Browsing by Series "School of Business Administration Working Paper Series"
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Investors' Payout-form Preference and Taxes
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-05)We find the form of U.S. corporate cash payout to shareholders often relevant to share price and in different directions at different times. Regularly cash-dividend paying firms have a significant share price premium ... -
Key Account Management and the Relationship Lifecycle: Towards a Framework for Collaboration
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-12)This paper examines the strategic drivers of effective key account management (KAM) and their integration into the relationship lifecycle. Previous KAM initiatives have tended to be focused on the sellers' perspective, ... -
The Logic of Fateful Choices Faced by the Leaders of Commissions of Inquiry
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-12-03)Commission scholars have been skeptical about the reasons governments give for their appointment but have generally accepted that their relationship with government is kept armslength during their inquiry. An analytical ... -
The Logic of Fateful Leadership Choices: A Decision Framework for Aspiring 'Lebowski Young Achievers'
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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 ... -
On the Causal Link between Financial Development and Economic Growth: Case of Jordan
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-05-08)This paper empirically examines the causal relation between financial development and economic growth in the case of Jordan for the period 1965 to 2004. That is, the paper attempts to provide answers to the following ... -
Parental Involvement and Children's Development: Can There Be Positive Side Effects?
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)A growing body of literature indicates that meaningful time spent with parents has a significant influence on early childhood development, a future accumulation of a wide array of cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and ... -
Parental Transfers and Fertility: Does the Recipient's Gender Matter?
(American University of Sharjah, 2017-06-02)This paper examines the role of parental transfers on family size. We introduce a simple theoretical model of fertility decision where preferences towards children may differ between female and male spouses. Parental ... -
Prize-Linked Savings Games: Theory and Experiment
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)We introduce a game in which each player can allocate her endowment in a prize-linked savings (PLS) account, which awards a fixed prize only to a randomly chosen winner. Like Tullock's rent-seeking contest, the probability ... -
R&D Productivity following First-Time CIO Appointments
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-09)Prior studies find that firms announcing the appointment of a new chief information officer (CIO) are rewarded by stock price increases, suggesting that the market expects new CIOs to add long-term value to the firm. In ... -
The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa: A Success Story
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-10-14)Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable experience ... -
Reevaluating Terrorism and Economic Growth: Dynamic Panel Analysis and Cross-Sectional Dependence
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-11-11)Contrary to the extant literature, this paper shows that the impact of terrorism on economic growth is insignificant in five regional samples. These surprising results follow when Nickell bias and cross-sectional dependence ... -
Religiosity, neglected risk and asset returns: theory and evidence from Islamic finance industry
(American University of Sharjah, 2018-11)This paper studies the sociological influence of religion on the risk and return in the financial markets with particular context of Islamic finance, a rapidly emerging and expanding financial industry. The paper builds a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Stop-Go Monetary Policy
(American University of Sharjah, 2018)We propose and estimate several discrete choice models of monetary policy decision-making that feature time-varying inertia. The models permit us to account for three stylized facts characterizing monetary policy making ... -
Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-05)After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arabs countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia, ... -
Virtual Trade and Growth
(American University of Sharjah, 2015-01-29)The purpose of this paper is to propose a model where trade has a direct and positive impact on growth rate of two trading nations beyond the level effect. We use the idea of virtual trade in intermediates induced by non- ... -
Who Gets the Lion's Share? Top Management Group Pay Disparities and Powerful CEOs.
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-05)While the distribution of pay across the hierarchy of corporations has received considerable critical attention, the distribution of pay within top management groups has received comparatively little. This paper contributes ...
