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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"GCC"”.
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Trade Integration Among the GCC Countries
… among Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (GCC) by examining the effect of GCC Free Trade Agreement (GCC CU) on trade among GCC countries during the 1995-2012 period. Different variations of the gravity model of international trade are applied to a set of bilateral trade flows among 38 …
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Künstliche Intelligenz und Recht in den GCC-Staaten
… ausgewählten Staaten des Golfkooperationsrats (GCC), insbesondere in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten, Bahrain und Saudi-Arabien. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, unter welchen urheber- und datenschutzrechtlichen Voraussetzungen große Datenmengen für das Training von KI-Systemen genutzt werden …
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Data journalism practises in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.
… practises in four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states situated in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Bahrain. Though there have been several pieces of research regarding the emergence of data journalism across the globe, certain regions have …
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Challenges Facing Islamic Banks: Evidence from Iraq and GCC Countries
… facing Islamic banks (IBs) in Iraq and GCC countries in terms of Shariah, Legal and regulation, institutional and operational aspects. For this purpose, Semi-structured interviews and open-ended survey questions have been used to collect data. Participants included academics, IB CEOs, …
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Oil Price Movements and Equity Returns: Evidence from the GCC Countries
… returns in general and sectoral levels of the GCC countries stock markets. Modeling the equity returns volatility requires using GARCH-type models. These models help to explore the pronounced differences of the conditional variance structures across sectors and markets. Chapter 1 compares the …
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Corporate Governance, Risk Management, and Bank Performance in the GCC Banking Sector
… CG, RM and Bank Performance BP within the GCC banking sector. Furthermore, the Islamic data and conventional data have been separated to investigate the association between CG, RM and BP. To do so, 90 active banks (30 Islamic – 60 conventional) banks have been selected as a sample for ten …
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Electricity service utilities in the GCC : steps towards a common regulatory reform
… member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely; the Kingdom of Bahrain, the State of Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been moving towards more economic integration while taking practical steps in …
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Exploring the connectedness of regional financial markets: application to the GCC equity markets
… equity markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for the 2005 – 2020 timeframe. The overall study is divided into four key areas. First, we examine the intra-regional connectedness of equity markets within the GCC region. Doing so, we explore the directional flow of spillovers …
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ECONOMIC AND MONETARY INTEGRATION IN THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC): A KUWAITI PERSPECTIVE
… been a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) since its establishment in 1980. Kuwait is a geographically small but oil-rich country, whose economic development in recent years is the result of an increase in both the production and prices of oil, which now accounts for almost 90% of …
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SHARĪʿAH GOVERNANCE IN ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MALAYSIA, GCC COUNTRIES AND THE UK
… practices in IFIs, particularly in Malaysia, GCC countries (Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia) and the UK, as these countries present distinctive models and approaches towards Sharīʿah governance in diverse legal environments. This study explores and analyses the …
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A Vision for the Future of Private International Law in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Why is it Necessary for the GCC to Move Towards Private International Law Harmonisation?
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), composed of the six States of the Gulf (United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman, State of Qatar and State of Kuwait), is striving to enhance the Gulf’s regional integration in various political, security, economic and …
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Essays on the corporate dividend policy using data from the GulfCooperation Council (GCC) countries
… the dividend policy of the listed firms on the GCC stock market are analysed. This thesis consists of three empirical chapters that investigate the impact of dividend announcements, dividend smoothness, and the prediction of dividend changes. The first empirical chapter examines the market …
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THAILAND’S RELATIONS WITH THE GCC STATES: AN ANALYSIS OF STATE AND NON-STATE ACTORS
… with players in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States and how the overall interactions shape Thailand’s relations with the GCC States. The hypothesis of the research is that despite limited resources and identity attached to it, the Thai state will continue to play a dominant role in …
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Transfer of Islamic banking knowledge from GCC Islamic bank headquarter to its subsidiary in Malaysia
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Islamic banks' subsidiaries which have invested in Malaysia have seen the going gets tough. They are strapped by paltry returns and stymied by stiff competition from the local Malaysian banks. Since the increasing competition and the slowdown of the economy have …
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Exploring International Trade between Malaysia and GCC Countries: Empirical Analysis on Trends, Developments and Challenges
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is the largest economic group in the Middle Eastern region and rank seventeenth in the global economy. The establishment of a GCC custom union in 2003 that led to a flat rate of imports tax between 0 and 5 percent has encouraged a number of economic groups such as …
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Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Foreign Policy Discourse: Iranian Threat, Gulf Crisis and the Question of Khalijism
… revolved around loose and foggy concepts like: ‘GCC foreign policy’, ‘GCC collective security’, ‘GCC security alliance’, and ‘GCC influence on Gulf security’. While these concepts have also featured in the political discourses of GCC members, they are not reflective of the principles enshrined in …
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The usefulness of annual reports of Islamic institutions in GCC countries to investors: the case of Kuwait
… reports of Islamic financial institutions in GCC countries regarding various aspects of the annual reports that could help investors make their investment decisions. To achieve the above objective, two types of questionnaires and interview were designed. The first type of questionnaire was …
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Factors That Enable or Hinder the Transition of Some Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries to Green Energy
<p>Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries continue to play a strategic role in the global energy system. They account for a fifth of the global oil production and enjoy relatively high GDP per Capita, and their economies heavily rely on oil-producing and exporting at a time when the West is …
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Microphone Array Based Sound Source Detection and Localization with Beamforming, GCC-PHAT, and Triangulation using Arduino and MATLAB
… to that of estimated tap locations using GCC-PHAT and Sound triangulation methods are collected. The results are compared between software and hardware data tap localizations. In this approach of microphone array-based sound source detection and localization system, the accuracy is checked …
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