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2025: Financialization and Income Inequality

Abdullah Gulcu, Erdal Ozmen and Fatma Tasdemir

2025: Innovation Activities and Sustainable Firm Growth in Arab Countries: The Role of Bank Funding, Institutional Quality and Bank Competition

Ahmed Chafai, Rym Oueslati and Hatem Salah

2025: Stuck in War: The PKK Conflict and Intergenerational Outcomes in Turkiye

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye and Belgi Turan

2025: Do Employment Subsidies Affect Skill Intensity and Capital Formation? Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing

Güneş Aşık and Çağlar Yüncüler

2025: The Nationwide Camp Closure Policy in Iraq and the Welfare of Displaced Populations

Dahab Aglan

2025: Aid for Trade, Political Ties, and Global Value Chains: A Regime-Dependent Effect?

Nora Aboushady, Georges Harb and Chahir Zaki

2025: Informality and Heterogeneity: Assessing Monetary Policy Transmission in Tunisia

Mohamed Safouane Ben Aıssa and Firas Nfikha

2025: The Impact of the Informal Sector on Firm Performance: New Evidence for MENA Firms

Hasan Murat Ertuğrul, Ömer Tugsal Doruk and Ömer Faruk Tekdogan

2025: Investor Herding and Islamic Moral Economy and Finance: Evidence in the Islamic Banking Sector of the GCC Stock Market

Mustapha Chaffai, Amir Saadaoui and Imam Mohammad

2025: Explaining the Increase in Food Subsidy Expenditures in Tunisia

Mustapha Jouili and Mohamed Amine Welleni

2025: Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Tunisia: A Storm in a Teacup?

Mohamed Amara

2025: The Role of Financial Inclusion in Reducing Youth Unemployment and Mortality in the MENA Region: An Application of FMOLS Approach with Panel Data

Jabrane Amaghouss and Hanane Elmasmari

2025: Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Welfare in Turkey: Short-Term Evidence from the Family Support Program

Aysun Hiziroglu Aygun

2025: Startups Performance: Evidence from Tunisia

Achraf Khallouli and Rim Mouelhi

2025: Climate Change Negotiations Under the Shadow of History

Sheheryar Banuri, Ha M. Nguyen and Ernest J. Sergenti

2025: Pricing Behavior and Exchange Rate: Evidence from Iranian Consumer Prices

Hamidreza Aziminia, Seyed Ali Madanizadeh and Amineh Mahmoudzadeh

2025: Do Savers Learn from Experience? Evidence from Pension Contributions

Sadettin Çitçi, Halit Yanıkkaya and Yunis Dede

2025: Water Scarcity and Improved Water Use Efficiency in Tunisia: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Maha Mili, Mohamed Dhif and Houyem Chekki

2025: A Dynamic Spatiotemporal Analysis of Growth Convergence, Natural Disasters, and Climate Change in the MENA Region

Jamel Boukhatem and Marouane Alaya

2025: The Role of Artificial Intelligence Within the Algerian Economy: Opportunity or Threat to the Job Market?

Rachid Azzaz and Lylia Sami

2025: The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children’s Health Outcomes in Egypt

Marina Hesham, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer and Racha Ramadan

2025: The Impact of Soft Power on Inward Foreign Direct Investment in The MENA Region

Helmi Mansour and Monia Ghazali

2025: Does High Liquidity Creation Reduce the Efficiency of GCC Islamic Banks? The Role of Sustainability and Governance Factors

Wafa Khémiri

2025: The Interplay Between Fertility and Female Labor Market Dynamics in the Arab Region: A Panel Time Series Analysis

Mohammed Ali, Ebaidallah Ebaidallah and Manal Elhaj

2025: The Impact of Price, Legality, and Flavor Availability on Consumer Decisions: A Discrete Choice Analysis of Nicotine Products in an Illicit Market

Asena Caner, Belgi Turan, Berna Kasnakoglu, Yenal Yigit, Donald Kenkel, Donald Kenkel and Alan Mathios

2025: Harassment and Female Labor Force Participation: Micro-Level Evidence in Egypt

Marina Hesham, Ariane Dupont-Kieffer, Racha Ramadan and Hanan Nazier

2025: Powering Minds, Empowering Lives: Understanding The Effects of Energy Poverty- Low-Carbon Energy Transition Nexus on Children in MENA

