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Asymmetries and economic interaction between Israel and Palestine
Vaggi, Gianni; Baroud, Sara - 2005
and between the two economies involved. Palestine is currently afflicted with economic stagnation and structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326086
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An economic theory of Islamic finance
Al-Jarhi, Mabid Ali - In: ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance 9 (2017) 2, pp. 117-132
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an economic rationale for Islamic finance. Design/methodology/approach Its methodology is simple. It starts with listing the contributions to economic analysis relevant to the required rationale in the theories of banking, finance, price, money and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600363
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Compensation and the Abandoned Property of the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessment and Implications
Lewisf, Frank D - 2006
This paper extends the analysis of "Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessing the Loss" (Lewis 1996) to non-agricultural property. The estimate is based mainly on the area of urban property abandoned by refugees, where valuations are based on contemporary transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940731
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school). Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … Palestine. The median ratio of male to female return is 0.55 (university) in 2004 and decreased to 0.17 (high school) in 2008 in … Palestine. The corresponding figures for Turkey are 0.79 and .082 (both for high school).Finally, it was found that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320529
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Services Trade and Policy
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009
Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294845
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - 2008
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. Applying panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for cross-sectional dependence problems in the data,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295271
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Währungspolitik im Dienste von Entwicklung: Immer noch ein Forschungsprogramm!
Sell, Friedrich L. - 2004
gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung vor dem Hintergrund des berühmten Trilemmas, das prinzipiell für jede Währungsordnung gelöst werden muss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296875
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The Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis in Developed Countries and Emerging Market Economies: Different Outcomes Explained
García Solanes, José; Torrejón-Flores, Fernando - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-2, pp. 1-24
This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effects in two areas with strong differences in economic development, sixteen OECD countries and sixteen Latin American economies. The USA is taken as a benchmark. Applying recent panel cointegration and bootstrapping techniques that solve for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298622
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Generalized barriers to entry and economic development
Saviotti, Paolo; Pyka, Andreas - 2009
In this paper we are going to analyze the dynamics of barriers to entry at the international level. In our model economic development takes place and continues in the long run due to the emergence of new sectors, which can compensate for the diminishing ability of mature sectors to create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298845