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The Effect Of The Syrian Crisis On The Profitability Of The Country's Private Banking Sector, Osama Alyousef
The Effect Of The Syrian Crisis On The Profitability Of The Country's Private Banking Sector, Osama Alyousef
BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development
This research analyses the effect of the Syrian crisis on the profitability of local private banks during the period from 2011 to 2018 using fixed effects estimator on panel data. The research studies all of the 14 Syrian private banks and includes bank-specific variables calculated from the published quarterly and annual reports of all the banks, as well as a variable for the Syrian crisis measured by the following macro-economic factors: the number of crisis-related casualties, the number of Syrians who fled the country as refugees or asylum seekers, and the Syrian Pound exchange rate against U.S. Dollar during the …