Husam Rjoub

Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Administrasi Abdul Haris

The study aims to investigate the financial technology (FinTech) factors influencing Chinese banking performance. Financial expectations and global realities may be changed by FinTech’s multidimensional scope, which is lacking in the traditional financial sector. The use of technology to automate financial services is becoming more important for ec...

Abstract Purpose: The main aim of this study is to investigate the effects of financial inclusion on bank profitability in island banking sectors. For this purpose, 19 banks from North Cyprus Banking Sector has been chosen which operates between 2007 and 2020. Design/methodology/approach: The dynamic panel of System Generalized Method of Moments (...

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is a theoretical concept that explains the association between income and environmental degradation. Prior research assessed the current association using a constant parameter. Nonetheless, as a result of political and global economic conditions changes, implemented policies, technological shocks, an...

Since renewable energy is essentially non-carbohydrate in nature, it can generate little or no pollutants and can therefore help in achieving both sustainable development and environmental quality. In this regard, the question that continues to persist is whether economic growth, economic globalization, and political risk can potentially affect ren...

In recent decades, natural resources have been regarded as an important factor for the economic performance of the countries. However, developed economies are more recognized for better Globalization and the use of renewable Energy. This study aims to analyze the influence of natural resources rents, Globalization, renewable energy consumption, and...

Waiting time appears to be an unavoidable part of the service industry, particularly at the airport, where you may encounter delays due to check-in, screening, and other activities. This waiting experience can vex customers, affecting their perception of the service provider and, consequently, their loyalty. Our study aimed to determine the effect...

This paper bridges the gap in the literature by employing the novel quantile-on-quantile (QQ) approach, the quantile regression approach, and the nonparametric Granger causality test in quantiles to assess the effect of international trade on consumption-based carbon emissions (CCO2e) in Uruguay. Our study incorporates other drivers of CCO2 emissio...

The relationship between environmental strategy and environmental performance has been extensively analyzed in the environmental management literature. However, this relationship is spurious due to the inconsistence outcomes, lack of intervening mechanism, and scarcity of appropriate context. This study undertakes these considerations by exploring...

The relationship between environmental strategy and environmental performance has been extensively analyzed in the environmental management literature. However, this relationship is spurious due to the inconsistence outcomes, lack of intervening mechanism, and scarcity of appropriate context. This study undertakes these considerations by exploring...

Over the last few decades, environmental deterioration has accelerated significantly. Environmental degradation has been a subject of research across the world because of its impact on billions of people. However, there has been no international agreement on lowering the utilization of energy and CO2 emissions (CO2), while demand for fossil fuels g...

Achieving environmental sustainability has become a global concern amidst increasing climate change threat. Using quarterly frequency data for the case of Russia from 1992 to 2018, the present study explores the interaction between disaggregated energy consumption (renewable energy and non-renewable energy), trade flow and economic growth on a broa...

A productive economic structure, represented by economic complexity (ECP), augments the economic development of nations. However, previous empirical investigations on this topic are confined to understanding the direct effects of economic complexity on environmental quality with equivocal outcomes. Therefore, this study not only probed the effects...

Uncertainty and a lack of stability are among the difficulties non-governmental organisations face. However, certain strategies for ensuring their performance's sustainability have not been empirically demonstrated in the literature. Using strategic resource management practises and artificial intelligence, this study examines the effect of organis...

The formulation and implementation of development-oriented public policies, particularly in a post-conflict state like Iraq, requires empirical investigation. Consequently, this study investigates the effect of effective e-governance practices and decentralization on public administration in the Erbil district of Iraq. The purpose of this study is...

This paper addresses a deficiency in the existing literature by examining the time–frequency domain association between economic risk (ER) and financial risk (FR) for the Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey (MINT) nations using dataset from 1984 to 2018. To the authors’ awareness, the relationship between economics and finance has not been thorou...

This study examines the moderating role of the cash conversion cycle (CCC) while investigating the effects of working capital finance (WCF) on firm performance. Using more than 18000 observations from Chinese manufacturing firms, we computed several proxies for each variable of the study and merged these proxies via Principal Component Analysis (PC...

In the contemporary era, it is evident that consumption-based carbon emissions (CCO2e), adjusted for international trade, are a more accurate and robust measure of environmental pollution than production-based emissions. Therefore, many studies have focused on exploring the determinants of CCO2e; however, the literature could not yet discern enviro...

This paper uncover a new perception of the dynamic interconnection between CO2 emission and economic growth, renewable energy use, trade openness, and technological innovation in the Portuguese economy utilizing innovative Morlet wavelet analysis. The research applied continuous wavelet transform, wavelet correlation, the multiple and partial wavel...

In the face of mounting climate change challenges, reducing emissions has emerged as a key driver of environmental sustainability and sustainable growth. Despite the fact that research has been conducted on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), few researchers have analyzed this in the light of economic complexity. Thus, the current research asses...

