Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...

The UAE is blessed with vast deposits of oil and gas. Contrary to other oil-rich economies, the UAE seems to have escaped from the so-called “oil curse”. We study how the UAE used resource rents to achieve economic development and provide higher welfare for the local population. We identify,...

This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models are specified to study employment decisions based on quarterly administrative firm level data over the period of 2007 to 2012. The data provides information about important...

Using intensive large panel data from thirty-one IEA-member economies for the period of 1974-2020, we provide cross-country evidence on the roles of public energy technology RD&D budgets in renewable energy transition and climate risk mitigation under policy uncertainty in the era of climate...

Using panel data of Middle East countries for the period 2007-2020, the study sheds light on the roles of infrastructure investments in mitigating climate change impacts. We introduce the extended Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKCI) framework to the extant literature on energy-growth-environment...

Using panel data on Middle East countries for the period 2007-2020, the study sheds light on the roles of infrastructure investments in mitigating climate change impacts. We introduce the extended Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKCI) framework to the extant literature on energy-growth-environment...

Employing the Web of Science database, we conduct a systematic review of ESG and CSR research in the era of Fintech and Blockchain. With the searched terms ‘green bonds’ representing sustainable capital markets, ‘ESG’, ‘CSR’, ‘Fintech’, and ‘Blockchain’; we find the gradually...