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Financial Markets of the Middle East and North Africa: The Past and Present

Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003

of financial markets seems necessary to accelerate economic growth. …

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Together but apart : ICT and productivity growth in Israel

Lach, Saul (contributor); Shiff, Gil (contributor); … - 2008 - Rev. 27 Oct 2008

productivity growth remained sluggish, with traditional sectors both in manufacturing and services seemingly unable to benefit from … most important factor contributing to value added growth in manufacturing during 1995-2000, before the burst of the dot ….com bubble. Because most ICT capital is concentrated in high tech industries, growth in manufacturing has been mostly confined to …

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Wage Growth and Inflation in Europe : A Puzzle?

Boranova, Vizhdan - 2020

wage growth and inflation in Europe and factors that influence the strength of the passthrough from labor costs to prices …. Historically, wage growth has led to higher inflation, but the impact has weakened since 2009. Empirical analysis suggests that the … passthrough from wage growth to inflation is significantly lower in periods of subdued inflation and inflation expectations …

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Economic Development in the Middle East

Shachmurove, Yochanan - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004

The economic and financial development are examined in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, representing the Middle East and North Africa region. Lengthy bureaucratic procedures, unclear...

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State financial interests and changes in investment behavior of institutional investors : the case of financial market development in Israel

Maman, Daniyel - In: Socio-economic review 20 (2022) 4, pp. 2073-2093

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Israel; Technical Note on Crisis Prevention and Management

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

This report analyzes the Israeli economy and its financial system in detail. A strong macroprudential framework is believed to be an effective tool in identifying in advance and extenuating threats that arise within the financial domain. It is also stated that the present fragile global economic...

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The Holiday and Yom Kippur War Sentiment Effects : The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE)

Kaplanski, Guy - 2014

Several empirical studies reveal that holidays generally create positive sentiment in the stock market, whereas negative events, such as wars or disasters are accompanied by negative sentiment. However, what happens if a negative event occurs on a holiday? In such a case, we expect two...

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Conflict of Interest in Universal Banking Evidence from Brazilian IPOs

De Carvalho, Antonio Gledson - 2014

We investigate conflict of interest in universal banking through IPO short run-returns. Two of the main obstacles to detect mispricing in IPOs are the price stabilization performed by the underwriter that can distort secondary market prices and the absence of data on the ex-ante demand for the...

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Macrostructure Reform in an Inelastic Market : Evidence from Adoption of ETF Creation in Israel

De Simone, Rebecca; Dovman, Polina; Gildin, Ilan - 2022

We study a 2012 reform in Israel where all exchange-traded products listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) adopted the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) creation mechanism wherein designated market makers arbitrage between the index price and the net asset value of its benchmark. The reform...

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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...

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