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2007: On the Linkage Between Monetary Policy and MENA Stock Markets

Samy Bennaceur, Adel Boughrara and Samir Ghazouani

2007: Is There a Glass Ceiling in Morocco? Evidence From Matched Worker-Firm Data

Christophe Nordman and François-Charles Wolff

2007: Momentum in Emerging Markets: Investigation of Overconfidence and Cognitive BIAS Factors

Hamadi Matoussi and Faten Zoghlami

2007: A Comparative Analysis of Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Economic Activity: The Cases of Egypt and Turkey

Magda Kandil and Nazire Nergiz Dincer

2007: Early Retirement in the Government Sector in Egypt: Preferences, Determinants and Policy Implications

Fatma El-Hamidi

2007: Water Demand Management in Arid Area: A DEA Input Distance Function Approach to Analyze Technical and Scale Efficiencies and Irrigation of Farms in Tunisia

Mounir Belloumi and Mohamed Matoussi

2007: The Impact of Higher Water Costs on the Export of Tunisian Dates and Citrus

Mohamed Ayadi and Mohamed Matoussi

2007: Determinants of Productivity in Morocco: The Role of Trade?

Michael Gasiorek

2007: Financial Guarantee as an Innovation Tool in Islamic Project Finance

Kabir Hassan and Issouf Soumaré

2007: Exporting, Productive Efficiency and Product Quality: An Empirical Analysis Of the Agricultural Sector in the Mediterranean Countries

Nadia Belhaj Hassine

2007: A Test of the News Model of Stock Price Determination in an Emerging Market: The Case of Kuwait

Sulaiman Al-Abduljader and Imad Moosa

2007: The Structure of the Turkish Banking Sector After the 2000-2001 Crisis: An Empirical Investigation

Kivilcim Özcan and Nur Kafali

2007: The Fall and Rise of Earnings and Inequality in Egypt: New Evidence From the ELMPS, 2006

Mona Said

2007: Investigating The Impact Of Health and Enviromental Standards on Exports: The Case Of Egyptian Agro-Food Exports To The EU

Dina Mandour

2007: The Changing Economic Environment and the Development of the Micro and Small Enterprises in Egypt 2006

Alia El Mahdi and Ali Rashed

2007: Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2006: Report on Methodology and Data Collection

Ghada Barsoum

2007: The Egyptian Youth Labor Market School-To-Work Transition 1998-2006

Mona Amer

2007: Labor Supply, Employment And Unemployment in the Egyptian Economy, 1988-2006

Ragui Assaad

2004: Private and Group Tutoring in Egypt: Where is the Gender Inequality?

Asmaa Elbadawy, Ragui Assaad, Dennis Ahlburg and Deborah Levison

2004: Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey

Hakan Berument, Nukhet Dogan and Aysıt Tansel

2004: De Facto Exchange Rate Policies in the MENA Region: Toward Deeper Cooperation

Bassem Kamar

2004: General or Vocational? Evidence on School Choice, Returns, and “Sheep Skin” Effects from Egypt 1998

Fatma El-Hamidi

2004: Economic Growth in Egypt: Constraints and Determinants

Anton Dobronogov and Farrukh Iqbal

2004: Employment Effects of Productivity Improvement and Migration of Skilled Workers

Brahim Saber

2004: Financial Sector Policy and Poverty Reduction in Sudan

Adam Elhiraika and Khalid Abu Ismail

2004: Population Aging, Labor Mobility, and Economic Growth: Evidence From MENA and the Developed World

Mehmet Tosun

2004: How Flexible are Small Firms? An Analysis on the Determinants of Flexibility

Guven Sak and Erol Taymaz

2004: Multinationals and the Training of Workers in Developing Countries

Abdelhakim Hammoudi and Wadii Hatit

2004: Financial Leasing In MENA Region: An Analysis of Financial, Legal And Institutional Aspects

Sahar Nasr

2004: Ownership Structure and Bank Performance: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa

