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Evidence on the Incentive Properties of Share Contracts

Braido, Luis H.B. - EconWPA - 2005

Ever since Adam Smith, share contracts have been condemned for their lack of incentives. Sharecropping tenants face incentives to undersupply productive inputs since they receive only a fraction of the marginal revenue. The empirical literature reports that lands under sharecropping are less...

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Is Investing College Education Risky?

Chen, Stacey H. - EconWPA - 2002

Attending college seems to be a profitable and affordable investment in the US. Nevertheless, a number of academically talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education is a risky investment. To measure the riskiness of...

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Financial Sector Reforms in Developing Countries with Special reference to Egypt

Arestis, Philip - EconWPA - 2003

Financial Sector Reforms in Developing Countries with Special Reference to Egypt Philip Arestis, The Levy Economics … were often unsuccessful and in many cases led to severe financial crises. We will also argue that the case of Egypt is …

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Economic Freedom and The Business Cycle: The Egyptian Experience.

Mikhail, Ossama - EconWPA - 2004

Most studies that emphasize and encourage the shift towards a less regulated and financially open system rest on the premise of a prosperous growth prospect. Accordingly, interests have focused on growth models as a framework to understand and to analyze the effects of economic freedom. In this...

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Analizing the ööperformance of the monetary policy in Egypt during (1997-2003)(in Arabic).

Elasrj, Hussein A. Motlb - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to review the performance of the monetary policy in Egypt during (1997-2003).Many salient … economic lows and decrees were promulgated, such as the law NO 88/2003 on the central bank of Egypt(CBE),the banking system and …

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

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Capital flows to Egypt under the financial globalization

Elasrj, Hussein A. Motlb - EconWPA - 2004

Capital flows to Egypt under the financial globalization This paper analyzes the financial globalization and the … flows in Egypt, trends and components. The results indicate that the Egypt's share in both of the international capital … axes to maximize the capital flows to Egypt under the acceleration of the financial globalization phenomenon now a days and …

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The wage effects from the use of personal contacts as hiring channels

Antoninis, Manos - EconWPA - 2004

It has been argued that the use of personal networks in the hiring process has a positive influence on the wages of referred individuals. However, the value of recommendations to the employer varies according to the type of vacancy to be filled and the provider of information on job applicants....

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Economic Growth in Egypt: Constraints and Determinants

Dobronogov, Anton; Iqbal, Farrukh - EconWPA - 2005

Egypt accelerated its ongoing transition from a public sector dominated economy to a private sector led and market … experienced less change in substance. We examine some determinants of growth in Egypt since the mid-1980s using insights from both … significant determinants of growth in Egypt in the past. We also present evidence that suggests that inefficiency of financial …

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Lesotho: Will the Enclave Empty?

cobbe, james - EconWPA - 2004

This is a brief and largely descriptive summary of migration flows in and out of Lesotho, and trends therein over tha …

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