This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime … authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The … institutions to increase economic growth in these economies; however, the democratization of the political institutions and foreign …

regimes, using data on eight MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries over the 1984-2016 period. Specifically, we run … role in determining the exchange rate regime in MENA countries: a democratic political regime and a low level of corruption … implications for policy makers in MENA countries. …

, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, a phenomenon that has come to be known as … the "MENA paradox." Even if increases in participation are observed, they are typically in the form of rising unemployment …. We argue in this paper that female labor force participation among educated women in four MENA countries - Algeria, Egypt …

-growth ventures. We find that institutions exert different effects on entrepreneurial entry and on the individual choice to launch …

decision to migrate irregularly amongst the youth in the MENA region and that the quality of institutions matters. In addition … dataset covering young people aged 15 to 29 from five major MENA countries from the year 2016. Using a probit model, the paper …

institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migrants. Once economic freedoms are controlled for, measures of political institutions do not enter significantly into our …

to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North Korean refugees and South Korean students … attitudes toward political and economic institutions. Our experiments employ widely used dictator and trust games, with four …. Experimental behavior and support for institutions differ substantially between and within groups. North Korean refugees prefer …

satisfaction gap between post-socialist and advanced countries and the role of political institutions in explaining this gap. My … and may have even reversed it in the post-crisis years. As institutions and macroeconomic conditions continue to improve …