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2011: Regulating Traffic to Reduce Air Pollution in Greater Cairo, Egypt

Hala Abou-Ali and Alban Thomas

2011: What Drives the Global Land Rush?

Rabah Arezki, Klaus Deininger and Harris Selod

2011: Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

2011: On Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Performance: Evidence Before and After the Financial Crisis in Turkey

Nazire Nergiz Dincer, Magda Kandil and Mohamed Trabelsi

2011: The Relative Volatility of Commodity Prices: A Reappraisal

Rabah Arezki, Daniel Lederman and Hongyan Zhao

2011: Assessing the Global Effect of Trade Facilitation: Evidence from the MIRAGE Model

Chahir Zaki

2011: International Capital Mobility and Factor Reallocation in a Multisector Economy

Sirin Saracoglu and Zeynep Akgül

2011: Institutional Evolution and Economic Development in Iran and Turkey

Esra Gürakar and Emin Köksal

2011: Residential Water Demand: A Panel Cointegration Approach and Application to Tunisia

Ben Zaied Younes and Mohamed Matoussi

2011: Stock Market Liquidity: Comparative Analysis of The Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange and Dubai Financial Market

Ghassan Omet

2011: Fiscal Regimes in and Outside the MENA Region

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Raimundo Soto

2011: Stock Prices and Inflation: Evidence from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Morocco

Adel Al-Sharkas and Marwan Al-Zoubi

2011: Climate Change Impacts on Wheat Yields in the North-West of Tunisia

Faicel Gasmi, Mounir Belloumi and Mohamed Matoussi

2011: Did the Global Financial Crisis and Recession Contribute to the Uprisings in North Africa?

Hassan Aly and Mark Strazicich

2011: Local Employment Growth in the Coastal Area of Tunisia: A Dynamic Spatial Panel Approach

Amara Mohamed and Mohamed Ayadi

2011: An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in MENA: Potential for Deregulation and Privatization

Sam Hakim and Simon Neaime

2011: Political Institutions and Sovereign Credit Spreads

Narjess Boubakri, Jean-Claude Cosset and Houcem Smaoui

2011: Integrated Paradigm for Sustainable Development: A Panel Data Study

Hala Abou-Ali and Yasmine Abdelfattah

2011: Do Islamic Banks Employ Less Earnings Management?

Majdi Quttainah

2011: Regional Impact of the Climate Change: A CGE Analysis for Turkey

Hasan Dudu and Erol Cakmak

2011: Labor Market Adjustment during the World Financial Crisis: Evidence from Egypt

Rania Roushdy and May Gadallah

2011: Analysis of Foreign Ownership, R&D and Spillovers in Developing Countries: Evidence from Turkey

Elif Kalaycı and Mehmet Pamukçu

2011: The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey

Badi Baltagi, Yusuf Baskaya and Timur Hulagu

2011: Poverty Alleviation in Southern Sudan: The Case of Rank County

Adam Yassin, Ali Salih and Somaia Gafar

2011: Analyse micro économétrique des déterminants de la migration de retour des immigrés maghrébins

Amine Chamkhi and Aomar Ibourk

2011: Cyclicality of Fiscal Behavior in Developing Oil-Producing Countries: An Empirical Review

Nese Erbil

2011: The Price Effect of Tariff Liberalization in Morocco: Measuring the Impact on Household Welfare

Mouna Cherkaoui, Ayache Khellaf and Abdelaziz Nihou

2011: Is Trade Liberalization Polarization Reducing in Tunisia?

Rim Chatti

2011: The Geography of Trade and the Environment: The Case of CO2 Emissions

Sami Bensassi, Laura Márquez-Ramos, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Habib Zitouna

2011: Politics, Economics, and Violence: the Organization of Societies and Third-Party Enforcement

John Wallis

2011: Female Wages in the Egyptian Textiles and Clothing Industry: Low Pay or Discrimination?

Amirah El-Haddad

2011: Essay on Establishing Conversion Values for the Planned Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Currency Union

Damyana Bakardzhieva, Russell Krueger, Bassem Kamar and Jean-Etienne Carlotti

2011: Inequality and Spatial Disparities in Tunisia

Mohamed Kriaa, Slim Driss and Zouhour Karray

2011: Labor Productivity and Energy Use in a Three Sector Model: An Application to Egypt

Rudiger von Arnim and Codrina Rada

2011: Institutional Sphere Contribution to Human Development: An Institutional Approach

Ridha Chkoundali, Houda Haffoudhi and Houda Abdenneji

2011: Inflation Forecast-Based Rule for Inflation Targeting: Case of Some Selected MENA Countries

Houda Boubaker

2011: An Approach of Combining Empirical Mode Decomposition and Neural Network Learning for Currency Crisis Forecasting

Mustapha Djennas, Mohamed Benbouziane and Meriem Djennas

2011: Creating Incentives for More Effective Wastewater Reuse in The Middle East and North Africa

Marc Jeuland

2011: Egypt beyond the Crisis: Medium-Term Challenges for Sustained Growth

Santiago Herrera, Hoda Selim, Hoda Youssef and Chahir Zaki

2011: The Determinants of Expansion of SMEs under a Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme: The Case of Lebanon

Serena Canaan

2011: Factors of Career Mobility in Egypt by Gender

May Gadallah

2011: Autocracies, Democratization, and Development in the Arab Region

Samir Makdisi

2011: How Do Women Entrepreneurs Perform? Empirical Evidence from Egypt

Fatma El-Hamidi

2011: Board Independence and Corporate Fraud: The Case of Tunisian Firms

Hamadi Matoussi and Ines Gharbi

2011: Migration Aspirations among Young People in Egypt: Who Desires to Migrate?

