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Financial development and economic growth in the MENA Region
Hamadi, Hassan; Bassil, Charbel - In: Comparative economic studies 57 (2015) 4, pp. 598-622
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Oil price and stock market index in exporting and importing countries: evidence from MENA
Salameh, Hussein Mohammad; Al-Zu'bi, Bashar; Al-Zubi, … - In: American Journal of Finance and Accounting 2 (2012) 4, pp. 363-379
In the empirical literature, only few studies have focused on the relationship between oil prices and stock markets in both exporting and importing countries. Previous studies have focused almost exclusively on oil exporting countries; in this paper we encounter this issue through implementing...
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The influence of culture and religion on trust in the emerging financial market in Libya
Abdussalam, Zainab - In: International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance 4 (2014) 3, pp. 206-220
This study sets out to explore relations between culture, religion, trust and their impact on the emerging financial market in Libya. This research was conducted using qualitative method to obtain the data. The findings of this study are that the isomorphism of Western institutions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795446
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Ten Years after: Achievements and Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Financial Partnership
Brach, Juliane - 2006
EU and twelve countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) engaged in 1995 in the Euro … development in the MENA region. Against this background, this paper reviews the situation in the MENA partner countries and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293513
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Pollution, economic development and democracy: Evidence from the MENA countries
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Markwardt, Gunther - 2012
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries are among the world's top emitters of CO2 and SO2 in per capita terms … improvements in the democratic development of the MENA countries help to mitigate environmental problems. Our results clearly show … environmental issues in the MENA region. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294389
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The Economic Determinants of Food Security in the MENA Region
, Ahmet Ali; Ozdamar, Oznur; Uysal, Peyman - In: International Journal of Food and Beverage … 2 (2017) 1, pp. 1-19
covers 18MENA countries and Turkey for the period of 1990-2014.Emprical results support the evidence of the harmful effect of …
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The Political Economy of Oil and the Crisis of the Arab State System
Atzori, Daniel - 2013
This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328676
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Tackling graduate unemployment in North Africa through employment subsidies: A look at the SIVP programme in Tunisia
Broecke, Stijn - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
This paper takes a closer look at Tunisia's SIVP: an employment subsidy aimed at university graduates and, until recently, the country's largest active labour market policy. Using a tracer survey of the 2004 graduating cohort, OLS and matching techniques are applied to estimate the relationship...
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Sources of economic growth in MENA countries: A Harrod-neutral technological progress identification framework
Senay, Acikgöz; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben; Mert, Merter - 2017
-neutral in growth accounting for the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries? Accordingly, this study contributes to the … the MENA countries, except Israel and Saudi Arabia. The authors concluded that assuming the nature of technological … progress as Harrod-neutral in growth accounting for the MENA countries does not have a critical impact on the results. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594459
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Efficiency, Inefficiency and the MENA Frontier
Christopoulos, Dimitris; McAdam, Peter - 2015
In a stochastic frontier setting, we examine technical efficiency in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Evidence … technical efficiency profiles. The MENA have been characterized by increasing economic efficiency over time but with marked …
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