Kamal Hossain

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Publications - 6

Assessing the influence of financial repression on Bangladesh's financial development

Jewel Kumar Roy Md Yousuf Kamal Hossain Mohammad Bin Amin Mohammod Ullah Sayeed Bin Kamal Chowdhury

Publication Name: Multidisciplinary Science Journal

Publication Date: 2026-07-08

Volume: 8

Issue: 3

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

We investigate how financial repression affects financial development of Bangladesh over the period 1980-2022. Employing VECM, we find that repression policies negatively affect financial development, meaning that controlling the financial sector counteracts financial progress. Following the results, we recommend some policies. To accelerate financial progress, policymakers need to rethink on these restrictive policy instruments. For emerging nations like Bangladesh, this paper offers the first empirical data on the connection between financial repression and financial development.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.31893/multiscience.2026140

Customer sentiment analysis and prediction of halal restaurants using machine learning approaches

Mst Farjana Rahman Md Shamim Hossain Md Kutub Uddin Kamal Hossain

Publication Name: Journal of Islamic Marketing

Publication Date: 2023-06-07

Volume: 14

Issue: 7

Page Range: 1859-1889

Description:

Purpose: There is a strong prerequisite for organizations to analyze customer review behavior to evaluate the competitive business environment. The purpose of this study is to analyze and predict customer reviews of halal restaurants using machine learning (ML) approaches. Design/methodology/approach: The authors collected customer review data from the Yelp website. The authors filtered the reviews of only halal restaurants from the original data set. Following cleaning, the filtered review texts were classified as positive, neutral or negative sentiments, and those sentiments were scored using the AFINN and VADER sentiment algorithms. Also, the current study applies four machine learning methods to classify each review toward halal restaurants into its sentiment class. Findings: The experiment showed that most of the customer reviews toward halal restaurants were positive. The authors also discovered that all of the methods (decision tree, linear support vector machine, logistic regression and random forest classifier) can correctly classify the review text into sentiment class, but logistic regression outperforms the others in terms of accuracy. Practical implications: The results facilitate halal restaurateurs in identifying customer review behavior. Social implications: Sentiment and emotions, according to appraisal theory, form the basis for all interactions, facilitating cognitive functions and supporting prospective customers in making sense of experiences. Emotion theory also describes human affective states that determine motives and actions. The study looks at how potential customers might react to a halal restaurant’s consensus on social media based on reviewers’ opinions of halal restaurants because emotions can be conveyed through reviews. Originality/value: This study applies machine learning approaches to analyze and predict customer sentiment based on the review texts toward halal restaurants.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1108/JIMA-04-2021-0125

Causal Interaction between Foreign Direct Investment Inflows and China’s Economic Growth

Md Shamim Hossain Kamal Hossain

Publication Name: Sustainability Switzerland

Publication Date: 2023-05-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 10

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

This study examines the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in China over a 40-year period, from 1981 to 2020. Using a vector autoregressive (VAR) model, the study investigates the direction of causality between FDI and economic growth and finds that economic growth drives FDI inflows in China, rather than the other way around. The results suggest that policymakers should prioritize growth policies that foster sustainable economic expansion, rather than focusing solely on attracting FDI. The study contributes to the literature on the relationship between FDI and economic growth and highlights the importance of understanding the direction of causality between these two variables. Overall, these findings have important implications for policymakers seeking to promote economic growth and attract FDI to China.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/su15107994

Investigating the “Resource Curse” in China: Is it Sufficient to use the Usual Methods?

