This paper analyzes the effects of oil price volatility and the asymmetrical effects of the oil price volatility and major global crises on both oil-exporting and oil-importing economies. Major crises include the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukraine war, and the current conflicts in the Middle East, particularly in Gaza and Israel.
This research has an econometric model in two parts. In the first part of the model, oil price volatility is calculated through various GARCH-type models. In the second part of the model, the macroeconomic impacts of oil price volatility in relation to inflation, ...
Purpose – This research project assesses the relationship among financial inclusion and sustainable development. It will focus on how financial inclusion can promote sustainable and inclusive development. This project evaluates if the increased access to financial services can positively impact sustainability across countries under different macro-economic and institutional conditions.
Approach – A positive-deductive approach was used for this study to investigate the relationship between financial inclusion and sustainable development. A longitudinal-panel data set containing 38 countries from ...
Purpose - Currency crises remain a major source of macroeconomic instability in emerging economies, yet there is still considerable uncertainty regarding the mechanisms through which macroeconomic vulnerabilities translate into currency instability. While traditional models emphasize macroeconomic imbalances as primary drivers, recent research highlights the role of institutional quality in shaping economic resilience and policy credibility. This study examines how macroeconomic fundamentals and governance interact in determining currency crisis probabilities within fragile emerging markets.
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Purpose: this study investigates the change in market performance of U.S. acquirers after the passage of Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
Design/methodology/approach: event study methodology is conducted on a sample of 675 acquirers between 1999 and 2006.
Findings: results reveal that on the aggregate level, there is a significant improvement in the market performance of U.S. acquirers around the announcement day after the enactment of SOX 2002 Act. U.S. Stock acquirers’ market performance shows an insignificant improvement; whereas the market performance of cash acquirers do not exhibit any change ...
The main objective of this thesis was to research the various methods that can be used in arriving to a fair price for companies in Lebanon especially due to the availability of many different risk factors and various other aspects that hinder the valuation process. It was found that the DCF model is the most appropriate valuation method to be used according to most of the literature on the subject. However to be able to apply it in emerging markets it is in need of major adjustments taking into consideration the various different risks available in such markets and the need of including such ...
Purpose – Previous research shows the inconclusiveness and ineffectiveness of the traditional econometric models in predicting the future trends, movements, and volatilities of cryptocurrencies. This thesis aims to develop and evaluate a novel volatility modeling framework that combines the adaptability of CEEMDAN in decomposing cryptocurrency price data with the robustness of GARCH models in capturing conditional volatility. Methodology and Approach – This research will use the Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition with Adaptive Noise (CEEMDAN). This method will be complimented by the ...
Yaacoub, Carol Challita(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2009)
The internationalization of a small mobile operator into the surrounding emerging markets is an entrepreneurial and risky process due to the target markets nature in terms of protectionism in some markets or even poverty and political and economical instability in other markets. Moreover, I pursued an internship at Grey Worldwide, a multinational advertising agency that is serving the Kuwaiti mobile operator Zain Telecom. In the course of my work, I was part of an advertising compaign meant to increase Zain Telecom's market share in the Sudanese market, a war torn and poor country with very low ...
Many IT solutions providers' have discovered nowadays the importance of having an ideal project implementation methodology to attain successful on time and on budget project as an aid to achieve corporate development and growth. This research project describes a new Islamic banking software implementation methodology which can be flexible enough to cope with the various Islamic banks structures to meet efficiently the set GO LIVE date i. e. the project closure date. Finally, through evaluation of the types of Methodologies, the research project will conclude which type is the ideal one and if ...
In today’s fierce global competition, manufacturing companies strive to defend their share in the market by keeping competitive price and unbeatable quality. Being spread globally, Sanita built a competitive advantage from low selling prices and high quality products; however, competition is too strong with international giant invading the Lebanese market. In order to stay on the competitive edge and continue on making profit, Sanita turned its focus on new management techniques: lean manufacturing. Lean philosophy concentrates on reducing the waste level by identifying and eliminating non-value ...
Kattan, Antoine Elias(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
Looking for business opportunities outside the Lebanese borders goes back to hundreds of years ago. Lebanese individuals used to travel for trading and working abroad. Most of them have succeeded and many have made remarkable achievements despite the difficulties in the means of transportation, communication, security With Globalization, openness of International markets and the new technologies investments across borders became easier. During the last few years the Lebanese banking sector is attempting to expand abroad for many reasons, including the scarcity of investment opportunities in ...
