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Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)
This paper used time-series data to investigate the causal relation between foreign direct investment and economic growth in two MENA countries, namely Egypt and Jordan. The methodology used in this study follows Toda and ...
The Effects of Analyst Forecast Properties on the Cost of Debt: International Evidence
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-01-02)
This study investigates whether financial analysts play a governance role in international debt markets by examining the link between analyst forecast characteristics and the cost of debt financing. Using a sample of 2,686 ...
Social Cohesion and Optimal Redistribution in Economies with Long-Run Growth
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)
We suggest that as social cohesion improves, the macroeconomic gains from progressive redistribution decline. Social interactions facilitate diffusion of nonrival knowledge. The consequent bridging of the knowledge gaps ...
Intergenerational and Intercultural Differences in Work Values in Quebec and the United Arab Emirates
(Université Laval, 2011)
The purpose of this research is to examine whether differences exist in the work values of several generations among 186 respondents in Quebec and 252 Arab respondents in the United Arab Emirates. We used an abridged version ...
The Recruitment, Selection and Preparation of Expatriates
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
For organisations and for individuals, effective recruitment, selection and preparation of new employees or employees in new circumstances are always important. This issue is exacerbated in the case of international ...
The RMB Debate: Empirical Analysis on the Effects of Exchange Rate Shocks in China and Japan
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-02-16)
For a better understanding of the ongoing debates on the RMB, this paper investigates the effects of exchange rate shocks on output and the current account for China and Japan. We use structural vector auto-regression ...
La socialisation organisationnelle en contexte
(De Boeck, 2005)
Les recherches de référence sur la socialisation organisationnelle ont été présentées dans le chapitre VII. Les ouvertures offertes par une approche cognitive et identitaire ainsi que par la perspective interactionniste ...
Military Spending and Economic Growth: Evidence from Jordan
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-05-08)
The purpose of this research is to investigate the causal relation between military spending and economic growth in one of the MENA countries, Jordan using annual data over the period 1988-2007. The methodology used in ...
Endogenous Sanctioning Institutions and Migration Patterns: Experimental Evidence
(University of Exeter, 2017)
We experimentally analyze the effect of the endogenous choice of sanctioning institutions on cooperation and migration patterns across societies. In our experiment, subjects are allocated to one of two groups, are endowed ...
Développement et validation d’un modèle de structuration des valeurs au travail
(Université Laval, 2007)
Bien que les valeurs au travail jouent un rôle important en gestion des ressources humaines, il n’existe actuellement aucun instrument de mesure des valeurs au travail reposant sur une structuration théorique. À partir des ...