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2013: The Labor Mobility-Employment Nexus: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Jordan

Anda David and Mohamed Marouani

2013: The Impact of Labor Mobility on Unemployment: A Comparison between Jordan and Tunisia

Anda David and Mohamed Marouani

2013: Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Aysıt Tansel

2013: Resource Windfalls, Optimal Public Investment and Redistribution: The Role of Total Factor Productivity and Administrative Capacity

Rabah Arezki, Arnaud Dupuy and Alan Gelb

2013: Effects of NTMs on the Extensive and Intensive Margins to Trade: The Case of Tunisia and Egypt

Sofiane Ghali, Habib Zitouna, Zouhour Karray and Slim Driss

2013: Do Global Shocks Drive Investor Herds in Oil-Rich Frontier Markets?

Mehmet Balcilar, Riza Demirer, Shawkat Hammoudeh and Ahmed Khalifa

2013: The Macro-Micro Nexus and Public Procurement Support Policy for SMEs: The Case of Pharmaceuticals in Egypt

Lobna AbdelLatif and Mohamed Zaky

2013: Debt, Inflation and Growth: Robust Estimation of Long-Run Effects in Dynamic Panel Data Models

Alexander Chudik, Kamiar Mohaddes, Mohammad Pesaran and Mehdi Raissi

2013: FDI and Exports Diversification in Arab Countries

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat

2013: Savings and Investment Decisions from Natural Resource Revenues: Implications for Arab Development

Paul Collier

2013: Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

Antonio Di Paolo and Aysıt Tansel

2013: Young People and the Digital Divide in Egypt: An Empirical Study

Mona Badran

2013: Is There Anything Special With Intra-Arab Capital Flows?

Khalid Sekkat

2013: A Comparative Analysis of the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in The Arab World and in Asia

Brahim Elmorchid, Nouira Ridha and Khalid Sekka

2013: The Formal and Informal Framework of Foreign Direct Investment

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat

2013: How Does Urban Concentration Affect Poverty in Developing Countries?

Khalid Sekkat

2013: Long Run Versus Short Run Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture

Ben Zaied Younes

2013: Trade, Transaction Costs and TFP: Evidence from Tunisia and Egypt

Sofiane Ghali, Habib Zitouna, Zouhour Karray and Slim Driss

2013: The Evolution of Labor Supply and Unemployment in the Egyptian Economy: 1988-2012

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

2013: The Structure and Evolution of Employment in Egypt: 1998-2012

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

2013: International Labor Mobility and Employment Interactions in Tunisia

Anda David and Mohamed Marouani

2013: Structural Change and Industrial Policy in Turkey

Izak Atiyas and Ozan Bakis

2013: Does Infrastructure Mitigate the Effect of Urban Concentration on Poverty in Developing Countries?

Khalid Sekkat

2013: The Impact of Urbanization on Political Outcomes in Turkey

Cem Baslevent

2013: Macro-Financial Linkages in Egypt: A Panel Analysis of Economic Shocks and Loan Portfolio Quality

Inessa Love and Rima Turk Ariss

2013: Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: The Case of Vertical Integration in the Egyptian Clothing Industry

Amirah El-Haddad

2013: Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy in Morocco

Lahcen Achy

2013: Proxy Means Tests for Targeting Subsidies Scheme in Iran

Mohamed Bakhshoodeh

2013: The Growth Effects of Greenfield Investment and Mergers and Acquisitions: Econometric Investigation and Implication for MENA Countries

Philipp Harms and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

2013: The Composition of FDI in the MENA Region and Other Countries: Econometric Investigation and Implications for MENA Countries

Philipp Harms and Pierre-Guillaume Méon

2013: Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Afsin Sahin, Aysıt Tansel and Hakan Berument

2013: Estimating Money Demand Function by a Smooth Transition Regression Model: An Evidence for Turkey

Afsin Sahin

2013: Different Arab Springs? The Political Elite and De facto Political Power

Mina Baliamoune

2013: Does Improved Local Supply of Schooling Enhance Intergenerational Mobility in Education? Evidence from Jordan

Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Saleh

2013: Did Trade Liberalization Benefit Female Workers? Evidence on Wage and Employment Effects from Egypt

Shireen AlAzzawi

2013: Banking and Monetary Crises: Impacts on Exports of MENA Countries

Mohamed Ben Abdallah and Zouheir Bouchaddakh

2013: Contribution of Structural Change to Productivity Growth: Evidence from Tunisia

Mohamed Marouani and Rim Mouelhi

2013: Palestinian Household Willingness and Ability to Pay for Public Utilities in The West Bank: The Case of Electricity and Water

