In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives,...

This study examines the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the performance of listed firms in Saudi Arabia before and during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The study applied univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses to data collected from 258 annual reports from...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected the Gulf countries in a particular way. In addition to the direct consequences of the pandemic, the spread of the coronavirus has led to a collapse in demand for the Gulf countries' most important source of revenue: oil. Its price, which had fallen initially...

Die Corona-Krise trifft die Golfstaaten auf besondere Weise. Neben den direkten Folgen hat die Pandemie die Nachfrage nach der wichtigsten Einnahmequelle einbrechen lassen, dem Erdöl. Der ohnehin durch den jüngsten Preiskrieg zwischen Saudi-Arabien und Russland gedrückte Ölpreis stürzte im...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread rapidly all over the world challenging nearly all governments. The exact nature of COVID-19's spread and risk factors for such a rapid spread are still imprecise as available data depend on confirmed cases only. This may result in an...

The financial system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has a history of relative soundness, particularly in banking, due to comparatively strict and enforced domestic supervision, and supported by what has been for the most part a reasonably robust economy. However, the sector is facing...

This study aims to measure the performance of actively-managed Saudi Arabia mutual funds during the COVID-19 outbreak and examines the potential impact of COVID-19 growth on the measured performance. The authors apply the Fama and French five-factor model to measure the risk-adjusted performance...

This paper investigates the impact of the spread of COVID-19 on the Saudi stock market. More particularly, this study examines the implications of the recent coronavirus on the overall stock returns, sectoral stock returns, and the stock returns of specific firm characteristics: market...

As an emerging economy, Bangladesh has witnessed a remarkable development in adopting information and communication technologies over the last decade. Hence, the fi eld of e-commerce is expanding rapidly and consumers are now using the internet as an alternative channel for buying. The...

What is the effect of e-commerce on the geographic distribution of local sales tax revenues? Using COVID-19 as a shock to online shopping and hand-collected high-frequency data on local sales tax revenue, we document an important shift in the state and local public finance landscape. As...