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The Economics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Pelzman, Joseph - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a large, complex, and diverse region, which faces a wide range of economic … issues. The MENA group includes Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya … evolved in MENA and which may serve to explain the differences in each country's economic performance. The key objective of …
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Dynamic impact of financial development on economic growth: heterogeneous panel data analysis of island economies
Sohag, Kazi; Nabilah, Abi Bibi; Begum, Rawshan Ara - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 8 (2015) 1, pp. 77-95
The purpose of this study is to find whether there is any significant impact, be it short run or long run, of financial development (FD) on economic growth from nine island economies. Despite the vast researches on the FD and economic growth nexus, little has been known from the perspective of...
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - CESifo - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
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Is the Relationship Between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle-Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - In: World Development 68 (2015) C, pp. 66-81
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle-income countries over the 1980–2008 period. Using pooled mean group estimations in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting, we show that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between...
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Financial development and economic growth in India: some evidence from non-linear causality analysis
Nain, Md; Kamaiah, Bandi - In: Economic Change and Restructuring 47 (2014) 4, pp. 299-319
In the light of the recent observation that the relationship between financial development and economic growth is one of non-linear and limitations of granger test, this paper re-examined relationship in the framework of non-linear Granger causality employing (Diks and Panchenko in Stud...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Financial Development and Economic Growth Nexus:Time Series Evidence from Middle Eastern and North African Countries
Abu-Bader, Suleiman; Abu-Qarn, Aamer S. - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2006
and North African (MENA) countries for different periods ranging from 1960 to 2004, within a trivariate vector …
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Financial Developent and Economic Growth Nexus: Time Series Evidence from Middle Eastern and North African Countries
Abu-Bader, Suleiman; Abu-Qarn, Aamer - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2006
and North African (MENA) countries for different periods ranging from 1960 to 2004, within a trivariate vector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005597103
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Financial Developent and Economic Growth Nexus: Time Series Evidence from Middle Eastern and North African Countries
Abu-Bader, Suleiman; Abu-Qarn, Aamer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
and North African (MENA) countries for different periods ranging from 1960 to 2004, within a trivariate vector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790290
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Financial development, ICT diffusion and economic growth: Lessons from MENA region
Sassi, Seifallah; Goaied, Mohamed - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 4, pp. 252-261
infrastructure. In this paper we assess empirically these relationships in some MENA countries. The empirical study is based on … estimation of a dynamic panel model with system GMM estimators. There are three main findings. First, our empirical results join … positive and significant direct effect of ICT proxies on economic growth. This implies that MENA countries need to reinforce …
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