Review of Middle East Economics and Finance

2003 - 2025

Current editor(s): Ghassan Dibeh

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A Coincident Indicator of the Gulf Cooperation Council Business Cycle pp. 1-23: Alhassan Abdullah Mohammed
Fiscal Policy and Growth in Saudi Arabia pp. 24-45: Joharji Ghazi A. and Martha Starr
Markov Switching and State-Space Approaches for Investigating the Link between Egyptian Inflation Level and Uncertainty pp. 46-62: Achour Maha and Trabelsi Abdelwahed
The Trade-Growth Relationship in Israel Revisited: Evidence from Annual Data, 1960-2004 pp. 63-93: Salem Abo-Zaid

The Economic Impact of IMF and World Bank Programs in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, 1983 - 2004 pp. 1-25: Harrigan Jane R and Hamed El-Said
Bank Competition in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region pp. 26-48: Diego Anzoategui, Maria Martinez Peria and Rocha Roberto R
Communication Infrastructures, Institutional Efficiency and EU-Arab Trade: Assessment and Implications pp. 49-73: Harb George
Assimilation and Trade between the Middle East, Europe, and North America pp. 74-92: Hisham Foad

When Migrant Remittances Are Not Everlasting: How Can Morocco Make Up? pp. 1-38: Fida Karam
Could Efficiency Analysis Help in Predicting Bank Failure? The Case of the 2001 Turkish Crisis pp. 39-59: Julien Reynaud
Incorporating Asset Liquidity Effects in Risk-Capital Modeling pp. 60-89: Al Janabi Mazin A. M.
Asymmetric Effects of Oil Prices on the Manufacturing Sector in Turkey pp. 90-105: Orhan Torul and C. Emre Alper

Technology, Political Economy, and Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 1-23: Brach Juliane
Viability of Keeping a Fixed Exchange Rate in an Oil Exporting Country: Some Results for Libya from a Computable General Equilibrium Model pp. 24-45: John Dewhurst, Kerwat Jamal and Hassan Molana
The Effects of Regional Trade Arrangements on Agri-Food Trade: An Application of the Gravity Modeling Approach to the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries pp. 46-62: Boughanmi Houcine, Al Shidhani Jamal, Mbaga Msafiri and Kotagama Hemesiri
The Best Asset Pricing Model for Estimating Industry Costs of Equity in Tunisia pp. 63-90: Chaibi Hasna and Sami Ben Naceur
Bank Ownership and Corporate Performance: Evidence from Egypt pp. 91-118: Azzam Islam

Kuwaiti Consumption in the Presence of Dramatic Economic Events: 1973-2003 pp. 1-20: Packey Daniel J and Salah Nusair
A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes: A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries pp. 21-44: Francesco Pastore, Anna Ferragina and Giorgia Giovannetti
International Portfolio Inflows to GCC Markets: Are There Any General Patterns? pp. 45-65: Faruk Balli, Louis Rosmy J and Osman Mohamed A
Bank Efficiency and Foreign Ownership in the Lebanese Banking Sector pp. 66-87: Ali Awdeh and Chawki El Moussawi
Financial Restraint and Financial Development in Iran: The Conditional Co-Integration Approach pp. 88-106: Taghipour Anoshirvan

Market Discipline in Turkey Before and After the 2001 Financial Crisis pp. 1-23: Levent Bulut and Osman Nal
The Turkish Stock Market Integration with Developed and Emerging Countries' Stock Markets: Evidence from Cointegration Tests with and without Regime Shifts pp. 24-49: Kasman Adnan, Vardar Gülin, Okan Berna and Aksoy Gökçe
Can Individual/Naive Investors Infer Valuable Information from Institutional Investors' Trades? Evidence from the Casablanca Stock Exchange pp. 50-71: Omar Farooq and El Attari Ahmed
Examining the Effects of Islamic Beliefs on the Valuation of Financial Institutions in the United Arab Emirates pp. 72-79: Omran M. F.

Development despite Modest Growth in the Middle East pp. 1-31: Murshed Syed Mansoob
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Egypt pp. 32-82: Al-Mashat Rania and Andreas Billmeier
Prospects for Inflation Targeting in the MENA Region: Feasibility, Desirability and Alternatives pp. 83-100: Erinç Yeldan
Development against All Odds? The Case of Lebanon pp. 101-133: Marktanner Marcus and Samir Makdisi

Capital Flight Accounting and Welfare Implications in the MENA Region pp. 1-67: Almounsor Abdullah
Estimating the Effects of Interest Rates on Share Prices in Turkey Using a Multi-Scale Causality Test pp. 68-79: Atilla Cifter and Alper Ozun
Transitory and Permanent Volatility Components: The Case of the Middle East Stock Markets pp. 80-92: Zarour Bashar Abu and Costas Siriopoulos
Global Financial Integration and the MENA Countries: Evidence from Equity and Money Markets pp. 93-116: Abdol Soofi
US Monetary Policy Surprises and Foreign Interest Rates: Evidence from a Set of MENA Countries pp. 117-133: Hakan Berument and Nildag Ceylan

Explaining Middle Eastern Political Authoritarianism I: The Level of Democracy pp. 1-30: Marcus Noland
Explaining Middle Eastern Political Authoritarianism II: Liberalizing Transitions pp. 31-40: Marcus Noland
Money and Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran pp. 41-58: Leo Bonato
Trade and Competition Policies for Growth in Lebanon: A General Equilibrium Analysis pp. 59-80: Sebastien Dessus and Ghaleb Joey R
Competitive Conditions in the Turkish Non-Life Insurance Industry pp. 81-96: Kasman Adnan and Turgutlu Evrim

Editor's Note pp. 1-1: Wassim Shahin
Why Has the Middle East Been so Slow to Globalize? pp. 2-31: Looney Robert E
Sources of Iranian Labour Productivity pp. 32-47: Abbas Valadkhani
Does Inflation Impact on Financial Sector Performance in the MENA Region? pp. 48-58: Sami Ben Naceur and Samir Ghazouani
Financial Market Integration and Macroeconomic Volatility in the MENA Region: An Empirical Investigation pp. 59-83: Simon Neaime
The Sources of Inflation in Egypt: A Multivariate Co-integration Analysis pp. 84-96: Mohammed El-Sakka and Ghali Khalifa H

Economic Trilemma and Exchange Rate Management in Egypt pp. 1-24: Bassem Kamar and Damyana Bakardzhieva
International Diversification Benefits between US, Turkish and Egyptian Stock Markets pp. 25-43: Maneschiold Per-Ola
The Validity of Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis for Eleven Middle Eastern Countries pp. 44-58: Paresh Narayan and Prasad Biman Chand
Imperfect Information and Credit Rationing Equilibrium: Evidence from Egypt pp. 59-72: El-Shazly Alaa
Book Review pp. 73-78: Rubeiz Ibrahim G

Economic Freedom and the Business Cycle: The Egyptian Experience pp. 1-19: Mikhail Ossama
The Tax Structure and Trade Liberalization of the Middle East and North Africa Region pp. 20-37: Mehmet Tosun
Exporting Goods or Exporting Labor?: Long-term Implications for the Palestinian Economy pp. 38-60: Astrup Claus and Sebastien Dessus
Financial Reforms and the Decomposition of Economic Growth: An Investigation of the Changing Role of the Financial Sector in Turkey pp. 61-84: Guncavdi Oner and Kucukcifci Suat
Book Review pp. 85-88: Salpie Djoundourian