Vladimir Hlasny, Yasmine Abdelfattah, Shireen AlAzzawi, Hala Abou-Ali and Rania Megally

2025: The Causal Effect of 2012 Compulsory Education Law on NEET in Türkiye: A Regression Discontinuity Design

Cansu Bahçeci, Senay Birecikli, Oznur Ozdamar and Eleftherios Giovanis

2025: Fiscal Limits in the MENA Region: A Structural Analysis of Debt Sustainability

Nadine Yamout

2025: Intensity of International Sanctions and Internal Conflict: The Case of Iran

Mohammad Farzanegan and Jerg Gutmann

2025: Childhood Vows, Career Costs: The Impacts of Early Marriage and Childbirth on Women’s Employment in Egypt - Evidence from ELMPS 2023

Yusra Alkasasbeh

2025: Impact of the Chikungunya Epidemic on Household Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Kassala State, Sudan

Mohammed Mustafa Ali and Haytham Abdallah

2025: Digital Financial Inclusion and Socioeconomic Sustainability in Saudi Arabia: Drivers, Disparities, and Policy Pathways

Mesbah Fathy Sharaf, Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen and Mansour Alharaib

2025: The Effect of International Sanctions on the Size of the Middle Class in Iran

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Nader Habibi

2025: Tracing the COVID-19 Footprint: A Sectoral Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Real Estate Price Dynamics in Saudi Arabia

Mesbah Fathy Sharaf, Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen and Mansour Alharaib

2025: Bridging Education and Fertility:Unraveling the Role of Gender Attitudes

Yusra Alkasasbeh

2025: Domestic and External Determinants of Inflation: An Empirical Investigation for Egypt

Heba Hashem, Mahmoud Mohieldin and Mamdouh M. Abdelsalam

2025: The Missing Link: When GVC Does Not Matter for Structural Change

Mazen Fathy and Chahir Zaki

2025: Does the Inverted U-Shaped Kuznets Environmental Curve Hold for Sudan? Evidence from the ARDL Approach

Mohammed Mustafa Ali and Abdul-Hameed Elias Suliman

2025: Women’s Agency in Jordan: The Impact of Marriage and Motherhood Moderated by Education

Yusra Alkasasbeh

2025: The Role of FDI in Boosting Peacebuilding in Sudan via Promoting Youth Employability

Mohammed Mustafa Ali1 and Hamed Najaf

2025: Supply Chain Diversification, Firm Persistence, and the Role of Finance: Case of Iranian MSMEs

Saleh Goltabar, Iman Cheratian and Hamed Najaf

2025: Household Micro and Small Enterprises in Egypt: Overview and Developments through 2023

Amirah El-Haddad

2025: Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Egypt, 1998–2023

Shireen AlAzzawi and Vladimir Hlasny

2024: Is Egypt Ready for the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism? Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Yasmine Kamal and Myriam Ramzy

2024: How Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As) Shape the Dynamics of Exports and R&D Activities: Evidence from Tunisian Manufacturing Firms

Wided Mattoussi, Omar Al Tabaa and Foued Mattoussi

2024: Trade and Connectiveness between Neighbors across the Strait

Fatima El Khatabi and Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso

2024: The Impact of Minimum Wage Shock on Robot Adaption in Turkey

Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Ugur Aytun and Seyit Cilasun

2024: From Vulnerability to Resilience: Households’ Exposure to shocks and Coping Mechanisms in Egypt

Imane Helmy and Al Anoud Ehab

2024: Food Security, Prices and Geopolitical Risk: A Panel Threshold Regression (PTR) Approach

Samer Mehibel, Reda Boudjana, Manuel Zambrano-Monserrate, Amel Bouzid and Messaoud Lazereg

2024: Local Employment Effects of Affordable Housing Construction: Evidence from Iran

Saeed Tajrishy and Mohammad Vesal

2024: Connectedness and Portfolio Management between Clean Energy, Crude Oil Prices and Equities Market before and during The Russia-Ukraine War: Evidence for GCC Countries

Walid Chkili and Samir Mabrouk

2024: A Comprehensive Disaster Resilience Index for MENA Countries

Abdullah Demir, Ali Dinçer and N. Nergiz Dinçer

2024: Refugee Exposure and Attitudes Toward Refugees in A Developing Country Context

Ayşegül Kayaoğlu

2024: Analyzing Labor Market Shifts in the Transition to Green Jobs: Mapping Egypt’s Green Jobs

Hala Abou-Ali

2024: Does Global Value Chain Participation Lead to Economic Upgrading?

