1. Department of Accounting and Finance, College of Business Administration, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
2. Department of Finance and Economics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA
3. School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand
4. Western Caspian University, Economic Research Center (WCERC), Baku, Azerbaijan