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2016: The Impact of Institutional Blockholders on Voluntary Disclosure and Transparency: The Case of Egypt

Doaa El-Diftar, Eleri Jones and Mohamed Soliman

2016: Government Intervention with No Structural Transformation: The Challenges of Egyptian Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective (ARABIC)

Amirah El-Haddad

2016: Renewable and Non-Renewable Electricity Consumption, Carbon Emissions and GDP: Evidence From Mediterranean Countries

Belaid Fateh and Maha Zrelli

2016: Caracteristiques des Chomeurs et Inefficience d’Appariement sur les Marches Regionaux: SFA, CAS de la Tunisie

Besma Jellali

2016: Asymmetric Growth Impact of Social Policy: A Post-Shock Policy Scenario for Egypt

Hany Abdel-Latif and Tapas Mishra

2016: The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy in Arab Resource-Rich Economies

Adeel Malik

2016: Is Tunisian Trade Policy Pro-Poor?

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Leila Baghdadi and Hendrik Wiard Kruse

2016: Can Gulf Banks Pass the CCAR Stress Tests?

Mahmoud Haddad and Sam Hakim

2016: Aligning Incentives for Reforming Higher Education in Tunisa

Mongi Boughzala, Samir Ghazouani and Abdelwahab Ben Hafaiedh

2016: The Causal Effect of Education on Health Behaviors: Evidence From Turkey

Aysıt Tansel and Deniz Karaoglan

2016: Alternative Simulations of Equalization Transfers in Sudan

NourEldin Maglad and Eisa Elshwin

2016: Modelling Conditional Volatility and Downside Risk for Istanbul Stock Exchange

Amira Ahmed and Doaa Ahmed

2016: Fiscal Governance in Egypt: Strengthening Budgetary Institutions to Counteract Political Fragmentation

Mohamed Zaky and Sarah El khishin

2016: Politics of Global Value Chains

Julian Hinz and Elsa Leromain

2016: Informal Competition, Firms Productivity and Policy Reforms in Egypt

Nesma Ali and Boris Najman

2016: Is MENA Different? An Investigation of the Host Country Determinants of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment

Rania Miniesy and Eman Elish

2016: Demographic Changes and Fiscal Policy in MENA Countries

Mehmet Tosun

2016: Out of Pocket Health Expenditures in Turkey in the Aftermath of the Reforms: Impact of Co-payments on Expenditures and Use of Health Services

Burcay Erus

2016: Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Processes in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia: An Examination of Pedagogy, Accountability and Perceptions of Quality

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

2016: Is There an Arab Variety of Capitalism?

Steffen Hertog

2016: The Impact of the Turkish Employment Subsidy Programs on Increasing the Level of Social Protection For Women

Binnur Balkan, Seyit Cilasun and Belgi Turan

2016: Do Pensions Reduce the Incentive to Work? Evidence From Egypt

Mohamed Arouri and Cuong Nguyen

2016: The Role of Fiscal Policy in Fighting Poverty and Reducing Inequality in Iran: An Application of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Framework

Ali Enami, Nora Lustig and Alireza Taqdiri

2016: Labor Market Effects of Pension Reform: An Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Model Applied to Tunisia

Mouna Ben Othman and Mohamed Marouani

2016: The Effect of Survivors’ Benefits on Poverty and Health Indicators of Women and Children in Widowed-Mother Households: A Turkish Case Study

Oznur Ozdamar and Eleftherios Giovanis

2016: Does Microcredit Reduce Gender Gap in Employment? An Application of Decomposition Analysis to Egypt

Mohamed Arouri and Nguyen Viet Cuong

2016: Inequality Decomposition in the Arab Region: Application to Jordan, Egypt, Palestine and Tunisia

Racha Ramadan, Vladimir Hlasny and Vito Intini

2016: Decomposing Welfare Inequality in Egypt and Tunisia: an Oaxaca-Blinder Based Approach

Yosr Abid, Cathal O'Donoghue and Denisa Sologon

2016: Do International Remittances Affect the Performance of Labor Market in Jordan? An Impirical Investigation

Ghazi Al-Assaf

2016: Social Transfers and Income Inequality in Turkey: How Important is the Gender Dimension?