Asmaa Elbadawy

2011: A Unified Framework to Decomposing Inequality with Illustrations to Some Arab Countries

Sami Bibi and AbdelRahmen El-Lahga

2011: Business Cycle Leading Indicators for the Tunisian Economy

Souhir Slimi and Abdelwahed Trabelsi

2011: Have Islamic Banks Been More Resistant Than Conventional Banks to the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis?

Khawla Bourkhis and Mahmoud Nabi

2011: How Can Recessions Be Brought to An End? Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Actions on Durations of Recessions

Bedri Tas

2011: Measuring the Damage from Financial Integration in the GCC: Lessons from the Global Crisis

Mahmoud Haddad and Sam Hakim

2011: Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth: The Role of Political Institutions

Rabah Arezki, Kirk Hamilton and Kazim Kazimov

2011: Trade Liberalization, Local Air Pollution, and Public Health in Tunisia: Assessing the Ancillary Health Benefits of Pollution Abatement Policy

Mohamed Chemingui and Chokri Thabet

2011: The Effects of Convergence in Governance on Capital Accumulation in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Countries

Ahmet Aysan, Omer Baykal and Marie-Ange Véganzonès

2011: Agricultural Trade Balance and Exchange Rate Depreciation: The Case of Tunisia

Houssem Eddine Chebbi and Marcelo Olarreaga

2011: Testing for “Contagion” of the Subprime Crisis on the Middle East And North African Stock Markets: A Markov Switching EGARCH Approach

Wajih Khallouli and Rene Sandretto

2011: L’économie Politique Des Ressources Halieutiques Dans le Monde Arabe: La Leçon Marocaine

Hind Hourmat Allah and Brahim El Morchid

2011: On the Quantification of Firms Internationalization Strategy

Fatma Braham and Sami Mensi

2011: On Trade Policies and Wage Disparity in Egypt: Evidence from Microeconomic Data

Chahir Zaki

2011: Une analyse binomiale de la décision d’innovation dans un échantillon d’entreprises privées en Tunisie

Adel Tlili

2011: The Role of Simultaneous Regulations of Credit Services and Payment Services on Competition

Guzin Akin, Ahmet Aysan, Denada Boriçi and Levent Yildiran

2011: Macroeconomic Effects of Pension Reforms in the Context of Ageing Populations: Overlapping Generations Model Simulations for Tunisia

Tahar Abdessalem and Houyem Chekki Cherni

2011: Employment Efficiency and Production Risk in the Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Almas Heshmati and Ilham Haouas

2011: Does The American Stock Market React Differently to Rating Announcements During A Crisis Period? The Case of the 2008 Worldwide Financial Crisis

Dorsaf Ghachem, Abdelkader Boudriga and Chokri Mamoghli

2011: Corporate Governance, Investor Protection, and Firm Performance in MENA Countries

Iftekhar Hasan, Nada Kobeissi and Liang Song

2011: Water Scarcity in Jordan: Economic Instruments, Issues and Options

Atif Kubursi, Velma Grover, Abdel Raouf Darwish and Eliza Deutsch

2011: Regulating Industry Emissions: Assessing the Moroccan Cement Experiences

David Maradan and Karim Zein

2011: Commodity Price Volatility and The Sources of Growth

Tiago Cavalcanti, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

2011: Oil Prices and Stock Markets: What Drives What in the Gulf Corporation Council Countries?

Mohamed Arouri and Christophe Rault

2011: Trade Liberalization and the Skill Composition of Migrant Flows: the Case of Morocco

Fida Karam

2011: Food Prices and Political Instability

Rabah Arezki and Markus Brückner

2011: Sustainable Development and Environmental Challenges in The MENA Region: Accounting for The Environment In The 21st Century

Susan Sakmar, Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli and David Moore

2011: The Impact of Broadband Infrastructure on Economic Growth in Egypt and Some Arab and Emerging Countries

Mona Badran

2011: Mitigating Industrial Solid Waste in Tunisia: Landfill Use Vs. Recycling

Chokri Dridi and Naceur Khraief

2011: Firm Level Data in The ERF Region: Research Questions, Data Requirements and Possibilities

Izak Atiyas

2011: Climate Change Policy in the MENA Region: Prospects, Challenges, and the Implication of Market Instruments

Mustafa Babiker and Mohammed Fehaid

2011: Income Level and Environmental Quality in The MENA Countries: Discussing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis

Hatem M'Henni, Mohamed Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef and Christophe Rault

2011: Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth: Evidence from Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Pinar Yasar

2011: Does Non-renewable Energy Utilization in Egypt Generate Net Gain or Net Loss?

Hebat-Allah El-Deken, Noran Farag and Noha Hamdy

2011: Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

2011: Cost Assessment of Environmental Degradation in The Middle East and North Africa Region – Selected Issues

Bjorn Larsen

2011: Is There A Triple Dividend Effect from A Tax on Fertilizer Use? A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

Abeer Elshennawy

2011: An Analysis of Political and Institutional Power Dispersion: The Case of Turkey

Ibrahim Tutar and Aysıt Tansel