The aim of this article is to bridge the gap in equity trading risk management literatures and particularly from the perspective of emerging and illiquid markets, such as in the context of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)’s six financial markets. To the authors’ best knowledge, this is the...

Understanding the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, especially the time lag involved between a policy change and its impact on inflation and output, constitutes a prerequisite to the implementation of any sound monetary strategy. The uncertainties that might surround the transmission...

Relatively little empirical evidence is available that estimates the relationship between asset price movements and monetary policy measures. This paper, which is the first study that focuses on the linkage between monetary policy and stock market prices, aims at analyzing the interaction...

Can the Moroccan and the Tunisian financial systems withstand the consequences of adopting IT, and is IT the appropriate monetary policy for them? There are many crucial requirements for the success of IT including independence of the central bank, fiscal discipline, a flexible exchange rate,...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first propose three measures of firms’ productive performances: Labor Productivity (LP), Total Factor Productivity...

In this paper, we examine the influence of bank regulations, concentration, financial and institutional development on commercial bank margin and profitability across a broad menu of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. We cover the 1989-2005 period and control for a wide array of...

The aim of this research is to track the impact of ownership including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the MENA-region’s banking industry on the technical efficiency of its commercial banking units, technical efficiency being the goodness in transforming inputs into outputs. To assess such...

This paper proposes a nonparametric analysis of the performance of Moroccan commercial banks. The first part of this study focuses on the determination of technical efficiency scores using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). These scores are decomposed on « pure efficiency » and...

Currencies of the GCC countries have long been effectively pegged to the US dollar. Since 2003 the GCC countries have formally started pegging their currencies to the US dollar as a first step towards the proposed monetary union in 2010. The prevailing dollar peg and the absence of any...

The objective of this paper is to test for the liquidity effect in Algeria and Morocco using multivariate threshold autoregressive model (MVTAR) as proposed by Tsay (1998). Our empirical results have several important implications. First, results do not support threshold behavior in the case of...