MENA financial markets / guest editor Dr. Aktham Maghyereh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maghyereh, Aktham.

Series:

Managerial Finance - Issue 7, Volume 33

Managerial Finance ; 33, no. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance.

Corporations--Finance.

Corporations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (69 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Even though most Middle-Eastern and North African (MENA) countries have embarked on economic reform and structural adjustment programs, the Asian crisis of 1997 shifted the focus of such programs to financial markets. However, the lack of institutional development is a powerful obstacle to an increased access to MENA capital markets. Additionally, the region witnessed, and still, wars, political turmoil and economic instability. Consequently, MENA countries have not yet emerged as economic powers, which might explain the lack of academic research on MENA capital markets. In fact, it is unclear

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Oil prices and stock markets in GCC countries: new evidence from nonlinear cointegration analysis; Financial integration, regulation and competitiveness in Middle East and North Africa countries; The determinants of stock market development in the Middle-Eastern and North African region; Market efficiency, time-varying volatility and the asymmetric effect in Amman stock exchange; Empirical testing of the loss provisions of banks in the GCC region; Call for papers

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-281-07903-0

9786611079031

1-84663-489-X

OCLC:

182559899