Nada Kobeissi

2004: Measuring Hunger and Food Insecurity in Yemen

Nader Kabbani and Yassin Wehelie

2004: Uncertainty and Risk Aversion: Implication for Tunisian Cereals Crops

Mohamed Dhif and Mohamed Ben Jemaa

2004: Industrial Energy Policy: A Case Study of the Demand in Kuwait

Mohammad Al Awadhi and Mohamed Eltony

2004: Unemployment Rate in the United Arab Emirates: The Case of Abu Dhabi

Reem Albuainain

2004: Productive Efficiency in Bahrain Economy

Bassim Shebeb

2004: Transporting Turkish Exam Takers: A New Use for an Old Model

Nurhan Davutyan and Mert Demir

2004: Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting

Sami Bibi and Jean-Yves Duclos

2004: Foreign Exchange Regime, the Real Exchange Rate and Current Account Sustainability: The Case of Turkey

Sübidey Togan and Hasan Ersel

2004: Exchange Rate and Inflation Targeting in Morocco and Tunisia

Vincent Dropsy and Nathalie Grand

2004: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Egypt: Does Women’s Empowerment Lead to Greater Investments in Children?

Rania Roushdy

2003: Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence From Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Antonio Di Paolo

2003: Foreign Direct Investment and International Technology Transfer to Egypt

Mohamed Kadah

2003: Understanding and Combating Poverty: A Quest for Conceptualization, Measurment Indicators, Causes, and Empirical Methodologies

Khalid El Amin

2003: Unemployment Persistence and The Informal Sector

Mongi Boughzala and Mokhtar Kouki

2003: Soutien Des Cours Et Sous-Evaluation Des Introductions Sur Le Nouveau Marche

Sami Ben Naceur and Samir Ghazouani

2003: The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation

Nil Demet and Aysıt Tansel

2003: Employment and the Functioning of the Labor Market

Mongi Boughzala

2003: The Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows on Economic Growth and Employment in Egypt: A Sectoral Empirical Analysis

Hanan Aboel Farag and Mohamed Abed

2003: On The Impact of Labor Tax Reforms on Unemployment in Tunisia

Sami Bibi

2003: Fiscal and Debt Profile of the MENA Region

Rola Rizk

2003: Arab Economic Integration: an Awakening to Remove Barriers to Prosperity

Nasser Saidi

2003: Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Fatma Bircan

2003: E-Government: Technology for Good Governance, Development and Democracy in the Mena Countries

Nasser Saidi and Hala Yared

2003: Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Oil Exporting Countries of the Arab Region and Especially the Gulf

Jeffrey Nugent and Sara Bazoobandi

2003: The Impact of Ownership on Corporate Performance: The Case of the UAE

Magda Kandil and Minko Markovski

2003: Interdépendance Et Co-Mouvements Des Marchés De Capitaux Des Pays Arabes De La Région Du Moyen Orient Et D’afrique Du Nord: Un Essai D’investigation Empirique

Chaker Aloui and Nawel Bouanani

2003: Poverty Causes in Sudan: Some Economic and Political Aspects 1990-2000

Khalid El Amin

2003: Bank Privatization in Egypt

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Sahar Nasr

2003: Sous-Evaluation Des Introductions En Bourse: Application D?une Frontiere Stochastique Sur Le Nouveau Marche

Sami Ben Naceur and Mohamed Goaied

2003: Modeling and Forecasting Egyptian Stock Market Volatility Before and After Price Limits

Eskandar Tooma

2003: GCC and The Arab Economy: Growth, Reform and Regionalization

Osman Osman and Essam Montasser

2003: Helping to Identify The Potential and Mode For Liberalization of Trade in Services in The Southern Mediterranean Countries: The Case of Egypt

Ahmed Ghoneim

2003: The Determinants of Child Labor in Urban Turkey

Meltem Dayioglu and Ragui Assaad

2003: Sources of Structural Change Within nn Input-Output Analysis Framework: The Case of Kuwait 1983-1995

Ahmed Al-Kawaz and Jamal Qasem

2003: Fiscal Consolidation and UAE Vision 2021: A Small Scale Macroeconomic Model Approach

