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2014: Determinant of Transitions Across Formal/Informal Sectors in Egypt

Aysıt Tansel and Zeynel Ozdemir

2014: Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market

Elif Acar and Aysıt Tansel

2014: The Political Economy of Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Arab Economies

Ghassan Dibeh

2014: Informality and Poverty: a Casuality Dilemma with Application to Egypt

Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan

2014: Formal-Informal Gap in Return to Schooling and Penalty to Education-Occupation Mismatch a Comparative Study for Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine

Tareq Sadeq

2014: The Pros and Cons of Formalizing Informal MSES in the Palestinian Economy

Belal Fallah

2014: Natural Resources, Incentives and Human Capital: Reinterpreting the Curse

Salim Araji and Hamid Mohtadi

2014: The Distributional Consequences of Economic Growth and Public Spending Programs in Iran

Hadi Esfahani and Seyed Karimi

2014: The Institutional Curse of Natural Resources in the Arab World

Hoda Selim and Chahir Zaki

2014: Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel, Basak Dalgiç and Aytekin Güven

2014: Trade Liberalization and the Costs and Benefits of Informality an Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model for Egypt

Abeer Elshennawy and Dirk Willenbockel

2014: The Impact of Oil Price Fluctuations on the Sudanese Stock Market Performance

Suliman Abdalla

2014: Financial Development and Democracy: is the Relationship Non-Linear?

Wafa Ghardallou and Abdelkader Boudriga

2014: BRICS vs. MENA Countries: Mapping Out Threats and Opportunities

Marouane Alaya, Imed Mezghani and Azzouz Zouaoui

2014: Structural Breaks, Dynamic Correlations, Volatility Transmission, and Hedging Strategies for International Petroleum Prices and U.S. Dollar Exchange Rate

Walid Mensi, Shawkat Hammoude and Seong-Min Yoon

2014: Firms Informality: A Model and Empirical Evidence for Lebanon

Rawaa Harati

2014: Foreign Direct Investment and Wages: Does the Level of Ownership Matter?

Çağatay Bircan

2014: Job Accession, Separation and Mobility in the Egyptian Labor Market Over the Past Decade

Shaimaa Yassin

2014: Financial Constraints Risk Aversion and Sharecropping in Rainfed Agriculture: Application to North West Tunisia

Mohamed Matoussi and Neji Saidi

2014: Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility: Comparative Analysis of Packaging Waste Management

Faten Loukil and Lamia Rouached

2014: Real Exchange Rates and Export Performance in Oil-Dependent Arab Economies

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Linda Kaltani

2014: Threshold Effects in the Capital Account Liberalization and Foreign Direct Investment Relationship

Mouna Gammoudi and Mondher Cherif

2014: The Emergence of Highly Sophisticated Lebanese Exports in the Absence of an Industrial Policy

Sami Atallah and Ilina Srour

2014: Determinants of FDI Location in Egypt: Empirical Analysis Using Governorate Panel Data

Shima’a Hanafy Hanafy

2014: Top Incomes and the Measurement of Inequality in Egypt

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

2014: Governance Reform to Achieve Social Justice and Inclusive Growth in Egypt: Building Inclusive Economic Institutions

Hafez Ghanem

2014: Iran’s Inflatiory Experience: Demand Pressures, External Shocks, And Supply Constraints

Magda Kandil and Ida Mirzaie

2014: Assessing Inequality of Human Opportunities: A New Approach for Public Policy in Tunisia

Hatem Jemmali and Amara Mohamed

2014: Risky Business Political Instability and Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment in the Arab World

Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina and Bob Rijkers

2014: Exchange Rates and Interest Rates: An Empirical Investigation of International Fisher Effect Theory The Case of Egypt (2003-2012)

Abla El Khawaga, Mona Esam and Rasha Hammam

2014: The Impact of Economic Freedom on Entrepreneurs’ Activities and Economic Growth: New Evidence From Cross-Country Data

Doaa Salman

2014: Individual and Households Determinants of Women Empowerment: Application to the Case of Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Hanan Nazier and Racha Ramadan

2014: Which Factors Determine the Upgrading of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)? Evidence Egypt, India and the Philippines

Aimée Hampel-Milagrosa, Markus Loewe and Caroline Reeg

2014: Impact of Improving Irrigation Water Use Efficiency on the Valorization of Water Resources: Case of Irrigated Wheat Production Systems in Central Tunisia

Ali Chebil and Aymen Frija

2014: Institutional Quality Effect on Remittances in the MENA Region

Imene Guetat and Dorsaf Sridi

2014: Using Risk Disclosures of Lage GCC Bank to Evaluate Information Content

Mahmoud Haddad and Sam Hakim

2014: Evaluation of Tunisian Regions’ Efficiency Using DEA and TOBIT Models

Lamia Mokaddem

2014: Accepability of Civil Marriage in a Multidenominational Society: Results of an Empirical Survey in Lebanon

