Report NEP-ARA-2019-01-14

This is the archive for NEP-ARA, a report on new working papers in the area of MENA - Middle East and North Africa. Paul Makdissi issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Rim Mouelhi & Monia Ghazali, 2018, "Structural Transformation in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia: Patterns, Drivers and Constraints," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1231, Oct, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Imad Moosa, 2018, "Growth and Environmental Degradation in MENA Countries: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1260, Dec, revised 03 Dec 2018.
• Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla & Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali, 2018, "Chronic Illness and Labor Market Participation in Arab Countries: Evidence from Egypt and Tunisia," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1229, Oct, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid Ali, 2017, "Challenges Facing Intra-Regional Trade among North African Countries," Policy Papers, The Islamic Research and Teaching Institute (IRTI), number 2017-7, Jul.
• Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar, 2018, "State Business Relations and the Dynamics of Job Flows in Egypt and Turkey," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1271, Dec, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar, 2018, "The Nexus Between Business-Investment Climate and Firm Performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1277, Dec, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Shireen Al Azzawi & Vladimir Hlasny, 2018, "Youth Vulnerability in Egypt and Jordan: Dimensions and Determinants," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1275, Dec, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Touhami Abdelkhalek & Moundir Lassassi, 2018, "Inequality of Opportunity in Early Childhood Development in Algeria Over Time," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1254, Nov, revised 15 Nov 2018.
• Ulger, Ozlem & Uçan, Okyay, 2018, "R&D expenditures - growth nexus in Turkey," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 91060, Apr.
• Obbey Ahmed Elamin, 2018, "Impact of Informal Job-search on Wages for University Graduates in Egypt and Jordan," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1272, Dec, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Burhan Can Karahasan & Firat Bilgel, 2018, "State-Business Relations and Financial Accessibility: Explaining Firm Performance in the MENA Region," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1279, Dec, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Davide Luca, 2018, "Picking Winners at the Ballot Box: Votes and Local Economic Growth in Turkey," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1232, Oct, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Mohamed Mekki Ben Jemaa & Sahar Obey, 2018, "On the Trade-off Between Size, Sustainability and Social Outcome of the Microfinance Institutions: A Two Stages Bootstrapped DEA Approach," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1246, Oct, revised 28 Oct 2018.
• Nada Shokry & Mohamed Bouaddi, 2018, "Devaluation: Is it Contractionary or Expansionary to Economic Sectors? The Case of Egypt," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1252, Nov, revised 13 Nov 2018.
• Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso & Mona Said & Chahir Zaki, 2018, "Trade Policy and Input Liberalization: The Effect on Egyptian Firms’ Productivity," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1238, Oct, revised 14 Oct 2018.
• Hoda Selim, 2018, "Does Central Bank Independence Matter in Arab Oil Exporters," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1223, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Mohamed Oubenal, 2018, "The Political Economy of Business Elites in Tunisia: Actors, Strategies and Identities," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1273, Dec, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Hatem Jemmali & Fatma El-Hamidi, 2018, "Does it Still Pay to Go to College in Egypt? Decomposition Analysis of Wage Differentials For College and Non-College Graduates," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1224, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Burhan Can Karahasan & Firat Bilgel, 2018, "Economic Geography, Growth Dynamics and Human Capital Accumulation in Turkey: Evidence from Regional and Micro Data," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1233, Oct, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Aysit Tansel & Halil Ibrahim Keskin & Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, 2018, "Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1265, Dec, revised 10 Dec 2018.
• Mohammad Reza Farzanegan & Tim Krieger, 2018, "Oil Revenues Shocks and Inequality in Iran," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1226, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Karim Badr & Reham Rizk & Chahir Zaki, 2018, "Firm Productivity and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Egyptian Data," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1239, Oct, revised 15 Oct 2018.
• Anda David & Mohamed Ali Marouani & Charbel Nahas & Björn Nilsson, 2018, "The Economics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Neighboring Countries. The Case of Lebanon," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1249, Nov, revised 07 Nov 2018.
