Country Risk, Risk Assessment, and International Portfolio Diversification in Selected MENA Markets

dc.contributor.advisorPayaslıoğlu, Gülcay Tuna (Supervisor)
dc.contributor.authorTaha, Amjad I. I.
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-03T07:17:19Z
dc.date.available2025-06-03T07:17:19Z
dc.date.issued2023-07
dc.date.submitted2023-07
dc.departmentEastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Banking and Financeen_US
dc.descriptionDoctor of Philosophy in Finance. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research. Thesis (Ph.D.) - Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Banking and Finance, 2023. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gülcay Tuna Payaslıoğlu.en_US
dc.description.abstractSince the 1990s, the emerging stock markets attracted large flows of international capital providing investment opportunities for global investors. The thesis investigates the role of country risk composed of political risk (PR), economic risk (ER), financial risk (FR), and Oil in risk assessment for investment opportunities in selected Middle East and North African (MENA) financial markets. The analysis uses monthly data for Jordan, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia for January 2005 – December 2018 that includes both the tranquil and crisis periods such as the Arab Spring and the 2008-2009 global financial crises. For this purpose, the analysis is conducted within a two-state regime-switching framework using the Markov-switching international capital asset pricing model (MS-ICAPM). The empirical estimates suggest that investment opportunities vary both with the state of the economy and country-specific risk factors which may be helpful to international investors in their decisions regarding portfolio diversification and to government authorities in their economic policies.en_US
dc.description.abstractÖZ: 1990'lı yıllardan bu yana, gelişmekte olan borsalar, küresel yatırımcılara yatırım fırsatlarısağlayan büyük miktarda uluslararası sermaye akışını çekmiştir. Tez,seçilmiş Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika (MENA) finansal piyasalarındaki yatırım fırsatları için risk değerlendirmesinde politik risk (PR), ekonomik risk (ER), finansal risk (FR) ve petrolden oluşan ülke riskinin rolünü inceler. Analizde Ürdün, Türkiye, Mısır, Fas, Suudi Arabistan ve Tunus'un Ocak 2005 – Aralık 2018 arasındaki, Arap Baharı ve 2008-2009 küresel mali krizleri gibi hem sakin hem de kriz dönemlerini kapsayan aylık verileri kullanılmıştır. Bu amaçla analiz, Markov geçişli uluslararası sermaye varlık fiyatlandırma modeli (MS-ICAPM) kullanılarak iki durumlu rejim değiştirme çerçevesinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ampirik tahminler, yatırım fırsatlarının hem ekonominin durumuna hem de ülkeye özgü risk faktörlerine göre değiştiğini, bunun da uluslararası yatırımcılara portföy çeşitlendirmesine ilişkin kararlarında ve hükümet yetkililerine ekonomi politikalarında yardımcı olabileceğini göstermektedir.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTaha, Amjad I. I. (2023). Country Risk, Risk Assessment, and International Portfolio Diversification in Selected MENA Markets. Thesis (Ph.D), Eastern Mediterranean University, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Dept. of Banking and Finance, Famagusta: North Cyprus.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11129/6294
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ)en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryTez
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBanking and Finance Departmenten_US
dc.subjectStock exchanges--MENA Regionen_US
dc.subjectCapital movements--Economic Conditions--Finance--Middle East--North Africaen_US
dc.subjectRisk Assessment, Country Risk, International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM), Markov-Switching Model, JEL Classifications: G15, G11, C32.en_US
dc.titleCountry Risk, Risk Assessment, and International Portfolio Diversification in Selected MENA Marketsen_US
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis

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