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    • Anticipated Discrimination, Choices, and Performance: Experimental evidence 

      Charness, Gary; Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Sanches, Ángela (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      This paper studies experimentally anticipated discrimination across gender, hiring patterns, and performance in tasks with different stereotypes in a labor-market setting. Participants are assigned to a seven-people group ...
    • The Causal Relation between Savings and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis 

      AbuAl-Foul, Bassam (American University of Sharjah, 2015)
      This paper examines the causal relation between savings and economic growth for Morocco and Tunisia using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration. The results support bidirectional causality between ...
    • Corruption, lending and bank performance 

      Abuzayed, Bana; Ammar, Mouldi Ben; Molyneux, Philip; Al-Fayoumi, Nedal (American University of Sharjah, 2019-11-03)
      This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link between corruption, lending and bank performance. It considers both country- and bank-level corruption. The study finds ...
    • Does E-Verify Discriminate against Hispanic Citizens? 

      Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Jin, Xing; Pozo, Susan (American University of Sharjah, 2015)
      The ratcheting up of immigration enforcement has resulted in a number of unintended consequences featured in the news, such as family separations. We focus on, yet, another potentially unintended consequence -namely the ...
    • Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis 

      AbuAl-Foul, Bassam (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 ...
    • Does Property Ownership by Women Reduce Domestic Violence? A Case of Latin America 

      Gahramanov, Emin; Gaibulloev, Khusrav; Younas, Javed (American University of Sharjah, 2020-06-01)
      It is widely believed that empowering women via various material means increases women’s outside options and, thereby, makes them less vulnerable to intimate partner violence. However, the effect of such empowerment on ...
    • Drivers of Customer Loyalty in B2B Services: A Firm-level Analysis Over Time 

      Khan, Sajid; Williams, Paul; Naumann, Earl (American University of Sharjah, 2013-09-08)
      Identifying the drivers of relationship quality, satisfaction and customer loyalty has been the subject of much marketing research for over twenty years. However, there are a number of gaps in the literature, especially ...
    • The Effects of Analyst Forecast Properties on the Cost of Debt: International Evidence 

      Boubakri, Narjess; El Ghoul, Sadok; Guedhami, Omrane; Samet, Anis (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 ...
    • Endogenous Sanctioning Institutions and Migration Patterns: Experimental Evidence 

      Cobo-Reyes, Ramón; Katz, Gabriel; Meraglia, Simone (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 ...
    • Energy Use and Economic Growth in Jordan 

      AbuAl-Foul, Bassam (American University of Sharjah, 2015)
      The purpose of this research is to investigate the causal relation between energy use and economic growth in one of the MENA countries, Jordan using annual data over the period 1975-2007. The methodology used in this study ...
    • Firm Growth and Political Institutions 

      Boubakri, Narjess; El Ghoul, Sadok; Saffar, Walid (American University of Sharjah, 2013-11-06)
      Using a large sample of 115,534 firm-year observations from 46 countries over the period 1992 to 2007, we investigate the impact of political institutions on firms' growth. We find that high levels of political constraint ...
    • Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars 

      Hall, George J.; Sargent, Thomas J. (American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-13)
      In 1790, a U.S. paper dollar was widely held in disrepute (something shoddy was not 'worth a Continental'). By 1879, a U.S. paper dollar had become 'as good as gold.' These outcomes emerged from how the U.S. federal ...
    • Forecasting Energy Demand: The Case of United Arab Emirates 

      AbuAl-Foul, Bassam (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      The purpose of this study is to forecast energy use in United Arab Emirates (UAE) using annual data over the period 1976-2009. The methodology used in this study follows the artificial neural networks analyses. We use four ...
    • Governance and Short Sales 

      Dupuis, Daniel; Kryzanowski, Lawrence (American University of Sharjah, 2015)
      This paper investigates the relationship between short sales and governance. We argue that short sales are reversely linked to the overall level of corporate governance of a firm and that sellers react contemporaneously ...
    • Has the Financial Crisis had an Adverse Effect on Bank Competition? 

      Mirzaei, Ali; Moore, Tomoe (American University of Sharjah, 2015-01-25)
      This article investigates whether the recent financial crisis has had any adverse impact on bank competition for 24 emerging and 25 advanced countries with large and small-size banks over the sample period 2001-2010. The ...
    • Honesty, ability, norm, and socioeconomic status: experimental evidence from Bangladesh 

      Mahmud, Minhaj; Tasneem, Dina (American University of Sharjah, 2019)
      In a real effort task experiment, we study the (dis)honesty of undergraduate students in Bangladesh. Consistent with earlier studies, when they self-report their performance, a significant fraction of students cheats to ...
    • Implications of Cost Behavior for Analysts' Earnings Forecasts 

      Ciftci, Mustafa; Mashruwala, Raj; Weiss, Dan (American University of Sharjah, 2014-03-27)
      Recent work in management accounting offers several novel insights into firms' cost behavior. This study explores whether financial analysts appropriately incorporate information on two types of cost behavior in predicting ...
    • The Influences on Female Participation and Progress in the Labor Force: Implications for Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates 

      Kemp, Linzi (American University of Sharjah, 2013)
      This paper reports on the first qualitative research study of women’s life histories in an investigation of their participation and progress in the labor force of the United Arab Emirates. Data were collected through ...
    • Information disclosure in dynamic research contests 

      Chen, Bo; Knyazev, Dmitriy; Chen, Bo (American University of Sharjah, 2019-09)
      We study the design of information disclosure in a dynamic multi-agent research contest, where each agent privately searches for innovations and submits his best to compete for a winner-takes-all prize. We find that although ...
    • International Diversification and Corporate Social Responsibility 

      Attig, Najah; Boubakri, Narjess; El Ghoul, Sadok; Guedhami, Omrane (American University of Sharjah, 2013-11-07)
      Using a large sample of 3,040 U.S. firms and 16,606 firm-year observations over the 1991-2010 period, we find strong evidence that firm internationalization is positively related to the firm's corporate social responsibility ...