Magda Kandil and Assil El Mahmah

2003: Does Maternal Employment Affect Child Nutrition Status? New Evidence From Egypt

Ahmed Rashad and Mesbah Sharaf

2003: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Small and Micro-Enterprise Finance in Employment Creation

Alia El Mahdi and Magued Osman

2003: Why Don’t MENA Countries Trade More? The Curse of Bad Institutions

Chahir Zaki and Fida Karam

2003: Institutional Environment and Bank Capital Ratios

Christina Nicolas, Tammuz Alraheb and Amine Tarazi

2003: Knowledge, Technological Catch-Up and Economic Growth: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis For MENA and Latin America

Fatma Utku-Ismihan

2003: Do Oil Prices Affect Kuwait Sectoral Stock Prices? Non-Linear Cointegration Evidence

Khalid Kisswani and Mohammad Elian

2003: Relationship Between Remittances and Macroeconomic Variables in Times of Political and Social Upheaval: Evidence from Tunisia's Arab Spring

Jamal Bouoiyour, Refk Selmi and Amal Miftah

2003: Revisiting the Middle-Class Myth: Evidence From A Cross-Country Analysis of African Social Progress

Reham Rizk and Ricardo Nogales

2003: Determinants of Household Education Expenditure in Sudan

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla

2003: Political Stability, Firm Characteristics and Performance: Evidence From 6,083 Private Firms in the Middle East

Amr Hosny

2003: The Race to the Top: Institutional Clusters and World FDI Shares

Wasseem Mina

2003: Education and the Allocation of Time of Married Women in Iran

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Sara Taghvatalab

2003: Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism- Bored to Death?

Moamen Gouda and Marcus Marktanner

2003: Long-Range Dependence in Daily Volatility on Tunisian Stock Market

Chaker Aloui

2003: Designing Institutions and Incentives in Hospitals: An Organization Economics Methodology

Florence Eid

2003: Assessment of FDI Incentives in Egypt

Nada Massoud

2003: The Myth of Export-Led Growth

Khalid Abu-Ismail

2003: Arab Financial Sector Development and Institutions

Mohamed Eltony

2003: Determinants of Unemployment Duration For Men and Women

Aysıt Tansel and H. Tasci

2003: Promesses Chatoyantes, Pietre Performance: Aide Et Cooperation Dans Les Pays Sortant D?un Conflit

Nasser Saidi

2003: Does The Specification of A New Class of Poverty Measures Matter? Evidence from Tunisia

Sami Bibi

2003: The Small Business Informality Challenge: Lessons Learned From Country Experiences and The Road Ahead of Egypt

Doha cAbdelhamid and Alia El Mahdi

2003: Return Intentions of University-Educated Turkish Expatriates

Nil Demet Güngör and Aysıt Tansel

2003: Economic Performance and Political Outcomes: An Analysis of The 1995 Turkish Parliamentary Election Results

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

2003: Taux de Change et Potentiel d’Exportation au Maroc Cas des Industries de Textile Habillement et Cuir

Lahcen Achy

2003: Phénomène De Dépendance De Court Et De Long Terme De La Volatilité Des Cours De Change: Cas Du Marché Interbancaire Tunisien (Mars 1994- Mars 2004)

Chaker Aloui

2003: On Exchange Rate Policy: The Case of Egypt 1970-2001

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Ahmed Kouchouk

2003: Foreign Direct Investment in The Arab World: Creating The Missing Link

Florence Eid

2003: Transport Sector Reform and Deeper Economic Integration in The Euro-Mediterranean Region

Daniel Muller-Jentsch

2003: Brain Drain from Turkey: Survey Evidence of Student Non-Return

Aysıt Tansel and Nil Demet Güngör

2003: Children's Educational Outcomes under Adverse Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from The West Bank and Gaza

Sulayman Al-Qudsi and Asma Al-Qudsi

2003: Measuring Capacity Utilization Using A Short-Run Cost Function: An Application to Bahrain Economy

Bassim Shebeb