The paper aimed to identify financial technology in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, financial integration, inclusion policy and financial stability in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and how it creates an appropriate environment for financial innovation and financial technology...

We investigate the relationship between annual reports’ text readability and bank risk-taking in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. By using the Flesh-Reading-Ease score and the Flesh–Kincaid Grade score, we find that easy-to-read annual reports are associated with a higher probability...

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are on an ambitious path towards green economic transformation. In this paper we identified the target as high level of Human Development Index (HDI) within the planetary capacity of One Earth. All the GCC countries have already achieved high levels of...

During the COVID-19 lockdown, the typical bank in the Middle East lost liquidity due to deposit drains and experienced increases in nonperforming loans. The loss of liquidity was a supply shock, while the increase in nonperforming loans was a demand shock. Corporate governance increases the...

Considering the notable fluctuations in oil prices over the past two decades, this paper examines the effect of oil price uncertainty on the sovereign credit risk of four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia). By utilizing the...

We investigate the persistence of the dividend policy following the initial public offering (IPO) in non-financial Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) firms during the period 2000-2019. Using various regression models, we confirm that non-financial GCC firms maintain a persistent dividend policy from...

The study aims to investigate the relationship between ownership structure (OS) and financial performance (FP) in non-financial listed companies operating in Oman and the UAE, using panel data from 2012 to 2021. The results revealed that Tobin's Q (TQ) is positively and significantly affected by...