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on Arab World |
| By: | Muhammad, Shahbaz; Ilhan, Ozturk |
| Abstract: | The study reconsiders the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth by incorporating financial development, capital and labor as important factors of production using augmented production function in Turkey for the period of 1971-2009. In doing so, we applied ARDL bounds testing approach and found long run relationship between electricity consumption, economic growth, financial development, capital and labour. Further,results indicated that electricity consumption, financial development, capital and labor have positive effect on economic growth. The VECM granger causality analysis shows bidirectional causality between electricity consumption, economic growth, financial development,capital and labor. The findings have important policy implication to sustain economic growth through comprehensive energy policy and developing financial sector in Turkey. |
| Keywords: | Electricity consumption; Financial development; Economic growth |
| JEL: | F43 Q4 |
| Date: | 2012–03–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:37637&r=ara |
| By: | Mohamed Sharif Bashir Author_Email: msharief@hotmail.com (Faculty of Business and Management Science, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University, Brunei); Nor Hafizah Hj Mail (Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University, Brunei); Muhd Jamil Abas bin Abd’Ali (Legal Advisor at Abrahams Davidson & Co., Brunei) |
| Keywords: | Islamic finance, takaful, consumer perception, Brunei Darussalam, islamic financial institutions |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1icm11:2011-082-306&r=ara |
| By: | Seyed Razi Nabavi C Author_Email: srazi.nabavi@yahoo.com (Osmania University, Hyderabad, India); Dr. Younos Vakil Alroaia (Islamic Azad University, Semnan Branch, Semnan, Iran); Peyman Barzegar Kaligi (Islamic Azad University, Semnan Branch, Semnan, Iran) |
| Keywords: | Profitability, Supplier Units, AHP, Iran |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1icm11:2011-052-155&r=ara |
| By: | Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi (EDHEC Business School); Ben Youssef, Adel (University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis); M'henni, Hatem (University of Manouba); Rault, Christophe (University of Orléans) |
| Abstract: | This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12 Middle East and North African Countries (MENA) over the period 1981–2005. Our results show that in the long-run energy consumption has a positive significant impact on CO2 emissions. More interestingly, we show that real GDP exhibits a quadratic relationship with CO2 emissions for the region as a whole. However, although the estimated long-run coefficients of income and its square satisfy the EKC hypothesis in most studied countries, the turning points are very low in some cases and very high in other cases, hence providing poor evidence in support of the EKC hypothesis. Thus, our findings suggest that not all MENA countries need to sacrifice economic growth to decrease their emission levels as they may achieve CO2 emissions reduction via energy conservation without negative long-run effects on economic growth. |
| Keywords: | growth, Environmental Kuznets Curve, energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions |
| JEL: | Q43 Q53 Q56 |
| Date: | 2012–03 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp6412&r=ara |
| By: | Mahmoud Manafi Author_Email: mahmoud_manafi@yahoo.com (DBA Student, MMU, Faculty of Management); Roozbeh Hojabri (DBA Student, MMU, Faculty of Management); Alireza Hooman (DBA Student, MMU, Faculty of Management); Ehsan Borousan (MBA Student, Multimedia University (MMU), Faculty of Management) |
| Keywords: | Consumer perception, green environment |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1icm11:2011-101-135&r=ara |
| By: | Mahmoud Manafi Author_Email: mahmoud_manafi@yahoo.com (Islamic Azad University, Iran); Maryam Nikheslat (Islamic Azad University, Iran); Mojtaba saeidinia (Islamic Azad University, Iran); Saeid Zarezade (Islamic Azad University, Iran) |
| Keywords: | Human resource, RBV, Human practices, Human Capital, and Social Capital. |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1icm11:2011-107-189&r=ara |
| By: | Rizgar Abdullah Sabir Jaf Author_Email: razgir_jaf@yahoo.com (College of Evening Studies,Salahadden University-Erbil Kurdistan,Iraq,School of Management,Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan,People's Republic of China); Xia Xinping (School of Management,Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan,People's Republic of China) |
| Keywords: | Strategic Information Systems, Competitive, Entropy, Kurdistan region Iraq. |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1asb11:2011-020-151&r=ara |
| By: | Dr. Mohamed Sharif Bashir Author_Email: NIL (Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University, Brunei Darussalam); Rasydan Haji Nokman (Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University, Brunei Darussalam) |
| Keywords: | Tourist profile, tourism sector, travelling pattern, Brunei |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1asb11:2011-041-130&r=ara |
| By: | Rahman ebrahimi taba Author_Email: (Islamic Azad University Shoushtar Branch, Iran) |
| Keywords: | Capital,management,in come,liquidity,profit assets,capital adequacy |
| JEL: | M0 |
| Date: | 2011–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cms:1icm11:2011-065-238&r=ara |
| By: | DÖRRY Sabine |
| Abstract: | International tourism trade relations often operate ‘outside’ national territorialities of law. In holiday destinations without mass tourism, tour operators usually rely on local service providers to produce the tourist package tour on-site. Because tour operators are not always able to establish effective governance mechanisms with their local service providers, loss of their business – and in the worst case bankruptcy – can cause significant economic costs. The paper discusses the efficiency of tour operators’ strategies to deal with such constitutional uncertainty and to impose ‘self-enforcement’. The extensive empirical case study at hand enriches our understanding of private ordering in the service sector and thus contributes to the conceptual discussion within the New Institutional Economics of International Transactions (NIEIT). |
| Keywords: | International private law; transaction costs; private ordering; tourism; Jordan; Germany |
| JEL: | F02 F15 K33 L14 |
| Date: | 2012–03 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:irs:cepswp:2012-17&r=ara |