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  • Econometric Modeling of Gasoline Consumption 
    Nasr, G. E.; Dibeh, G. L.; Badr, E. A. (2016-02-23)
    This article applies econometric models to investigate determinants of gasoline consumption (GC) in postwar Lebanon (1993–1999). The impact of gasoline price (P) and car registration (CR) on gasoline consumption is ...
  • Value of dynamic revenue-maximizing congestion pricing in a highly congested corridor 
    El Khoury, John; Srour, F. Jordan (2017-04-11)
    This paper examines the value of utilizing dynamic, revenue-maximizing, congestion pricing on a privately operated tolled route, when the only alternative is a highly congested, public, free-access route. Three methods are ...
  • Can agents measure up? A comparative study of an agent-based and on-line optimization approach for a drayage problem with uncertainty 
    Srour, Jordan; Tamas, Mahr; De Weerdt, Mathijs; Zuidwijk, Rob (2016-02-11)
    Experiments studying the behavior of agent-based methods over varying levels of uncertainty in comparison to traditional optimization methods are generally absent from the literature. In this paper we apply two structurally ...
  • Corporate Performance 
    Ismail, Hussein (2016-02-02)
    Recent evidence consistently shows that corporate performance has an important effect on job satisfaction. This study aims to contribute further to this novel field of research by examining the relationship between corporate ...
  • Exploring Employee Involvement in Hotels in Lebanon 
    Ismail, Hussein (2016-02-02)
    Many large companies in the Arab world have been emphasizing HRM in their organizations as they learned about the benefits of HRM in the west. But what is the real picture? This case study of international luxury hotels ...
  • Privately Held or Publicly Owned? Large Shareholders and Corporate Control 
    Toukan, Amjad (2016-02-16)
    This paper examines the decision to go public in the presence of large and dispersed shareholders. The decision to go public and the shape of the ownership structure itself depend on the particular combination of concentrated ...
  • Launching A Weaning Food in a Developing Country 
    Amine, Lyn S.; Cavusgil, S.Tamer; Vitale, Edward (2016-02-02)
    Discusses the various stages in the launch of a new weaning food in Morocco. Highlights inherent problems in marketing a product in Morocco, including government inefficiencies and weaknesses in the retailing infrastructure. ...
  • Marketing supplementary food products in LDCs 
    Vitale, Edward; Cavusgil, S.Tamer; Amine, Lyn S. (2016-02-02)
    Developing country governments as well as a number of international agencies have become directly involved in the past two decades in the production and marketing of supplementary food products. This article discusses the ...
  • The economics of oil, biofuel and food commodities 
    Bahel, Eric; Marrouch, Walid; Gaudet, Gerard (2016-01-28)
    We study the effects on the food price of introducing biofuels as a substitute for fossil fuel in the energy market. Energy is supplied by a price-leading oil cartel and a competitive fringe of farmers producing biofuel. ...
  • Short-run price and income elasticity of gasoline demand 
    Marrouch, Walid; Sita, Bernard Ben; Abosedra, Salah (2018-05-18)
    We empirically estimate the demand for gasoline in the presence of multiple shifts caused by structural breaks using monthly data from Lebanon covering the period 2000:M1–2010:M12. Consistent with most studies in the ...
  • Emission taxes when pollution depends on location 
    Marrouch, Walid; Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard (2017-10-12)
    It is well known that an efficient pollution taxation scheme should charge each source according to its specific marginal contribution to social damages. Despite significant advances in environmental assessment, geographic ...
  • Bargaining with linked disagreement points 
    Leroux, Justin; Marrouch, Walid (2017-10-12)
    In the context of bilateral bargaining, we deal with issue linkage by developing a two-issue-two-players cooperative bargaining model. The axioms we propose focus on the role of the disagreement points. A family of bargaining ...
  • The electricity consumption, employment and growth nexus: evidence from Lebanon 
    Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid (2016-01-28)
    The causal relationship between electricity consumption and growth in Lebanon is examined using aggregate employment in a trivariate setting for the period 1980–2011. We test the main hypothesis that electricity is an input ...
  • International environmental agreements under endogenous uncertainty 
    Nkuiya, Bruno; Marrouch, Walid; Bahel, Eric (2016-01-28)
    This paper explores the implications of the possibility of a shift in environmental damages on the participation in environmental treaties. Using a two-period model where the probability of a regime shift increases in the ...
  • Managerial ethics 
    Zgheib, Philippe W. (2015-11-02)
    This is a study that investigated the extent of use of the three principles of ethics – utility, morality, and justice – in managerial ethical decision making, in addition to the personal attitude towards them. It involved ...
  • Comparison of job and career satisfaction between women physicians and women academicians at the American University of Beirut 
    Zgheib, Philippe W.; Zgheib, Nathalie; Usta, Jinan (2015-11-02)
    This study assesses the level of job and career satisfaction, work, social life and child care conflict of full time female academic physicians, and compares it with full time female non medical academicians at the American ...
  • The impact of population growth on Human Development Index 
    Zgheib, Philip W.; Ahmed, Zafar U.; Beldona, Sri; Gebara, Veronique (2015-11-02)
    This paper tests the growth of population on the determinants of Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI is a composite index constructed from measures of life expectancy, education and per capita income. This paper reviews ...
  • Female gender descriptors for entrepreneurial autonomy of Arab women 
    Zgheib, Philippe W. (2015-11-02)
    During the twentieth century Arab women struggled to change their condition, and succeeded in finding a place, though still small, in the active labor force. Increasingly, Arab women are becoming educated, self-confident ...
  • In-hospital drug-use optimization using the marginal utility theory 
    Zgheib, Philippe W.; Zgheib, Nathalie K.; Cecchetti, Alfred A.; Parmanto, Bambang; Ahmad, Sjarif; Branch, Robert A. (2015-11-02)
    Objective To use cost-utility analysis as an application of the Marginal Utility Theory whereby optimal drug use in terms of optimal drug cost and volume is estimated based on the diminishing marginal utility conditions. Methods ...
  • Autonomy, locus of control, and entrepreneurial orientation of Lebanese expatriates worldwide 
    Zgheib, Philippe W.; Kowatly, Abdulrahim K. (2015-11-02)
    Present day and on-going Lebanese emigration worldwide dates back several centuries. Yet it has intensified since the middle of the nineteenth century, mostly reinforcing Lebanese presence in North America, Central and ...

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