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416: Measuring Agricultural Productivity Growth in MENA Countries

Mounir Belloumi and Mohamed Matoussi

416: How Flexible are Small Firms? An Analysis on the Determinants of Flexibility

Guven Sak and Erol Taymaz

415: Trade Liberalization, Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in the Mediterranean Region

Nadia Belhaj Hassine and Magda ElSayed Kandil

414: Trade Liberalization, Gender Segmentation, and Wage Discrimination: Evidence from Egypt

Fatma El-Hamidi

414: How Costly is Investors’ Compliance With Sharia?

Sam Hakim and Manochehr Rashidian

413: Ownership Structure and Bank Performance: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Nada Kobeissi

413: Management of HAV in Countries under Conflict: Palestinian Case as a Cost – Consequences Analysis

Sufyan Daghra, Awad Mataria and Khalid Abu- Khalid

412: Inference of Oligopoly Power with Limited Data: Manufacturing in Morocco

Lahcen Achy, Azzeddine M. Azzam and Khalid Sekkat

412: Employment Effects of Productivity Improvement and Migration of Skilled Workers

Brahim Saber

411: The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Egypt

Rania Al Mashat and Andreas Billmeier

411: Financial Sector Policy and Poverty Reduction in Sudan

Adam Elhiraika and Khalid Abu Ismail

410: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Egypt: Does Women’s Empowerment Lead to Greater Investments in Children?

Rania Roushdy

410: The Macroeconomics of Workers’ Remittances in GCC Countries

Brahim Razgallah

409: Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan and Aysit Tansel

409: Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from a Structural Model

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

408: De Facto Exchange Rate Policies in the MENA Region: Toward Deeper Cooperation

Bassem Kamar

408: Using A Neural Network-Based Methodology for Credit–Risk Evaluation of A Tunisian Bank

Hamadi Matoussi and Aida Abdelmoula

407: The Flexible Forms of Employment and Working Conditions: Empirical Investigation from Tunisia

Ilham Haouas and Mahmoud Yagoubi

407: Effect of Private Tutoring on University Entrance Examination Performance in Turkey

Aysit Tansel and Fatma Bircan

406: Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations: New Evidence from Turkey

Fatih Ozatay

406: General or Vocational? Evidence on School Choice, Returns, and “Sheep Skin” Effects from Egypt 1998

Fatma El-Hamidi

405: Technology Diffusion, International Spillovers and Human Capital in the Mediterranean Agricultural Sector

Nadia Belhaj Hassine

405: Industrial Energy Policy: A Case Study of the Demand in Kuwait

Mohammad Al Awadhi and M. Eltony

404: Unemployment Rate in the United Arab Emirates: The Case of Abu Dhabi

Reem Albuainain

404: Liberalizing Trade in Services in Tunisia: General Equilibrium Effects

Saoussen Ben Romdhane

403: Estimating The Size of Turkey’s Informal Sector: An Expenditure Based Approach

Nurhan Davutyan

403: Productive Efficiency in Bahrain Economy

Bassim Shebeb

402: Islamic Banks Participation, Concentration and Profitability: Evidence from MENA Countries

Abdel-Hameed Bashir

402: Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Poverty in Tunisia: Micro-Simulation in a General Equilibrium Framework

Mohamed Chemingui and Chokri Thabet

401: Transporting Turkish Exam Takers: A New Use for an Old Model

Nurhan Davutyan and Mert Demir

401: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches to Exits from Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes

Ahmet Atil Asici

400: Emerging Market Sovereign Spreads, Global Financial Conditions and US Macroeconomic News

Fatih Ozatay, Erdal Ozmen and Gülbin Şahinbeyoğlu

399: Impacts of World Prices Transmission to Domestic Markets and Welfare of Marginal Households: An Empirical Application to Rice in Iran

Mohammad Bakhshoodeh

398: The Role of Government Activities in Explaining the Growth Failure of the Oil Exporting Countries

Masoud Nili and Solmaz Moselhi

397: Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes and the 2001 Economic Crisis on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey

Ali T. Akarca and Aysit Tansel

396: Could the Behavioral Responses Justify the Absence of Direct Transfers to Fight Poverty in MENA Region?

Sami Bibi

395: Monetary Policy Transmission and Targeting Mechanisms in the MENA Region

Simon Neaime

394: The Impact of War and Terrorism on Sovereign Risk in MENA Countries

Mahmoud Haddad and Sam Hakim

393: Analysis of Attrition Patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000–2002

Insan Tunali

392: The Institutional Environment and the Banking - Growth Nexus: Theory and Investigation for MENA

Mohamed Suliman and Mahmoud Sami NABI

391: Market Discipline and Deposit Insurance: Evidence from Some Middle Eastern Banks

Ghassan Omet, Ibrahim Saif and Hadeel Yaseen

390: Privatization and Financial Market Development: A Comparison between MENA Countries and Other Regions

Samir Ghazouani, Narjess Boubakri and Samir Ghazouani

389: Financial Liberalization and Money Demand in Morocco

Younes Zouhar and Abderrahman Kacemi

388: Rational Speculative Bubbles: An Empirical Investigation of the Middle East and North African (MENA) Stock Markets

Jung-Suk Yu and M. Kabir Hassan

387: Raising Awareness of Alternatives to Public Sector Employment among Syrian Youth

Nader Kabbani and Leen Al-Habash

386: Job Quality among the Non-Wage Workers in the Agriculture

Rania Roushdy and Ragui Assaad

385: Basel Accord and Lending Behavior: Evidence from MENA Region

Ben Samy Ben Naceur and Magda ElSayed Kandil

384: The Role of Governance Institutions in Private Investment Decisions: The Case of Middle East and North Africa

Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Mustapha Nabli and Véganzonès –Varoudakis, Marie-Ange

383: Vertical Integration and Institutional Constraints on Firm Behavior: the Case of the Garment Industry in Egypt

Amirah El-Haddad

382: Tourism, Capital Good Imports and Long-Run Growth

Jean-Jacques Nowak and Mondher Sahli