Cem Baslevent

2016: Services Trade Policy and Manufacturing Productivity: The Role of Institutions

Cosimo Beverelli, Matteo Fiorini and Bernard Hoekman

2016: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Maternity Care Under Political Instability: Evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Yemen

Ahmed Rashad and Mesbah Sharaf

2016: Upward or Downward: Occupational Mobility and Return Migration

Nelly El-Mallakh and Jackline Wahba

2016: Exploring the Determinants of Welfare Distribution in Tunisia and Egypt Using a Welfare Generation Model

Yosr Abid, Cathal O'Donoghue and Denisa Sologon

2016: Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine

Ali Hashemi

2016: Women's Participation in Labor Market in Egypt: Constraints and Opportunities

Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan

2016: Gender and Labour Allocation: the Role of Institutions and Policies in the Allocation of Female and Male Labor

Hadi Esfahani, Roksana Bahramitash and Bin Lin

2016: Southwest As the New Internal Migration Destination in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

2016: Out of Pocket Education Expenditure and Household Budget: Evidence from Arab Countries

Reham Rizk and Hala Abou-Ali

2016: Rates of Return to Education in Twenty Two Arab Countries: an Update and Comparison Between MENA and the Rest of the World

Zafiris Tzannatos, Ishac Diwan and Joanna Abdel Ahad

2016: Popular Grievances and Perceptions of Socioeconomic Conditions in the Arab Region Prior to the Uprisings

Melani Cammett and Nisreen Salti

2016: Determinants of Contribution Density of the Tunisian Pension System: a Cross Sectional Analysis

Mehdi Braham and Mohamed Marouani

2016: Does Exchange Rate Undervaluation Matter for Exports and Trade Margins? Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Chahir Zaki

2016: Inequality of Opportunity in Income and Consumption: the Middle East and North Africa Region in Comparative Perspective

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, John Roemer and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

2016: Inequality of Opportunity in Income and Consumption in Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, John Roemer and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

2016: Informalization Dynamics and Gains: Why Want a Job Contract?

Ahmed Elsayed and Jackline Wahba

2016: Returns to Schooling in Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Abdurrahman Aydemir, Meltem Dayioglu and Guray Kirdar

2016: Patterns of Veiling Among Muslim Women

Ishac Diwan and Jeni Klugman

2016: Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Shaimaa Yassin

2016: Labor Market Dynamics and Youth Unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa: Evidence from Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft

2016: An Analysis of Education Expenditures in Turkey by Income Groups

Elif Acar, Seyit Cilasun and Burak Günalp

2016: Algeria and the Natural Resource Curse: Oil Abundance and Economic Growth

Sidi Chekouri and Abderrahim Chibi

2016: Export Orientation and Exchange Rate Changes: Do Firms React Differently and Why?

Khalid Sekkat

2016: Population Dynamics and Carbon Emissions in the Arab Region: An Extended Stirpat II Model

Hala Abou-Ali, Yasmine Abdelfattah and John Adams

2016: Determinants of Emigration: Evidence from Egypt

Anda David and Joachim Jarreau

2016: Returns to Education: An Updated Comparison from Arab Countries

Reham Rizk

2016: Financial Stability and Macro Prudential Regulation: Policy Implication of Systemic Expected Shortfall Measure

Hatem Salah and Marwa Souissi

2016: Access to the Labor Market and the Impact of Passage Through an Introductory Traineeship in Professional Life (SIVP1): the Example of the Graduates of Higher Education in Tunisia From 2004 to 2008

Imen Mouaddeb and Mohamed Kriaa

2016: Understanding the Dynamics of Household Enterprises in Egypt: Birth, Death, Growth and Transformation

Caroline Krafft

2016: Is Corruption "Greasing" or "Sanding" the Wheels of Innovation of Firms in MENA?

Tamer Taha

2016: Individual Preferences for Democracy In the Arab World Explaining the Gap

Mohamad Al-Ississ and Ishac Diwan

2016: Capital Account Liberalization and Financial Deepening: Does the Private Sector Matter?

