
(Feature university, 2017-11)his paper explores the determinants of bilateral trade flows between Turkey and the EU coun tries. A trade gravity model is used to analyze annual bilateral trade in general and in five differ ent sectors of trade activity ... -
Integrity of financial information and firms' access to energy in developing countries
(North-Holland, 2020-10)There are strong international pressures on developing countries to achieve the universal energy access 2030 goal and to establish stricter monitoring mechanisms of firms' financial information to attract energy investment. ... -
Epidemiological susceptibility risk, adaptive management and firm performance
(WILEY, 2021-10)This paper uses firm-level information to analyse the impact of epidemic outbreak risk on individual firms’ performance. Its impact on performance materializes mainly through consumer perception of risk and the resilience ... -
Financial supervision structure, decentralized decision-making and financing constraints
(North-Holland, 2020-06)The paper uses firm-level data to explore the impact of financial supervision structure on firms’ financing constraints in 48 developing countries. Financing constraints reflect survey-based information provided by firms. ... -
The effectiveness of corporate governance policy in Greece
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011-07)Purpose The effectiveness of corporate governance enforcement is a complex issue requiring the understanding of the role of institutional factors. The latter may or may not converge towards best practices, depending upon ... -
Complexity, big data and financial stability
(AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS, 2018-06)Financial stability analysis and policy should concentrate on accurate price discovery for complex instruments, realistic financial information generation processes, and system-wide risk materializing within complex ... -
Does Anti-Corruption Disclosure Affect Banking Performance?
(Emerald insight, 2020-04)Purpose This paper aims to test the levels of anti-corruption disclosure and its implication on the banking performance of both conventional and Islamic banks listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange and Dubai Financial ... -
Identification of sustainability indicators in the civil aviation sector in Dubai: a stakeholders’ perspective
(Emerald lnsight, 2021-07)Purpose The civil aviation sector in Dubai has been contributing to its economic development by enhancing transportation services, allowing for the establishment of trade links, promoting tourism and providing job ... -
Risk management challenges after the financial crisis
(WILEY, 2013-11)The recent financial crisis highlighted the need for risk measures that deal adequately with extreme events. In the modern complex financial world, risk measures can only be effective if they take into consideration the ... -
Family ties and access to finance in an Islamic environment
(North-Holland, 2017-05)Micro survey data is used to explore access to finance by firms residing in 42 Islamic countries. The role of family ties is explored as a cultural determinant of firms’ access to finance. Family ties persist over time and ... -
Family ties and access to finance in an Islamic environment
(North-Holland, 2017-05)Micro survey data is used to explore access to finance by firms residing in 42 Islamic countries. The role of family ties is explored as a cultural determinant of firms’ access to finance. Family ties persist over time and ... -
Institutions, development and energy constraints
(Pergamon, 2018-01)Micro survey data is used to explore the impact of firm-specific characteristics on firms' access to energy in 138 developing countries. The results show that firm-specific characteristics (age, size, sector of activity, ... -
Family ties, institutions and financing constraints in developing countries
(North-Holland, 2019-09)The paper uses firm-level data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys to explore the impact of the strength of family ties on the individual firms’ financing constraints in 138 developing countries. Financing constraints ... -
Financialisation, institutions and financing constraints in developing countries,
(Cambridge journal of economics, 2019-05)The paper uses a consistent firm-level data from the World Banks Enterprise Surveys to explore the impact of financialisation in the economy on firms’ access to finance in 138 developing countries. Access to finance reflects ... -
Internal auditor perceptions of corporate governance in Greece after the crisis
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-12)Purpose This paper aims to present the views of internal auditors in Greece on the relation between the internal audit function (IAF) and corporate governance (CG) after several years of European market integration and ... -
Complexity analysis and risk management in finance
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014-10)Standard financial risk management practices proved unable to provide an adequate understanding and a timely warning of the financial crisis. In particular, the theoretical foundations of risk management and the statistical ... -
Short selling regulation, return volatility and market volatility in the Athens Exchange
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017-03)Purpose The relationship between short selling, market volatility and liquidity remains an object of intensive research. However, empirical evidence is yet to provide a conclusive elucidation of this relationship by ... -
What services do Muslim tourists want? Uncovering nonlinear relationships and unobserved heterogeneity
(Elsevier, 2020-07)Halal tourism is a dynamic emerging market segment that is growing at a notable pace. Understanding the Muslim travelers' needs, interests and behaviors is a key priority for professionals. Therefore, the goals of this ... -
The absorption of financial services in an Islamic environment
(North-Holland, 2016-12)This study examines the determinants of access to finance by firms residing in 42 Islamic countries. Firm-specific characteristics, such as size, sector, legal status and export status are found to be robust predictors of ... -
Epidemiological susceptibility risk and tourist flows around the world
(Elsevier, 2021)Global tourist flows have increased in recent decades, but so have the outbreak and spread of epidemics, with enormous social and economic costs for the tourism sector. These developments affect the tourists' decisions to ... -
Access to skilled labor, institutions and firm performance in developing countries
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019-02)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of access to skilled labor in explaining firms’ sales growth subject to the controlling influence of a wide range of firm-specific characteristics and country-level ... -
Ownership structure and access to finance in developing countries
(Routledge, 2017-07)Microsurvey data are used to explore the impact of ownership structure and other firm-specific characteristics on firms’ access to finance in 136 developing countries. The analysis uses a consistent and large data set from ... -
