This paper contributes to the literature by determining macroeconomic drivers of brain drain in case of Pakistan over the period of 1972-2012 using the ARDL bounds testing approach. Our findings show that economic growth and financial development have negative impact on brain drain. However,...

The paper analyses the time-varying conditional correlations between stock markets and oil

This article investigates the dynamics of regional financial integration and its determinants in an international setting. We test a conditional version of the international capital asset pricing model (ICAPM) accounting for the deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) as well as temporal...

This paper explores the relevance of asymmetry and long memory in modeling and forecasting the

We propose a model of decision making that captures reluctance to bet when the decision maker (DM) perceives that she lacks adequate in- formation or expertise about the underlying contingencies.

The current paper studies the impact of board gender-diversity on firm risk-taking in a developing market. Our study is drawn on a sample of 30 Tunisian listed firms between 1997 and 2010. First, we found that women have a risk perception that leads to a risk avoidance behavior: the presence of...

This paper deals with elective surgery planning under several scarce resources. We use a Mixed Integer Program model to determine the best admission policy at the tactical level, with the objective of minimising the weighted deviations of the expected resources consumptions from their target...

Portfolio optimization results are strongly dependent on the model parameters. To circumvent this shortcoming, this paper proposes a new modeling approach to address data uncertainty. The model offers full control over the degree of conservatism and underlines its interaction with robustness for...

The widespread use of loyalty programs in the tourism sector raises questions about their differentiating capacity and more globally on the real advantages they offer firms. We propose, in the hotel sector, a conceptual model on the determinants of loyalty to a hotel or a hotel chain. The...

Notre article s’intéresse au concept d’entrepreneuriat et à la création d’entreprise en Algérie. Partant d’un constat de prise de conscience collective autour de ces concepts, notre étude questionne la réalité du terrain concernant d’une part, les initiatives mises en place par...