Ohoud Khasawneh

• ph.D
• Professor (Associate) at Amman Arab University

Banking operations have always evolved in tandem with developing technologies in all fields, providing new services to customers and facilitating easier banking transactions. Many banks have adopted modern financial technology, which has immensely impacted their financial performance, often linked to their operation markets and client bases. This s...

Understanding consumer intentions regarding mobile wallet (m-wallet) adoption is paramount in the mobile commerce landscape, particularly in cash-centric economies like Jordan. Despite efforts to shift toward digital payments, cash transactions remain prevalent, highlighting the need to explore m-wallet service adoption dynamics in Jordan.This stud...

2024). The mediating effect of accrual earnings management on the relationship between ownership structure and firm value: Evidence from Jordan. Abstract Firm value is considered a primary and essential driver for investors when making investment decisions, so they are interested in the quality of the financial data in com-panies' annual reports re...

Existing literature on the relationship between renewable energy and economic growth yields mixed outcomes, since the impact of renewable energy consumption on economic growth can be negative, positive or insignificant. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method, this paper examines the nexus between renewable energy and economic growth...

Purpose: Financial technology (FinTech) entails radical changes for every facet of financial services, and has increasing significance for the global economy. The purpose of this paper is to present a birds’ eye view of salient effects of Fintech on the global financial system. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review approach is adopted, w...

The aim of this study is to determine the main player behind the existence of the day-of-the-week effect on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) by analyzing the trading patterns for investors using the EGARCH model. The sample comprised all companies trading in the financial sector during the period from January 2, 2008, to December 31, 2019. The result...

تهدف الدراسة لتحديد مدى تماثل أثر تغيير التصنيف الائتماني للدول على أداء البورصات في الأسواق الناشئة، لتحقيق هذا الهدف سيتم دراسة بورصة عمان. حيث تم تتبع وتحليل التغيرات التي طرأت على التصنيف الائتماني للأردن والصادرة عن أهم وكالات التصنيف العالمية وهما(S&P500) و (Moody s) خلال الفترة الواقعة بين (2003-2013) حيث تبين أن الحكومة الأردنية خلال تلك ال...

The idea of investing across countries is rewarding and promising. It is very possible to decrease the risk associated with stock market investing for a given level of expected return by diversifying internationally. The main objectives of this study are to evaluate the main benefits of international portfolio diversification for Middle Eastern inv...

This paper mainly concentrates on evaluating the major factors that affect the commercial banks' performance in the Middle East region based on factor analysis technique. In our study, we choose 23 variables and analyze them according to factor analysis techniques (PCA), in order to extract them in six different factors based on their importance to...

This paper aims to investigate the presence of unofficial dollarization (mainly U.S dollar) and its determinants in Jordan, which considered as one of the most open economies in the Middle East. A model is used (based on simple money supply function, inflation, and interest rate differentials; as the major determinates of unofficial dollarization),...