Review of Middle East Economics and Finance

2003 - 2009

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Financial Restraint and Financial Development in Iran: The Conditional Co-Integration Approach: Anoshirvan Taghipour
Bank Efficiency and Foreign Ownership in the Lebanese Banking Sector: Ali Awdeh and Chawki El Moussawi
International Portfolio Inflows to GCC Markets: Are There Any General Patterns?: Faruk Balli, Rosmy J. Louis and Mohamed A. Osman
A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes: A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries: Francesco Pastore, Anna Maria Ferragina and Giorgia Giovannetti
Kuwaiti Consumption in the Presence of Dramatic Economic Events: 1973-2003: Daniel J. Packey and Salah A. Nusair

Examining the Effects of Islamic Beliefs on the Valuation of Financial Institutions in the United Arab Emirates: M. F. Omran
Can Individual/Naive Investors Infer Valuable Information from Institutional Investors' Trades? Evidence from the Casablanca Stock Exchange: Omar Farooq and Ahmed El Attari
The Turkish Stock Market Integration with Developed and Emerging Countries' Stock Markets: Evidence from Cointegration Tests with and without Regime Shifts: Adnan Kasman, Gülin Vardar, Berna Okan and Gökçe Aksoy
Market Discipline in Turkey Before and After the 2001 Financial Crisis: Levent Bulut and Osman Nal

Development against All Odds? The Case of Lebanon: Marcus Marktanner and Samir Makdisi
Prospects for Inflation Targeting in the MENA Region: Feasibility, Desirability and Alternatives: Erinc A. Yeldan
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Egypt: Rania Al-Mashat and Andreas Billmeier
Development despite Modest Growth in the Middle East: Syed Mansoob Murshed

US Monetary Policy Surprises and Foreign Interest Rates: Evidence from a Set of MENA Countries: Hakan Berument and Nildag Basak Ceylan
Global Financial Integration and the MENA Countries: Evidence from Equity and Money Markets: Abdol Soofi
Transitory and Permanent Volatility Components: The Case of the Middle East Stock Markets: Bashar Abu Zarour and Costas P. Siriopoulos
Estimating the Effects of Interest Rates on Share Prices in Turkey Using a Multi-Scale Causality Test: Atilla Cifter and Alper Ozun
Capital Flight Accounting and Welfare Implications in the MENA Region: Abdullah Almounsor

Competitive Conditions in the Turkish Non-Life Insurance Industry: Adnan Kasman and Evrim Turgutlu
Trade and Competition Policies for Growth in Lebanon: A General Equilibrium Analysis: Sebastien Dessus and Joey R. Ghaleb
Money and Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Leo Bonato
Explaining Middle Eastern Political Authoritarianism II: Liberalizing Transitions: Marcus Noland
Explaining Middle Eastern Political Authoritarianism I: The Level of Democracy: Marcus Noland

The Sources of Inflation in Egypt: A Multivariate Co-integration Analysis: M. I. T. El-Sakka and Khalifa H. Ghali
Financial Market Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility in the MENA Region: An Empirical Investigation: Simon Neaime
Does Inflation Impact on Financial Sector Performance in the MENA Region?: Samy Ben Naceur and Samir Ghazouani
Sources of Iranian Labour Productivity: Abbas Valadkhani
Why Has the Middle East Been so Slow to Globalize?: Robert E. Looney
Editor's Note: Wassim Shahin

Book Review: Ibrahim G. Rubeiz
Imperfect Information and Credit Rationing Equilibrium: Evidence from Egypt: Alaa El-Shazly
The Validity of Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis for Eleven Middle Eastern Countries: Paresh K. Narayan and Biman Chand Prasad
International Diversification Benefits between US, Turkish and Egyptian Stock Markets: Per-Ola Maneschiold
Economic Trilemma and Exchange Rate Management in Egypt: Bassem Kamar and Damyana Bakardzhieva

Book Review: Salpie Djoundourian
Financial Reforms and the Decomposition of Economic Growth: An Investigation of the Changing Role of the Financial Sector in Turkey: Oner Guncavdi and Suat Kucukcifci
Exporting Goods or Exporting Labor?: Long-term Implications for the Palestinian Economy: Claus Astrup and Sebastien Dessus
The Tax Structure and Trade Liberalization of the Middle East and North Africa Region: Mehmet S. Tosun
Economic Freedom and the Business Cycle: The Egyptian Experience: Ossama Mikhail

Book Review: Zuzana Brixiova
Revisting the Trade-Growth Nexus: Further Evidence from Egypt: Nasser R. Al-Mawali Dr.
Moving Holidays and Seasonal Adjustment: The Case of Turkey: C. Emre Alper and S. Boragan Aruoba
Defense Spending and Economic Growth in Turkey: An Empirical Application of New Macroeconomic Theory: Ferda Halicioglu
Is Natural Resource Wealth Compatible with Good Governance?: Sheikh Shahnawaz and Jeffery B. Nugent

Book Review: Nafhat N. Nasr
Investment Under Uncertainty in Egypt: A Real-Options Approach: Alaa El-Shazly
The Causality Issues in the Finance and Growth Nexus: Emperical Evidence from Middle East and North African Countries: Ghazi Boulila and Mohamed Trabelsi
The Political Economy of Growth-Inflation Transmission: The Case of Iran: Edmund Khashadourian and Abbas P. Grammy
Prediction of Currency Crises: Case of Turkey: Roberto S. Mariano, Bulent N. Gultekin, Suleyman Ozmucur, Tayyeb Shabbir and C. Emre Alper

Sources of Growth in Morocco: An Emperical Analysis in a Regional Perspective: Khalid Sekkat
Book Review: Alicia Garcia-Herrero
Purchasing Power Parity: Further Evidence and Implications: K. Hassanain
Sustainability of Budget Deficits and Public Debt in Lebanon: A Stationarity and Co-Integration Analysis: Simon Neaime
An Empirical Examination of Stability, Predictability, and Volatility of Middle Eastern and African Emerging Stock Markets: Mahfuzul Haque, M. Kabir Hassan, Neal C. Maroney and William H. Sackley