Hüseyin Özer, Taner Turan and Halit Yanikkaya

2024: Inequality of Opportunity in Monthly Wages in the Jordanian Labor Market

Yusra Alkasasbeh

2024: FOOD INSECURITY AND GENDER IN TURBULENT TIMES: EVIDENCE FROM NEW DATA FOR EGYPT

Chahir Zaki

2024: Education-Occupation Mismatch among Vocational Secondary and University Graduates in Egypt

Rania Roushdy

2024: THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL PROTECTION IN EGYPT, 2006-2023

Irene Selwaness and Hania Sholkamy

2024: Unpaid Care Work in Egypt: Gender Gaps in Time Use

Marian Atallah and Marina Hesham

2024: The Use of Information and Communication Technology in the Workplace in Egypt

Rawane Yasser, Irene Selwaness and Cecilia Poggi

2024: MIGRATION DURING ECONOMIC CRISIS: THE CASE OF EGYPT

Anda David and Rawane Yasser

2024: Trends in Income and Wage Inequality in Egypt (1988-2023)

Mona Elsayed, May Gadalla and Mariam Hagag

2024: The Impact of Early Childhood Care and Education on Maternal Time Use in Egypt

Caroline Krafft and Ruotong Li

2024: EVOLUTION OF THE STRUCTURE AND QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT IN EGYPT, 2012-2023

Esraa Mahmoud and Ragui Assaad

2024: The Evolution of Labor Supply in Egypt through 2023

Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad and Zoe McKillip

2024: Introducing the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2023

Obbey Elamin

2024: Examining Undergraduate University Programs’ Appropriateness at Employability Outcomes in Jordan and Egypt Using Ordered Forests Method

Obbey Elamin

2024: A Spatio -Temporal Analysis of FDI-Conflict Nexus in MENA Region

Marouane Alaya

2024: The MENA Trade and Regional Conflicts: Causal Evidence from a Disaggregated Analysis

Pinar Tat

2024: Beyond The Norms: Innovation, Productivity, and Gender in Egyptian Firms

Amira El-Shal and Eman Moustafa

2024: Women’s Electoral Participation in Turkey: Micro and Macro Factors

Ali Akarca, Aysit Tansel and Senay Birecikli

2024: Multidimensional Poverty Alleviation: Policy Optimization and Impact Simulation

Hassan Hamie, Vladimir Hlasny and Jinane Jouni

2024: War and Peace in MENA: The Effects of International Trade and Finance

Seda Özçelik and Emre Özçelik

2024: RECONSIDERING THE NEXUS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AN UNSTABLE ECONOMY: THE CASE OF TÜRKIYE

Fatma Utku-Ismihan and Mustafa Mustafa Ismihan

2024: Economic Burdens, Social Protection, and Well-Being Amidst the Covid-19 Crisis in the MENA Region: Insights from the Fuzzy Set-Theoretic Approach

Khaled Nasri and Mohamed Ben Abdallah

2024: Natural Resource Volatility and Inclusive Growth in MENA: The Moderating Effect of Financial Development and Institutions

Eslam Hassanein and Nourhan Hassan

2024: Understanding Changes in Wage Inequality in Egypt: Evidence from A Quantile Analysis

Hatem Jemmali, Rabeh Morrar and Fernando Rios-Avila

2024: The Causality between Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth: Evidence from A Newly Constructed Index in Egypt

Hanan Abouelfarag and Noha Elboghdadly

2024: Does Monetary Policy Respond Differently to Oil Price Shocks? New Evidence from The Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Mohammad Al-Hashel, Atef Alrashidi and Youssef Saidi

2024: Explaining The Gender Gap in Access to Traditional and Digital Financial Integration in The Aftermath of Covid-19: A Case Study of Palestine

Rabeh Morrar, Fernando Rios-Avila and Habib Hinn

2024: Deindustrialization and Growth in MENA Countries: A Focus on Tunisia

Monia Ghazali and Rim Mouelhi

2024: Women’s Work and Children’s Development Outcomes: The Influence of Employment Types