Political instability and herding behaviour: Evidence from Egypt’s stock market
(SAGE Publications, 2018-04)This article examines the existence of herding behaviour in the Egyptian stock market during the 2011 revolution period. Using daily and monthly data, we test for the existence of herding for the whole period, as well as ... -
Principles of corporate governance in Greece
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2001-04)This article presents the reasons which led the business community in Greece to reconsider existing corporate governance practices of listed corporations in the Athens Stock Exchange, outlines the general rationale for the ... -
Managing Common Goods in Supply Chain: Case of Agricultural Cooperatives
(2014)This paper synthesizes research findings on managing common goods with an application on the agricultural supply chain. Effective management of common goods highly depends on the effort and contributions of each member of ... -
Employee social sustainability: Prioritizing dimensions in the UAE’s airlines industry
(Emerald lnsight, 2019-05)Purpose This paper aims to identify and prioritize the dimensions that impact employee social sustainability in the airline industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach The five main criteria ... -
Algebraic modelling of a two level supply chain with defective items
(EDP Sciences, 2018-04)M. Khan and M.Y. Jaber, Optimal inventory cycle in a two-stage supply chain incorporating imperfect items from suppliers. Int. J. Oper. Res. 10 (2011) 442–457, have addressed a two level supply chain of defective items. ... -
Benchmarking the Object Storage Services for Amazon and Azure
(Springer, Cham, 2018-04)Cloud computing is increasingly being used as a new computing model that provide users rapid on-demand access to computing resources with reduced cost and minimal management overhead. Data storage is one of the most famous ... -
Value chain vertical integration. An implementation framework for agricultural producers’ organisations in Morocco
(American V-King Scientific Publishing Ltd, 2013)The agricultural sector in Morocco has shown to be a very important component of the country’s economy in terms of employment and contribution to the GDP. In order to cope with the limitations that this sector has been ... -
The influence of the institutional context on interfirm relationships: A comparative study between low-and high-income countries
(AccessEcon, 2021)Today's competitive environment has pushed companies to developed collaborative relationships with other firms on the market to improve their performance and achieve a competitive advantage. Among the existing collaborative ... -
A syntactically-based preprocessor for a limited experimental Arabic document retrieval system
(Creative Commons, 1988)The research reported in this thesis is about the description and discussion of an experimental document retrieval system for Arabic texts, using linguistic methods of analysis. Specifically, Arabic presents difficulties ... -
Perspectives of Water Level Measurement in Plastic Pipes Using Wideband Horn Antenna
(Technology & Applied Science Research, 2018-01)This paper is concerned with the investigation of a possible working principle of a microwave sensor for the measurement of water levels in plastic pipes. According to the research, most current sensors for water level ... -
Searching Vocalized/Unvocalized Arabic Texts Using an Improved Coding Schema
(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009-12)Searching for a pattern in an Arabic text raises various problems due to the association of vocalization characters with alphabetical letters of Arabic words. This feature causes a problem for existing searching algorithms. ... -
A typology of horizontal logistics collaboration concepts: an illustrative case study from agri-food supply chains
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-07)Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive model for horizontal logistics collaboration (HLC), including the collaboration types, enablers, context influence and performance indicators. ... -
Antecedents of horizontal logistics collaboration in agri-food supply chains
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-09)Abstract Purpose This study investigates the impact of agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) characteristics on the antecedents of horizontal logistics collaboration (HLC). Specifically, the study compares the relationship ... -
The forest supply chain management: an entropic perspective
(Epubli, 2014-09)The Supply Chain (SC) represents a complex and dynamic open system characterized by a dissipative structure and positive entropy (Wang, 2008). To better understand the SC dynamic behavior, we present in this paper ... -
Horizontal logistics collaboration: an exploratory study in Morocco’s agri-food supply chains
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-12)Horizontal logistics collaboration (HLC) practices have gained much attention in recent years as innovative ways for companies to improve their performance. However, literature does not reveal which factors influence the ... -
Artificial intelligence applications in supply chain: A descriptive bibliometric analysis and future research directions
(Pergamon, 2021-07)Today’s supply chains are very different from those of just a few years ago, and they continue to evolve within an extremely competitive economy. Dynamic supply chain processes require a technology that can cope with their ... -
The proposed use of generalized regression neural network to predict the entire static load test
(Springer, Cham, 2018-11)In the UAE, continuous flight auger piles (CFA) are the most commonly used type of foundations to construct high rise buildings, bridges, and other heavy structures due to the high groundwater table and the weak soil/rock ... -
Impact of Capacity Constraints on the Dynamic Response of Two Level Supply Chain
(Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014)This paper investigates the impact of capacity constraints on the stability boundaries of two tier supply chain. System dynamic simulation using iThink Software has been applied to explore the impact of different levels ... -
Inventory control in a two-level supply chain with learning, quality and inspection errors
(Library and Archives Canada= Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2011)A common measure of quality for a buyer or a vendor is the defect rate. Defects may represent an attribute, a dimension or a quantity. They may be classified as product quality defects or process quality defects. Product ... -
A two-stage supply chain with inspection errors and learning in production
(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2010)It is imperative for the firms today to continuously look for ways to improve their performance. Coordination is a tool that is frequently employed for this purpose. Common cycle time, quantity discounts and delay in ...
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