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A note on capital utilization and international trade
(Oxford University Press, 2017-05)This article integrates the analysis of durable capital utilization in the theory of international trade. Variations in capital utilization are analytically accounted for in the form of shift work. Accordingly, producers ... -
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 ... -
Thirty‐six years of the journal of Financial Accountability & Management: Scientometric review
(WILEY, 2022-03)The journal of Financial Accountability & Management (FAM) is a reputable journal that started its publication in March 1985. We conduct a retrospective review to analyze the journal's impact and temporal development in ... -
Role of ICT for workers’ safety at the workplace during pandemics: evidence from global data
(Emerald lnsight, 2022-05)This study contributes to the extant literature on ICT firms by investigating the interrelationship between the health and safety (H&S) measures, market performance, and the coronavirus (COVID-19). To conduct the confirmatory ... -
The return volatility and shock transmission patterns of chosen S&P and Dow Jones sustainability indices and their conventional counterpart
(Emerald lnsight, 2022-06)The purpose of this study is to investigate the dynamic return volatility connectedness among S&P, Dow Jones (DJ) sustainability indices and their conventional counterparts. This study uses time-series daily data for 10 ... -
Impact of macroeconomic variables on Islamic and conventional stock market returns: a panel data approach
(Inderscience Publishers (IEL), 2020)This study examines the impact of macroeconomic factors on returns in both conventional and Islamic stock market indices. It uses a multifactor model of five macroeconomic factors: the inflation rate, the money supply, ... -
Efficiency and Memory Dependence OF Shari'ah Equity Markets
(SyndiGate Media Inc, 2018-03)The present study attempts to examine the presence of informational efficiency and memory dependence of Malaysia and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Shariah Equity markets using daily stock returns for the period of 01st ... -
Structural Changes in the Middle East Stock Markets: The Case of Israel and Arab Countries
(University of Wollongong, 2005-09)This paper tests for structural changes in the price indices of four stock markets in the Middle East region, namely, Egypt, Turkey Jordan, Morocco and Israel. The Innovational Outlier (IO) model and Additive Outlier ... -
The role of project’s initiatives focused on the reduction of environmental footprints during COVID-19: evidence from the United States firms
(Springer US, 2021-10)In this paper, we examine whether the projects of the United States (U.S.) corporations have implemented initiatives to reduce the environmental footprint of their supply chains during coronavirus (COVID-19). Environmental ... -
Oil price shocks and stock market returns in the three largest oil-producing countries
(ResearchGate, 2017)This paper analyzes whether oil price changes can predict stock market returns in the three largest oil-producing countries in the world, namely, Saudi Arabia (SA), Russia and the United States, using different vector error ... -
Financial integration of the MENA emerging stock markets
(University of Wollongong, 2006)The main objective of this study is to examine the financial integration among four emerging stock markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, namely, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan and Morocco. Their interrelationships ... -
Financial deepening and economic growth in Saudi Arabia
(Sage Publications, 2014-08)This article draws on the authors’ previously published work. It aims to examine the relationship between financial deepening and economic growth in one of the major emerging economies, namely Saudi Arabia. Using time ... -
Determinants of income inequality
(Universitas Islam Indonesia, 2017)This study examines whether changing economic structure, social conditions, and financialization are responsible for increased income inequality in Indonesia. By em- ploying panel data of 32 provinces in Indonesia that ... -
Are co‐integrated stock prices consistent with the efficient market hypothesis?
(Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2007-09)This paper responds to the unsatisfactory argument that there is no correspondence between co-integration and the efficient market hypothesis. A law of one co-integrating vector of prices is proposed for the exchange rate ... -
Stock market integration in the GCC countries
(Springer US, 2016-10)This paper contributes to the existing empirics of finance-growth nexus of all GCC countries with new results based on a larger dataset and longer time period 1975–2012, incorporating additional control variables, FDI, ... -
Financial development and economic growth in the UAE: Empirical assessment using ARDL approach to co-integration
(International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2012-04)This paper empirically examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a small open economy of United Arab Emirates (UAE). Using time series data from 1974 to 2008, the study employs the ... -
Novel blockchain reference model for government services: Dubai government case study
(Springer India, 2020-12)Blockchain, a Distributed Ledger Technology, is a disruptive and revolutionary technology that enables transacting data in a decentralized structure without the need for trusted central authorities. Many industries have ... -
Machine learning for cloud security: a systematic review
(IEEE, 2021-01)The popularity and usage of Cloud computing is increasing rapidly. Several companies are investing in this field either for their own use or to provide it as a service for others. One of the results of Cloud development ... -
Design and implementation of automated IoT security testbed
(Elsevier Advanced Technology, 2020-01)The emergence of technology associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping our lives, while simultaneously raising many issues due to their low level of security, which attackers can exploit for malicious purposes. ...
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