The main purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the impact of excise tax on excisable goods consumption, brand loyalty and health awareness in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) market. The research is conducted based on the self-administered questionnaire collected from the residents of...

The main purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the impact of excise tax on excisable goods consumption, brand loyalty and health awareness in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) market. The research is conducted based on the self-administered questionnaire collected from the residents of...

This study examines the relationship between financial risk and performance of Gulf Cooperation Council Islamic banks and the relative importance of the most common types of risk. The study covers 11 of the 47 Islamic banks of the Gulf Cooperation Council region from 2000 to 2012, based on the...

This paper investigates the interrelationships between several external social institutions and related party transactions disclosure across 49 countries. A theoretical framework is proposed to encompass the interrelationships between cultural values, legal environment, government intervention...

The authors propose a simplified multivariate GARCH (generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity) model (the S-GARCH model), which involves the estimation of only univariate GARCH models, both for the individual return series and for the sum and difference of each pair of series....

Despite much theoretical progress, Rajan and Zingales (1995) claim that quot;very little is known about the empirical relevance of the different capital structure theoriesquot;. Indeed, the more recent developments such as Pecking Order Theory and Market Timing contradict the predictions of...

This paper proposes a simplified multivariate GARCH model that involves the estimation of only univariate GARCH models, both for the individual return series and for the sum and difference of each pair of series. The covariance between each pair of return series is then imputed from these...

Despite significant theoretical and empirical developments in the capital structure literature, the trade-off theory and the related question of the optimality of the gearing ratio remain the subject of intense debate. The pecking order theory emerged to directly contrast with the implications...

This paper investigates whether dynamic and moment extensions to the traditional CAPM can improve its empirical performance and offer some alternative explanation to the cross-section of average returns on portfolios of stocks double sorted on book-to-market ratios and size. We consider three...