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The moderating effect of an audit committee on the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance: Evidence from emerging markets
Al-Ahdal, Waleed M.; Hashim, Hafiza Aishah; Almaqtari, … - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 1, pp. 1-24
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...
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Market power and the role of banks as liquidity providers in GCC markets
Al-Khouri, Ritab; Arouri, Houda - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17
Purpose: The study aims to discuss the role of market power and the banks as a liquidity provider, specifically in the twenty-first century. Design: The empirical investigation has evaluated the effects of market power on the ability of GCC banks to provide and transform liquidity. Findings: The...
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Accounting information quality and tax avoidance effect on investment opportunities evidence from Gulf Cooperation Council GCC
Alsmady, Ahnaf Ali - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25
The motivation of this research is to investigate the important factors that affect Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies and increase the investment opportunities to avoid the threats of limited oil resources in the future. This study examines the relationship between tax avoidance,...
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Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows
Naufal, George S.; Genc, Ismail H. - 2013
After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...
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Modelling world natural gas production
Wang, Jianliang; Bentley, Yongmei - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020), pp. 1363-1372
As the cleanest fossil fuel in terms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, natural gas demand is expected to increase rapidly in future due to its important role in the transition of the world energy system. In this case, understanding potential limits to future production of the world's natural...
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Environmentally Conscious Marketing
Nagy, Szabolcs - 2004
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The role of natural gas in a low-carbon Europe: Infrastructure and regional supply security in the global gas model
Holz, Franziska; Richter, Philipp M.; Egging, Ruud - 2013
gas market until 2050. Three pathways of natural gas consumption in a future low-carbon energy system in Europe are … envisaged: i) a decreasing natural gas consumption, along the results of the PRIMES model for the EMF decarbonization scenarios …; ii) a moderate increase of natural gas consumption, along the lines of the IEA (2012) World Energy Outlook's New Policy …
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Simulating security of supply effects of the Nabucco and South Stream projects for the European natural gas market
Dieckhöner, Caroline - 2010
Due to the increasing European import dependency, significant additional natural gas volumes will be required. In addition to the Nord Stream pipeline, the Nabucco and South Stream pipeline are projects planned for the next decade to provide further gas supplies to the European market. As one of...
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Civil unrest in North Africa: Risks for natural gas supply?
Lochner, Stefan; Dieckhöner, Caroline - 2011
The uprising and military confrontation in Libya that began in February 2011 has led to disruptions of gas supplies to Europe. An analysis of how Europe has compensated for these missing gas volumes shows that this situation has not affected security of supply. However, this situation would...
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Aproching optimal depletion path: Natural gas market in Bolivia
Aliaga Lordemann, Javier - 2009
This exercise tries to be the first approach in order to understand the overall feedback effects of price path over optimal depletion rate in natural gas market in Bolivia. The simulations attempt to reproduce year-by-year evolution of natural gas depletion. While the initial conditions,...
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