This paper analyzes the linear and non-linear relationship between non-performing loans and bank profitability measured by the Net Interest Margin for a sample of 74 Middle Eastern and North African banks over the period of 2005-2020. We used the System Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) as a...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate determinants of non-performing loans in the Middle East and North Africa region by exploring the role of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors, particularly in the period of the global financial crisis, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, as a...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate determinants of non-performing loans in the Middle East and North Africa region by exploring the role of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors, particularly in the period of the global financial crisis, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, as a...

The aim of this paper is to empirically analyze the effect of financial constraint, information asymetry on the firm investment. On the basis of a data relating to 394 Tunisian firms observed over the period 2001-2008 and by adopting the panel data method, our findings show that the effect of...

Purpose This paper aims to focus on the main determinants of the performance and stability-banking sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the global financial crisis. Using a data set of 13 countries with both of 77 Islamic and 101 conventional banks during the period...

The continuously increasing energy intensity internationally is recognised as one ofthe greatest dangers the human race is facing nowadays with regards to futureclimate change and its detrimental consequences. Improving the intensity of energyconsumption is an important step towards decreasing...

This paper investigates the impacts of non-renewable consumption (NRE) and renewable energy consumption (RE) on industrial production (IP) in the US using monthly data from 2000:01 to 2018:02. To do so, the paper employs the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) approach to examine...