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Volume 73, issue C, 2019

Household asset wealth and female labor supply in MENA pp. 3-13

Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny

Gender wage disparities in Egypt: Evidence from ELMPS 2006 and 2012 pp. 14-23

Marwa Biltagy

On the interaction between exports and labor market regulation: Evidence from the MENA countries pp. 24-33

Irene Selwaness and Chahir Zaki

How to enlarge the fiscal space and gain efficiency when adopting automatic fuel pricing mechanisms? The Tunisian case pp. 34-43

Ali Chebbi

Asset inequality in the MENA: The missing dimension? pp. 44-55

Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen AlAzzawi

Why Don’t MENA Countries Trade More? The Curse of Deficient Institutions pp. 56-77

Fida Karam and Chahir Zaki

Empirical evidence on the long and short run determinants of health expenditure in the Arab world pp. 78-87

Karim Barkat, Rashid Sbia and Youcef Maouchi

Comparative entrepreneurship factors between North Mediterranean and North African Countries: A regression tree analysis pp. 88-94

Mine Cinar, Tyler Hienkel and William Horwitz

The migration of fear: An analysis of migration choices of Syrian refugees pp. 95-110

Mehmet Balcilar and Jeffrey Nugent

On the link between real effective value of Tunisia’s Dinar and its sectoral trade with the rest of the world: New evidence from asymmetry analysis pp. 111-118

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee, Thouraya Hadj Amor, Majid Maki Nayeri and Farhang Niroomand

The dynamic behavior of evolving efficiency: Evidence from the UAE stock markets pp. 119-135

Mohammad Al-Shboul and Nizar Alsharari

Market risk disclosures and corporate governance structure: Evidence from GCC financial firms pp. 136-150

Ahmed Al-Hadi, Khamis Hamed Al-Yahyaee, Syed Mujahid Hussain and Grantley Taylor

Determinants of Turkish real effective exchange rates pp. 151-158

Burçak Müge Tunaer Vural

Oil price fluctuations and exchange rate dynamics in the MENA region: Evidence from non-causality-in-variance and asymmetric non-causality tests pp. 159-171

Ridha Nouira, Thouraya Hadj Amor and Christophe Rault

Where does economic growth in the Middle Eastern and North African countries come from? pp. 172-183

Senay Acikgoz and Mohamed Sami Ben Ali

Governance, capital and economic growth in the Arab Region pp. 184-191

Islam Abdelbary and James Benhin

Does foreign aid play a role in the maintenance of economic growth? A non-linear analysis pp. 192-204

Nermeen Harb and Stephen Hall

The switching impact of financial stability and economic growth in Qatar: Evidence from an oil-rich country pp. 205-216

Mouyad Alsamara, Zouhair Mrabet, Shaif Jarallah and Karim Barkat

Oil price and inflation in Algeria: A nonlinear ARDL approach pp. 217-222

Miloud Lacheheb and Abdalla Sirag

Volume 72, issue C, 2019

Oil and macro-financial linkages: Evidence from the GCC countries pp. 1-13

Mansor Ibrahim

Measuring persistence of dependence between crude oil prices and GCC stock markets: A copula approach pp. 14-33

Khaled Mokni and Manel Youssef

Oil prices and corporate high-yield spreads: Evidence from panels of nonenergy and energy European firms pp. 34-40

Nicholas Apergis

Asymmetric impact of oil prices on exchange rate and stock prices pp. 41-51

Satish Kumar

Income inequality in S&P 500 companies pp. 52-64

Ozge Uygur

Measuring inequality persistence in OECD 1963–2008 using fractional integration and cointegration pp. 65-72

Luis Gil-Alana, Marinko Skare and Romina Pržiklas-Družeta

Using currency iconography to measure institutional quality pp. 73-79

Kerianne Lawson

Political institutions and finance-growth nexus in emerging markets and developing countries: A tale of one threshold pp. 80-100

Ly Slesman, Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah and W.N.w Azman-Saini

Testing the alternative two-state options pricing models: An empirical analysis on TXO pp. 101-116

EnDer Su and Kai Wen Wong

Nassim Taleb heads international banking’s first Grey/Black Swan Committee pp. 117-122

Emir Phillips

Financial asset valuations: The total demand approach pp. 123-131

Vytautas Žukauskas and Jörg Guido Hülsmann

The effect of executive stock option delta and vega on the spin-off decision pp. 132-144

Mieszko Mazur and Galla Salganik-Shoshan

The firm value in case of deleveraging using leasing and the optimal restructuring level pp. 145-151

Elsayed Elsiefy and Moustafa Ahmed AbdElaal

Do industry returns predict the stock market? A reprise using the random forest pp. 152-158

Cetin Ciner

Comparing relative valuation efficiency between two stock markets pp. 159-167

Ronghua Yi, Yu-Wei Chang, Wen Xing and Jun Chen

An analysis of the weak form efficiency, multifractality and long memory of global, regional and European stock markets pp. 168-177

