• What Can GCC Countries Learn from Well-Established Green Power Markets in Other Countries? 

  Dagher, Leila; Heeter, Jenny; Mansour, Mohamad Hussein (Springer, 2020-04-07)

  This paper reviews the existing well-developed green power markets around the world and attempts to derive some important lessons applicable to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. In the past few years, all GCC ...
• The Predictive Power of Oil and Commodity Prices for Equity Markets 

  Dagher, Leila; Jamali, Ibrahim; Badra, Nasser (World Scientific, 2018-06)

  Using a seven-variable Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model and a rolling window approach, this paper investigates causality between oil price changes and the aggregate stock market returns of France, Italy, Saudi Arabia and ...
• From Shadow to Structure: Lebanon's Decentralized Path to Micro, Small, and Medium‐Sized Enterprise Formalization 

  Nassar, Isabelle-Yara; Ahmad, Nadia; Fala, Ali (2026)

  Lebanon's economy relies heavily on Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs), yet nearly one-third of firms and two-thirds of workers operate informally, exacerbating economic vulnerability and limiting state ...
• G7 currencies in the oil storm: A deep dive into shock responses 

  Gainetdinova, Anna; Sohag, Kazi; Dagher, Leila (2026-05)

  G7 countries accounted for approximately 53% of the world's petroleum consumption; thus, shocks to the oil market have significant economic implications. To this end, we investigate the responses of G7 real effective ...
• From tweets to markets: Lebanon’s policy uncertainty and volatility spillovers in MENA stock markets 

  Sumru, Altug; Barakat, Majdy; Dagher, Leila; Uluceviz, Erhan (2025-09)

  This paper examines the spillover effects of policy uncertainty in Lebanon on stock market volatility in seven MENA countries using a network connectedness approach. For this purpose, it constructs an economic policy ...
• Geopolitical instability and environmental sustainability 

  Dagar, Vishal; Rao, Amar; Dagher, Leila; Kagzi, Muneza; Acevedo-Duque, Ángel (2026-01)

  Geopolitical instability significantly impacts environmental sustainability, yet its role remains underexplored. This study investigates how geopolitical risk affects ecological footprints and carbon emissions, key proxies ...
• Corporate SDG adoption, share price synchronicity, and the role of incentive-compatible contracts in India 

  Sharma, Rajat; Chawla, Sonia; Dagar, Vishal; Dagher, Leila (2025-03)

  This study explores the impact of corporate SDG adoption on share price synchronicity in India's emerging market, focusing on the dissemination of firm-specific information. Using data from Indian firms, the analysis ...
• From margins to mainstream: pathways to resilience and reform in Lebanon’s urban informal sector 

  Dagher, Leila; Nassar, Fadi Nicholas; Sidani, Ola (2025)

  This study applies a social exclusion and vulnerability framework to explore the compounded effects of Lebanon’s ongoing crises – financial/economic collapse, political instability, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2020 ...
• Strategic Commodities' Price Risk and Financial Contagion in Oil and Gas Exporting Countries 

  Abid, Ilyes; Guesmi, Khaled; Urom, Christian; Alshammari, Saad; Dagher, Leila (2024-11)

  This study investigates the occurrence of stock market contagion effects stemming from strategic commodities and the United States (U.S.) equity markets to major oil and gas exporting nations amid the COVID-19 and ...
• Uncertainty and Risk in Cryptocurrency Markets: Evidence of Time-frequency Connectedness 

  Rao, Amar; Dagar, Vishal; Dagher, Leila; Shobande, Olatunji A. (2024)

  This study aims to investigate the spillover effects from geopolitical risks (proxied by the geopolitical risk index) and cryptocurrencies-related uncertainty (proxied by the Cryptocurrency Uncertainty Index) to cryptocurrencies. ...
• Quantifying Turbulence: Introducing a Multi-crises Impact Index for Lebanon 

  Abi Younes, Oussama; Dagher, Leila; Jamali, Ibrahim; Makdissi, Paul (2024-10)

  This paper provides an in-depth analysis of Lebanon’s severe economic crisis, a situation aggravated by the collapse of Banque du Liban’s financial strategies, delayed reforms by the government, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ...
• Attaining environmental sustainability amidst the interacting forces of natural resource rent and foreign direct investment: Is Norway any different? 

  Udemba, Edmund Ntom; Dagar, Vishal; Peng, Xuhu; Dagher, Leila (2024-03)

  This is a study of Norway's sustainable environment development amidst the interactions of natural resources, external investment (FDI) and economic development. Much has been done with respect to the study of Norway's ...
• Climate change dynamics for global energy security and equity: Evidence from policy stringency drivers 

  Dagar, Vishal; Rao, Amar; Dagher, Leila; Doytch, Nadia (2024-11)

  This study investigates the dynamic interplay between financial integration, political stability, infrastructure, and global integration in enhancing Energy Security (ES) and Energy Equity (EE) across 50 economies from ...
• Economic policy uncertainty: Global energy security with diversification 

  Dagar, Vishal; Dagher, Leila; Rao, Amar; Doytch, Nadia; Kagzi, Muneza (2024-06)

  Global energy security is a growing worldwide concern in the presence of high economic policy uncertainty (EPU) that can be addressed by advancing sustainable energy diversification (ED) practices. Energy security can be ...
• The crisis effect in TPB as a moderator for post-pandemic entrepreneurial intentions among higher education students: PLS-SEM and ANN approach 

  Chahal, Jyoti; Dagar, Vishal; Dagher, Leila; Rao, Amar; Udemba, Edmund Ntom (2023-11)

  This research examines college students' entrepreneurial inclinations using TPB, self-efficacy, and the crisis effect. It also examines the crisis effect's moderating influence post-pandemic. A unique analytical technique ...
• Oil market shocks and financial instability in Asian countries 

  Dagher, Leila; Hasanov, Fakhri J. (2023-03)

  This paper examines the relationship between oil market shocks and financial instability in Asian countries using a Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) following Kilian and Park’s (2009) methodology. Instability in the ...
• Dynamic integration and transmission channels among interest rates and oil price shocks 

  Urom, Christian; Guesmi, Khaled; Abid, Ilyes; Dagher, Leila (2023-02)

  This paper examines the short term dynamic integration among oil price shocks and interest rates for the U.S.A, Euro area and twelve Asian economies from August 1999 to January 2018 using a Time-Varying Parameter Vector ...
• Extreme energy poverty: The aftermath of Lebanon’s economic collapse 

  Dagher, Leila; Jamali, Ibrahim; Abi Younes, Oussama (2023-12)

  We collect primary data by conducting a survey on 931 Lebanese households who work in seven pre-specified sectors across all Lebanese governorates. The survey was supplemented by five groups of Key Informant Interviews ...
• Good for the planet, good for the wallet: The ESG impact on financial performance in India 

  Rao, Amar; Dagar, Vishal; Sohag, Kazi; Dagher, Leila; Tanin, Tauhidul Islam (2023-09)

  We examine the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices on financial performance among Nifty 50 companies in India from 2015 to 2022. Using fixed-effects panel quantile regression, we observe that ...
• Can Lebanon's economy be saved? A plan for revival 

  Dagher, Leila; Nehme, Raoul (2021-09-14)

  The recent financial and economic meltdown in Lebanon is the result of 30 years of social, economic, financial, and fiscal mismanagement, amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and further exacerbated by the Beirut port ...

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