Turkey As the world continues to be a globalized society, there have been variations in environmental quality, but studies including trade globalization into the environmental policy framework remain inconclusive. Therefore, employing the time series dataset of Uruguay over the period between 1980 and 2018, the main objective of this current study...

The challenges generated by climate change have led to a greater involvement of companies in promoting the principles of sustainable development, one of the tools used being social responsibility programs. International organizations have launched various initiatives or principles to support companies in this complex process of transition to the gr...

In this research, we assess the influence of geopolitical risk (GPR), exchange rate (EXCH) and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on South Korea stock market. Using monthly dataset covering the period from 1997 to 2021. We utilize the novel nonparametric causality-in-quantiles test initiated by Balcilar et al. (2017) to assess these associations. Th...

In most nations across the world, the fundamental goal of economic policy is to achieve sustainable economic growth. Economic development, on the other hand, may have an influence on climate change and global warming, which are major worldwide concerns and problems. Thus, this research offers a new perceptive on the influence of renewable and nonre...

Since the global economic crisis, researchers and policymakers have paid close attention to the carbon emissions and financial development interrelationship, and some researchers believe that financial development can aid in abating the emissions of carbon. Thus, the objective of this study is to analysis the impacts of financial development of the...

An accurate carbon emissions measurement is critical for developing an appropriate climate strategy to address ecological issues. A meaningful climate policy reaction can be offered based on trade adjusted statistics of carbon emissions. This research utilizes second-generation panel co-integration techniques to investigate the influence of globali...

The importance of the digital economy and trade adjusted emissions is of great importance to study, especially in case of China. Since China is the leading exporter of the world and achieving high economic growth consecutively for the last 2-3 decades, this study, unlike past studies, evaluates the importance of digital economy, exports, imports an...

South Africa is one of Africa's most polluted countries, with rising CO2 emissions posing a threat. South Africa must discover ways of minimizing pollution and take necessary steps before it is too late in order to achieve sustainable growth. For this purpose, this research assesses the ecological consequences of globalization, nonrenewable energy...

A plethora of studies have shown that structural change helps nations achieve socioeconomic growth. The influence of structural change on environmental quality, on the other hand, has yet to be thoroughly investigated. As a result, the current study assesses the asymmetric impact of structural change on CO2 emissions while controlling for the effec...

With the passage of time, the continued burning of fossil fuels is proving to be one of the world’s most serious issues. In response, the current research aims to assess the critical linkage between carbon emissions and renewable energy, trade openness, and economic growth in Sweden utilizing a dataset from 1965 to 2019. The study applied the novel...

Research on the attitude of diabetes retinopathy's (DR) patients towards teleophthalmology as a branch of telemedicine has not been examined in developing countries. This article examines the receptiveness attitude of the patients with DR towards the use of teleophthalmology using 400 questionnaires to examine patients in Calabar DR screening cente...

Although a number of studies have been conducted on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and the pollution halo hypothesis (PHH), few researchers have assessed the scope in the light of the BRICS-Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa-nations. Therefore, the current research assesses the income-induced EKC as well as the role of technologi...

Economic growth and natural resources commodity prices are the variables greatly influenced by events such as the Gulf war, the Asian financial crisis, the global financial crisis, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The on-hand research fills the research gap by investigating the role of natural resources, natural gas and oil production for pre and...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a global economic recession which also shrunk natural resources prices due to reduction of the energy demand. In this concern, renewable energy projects also lose their competitiveness, which could hurdle the achievement of sustainable development goals. Current study investigated the causal link between renewable e...

The association between carbon emissions and international trade has been examined thoroughly; however, consumption-based carbon emissions, which is adjusted for international trade, have not been studied extensively. Therefore, the present study assesses the asymmetric impact of trade (import and export) and economic growth in consumption-based ca...

Countries enact environmental regulations to achieve sustainable development and ecological sustainability. However, environmental regulations do not guarantee environmental sustainability unless implemented efficiently. Furthermore, political institutions play a key role in the formulation and management of environmental regulations. This research...

The attention of scholars and policymakers on the achievement of sustainable green economy has been on increase; however, the topic has not been exhaustively investigated. This study empirically investigates the implications of financial regulations on sustainable green economy in Turkey utilizing a time series data spanning from 1996 to 2019. This...

The study investigated the perception of farmers on cost and competitiveness of Nigerian agricultural produce and impact on exportation. To assess the proposed hypotheses, a structured questionnaire was utilized and administered to 439 farmers sampled through agricultural cooperative societies across states in Nigeria. The data analysis was carried...

Despite extensive studies into international trade and CO 2 pollution, a panel of only top exporting economies was not considered. As the current research is an endeavor to address the gap by exploring the impact of economic complexity index (ECI) and renewable energy electricity (RELC) on consumption-based carbon emissions (CCO 2) in the presences...

