This paper assesses empirically the COVID-19 effect on businesses and the potential dynamic changes regarding post-COVID-19 automation and technology penetration using various logistic regression models. A field survey was used to collect the necessary data for testing various hypotheses. This...

The Kuwaiti economy is characterized by two major structural imbalances-heavy dependence on oil production and dominance of the public ownership. Kuwait has struggled over the years to implement a two-pronged development strategy - diversifying the country's economic base away from the oil...

Theories of consumption function have been tested for many developed and underdeveloped economies with grouped data sets. No empirical work has been done to confirm or disconfmn these theories in the oil-rich economies of the Middle East. This paper applies Kuwait's rich micro data of the...