Eszter Kazinczy Eszter Lukács Norbert Kovács Katalin Völgyi Kamal Hossain Szilárd Bolla Éva Heimné Rácz Jim Hu

Publication Name: Acta Polytechnica Hungarica

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 20

Issue: 10

Page Range: 233-252

Description:

Our article on the study of the “Resource Curse” in Chinese provinces, was written with two objectives. First, by reviewing the international and Chinese literature and analyzing the economic development of the relevant Chinese provinces, we sought to explore whether the resource curse phenomenon exists or can be demonstrated. And second, we want to draw the reader's attention to the fact that Chinese and Asian economies in general have central planning models, the main purpose of which is to define and focus on national economic development priorities. The sub-divisions of the central development plans include development targets for each region, which naturally take into account the economic performance of each province and the factors that determine it. It follows from the latter line of thinking that the economic development of the four Chinese provinces concerned (Gansu, Guizhou, Qinghai and Shanxi) cannot be interpreted in a 'piecemeal' way, based solely on the existence or otherwise of the resource curse phenomenon. In writing this article, we also wish to draw attention to this holistic, comprehensive Chinese (Asian) way of thinking.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.12700/APH.20.10.2023.10.14

Foreign direct investment and its influence on China’s economic growth: A comprehensive review

Laszlo Vasa Eszter Lukács Kamal Hossain

Publication Name: Investment Management and Financial Innovations

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 22

Issue: 4

Page Range: 421-448

Description:

This study aims to systematically analyze and synthesize the existing scientific literature on the determinants of long-term capital flows, particularly Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into China, with a focus on how prior empirical studies examine the roles of trade openness, infrastructure development, institutional quality, and financial modernization. Using the PRISMA framework, the study systematically reviewed 114 peer-reviewed articles published between 1990 and 2025 to identify recent patterns, evaluate the impact of core sources, and highlight thematic trends in academic literature. The finding of this study indicates a clear upward trend in article production, with a significant jump from 124 publications in the UK to 1,855 in China, with China emerging as the leading contributor and host to several highly influential articles. The Journal of International Trade/Economics is the leading source with 109 documents, followed by China Economic Review (63), Research in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (45), and Economic Modeling (36). A total of 780 authors contributed to these works, with 2.96 co-authors per document on average, but international co-authorship was limited. This study also highlighted FDI as a key theme with 254 counts following Economic Growth/Development (181 mentions) and Trade (146), which indicates a strong research interest in the role of capital flows and macroeconomic performance in the Chinese context. This study analyzed 639 articles for the bibliometric review, with a primary focus on FDI. However, other significant components of long-term capital flows, such as portfolio investment, external debt, and remittances, were not adequately covered, representing a key limitation of this study. Additionally, the direction of causality between FDI and China’s economic growth was not covered by this study.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.21511/imfi.22(4).2025.32

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP STRATEGY AS A DRIVING FORCE TO ENGAGEMENT OF WORKERS: EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE BANKING SYSTEM

Wasib Bin Latif Jewel Kumar Roy Ida Md Yasin Md Atikur Rahaman Kamal Hossain Mohammad Bin Amin

Publication Name: Corporate and Business Strategy Review

Publication Date: 2026-01-01

Volume: 7

Issue: 1

Page Range: 250-257

Description:

This paper explores the hypothesis that transformational leadership strategy (TLS) is related to employee engagement in the branch-banking setting of a developing economy. Based on a quantitative survey of bank managers and employees (matched pairs; n = 61) and the available measures, reliability and validity have been measured, and the hypothesized TLS-engagement path has been tested through regression. Although there are recent studies and reviews that usually indicate positive links between TLS and engagement (e.g., meta-and narrative syntheses) (Bakker et al., 2023; Grah et al., 2024), our findings indicate a weak, statistically insignificant effect. The result indicates that leadership can be less motivated in banking due to contextual contingencies, including reward systems, legacy processes, or culture. We present hypotheses to apply to the job demands-resources (JD-R) theory, and in this case, leadership as a job resource might not be effective without other resources. We provide some steps that banks should take to balance leadership development with job redesign and incentives. We end with restrictions (convenience sampling, cross-sectional design) and future research (longitudinal and multi-level design and studies in other industries). Such insights provide a valuable boundary condition to other existing studies of TLS-engagement in other industries and different regions (Decuypere & Schaufeli, 2021; Bakker et al., 2023; Grah et al., 2024).

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.22495/cbsrv7i1art22