Mohamed Albaity, Ray Saadaoui Mallek, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman
This paper investigates the impact of competition on bank stability using data from 276 banks across eighteen MENA countries between 2006–2015. We controlled for financial inclusion, productivity, and macroeconomic instability in addition to several different control variables, including bank size, ...
Mohamed Albaity, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman, Ray Saadaoui Mallek
This study investigates the role of trustworthiness and governance quality in banks’ risk-taking behavior, along with other bank-specific and country-specific variables commonly studied. By employing a dataset comprising 202 banks in 16 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from 2011 ...
Mohamed Albaity, Mahfuzur Rahman, Islam Shahidul
Abstract We asked whether behavioral biases are related to cognitive abilities of Malaysian youth. Frederick’s three-item Cognitive Reflection Test was used to understand the role of behavioral biases concerning behavioral economics and finance. The sample (n = 880) comprised of university students ...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Shah Jalal Uddin, Mohamed Albaity
This study examined socio-economic condition of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia. The study consists of 215 sample Bangladeshi migrant workers of the various sectors located in five largest urban growth poles in Peninsular Malaysia and judgment sampling technique was used to select this sampl...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Mohamed Albaity, Tarannum Azim Baigh, Md. Abdul Kaium Masud
Financial risk tolerance is a complex process that goes beyond the exclusive use of demographic characteristics. Despite the necessity of developing a comprehensive financial risk tolerance measurement model, the psychological factors that might be important have been long overlooked. The purpose of...
Mohamed Albaity, Ray Saadaoui Mallek, Hussein A. Hassan Al‐Tamimi, Abu Hanifa Md. Noman
Abstract This paper investigates the nexus between stability and competition in the banking sector of the Gulf Cooperation Council. We examined a sample of 75 banks over the period 2006–2016. We found a U‐shaped relationship between bank stability and competition suggesting competition‐stability and...
Mahfuzur Rahman, Ngu Wang Keat, Md Abdul Kaium Masud, Mohamed Albaity
This study investigates the dynamic relationships between renewable energy consumption, labor force, gross fixed capital (GFC), and GDP across ASEAN-5 nations from 1984 to 2020. Utilizing data from the World Development Indicators (WDI), the Energy Information Agency (EIA), and national labor statis...
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