This study examines the validity of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in four Arab countries that recently experienced political instability, those being Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain. Using monthly data of the real effective exchange rates (REER) of the countries in question from 1995 to...

This research aimed to identify the reality and obstacles of corporate social responsibility disclosure in firms subject to the regulations of the Syrian Commission on Financial Markets & Securities. To achieve the purpose of the study, data was collected for 29 firms registered in the...

This research aimed at studying the impact of firm characteristics on the level of social responsibility disclosure by firms subject to the rules of The Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities. The research was applied on 38 companies for which data was available from 2007-2013. To...

This study examines the differences between IPOs that voluntarily disclose earnings forecasts in their prospectuses and those that do not. Using a sample of 166 UK IPOs listed between 1992-2002, we investigate whether forecasters have different firms' characteristics than non forecasters and...

This paper is an endeavor to outline the Federal Reserve System's theoretical perspective of the financial market during the last three decades. It is a glimpse into the policies of regulatory authorities at the Fed whose designed path of financial growth led the US economy to its worst crisis...

This study examines the weak form efficiency of the Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE), one of the most nascent markets in the MENA region. The study uses the daily returns of the DWX index from 31-12-2009, the date of launching the index, to 30-11-2011, in order to examine whether the returns...

The Damascus Securities Exchange (DSE) was launched on the 10th of March of 2009 with six listed firms. After two years from its first operation, the number of the listed firms has increased to reach twenty. This paper aims to shed light on the institutional framework of the DSE and to provide...

This study aims to explore the nature of the relationship between stock prices and exchange rates in a sample of Arab countries that are facing political crises, those being: Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Bahrain. It applies monthly time series data of the nominal and real effective exchange rates...