Purpose -- the purpose of this study is to explore the barriers that hinder women’s advancement to leadership positions in higher education institutions in Lebanon, based on the perception of female academics in three prestigious universities that follow the American system in Lebanon.
Design/methodology/approach -- the research is qualitative. The literature review and face to face semi-structured interview are adopted to have a holistic understanding of the glass ceiling type barriers in academia. The in-depth semi-structured interviews are conducted with 34 academic women who have different ...
Purpose: the objective of this study was to analyze the individual and work factors that influence employee retention in the Lebanese insurance companies by reviewing the managers’ and employees’ perspectives.
Design/methodology/approach: the information of this analysis was obtained through exploratory interviews and analyzed questionnaire results using the coding system and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences.
Findings: the results of the study support the predicting factors (individual and job related) mentioned in the research. The analysis showed that gender, marital status, ...
Purpose -- the objective of this thesis is to empirically test the level of interdependence across commodity markets in terms of return volatility spillover, namely, corn, wheat, soybeans and soybeans oil, and to uncover the impact of macroeconomic announcements on the measurement of integration among those commodities. This will help us to investigate the extent to which different agricultural commodities can be considered as an asset class and to determine whether portfolio diversification across different agricultural commodities can still lead to risk reduction benefits, in light of the ...
Jbara, Adib Mamdouh(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
Among the many schools in Lebanon, there has been a growing trend for some schools to adopt a new type of Baccalaureate in Lebanon-the International Baccalaureate. This phenomena warrants an investigation especially since the educational system in Lebanon already has a Baccalaureate program. In order to be able to better understand the reasons behind the implementation of a foreign baccalaureate like the International baccalaureate, we must first consider the qualifications of each Baccalaureate program. this study sought to detail both the International and Lebanese baccalaureates and then ...
Changes have been the password of the healthcare industry for the last three
decades. It is known that the healthcare field is affected by three factors: quality, cost
and operations (standard of care). These three factors are affecting each other and
they are in constant change. Customer demand for better quality of care and safe
patient care is increasing; new technologies and medical innovation are emerging
every minute. Therefore change is inevitable in a modern healthcare system if
standards of patient care are to be maintained and improved. In all businesses and in
the healthcare ...
Purpose – Previous researches have shown a gap in empirical testing, particularly in measuring the variability of supply chain factors. This study aims to address this gap by investigating the relationship between the variability of supply chain disruption factors and the financial performance of companies operating in the automotive sector in Europe. Design/methodology/approach – This study will use the panel data regression methodology. This method will allow us to analyze the effect of supply chain disruptions over time and across multiple companies and countries, and control for both individual ...
This thesis revolves around stress in human relations at work, its reasons as well as some solutions that will not only aid at a personal level but the Lebanese organizations as well. After all, people are the most valuable asset for an organization. For this reason, studying the stress that arises at work due to unhealthy human relations was done as through the following research questions. Harassment, which leads to unhealthy relations, is the main cause of job stress in the Lebanese organizations. As such, the effects of harassment were studied on three variables: affecting human relations ...
Purpose: The thesis will try the measure the efficiency of Lebanese banks, to rank and rate them using multiple approaches and taking into considerations the effect of bank size. The main objective is to compare the efficiency score to the actual ranking to see if there is any discrepancy and to see if the performance of large banks is better than that of unlisted banks.
Design/ methodology/ approach: only top ten Lebanese banks are included in this thesis due to scarcity of information. Data for the study cover the period from 2008 to 2012. For the analysis and ranking of banks ‘efficiency, ...
El Haddad, Pierre(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
Purpose - This paper has two purposes; attempting to identify a CSR decision
making model and exploring the perception of Lebanese business leaders on Green
Economy, CSR and their inter-relationships.
Design/methodology/approach - Qualitative and Deductive in nature, this paper
uses 14 semi-structured and the thematic analysis framework to describe the
perception of Lebanese business leaders in the exploratory study, and to test the
developed proposition of the CSR decision making model in the conceptual research.
Findings - The findings provide evidence to confirm the CSR decision ...
This thesis examines how quality perception of service, food, physical environment, location and compensation influences Lebanese patrons' behavioral intentions in terms of recommendation, WOM and visit in mid-scale restaurants; it also identifies the most valued factors by the restaurant patrons in the above cues, in addition to examining the correlation between service, food and physical environment in terms of behavioral intention as well. ANOVA, regression and t-test showed that high quality is always valued; reliability is the most valued under service, food temperature is the most valued ...