Shireen AlAzzawi

2024: Higher Participation but Lower Pay? Occupational Segregation and The Wage Penalty in Turkey

Meltem Dayioglu and Sezgin Polat

2024: GVCs and Labor Market Outcomes:Evidence from MENA

Yasmine Eissa

2024: A Geospatial Analysis of Food Insecurity Among Refugee Households in Lebanon Using Machine Learning Techniques

Angela Lyons, Josephine Kass-Hanna, Deepika Pingali, Aiman Soliman, David Zhu, Yifang Zhang and Alejandro Castano

2024: Structural Domestic Conditions, Regional and International Financial Integrations: Evidence from MENA

Erdal Özmen and Fatma Tasdemir

2024: Female Headship and Poverty in The Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on A New Typology

Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova and Jere Behrman

2024: When Active Labor Market Policies Increase Unemployment: An Assessment of The Impact of The Employment Agencies Program in Algeria

Ali Souag and Ragui Assaad

2024: Does The Environment Matter? Climate Change, Transboundary Effects, Economic Growth and Conflicts

Eleftherios Giovanis and Öznur Özdamar

2024: The Prospects of The Green Transition in The Arab Region: State-Society Actors, Power Relations, Interests and Coordination

Mohamed Ismail Sabry

2024: The Incidence and Wage Penalty of Overqualification: The Case of Egypt

Ali Fakih and Zeina Lizzaik

2024: Does The Trillion-Dollar Cost of Sanctions Matter for Iranian Economic Development?

Reza Zamani

2024: Revisiting Economic Diversification: A Cross-Country Analysis

Hoda Assem, Roberta Gatti and Daniel Lederman

2024: Long Shadows of the Walking Dead on Economic Activity

Nazire Nergiz Dincer, Pelin Pektekin and Ayça Koru

2024: From Flow to Fortune? The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Dams

Hans Koster, Saeed Tajrishy, Jos Ommeren and Mohammad Vesal

2024: Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte and Karine Marazyan

2024: Traders’ War Against Trade Walls: Evidence from Import Prohibition in Iran

Kowsar Yousefi and Samad Alaamati

2024: Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Credit Rationing for Tunisian SMEs: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Analysis

Wided Mattoussi, Ameny Ben Sayari and Younes Ben Zaied

2024: To Leave or Not to Leave: The Role of Aspirations and Networks in Shaping Young Women’s Migration Decisions in Lebanon

Karine Moukaddem, Marion Dovis, Josephine Kass-Hanna, Léa Bou Khater and Eva Raiber

2024: The Impact of Independent Media on Political Mobilization during the Arab Spring

Laura Angelini, Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

2024: Financial Inclusion and Threshold Effects in Carbon Emissions

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh and Christophe Rault

2024: The Impacts of Matching Contributions on Retirement Savings: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Sadettin Citci and Halit Yanıkkaya

2024: The Trade Off Child Between Quantity and Child Quality: Testing Becker’s Q-Q Model and Long-Terms Effects on Women Using Data from Egypt

Hosam Ibrahim

2024: A Comprehensive Analysis of The Dynamic Space-Time Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in Egypt

Amira Elayouty and Hala Abou-Ali

2024: Unravelling The Nexus between Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Global Value Chain Participation

Mariz Abdou, Ibrahim Elbadawi, Patrick Plane and Chahir Zaki

2024: Sudan's Future between Catastrophic Conflict and Peaceful Renaissance Growth Trajectories: Long-term Growth Model Simulations

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Federico Fiuratti

2024: Education in Sudan: Disparities in Enrollment, Attainment and Quality

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla and Tarig Rakhy

2024: Determinants of Persistently High Fertility in Sudan

Maia Sieverding

2024: The Lives and Livelihoods of the Displaced in Sudan: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees

Ragui Assaad, Jackline Wahba and Caroline Krafft

2024: Gender, Work, and Time Use in the Context of a Low-Income Agrarian Economy: The Case of Sudan

Ragui Assaad, Vishal Jamkar and Caroline Krafft

2024: The Causal Impact of Education on Mental Health and Explanatory Mechanisms

Aysun Aygün

2024: Historical and Future Global Emissions Reductions due to Qatar’s LNG Exports

Muez Ali, Abdalftah Hamid, Gonzalo de la Mata and Alex Amato