Mohamed Trabelsi and Mondher Cherif

2016: Rent Control Dilemma Comeback in Egypt’s Governance: A Hedonic Approach

Shereen Attia

2016: Correlates of Kin Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia

Rania Salem and Sarah Shah

2016: Crony Interlockers and The Centrality of Banks: The Network of Moroccan Listed Companies

Mohamed Oubenal

2016: Out of Pocket Health Expenditure and Household Budget: Evidence from Arab Countries

Reham Rizk and Hala Abou-Ali

2016: Constructing Labor Market Transitions Recall Weights in Retrospective Data: An Application to Egypt and Jordan

Shaimaa Yassin

2016: The Link between Health Condition Costs and Standard of Living: A Structural Equation Modelling

Oznur Ozdamar and Eleftherios Giovanis

2016: Does International Migration Help Them Marry earlier? A Hazard Model for the Case of Egypt

Anda David and Rana Hendy

2016: Why is Fertility on the Rise in Egypt? The Role of Women’s Employment Opportunities

Caroline Krafft

2016: Accessibility, Transportation Cost and Regional Growth: A Case Study for Egypt

Dina Elshahawany, Eduardo Haddad and Michael Lahr

2016: Inequality of Opportunities among Tunisian Children over Time and Space

Hatem Jemmali

2016: Economic, Political and Cultural Proximity and Growth Propagation: A Network Model with Endogenous Proximity Matrix

Mohamed Ben Jemaa

2016: Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Mahdi Majbouri

2016: Local Versus International Crises, Foreign Subsidiaries and Bank Stability: Evidence from the MENA Region

Tammuz Alraheb and Amine Tarazi

2016: The Political Economy of Fiscal Institutions and Macroeconomic Management in Sudan

Kabbashi Suliman

2016: Deciphering the Relationship between Internal Migration and Regional Disparities in Tunisia

Amara Mohamed and Hatem Jemmali

2016: Risk Sharing Vs Risk Bearing and Shifting: Evidence from Conventional and Islamic Banks of MENA Region Using Metafrontier Directional Distance Functions

Zouheir Bouchaddakh and Mohamed Ben Jemaa

2016: Firm and Regional Factors of Productivity: A Multilevel Analysis of Tunisian Manufacturing

Amara Mohamed and Khaled Thabet

2016: Introducing the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey 2014

Ragui Assaad, Samir Ghazouani, Caroline Krafft and Dominique Rolando

2016: Private Banking and Crony Capitalism in Egypt

Ishac Diwan and Marc Schiffbauer

2016: National Oil Companies in the Middle East and North Africa: Remaining Relevant in a Changing World

Jenik Radon and Sarah Logan

2016: Investment Climate and Firms’ Exports in Egypt: When Politics Matter

Nora Aboushady and Chahir Zaki

2016: Anatolian Tigers and the Emergence of the Devout Bourgeoisie in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Analysis

Izak Atiyas, Ozan Bakis and Esra Gurakar

2016: Moroccan Cronyism: Facts, Mechanisms and Impact

Mohammed Saadi

2016: Judicial Review in Public-Private Business Contracts in Egypt Evidence from Administrative Court Rulings in Government Tenders and Bids Law Disputes

Sahar Hassanin

2016: I’ve Got the Power: Mapping Connections between Lebanon’s Banking Sector and the Ruling Class

Jad Chaaban

2016: Who Pays More: Public, Private, Both or None? The Effects of Health Insurance Schemes and Health Reforms on Out-of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditures in Turkey

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

2016: Trade between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia: Prospects and Challenges for Trilateral Trade Integration

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla

2016: Inequality of Opportunity in Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa

Caroline Krafft and Halimat Alawode

2016: Energy Subsidy Reform in Egypt: The Gender – “Energy” Poverty Nexus

Fatma El-Hamidi

2016: Do Political Connections Reduce Job Creation? Evidence from Lebanon

Ishac Diwan and Jamal Haidar

2016: Political Connections and Public Procurement in Turkey: Evidence from Construction Work Contracts

Esra Gürakar and Tuba Ildiri

2016: Oil Prices and the Global Economy: Is It Different This Time Around?

Kamiar Mohaddes and Mohammad Pesaran