The paper aims to analyze the current account of the Saudi economy using an intertemporal modeling and tested by the structural VAR methodology. By deriving the long-run current account to GDP ratio, we analyze the impacts of global and local shocks on the current account. Considering that the...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of present and future consumption, which...

The paper aims to analyze the current account of the Saudi economy using an intertemporal modeling and tested by the structural VAR methodology. By deriving the long-run current account to GDP ratio, we analyze the impacts of global and local shocks on the current account. Considering that the...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of the present and future consumption,...

To analyze the consumer utility, we use Shibani’s model that is based on three successive layers of earning/spending/utility. Based on the social solidarity, we show that the marginal earning depends on the first difference between the MPC of lower and upper social groups. According to the...

للعقيدة الاسلامية دور مهم في توجيه السلوك الاقتصادي، يتمثل في ربط الحياة الدنيا بالآخرة على مستوى الأفراد والمجتمعات، مما يبرز أهمية البعد الإيماني والأخلاقي في...

This paper aims to develop an Islamic intertemporal model of the current account based on the prevailing theoretical and empirical literature of PVMCA (Obstfeld and Rogoff 1996, Cerrato et al. 2014). The proposed model is based on the budget constraint of the present and future consumption,...

This research aims to study the nature of the relationship between the government spending and the private investment in the non-oil sectors of the Saudi economy through testing the crowding out effect during four decades and using the Bootstrapping technique. Firstly we use the Box-Cox...

The results of return equation exhibit the existence of a positive relationship between return and risk, which indicates the high risk and explains the dynamics of shareholders behavior, especially on Saturday and Tuesday, where utmost important information is excreted. The findings highlight...

Capital market liberalization allows the access of foreign investors to Saudi stock market especially since 2005. The test of adaptation to the market volatility exhibits the existence of the volatility clustering in the daily return and volume of traded shares. This finding is corroborated by...