Fintech growth during COVID-19 in MENA region: current challenges and future prospects

F Naz, S Karim, A Houcine, MA Naeem - Electronic Commerce Research, 2024 - Springer
In the wake of ongoing challenges faced by the disruption of COVID-19, the current study
attempts to investigate fintech growth during COVID-19 in the Middle East and North African …

Interdependence of clean energy and green markets with cryptocurrencies

N Arfaoui, MA Naeem, S Boubaker, N Mirza, S Karim - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The adverse effects of the high-power energy consumption by cryptocurrencies on the
environment and sustainability have raised the interest of a large body of policymakers and …

Modelling the role of institutional quality on carbon emissions in Sub-Saharan African countries

S Karim, M Appiah, MA Naeem, BM Lucey, M Li - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The motivation of this study stems from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
on clean and responsible energy consumption, climate change mitigation and sustainable …

Return and volatility spillovers between energy and BRIC markets: Evidence from quantile connectedness

M Billah, S Karim, MA Naeem, SA Vigne - Research in International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Using the quantile connectedness approach for the median, lower, and upper quantiles, we
examine the return and volatility connectedness between energy and BRIC markets from …

Analysis of the spillover effects between green economy, clean and dirty cryptocurrencies

A Sharif, M Brahim, E Dogan, P Tzeremes - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Cryptocurrencies have been widely used as financial instruments over the past decade.
Given the development of the cryptocurrency market and the increasing awareness of …

Diversifier or more? Hedge and safe haven properties of green bonds during COVID-19

M Arif, MA Naeem, S Farid, R Nepal, T Jamasb - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the study explores the hedging and safe-
haven potential of green bonds for conventional equity, fixed income, commodity, and forex …

Determining dependence, centrality, and dynamic networks between green bonds and financial markets

S Karim, MA Naeem, M Hu, D Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We adopted a network approach to examine the dependence between green bonds and
financial markets. We first created a static dependency network for a given set of variables …

Asymmetric relationship between climate policy uncertainty and energy metals: Evidence from cross-quantilogram

S Karim, MA Naeem, M Shafiullah, BM Lucey… - Finance Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate policy uncertainty is a widely used measure of climate risk based on policy fronts.
On the other hand, energy metals offer avenues for the use of clean, green, and sustainable …

Cryptocurrency volatility: A review, synthesis, and research agenda

MS Ahmed, AA El-Masry, AI Al-Maghyereh… - Research in International …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper takes part in the ongoing debate on the newly emerging field of financial
technology by systematically reviewing 164 articles on cryptocurrency volatility during the …

Sailing across climate-friendly bonds and clean energy stocks: An asymmetric analysis with the Gulf Cooperation Council Stock markets

MA Naeem, P Sadorsky, S Karim - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
This study endeavors to identify the extreme quantile dependence between clean energy
stocks and climate-friendly (or green) bonds with GCC stock markets for the period …