Walid Mensi, Aviral Tiwari and Khamis Hamed Al-Yahyaee

Bidder excess control, target overpayment and control contestability: Evidence from France pp. 178-190

Mohamed Firas Thraya and Taher Hamza

Islamic and conventional equity markets: Two sides of the same coin, or not? pp. 191-205

Walid Ahmed

The behaviour of bidders in quantitative-easing auctions of sovereign bonds in Japan: Determinants of the popularity of the 9 to 10-year maturity segment pp. 206-214

Kei-Ichiro Inaba

Does cross-listing in the US improve investment efficiency? Evidence from UK firms pp. 215-231

Abed AL-Nasser Abdallah and Wissam Abdallah

The impact of natural disasters on the banking sector: Evidence from hurricane strikes in the Caribbean pp. 232-239

Michael Brei, Preeya Mohan and Eric Strobl

Volume 71, issue C, 2019

Political economists or political economists? The role of political environments in the formation of fed policy under burns, Greenspan, and Bernanke pp. 1-13

Alexander Salter and Daniel Smith

Institutions and return predictability in oil-exporting countries pp. 14-26

Sirio Aramonte, Mohammad Jahan-Parvar and Justin K. Shugarman

The effects of fiscal policy on output: Does the business cycle matter? pp. 27-36

Sotiris Papaioannou

Is the financial accelerator story, empirically relevant for the determinants of the interest rate spread? pp. 37-47

Juan Catalán-Herrera, Juan Carlos Arriaza and Ricardo Alvarado

Divergent interest rates in the theory of financial markets pp. 48-55

Lutz Kruschwitz, Andreas Löffler and Daniela Lorenz

Market power among UAE banks: The 2008 financial crisis and its impact pp. 56-66

Ali Mirzaei

Business cycle accounting of trade barriers in a small open economy pp. 67-78

Seyed Ali Madanizadeh, Ali Karimirad and Mohammad Rahmati

The impact of trade intensity and Market characteristics on asymmetric volatility, spillovers and asymmetric spillovers: Evidence from the response of international stock markets to US shocks pp. 79-94

Mohammad Khaleq Newaz and Jin Suk Park

Drivers of the underground economy for over a century: A long term look for the United States pp. 95-106

Rajeev Goel, James Saunoris and Friedrich Schneider

Holding Bitcoin longer: The dynamic hedging abilities of Bitcoin pp. 107-113

Wing Chan, Minh Le and Yan Wendy Wu

Market reaction to the effect of corporate social responsibility on mergers and acquisitions: Evidence on emerging markets pp. 114-131

Tze-Yu Yen and Paul Andre

Assessing the marketing and investment efficiency of Taiwan’s life insurance firms under network structures pp. 132-147

Tai-Hsin Huang, Chung-I Lin and Ruei-Cian Wu

Determinants of capital structure and firm financial performance—A PLS-SEM approach: Evidence from Malaysia and Indonesia pp. 148-160

Nur Ainna Ramli, Hengky Latan and Grace T. Solovida

The impact of state ownership and business models on bank stability: Empirical evidence from the Eurasian Economic Union pp. 161-175

Olga Pak

Dual-class firms, M&As and SOX pp. 176-187

Lamia Chourou, Ashrafee T. Hossain and Lawrence Kryzanowski

Testing extensions of Fama & French models: A quantile regression approach pp. 188-204

María de la O González and Francisco Jareño

Increasing worldwide environmental consciousness and environmental policy adjustment pp. 205-210

Yungho Weng, Kuang-Chung Hsu and Bih Jane Liu

Time-varying predictive content of financial variables in forecasting GDP growth in the G-7 countries pp. 211-222

Petri Kuosmanen and Juuso Vataja

A focused information criterion for quantile regression: Evidence for the rebound effect pp. 223-227

Peter Behl, Holger Dette, Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

Portfolio selection in a multi-asset, incomplete-market economy pp. 228-238

Yu-Min Lian and Jun-Home Chen

Semi-strong inefficiency in the fixed odds betting market: Underestimating the positive impact of head coach replacement in the main European soccer leagues pp. 239-246

Giovanni Bernardo, Massimo Ruberti and Roberto Verona

Intra-day dynamics of exchange rates: New evidence from quantile regression pp. 247-257

Konstantin Kuck and Robert Maderitsch

Board gender diversity and the capital structure of microfinance institutions: A global analysis pp. 258-269

Michael Adusei and Emmanuella Yaa Takyiwah Obeng

Centralized and decentralized bitcoin markets: Euro vs USD vs GBP pp. 270-279

Roman Matkovskyy

Cash flow statements and firm value: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 280-290

Yensen Ni, Paoyu Huang, Pinhui Chiang and Yulu Liao

Competition in the insurance industry in Ecuador: An econometric analysis in life and non-life markets pp. 291-302

Segundo Camino-Mogro, Grace Armijos-Bravo and Gino Cornejo-Marcos