To address common structural imbalances and test emerging policy measures of the labor markets in a typical gulf cooperation council country, a prototype “macro-micro” economic model is developed. The model consists of a dynamic computable general equilibrium model that interacts with a labor market submodel and a discrete-event labor allocation computer simulation module. The results of applyi...

Hosam M. Zowawi, Emad Ibrahim, Melanie W. Syrmis, Alexander M. Wailan, Atqah AbdulWahab, David L. Paterson The University of Queensland, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Herston, Queensland, Australia; King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infection Prevention and Control and Gulf Cooperation Council Cent...

Article history: Received 21 September 2008 Received in revised form 15 February 2009 Accepted 25 March 2009 Available online 7 April 2009 A new measure of factor intensity and abundance from trade theory is utilized to predict potential trade and income redistribution between traditional and modern economies in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Differences in labor skill intensity and abundance su...

This work attempts to identify determinants of capital structure in a sample of commercial banks listed on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. To achieve this objective, data about were collected from 47 GCC commercial banks for the period between 2001 and 2010. We find that profitability and liquidity affect banks’ capital structure decision. The major contribution of this study ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common healthcare-associated and community-acquired bacterial in children. Data on pediatric UTIs the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) have not been collated. Our aim is to review published literature risk factors, etiology, antimicrobial susceptibility, treatment of (aged <18 year...

This paper examines the systemic risk and its spillover between banking sectors of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region using conditional value-at-risk framework. We construct country-specific indices 11 large banks in that are systemically important (SIB). report evidence spilloversfrom SIBs to broad-based GCC market indices. The incremental tail spillovers statistically significant for other...

This paper presents an analysis of the factors affecting foreign direct investments, focusing on governance quality and adoption International Financial Reporting Standards countries Gulf Cooperation Council, which are a special case study due to their idiosyncratic characteristics, rich natural resources geographical position. Panel data was conducted, implementing three different models (Fixe...