Rayan Haykal

2014: Water Policy and Poverty Reduction in Rural Area: A Comparative Economy Wide Analysis for Morocco and Tunisia

Chokri Thabet Thabet

2014: Toward Understanding Water Conflicts in MENA Region: A Comparative Analysis Using Water Poverty Index

Caroline Sullivan and Hatem Jemmali

2014: Oil Price Risk Exposure and the Cross-section of Stock Returns: The Case of Net Exporting Countries

Riza Demirer, Shrikant Jategaonka and Ahmed Khalifa

2014: The Employment Intensity of Output Growth in Tunisia and Its Determinants

Rim Mouelhi and Monia Ghazali

2014: Inequalities in Early Childhood Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Caroline Krafft and Safaa El-Kogali

2014: Religious Loyalty and Acceptance of Corruption

Moamen Gouda and Sang-Min Park

2014: Education in Egypt: Improvements in Attainment, Problems with Quality and Inequality

Asmaa Elbadawy

2014: Salaires, Genre et Choix de Secteurs en Algerie

Moundir Lassassi and Christophe Muller

2014: From Productivity to Exporting or Vice Versa? Evidence from Tunisian Manufacturing Sector

Mohamed Ayadi and Wided Mattoussi

2014: Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey

Ali Akarca and Aysıt Tansel

2014: Harnessing the Sun and Wind for Economic Development? An Economy-Wide Assessment for Egypt

Perrihan Al-Riffai, Julian Blohmke, Clemens Breisinger and Manfred Wiebelt

2014: Social Order, Rents and Ecnomic Development in Iran since the Early 20th Century

Hadi Esfahani and Esra Gürakar

2014: Patterns of Labor Market Insertion in Egypt, 1998-2012

Mona Amer

2014: Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Philip Keefer

2014: Is Monetary Policy in Egypt Backward or Forward-Looking?

Amr Hosny

2014: The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Economic Activity Over the Bsiness Cycle: An Emirical Investigation in the Case of Algeria

Abderrahim Chibi, Mohamed Benbouziane and Sidi Chekouri

2014: Labor Market Heterogeneity and Optimal Exchange Rate Regime in Resource-Rich MENA Countries

Almukhtar Al-Abri

2014: Trade Facilitation and Firms Exports: The Case of Egypt

Rana Hendy and Chahir Zaki

2014: The Catastrophic Economic Consequences of Illness and their Effect on Poverty Estimates in Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine

Ahmed Rashad

2014: Trust and Prosocial Behavior in a Process of State Capacity Building: The Case of the Palestinian Territories

Luca Andriani and Fabio Sabatini

2014: Do Product Standards Matter for Margins of Trade In Egypt? Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Hoda El-Enbaby, Rana Hendy and Chahir Zaki

2014: Wage Differential between Urban and Rural Palestine: The Shadow of Palestinian- Israeli Conflict

Daoud Yousef and Fallah Belal

2014: Young People’s Job Aspirations in Egypt and the Continued Preference for a Government Job

Ghada Barsoum

2014: Rural Wage Employment: Is There a Premium for Agriculture?

Daoud Yousef and Fallah Belal

2014: Duration to Coverage: Dynamics of Access to Social Security in the Egyptian Labor Market in the 1998-2012 Period

Rania Roushdy and Irene Selwaness

2014: Incentives Structure and Accountability in the Jordanian Higher Education System

Ghada Barsoum and Nader Mryyan

2014: Inequality of Opportunity in Educational Attainment in Middle East and North Africa: Evidence from Household Surveys

Ragui Assaad, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Rana Hendy

2014: Measuring Top Incomes and lnequality in the Middle East: Data Limitations and Illustration with the Case of Egypt

Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty

2014: Micro and Small Household Enterprises in Egypt: Potential for Growth and Employment Generation

Ali Rashed and Maia Sieverding

2014: Through the Keyhole: International Migration in Egypt

Jackline Wahba

2014: Pérennité Et Efficience Des Institutions De Microfinance Dans La Région MENA

Sanae Solhi and Sidi Rigar

2014: Differences in Pedagogy, Accountability, and Perceptions of Quality by Type of Higher Education in Egypt and Jordan

Ragui Assaad, Eslam Badawy and Caroline Krafft

2014: The Work-Life Conflict and Well-Being of Turkish Employees

Cem Baslevent

2014: Does the Type of Higher Education Affect Labor Market Outcomes? A Comparison of Egypt and Jordan

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

2014: Trade Volume and Economic Growth in the MENA Region: Goods or Services?

Fida Karam and Chahir Zaki

2014: Diffusion of Dissidence in Arab Public Opinion

Mohamad Al-Ississ and Samer Atallah