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  • Captive funds and banks' capital 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-18)
    A simple leverage ratio restriction is not efficient because it does not discriminate between risky and safe banks.We use a structural and comprehensive model of the firm’s asset growth to describe the equity buyout ...
  • Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth? 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir (2019-06-13)
    This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries’ data for the period 2005–2016. Using the ...
  • Does corporate governance spillover firm performance? A study of valuation of MENA companies 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Issam Jizi, Mohammad (2021-01-26)
    Purpose The aim of the paper is to examine the association of corporate governance (CG), the firms’ characteristics and the financial performance of firms operating in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region after ...
  • The effect of private investments on banks' capital requirements 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2016-05-19)
    A simple leverage ratio restriction is not efficient because it does not discriminate between risky and safe banks. We use a structural and comprehensive model of the firm's asset growth to describe the equity buy-out ...
  • The finance-growth nexus, again 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali (2018-04-17)
  • Finance–growth nexus in a changing political region 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali (2017-07-06)
    In the context of the Arab Spring, which started in 2011 and overcame the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, this paper examines the growth effects of financial development, controlling for distinct macroeconomic ...
  • Financial development and economic growth under uprisings 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali (2017-07-10)
    This paper aims to examine the causal impact of the Arab Spring and government institutions on the finance-growth nexus. The empirical analysis is implemented for extensive firm-level panel data combined with national data ...
  • A further investigation of the growth-finance nexus in Kenya 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali (2018-04-18)
    This paper focuses on the finance-development nexus investigating the role of financial deepening and trade openness in general and several macroeconomic variables in the economic development of Kenya. Using a vector ...
  • Globalization and investment opportunities 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; ElFakhani, Said; Smahta, Hanin (2016-05-20)
    This study builds on the MBA project work of one of the authors, Hanin A. Smahta, and the supervisory work of the first two authors. All authors were affiliated with the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American ...
  • Government and Financial Institutional Determinants of Development in MENA Countries 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Kassem, Mohamad (2019-06-13)
    This article aims to examine the causal impact of the Arab Spring (AS) and government institutions on the finance–growth nexus. The empirical analysis is implemented for extensive firm-level panel data combined with national ...
  • Gulf financial institutions 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-19)
  • The impact of board composition on the level of ESG disclosures in GCC countries 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Jizi, Mohammad; Tabaja, Hala Hussein (2021-02-03)
    Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of board composition on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in the Gulf countries. Despite the vast literature on the significance of ESG disclosure on ...
  • Institutions and development in MENA region 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali (2016-05-06)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa region. De ...
  • Investing in gold 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-17)
    Gold is an attractive investment vehicle for many people. Some risks of in investing in gold are surveyed. The price of gold and its fluctuation are examined which raises the concern to all short and long-term investors ...
  • Market valuation of corporate reputation 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-18)
    Brand associations affect image and one source of brand association is a company’s reputation. While the relationship between a positive corporate reputation and operational performance is intuitively appealing, there has ...
  • Net present value maximizing inventory analysis with two product types and credit facilities 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Yassine, Noura (2018-04-18)
    The classic economic order quantity inventory model assumes that all items received from a seller are perfect in quality. Payment for the items is presumed made at the inventory cycle’s start, when the materials are received. ...
  • Nominal income and inflation targeting 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-18)
    In this paper a macro- economic model in the area of monetary policy game theory is extended to one-sided dismissal rules concerning observed nominal output and inflation targets for the central banker. These rules specify ...
  • Pegging to the dollar and the feasibility of the proposed currency area in the GCC 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2017-02-22)
    The aim of this paper is to examine the general progress of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in moving towards economic integration, as part of their proposed currency union in 2010. It also aims at analyzing the expected ...
  • Price drivers and investment strategies of gold 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud (2018-04-17)
    The price determinants of gold are explained in this paper. Benefits from holding gold as an investment class asset in several forms, including ETFs are explored. Disadvantages of holding various gold investments are ...
  • Short-term financing of economic order quantity (EOQ) inventory model with probabilistic quality 
    Arayssi, Mahmoud; Yassine, Noura (2017-07-17)
    In this paper, the classical economic order quantity (EOQ) inventory model assumption that all items of a certain product received from a supplier are of perfect quality is relaxed. Another basic assumption that the ...

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