Influence of board and ownership structure on earnings management: Evidence from Palestine

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of the code of corporate governance in Palestine issued in November 2009 on constraining earning management practices measured by discretionary accrual among non-bank firms listed on the Palestine E...

Statistics Capacity Building and Alignment of Learning Outcomes with Business Sector Needs in The GCC Countries

In quest of a common market, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are in need to monitor economic convergence and monetary policies. This requires a common methodology for collecting, processing, and disseminating data. National statistical ...

Does Audit Committee Substitute or Complement Other Corporate Governance Mechanisms: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between audit committee (AC) and a set of other corporate governance mechanisms in one of the emerging economies, United Arab of Emirates (UAE). In particular, the current study examines ...

State of business statistics education in MENA region: A comparative study with best practices

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the state of undergraduate business statistics education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and assess its alignment with the best practices in equipping business graduates with the knowle...

The Influence of Corporate Governance on Corporate Performance: Evidence from Palestine

The objective of this study is to explore the relationship between corporate performance and corporate governance by companies listed on the Palestinian Stock Exchange. Accounting and market performance measures were used to proxy corporate performa...

Statistics education in GCC business schools

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of statistics education in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) business schools in terms of course content, teaching faculty, integration of technology, learning resources and teaching pedagogy in...

Determinants of the Voluntary Formation of a Company Audit Committee: Evidence from Palestine

Drawing on agency theory, this paper investigates the determinants of voluntary audit committee (AC) formation among non-bank firms listed on the Palestine Stock Exchange (PSE). We used the annual reports of nearly all non-bank companies listed on t...

Meeting the demand for statisticians in UAE: challenges and experiences

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the supply of and perceived demand for statisticians in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past decade. Design/methodology/approach: An exploratory study is conducted to examine the institutio...

Determinants of Private Investment in United Arab Emirates

The purpose of the study is to determine key factors influencing private investment in the UAE. The study examines eleven independent variables as determinants of private investment, according to adjusted data in the UAE for the period between 1990 ...

An EM-Algorithm Based Method to Deal with Rounded Zeros in Compositional Data under Dirichlet Models

Zeros in compositional data are classified into “rounded” zeros and “essential” zeros. The rounded zero corresponds to a small proportion or below detection limit value while the essential zero is an indication of the complete absence of the compone...

Labour Policy and Determinants of Employment and Wages in a Developing Economy with Labour Shortage

Using data from a sample of 1,099 workers, this paper investigates the determinants of employment and wages for workers in the United Arab Emirates. The paper further examines the wage distribution and the decomposition of the wage gap between the p...

Dealing with Rounded Zeros in Compositional Data under Dirichlet Models

One of the obstacles facing the application of the Dirichlet modeling of compositional data is the occurrence of zero. In the Dirichlet model, the presence of zeros makes the probability density function vanish. Zeros in compositional data are class...

Modeling Compositional Data Using Dirichlet Regression

Compositional data are non-negative proportions with unit-sum. These types of data arise whenever we classify objects into disjoint categories and record their resulting relative frequencies, or partition a whole measurement into percentage contribu...

Residuals Analysis of the Dirichlet Regression

Dirichlet regression, besides logratio regression, has been widely used in modelling compositional data. In this paper, several approaches to compute residuals for Dirichlet regression are considered. The graphical and quantitative properties of th...

A Study of the UAE Higher Education Sector in Light of Dubai’s Strategic Objectives

We provide an overview of the state of the higher education system in the UAE, and investigate its capacity to supply Dubai’s economy with skilled labor and achieve the emirate’s strategic social development objectives. We examine various characteri...

Residuals and diagnostics in Dirichlet regression

Compositional data are rarely analyzed with the usual multivariate statistical methods. One approach to model such data is Dirichlet regression. We present various diagnostic methods for Dirichlet regression models. We discuss the use of quantile re...