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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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Assessing fiscal sustainability in Egypt : a comparative study

Al Sayed, Ola; Samir, Ashraf; Anwar, Heba Hesham - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 4, pp. 292-310

Purpose - This paper aims to assess the fiscal sustainability in Egypt during the period 1990-2018 using deficit accounts (DA) approach. It also tries to investigate the possibility of applying generational accounts (GA) in Egypt as a new approach to assess fiscal sustainability....

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Financial stability and supervisory cooperation (SSM in Eurozone - Banking supervisory cooperation in Egypt)

Abdelaziz, Salwa; Francis, Mariam Wagdy - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 7 (2022) 1, pp. 22-33

Purpose - This study aims to analyze the impact of cooperation between banking supervisory entities on maintaining financial stability, using Single Supervisory Mechanism evolution and performance as instance. Then banking supervisory cooperation and financial stability in Egypt are reviewed....

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The validity of Wagner's law in Egypt from 1960-2018

Ghazy, Noha Hesham; Ghoneim, Hebatallah; Paparas, Dimitrios - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 2, pp. 98-117

Purpose One of the main theories regarding the relationship between government expenditure and gross domestic product (GDP) is Wagner's law. This law was developed in the late-19th century by Adolph Wagner (1835-1917), a prominent German economist, and depicts that an increase in government...

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Non-Islamist parties in post-2011 Egypt : winners in an MB-free political sphere

Hussein, Ebtisam - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 2, pp. 161-178

Purpose Years after the 2011 uprising Egypt, it seems that the country's non-Islamist parties are still included in the political game. After significant alterations in their political sphere by mid-2013 at the advent of the Muslim Brother exclusion and the subsequent discrediting of Salafi...

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Effectiveness of the child-at-risk protection system in Egypt : a fiscal and institutional perspective

El Husseiny, Israa A.; El-Din, Amira Gamal; Amin, … - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 3, pp. 182-205

Purpose This paper aims to fill a gap in the existing literature by shedding the light on four main issues. First, the relationship between child-at-risk protection and sustainable development and the key factors contributing to the failure or success of child-at-risk protection systems. Second,...

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