Mahmoud El-Jafari

2013: Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants

Ahmed Elsayed and Andries de Grip

2013: Partis islamistes, Pouvoir et Etat profond dans le monde arabe: analyse en termes du Principal-Agent

Brahim Elmorchid

2013: Profit Sharing, Income Inequality and Capital Accumulation

Mahmoud Nabi

2013: Private Tutoring and the Question of Equitable Opportunities in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

2013: Students’ Achievement in the MENA Countries: The Heyneman-Loxley Effect Revisited Using TIMSS 2007 Data

Donia Bouhlila

2013: Agricultural Water-Use Efficiency in a Global Perspective: The Case of Iran

Gholamreza Soltani

2013: Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Educational Attainment? Evidence From A Major Policy Reform

Murat Kirdar, Meltem Dayioglu and Ismet Koç

2013: Dual Banking and Financial Contagion

Mahmoud Nabi

2013: Resource Rents, Institutions and Violent Civil Conflicts

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto

2013: Competitiveness in Turkish Banking: 2002-2011

Nurhan Davutyan and Canan Yildirim

2013: Trade Determinants and Potential of Syria: Using A Gravity Model, With an Estimation of The Syrian Crisis’ Impact on Exports

Zaki Mehchy, Rabie Nasser and Marc Schiffbauer

2013: Business Cycle Synchronization in Euro Area and GCC Countries: A Wavelets-GA Approach

Mustapha Djennas, Mohamed Benbouziane and Meriem Djennas

2013: One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy: A Curse or a Blessing?

Kamiar Mohaddes and Mohammad Pesaran

2013: The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bank Efficiency: Evidence from Bank Consolidation in Egypt

Malak Reda

2013: The Effect of Tutoring on Secondary Streaming in Egypt

Asmaa Elbadawy

2013: Modeling Political Performance of Islamist and Islamist-Rooted Parties in Turkey

Ali Akarca

2013: The Egyptian Economy Post-Revolution: Sectoral Diagnosis of Potential Strengths and Binding Constraints

Amr Hosny, Magda Kandil and Hamid Mohtadi

2013: Accounting Information System of Tunisian SMEs: Complexity, Determinants and Impact on Financial Performance

Yosra Nouir and Sami Mensi

2013: Understanding Democratic Transitions in The Arab World

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi

2013: Does Islamic Banking Development Favor Macroeconomic Efficiency? Evidence on The Islamic Finance – Growth Nexus

Laurent Gheeraer and Laurent Weill

2013: The Growth of Turkey in World Trade: Opportunity or Threat for MENA Countries?

Marouane Alaya and Imed Mezghani

2013: Wages and On-the-Job Training in Tunisia

Christophe Muller and Christophe Nordman

2013: Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Urban Economies: A Comparative Study of Egypt and Turkey at the Province Level

Fatma El-Hamidi and Cem Baslevent

2013: Factors Affecting the Choice of Households’ Primary Cooking Fuel in Sudan

Kabbashi Suliman

2013: Assessing the Impact of Trade Reforms on Informality in Egypt

Irene Selwaness and Chahir Zaki

2013: The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey: Introducing the 2012 Round

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

2013: The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy

Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes, Maziar Raissi and Mehdi Raissi

2013: Reseaux Sociaux Et Insertion Sur Le Marche Du Travail En Algerie

Moundir Lassassi and Christophe Muller

2013: What Happened to Real Earnings in Egypt, 2008 to 2009?

Paul Cichello, Hala Abou-Ali and Daniela Marotta

2013: How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

2013: Structural Labor Market Transitions and Wage Dispersion in Egypt and Jordan

Shaimaa Yassin

2013: What Determines the Access to Finance of SMEs? Evidence from the Egyptian Case

Hala El-Said, Mahmoud Al-Said and Chahir Zaki

2013: Aid, Exchange Rate Regimes and Post-conflict Monetary Stabilization

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto

2013: The Global Impact of the Systemic Economies and MENA Business Cycles

Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes, Maziar Raissi and Mehdi Raissi

2013: Approche de négociation dans le cadre d’un accord de libre échange régional liant des pays du MENA

Nabil Boubrahimi

2013: Exchange Rate Regimes for Post-conflict Recovery

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto

2013: Distressed Whales on the Nile – Egypt Capitalists in the Wake of the 2010 Revolution

Hamouda Chekir and Ishac Diwan

2013: Politico-Economic Development of Turkey and The Transformation of Political Islam

Hasan Ersel

2013: Efficiency Gains from Liberalizing Labor Mobility

Frédéric Docquier, Joël Machado and Khalid Sekkat