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Is Germany a hub of Factory Europe for CEE countries? : the sink approach in GVC decomposition

Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena - 2019

The goal of the paper is to decompose gross exports/imports to/from Germany for seven selected economies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia for 2000 and 2014, to identify the role of German in absorbing, reflecting,...

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Macro-financial linkages in Egypt : a panel analysis of economic shocks and loan portfolio quality

Love, Inessa; Turk Ariss, Rima - 2013

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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt

Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016

Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...

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Codependent VAR models and the pseudo-structural form

Trenkler, Carsten; Weber, Enzo - 2012

This paper investigates whether codependence restrictions can be uniquely imposed on VAR and VEC models via the so …

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Inference in VARs with conditional heteroskedasticity of unknown form

Brüggemann, Ralf; Jentsch, Carsten; Trenkler, Carsten - 2014

We derive a framework for asymptotically valid inference in stable vector autoregressive (VAR) models with conditional … heteroskedasticity of unknown form. We prove a joint central limit theorem for the VAR slope parameter and innovation covariance … parameter estimators and address bootstrap inference as well. Our results are important for correct inference on VAR statistics …

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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies in Transport and Agriculture

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - 2015

It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors—transport...

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Centralization, Decentralization, and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yilmaz, Serdar - 2012

This paper examines broadly the intergovernmental structure in the Middle East and North Africa region, which has one of the most centralized government structures in the world. The authors address the reasons behind this centralized structure by looking first at the history behind the tax...

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The Welfare Effects of a Large Depreciation : The Case of Egypt, 2000-05

Kraay, Aart - 2012

The Egyptian pound depreciated sharply between 2000 and 2005, declining by 26 percent in nominal trade-weighted terms. The author investigates the effect of the large depreciation on household welfare operating through exchange rate-induced changes in consumer prices. He estimates exchange rate...

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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Egypt : A Ricardian Approach

Eid, Helmy M.; El-Marsafawy, Samia M.; Ouda, Samiha A. - 2012

This study employed the Ricardian approach to measure the economic impacts of climate change on farm net revenue in Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which factors influence the variability of farm net revenues....

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Finances of Egyptian Listed Firms

Love, Inessa - 2012

The author presents an analysis of the finances of Egyptian listed companies evaluating recent trends in growth and profitability during the 1995-2001 period. The data from financial statements reveal the effect of the economic slowing of the past few years, especially in the construction and...

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