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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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Inference in VARs with conditional heteroskedasticity of unknown form

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Economic growth, youth unemployment, and political and social instability : a study of policies and outcomes in post-Arab spring Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, and Tunisia

Prince, Heather; Halasa-Rappel, Yara; Khan, Amna - 2018

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Bayesian predictive distributions of oil returns using mixed data sampling volatility models

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