This empirical study assesses the effect of CO2 emissions, urbanization, energy consumption, and agriculture on Thailand’s economic growth using a dataset between 1970 and 2018. The ARDL and the frequency domain causality (FDC) approaches were applied to assess these interconnections. The outcome of the bounds test suggested a long-term association...

To study the economic and environmental effects of human capital, previous studies measure human capital based on education; however, this approach has many shortcomings because not all educated people are innovative human capital. Hence, this study introduces the concept of innovative human capital by developing a new index that measures human cap...

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of management accounting control systems (MACS) and sustainable innovations orientation (SIO) in the relationship between business model innovations (BMI) and overall corporate performance. A total of 355 managers drawn from different types of manufacturing firms in the United Arab Emirate (UAE) pa...

The present research assesses the influence of globalization and technological innovation on CO2 emissions in South Korea as well as taking into account the role of renewable energy consumption and energy consumption utilizing datasets between 1980 and 2018. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing method is utilized to assess long-...

Achieving environmental sustainability has become a global initiative whilst addressing climate change and its effects. Thus, this research re-assessed the EKC hypothesis in China and con-sidered the effect of hydroelectricity use and urbanization, utilizing data from 1985 to 2019. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing method was...

This research formulates a theoretical framework to investigate the impacts of trade on consumption-based carbon emissions (CCO2) and also takes into account the influence of financial development and renewable energy use utilizing panel data for Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey (MINT) nations between 1990 and 2017. The study utilizes a serie...

Sub-Saharan African countries are known to be bedeviled with some challenges hindering the economic development. Meanwhile, some of these issues have not been exhaustively investigated in the context of the region. Thus, this study aimed at investigating the implications of government effectiveness, availability of natural resources, and security t...

The present study highlights the importance of environmental taxes and R&D in achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. Post Paris conference (COP21), countries set domestic targets to achieve zero carbon or carbon neutrality. Several studies have been conducted to explore the factors affecting environmental quality. However, the literature on the i...

The paper aimed at examining the influence of consumer’s environmental awareness on their intention to visit green hotels in north Cyprus, the mediation role of consumption values. Research on eco-friendly hotels stressed that conventional hotels do not make available to consumers the environmental awareness and consumption values, whereas, there i...

Mobile and smart devices provide a platform for firms/brands to communicate directly with past, present, or potential consumers (via online pop-ups, sponsored ads, ads on social media messengers, timelines, walls, etc.). Existing research on human-mobile interaction and end-user mobile management only highlights the positive fronts of repetitive ex...

This study assesses the relationship between economic performance and environmental sustainability by taking into account the role of energy consumption, urbanization, and trade openness in Brazil by using data spanning from 1965 to 2019. The study is distinct from previously documented studies in literature in terms of scope for Brazil, where few...

This study assesses the relationship between economic performance and environmental sustainability by taking into account the role of energy consumption, urbanization, and trade openness in Brazil by using data spanning from 1965 to 2019. The study is distinct from previously documented studies in literature in terms of scope for Brazil, where few...

It is not a gainsaying that challenges to both healthy living and the environment are the result of deteriorating environmental quality with the attendant effect on environmental sustainability. To provide a solution to the issue, our study uses long time-series data from 1960 to 2018, and employs an overlapping generational model, the Bayer–Hanck...

One of the questions that remain unanswered in the literature on determinants of carbon emissions is the moderating effect of "financial development". This becomes imperative, owing to the connection of carbon emissions to environmental degradation, which is considered to be one of the main challenges to sustainable development. Thus, this study in...

The recent decline in oil prices has highlighted the effects of oil price shocks both from the supply and demand perspective. This study investigates the impact of the oil price shocks on the South African economy using a structural Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model. The results show no significant effect from supply and demand shocks to the oil pr...

The research aims to provide new empirical evidence by testing the impact of the external shocks namely: oil prices and the U.S interest rate on Turkey’s real estate market by using three techniques of co-integration tests namely: the newly developed bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) testing approach as proposed by (McNown et al. 2018...

The challenges generated by climate change have led to a greater involvement of companies in promoting the principles of sustainable development, one of the tools used being social responsibility programs. International organizations have launched various initiatives or principles to support companies in this complex process of transition to the gr...

Purpose: Mobile and smart devices provide a platform for firms/brands to communicate directly with past, present, or potential consumers (via online pop-ups, sponsored ads, ads on social media messengers, timelines, and walls, etc.). Intense competition among firms and brands resulted in repetitive exposures to Ads by consumers. Existing research o...

The main aim of this paper was to investigate the impact of bank characteristics on capital structure empirically. The study employed a panel data analysis, Pooled Mean Group (PMG) and Cross-Sectionally Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag (CS-ARDL) estimators were utilized, for the period spans between the years 2008 and 2018. Both the borrowi...