• Ragui Assaad & Caroline Krafft & Shaimaa Yassin, 2018, "Job Creation or Labor Absorption? An Analysis of Private Sector Job Growth in Egypt," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1237, Oct, revised 14 Oct 2018.
• G. Gulsun Akin & Ahmet Faruk Aysan & Ezgi Özer & Levent Yildiran, 2018, "Consumer Preferences and Market Structure in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1258, Nov, revised 19 Nov 2018.
• Ragui Assaad & Colette Salemi, 2018, "The Structure of Employment and Job Creation in Jordan: 2010-2016," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1259, Nov, revised 19 Nov 2018.
• Stefano Farolfi & Dimitri Dubois & Sylvie Morardet & Imen Nouichi & Serge Marlet, 2018, "Information provision and willingness to pay irrigation water in Tunisian local associations for agricultural development: an experimental economics study
  [Fourniture d’information et consentement à payer l’eau d’irrigation dans les groupements de," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-01952779, DOI: 10.1051/cagri/2018007.
• Caroline Krafft & Reham Rizk, 2018, "The Promise and Peril of Youth Entrepreneurship in MENA," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1257, Nov, revised 19 Nov 2018.
• Maia Sieverding & Caroline Krafft & Nasma Berri & Caitlyn Keo & Mariam Sharpless, 2018, "Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1261, Dec, revised 03 Dec 2018.
• Rami Abdelkafi & Mahmoud Sami Nabi, 2017, "Integrating Microfinance and Cooperatives for Jobs Creation in Tunisia," Policy Papers, The Islamic Research and Teaching Institute (IRTI), number 2017-2, Mar.
• Hany Abdel-Latif & Mahmoud El-Gamal, 2018, "Financial Liquidity, Geopolitics, and Oil Prices," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1255, Nov, revised 15 Nov 2018.
• Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla & Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali, 2018, "Assessing the Intra-Arab Trade Integration and Potential: Evidence from Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1247, Nov, revised 07 Nov 2018.
• Robert Kubinec, 2018, "Patrons or Clients? Measuring and Experimentally Evaluating Political Connections of Firms in Morocco and Jordan," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1280, Dec, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Khaled Nasri & Besma Belhadj, 2018, "Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Tunisia: Dual cut-off method and Fuzzy Sets approach," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1262, Dec, revised 03 Dec 2018.
• Ridha Nouira & Mohamed Kouni, 2018, "Optimal Government Size and Economic Growth in Developing and MENA Countries: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Analysis," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1256, Nov, revised 15 Nov 2018.
• Belal Fallah & Ayhab Saad, 2018, "Schooling Choices’ Responses to Labor Market Shocks: Evidence From a Natural Experiment," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1227, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• A. Talha Yalta & Yasemin Yalta, 2018, "Are the Credit Rating Agencies Biased Against MENA Countries?," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1274, Dec, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Abeer Elshennawy & Mohamed Bouaddi, 2018, "Sources of Heterogeneity in Labor Productivity and Total Factor Productivity in Egyptian Manufacturing," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1276, Dec, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Lassaâd Mbarek & Hardik A. Marfatia & Sonja Juko, 2018, "Time-varying Response of Treasury Yields to Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from the Tunisian Bond Market," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1243, Oct, revised 23 Oct 2018.
• Abdullah Bataineh & Pierluigi Montalbano, 2018, "The Impact of Syrian Crisis on the Quality of Education in Jordan: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment," Working Papers, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS, number 7/18, Dec.
• Caroline Krafft & Ragui Assaad, 2018, "Do More Productive Firms Pay Workers More? Evidence from Egypt," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1222, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Jamal Bouoiyour & Refk Selmi, 2018, "The gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi : Saudi Arabia's new economy dream at risk ?," Papers, arXiv.org, number 1812.11336, Dec.
• Safa Joudeh, 2018, "Global Value Chain Participation and Prospects for Local Upgrading in the Egyptian-Chinese Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1278, Dec, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Maleke Fourati, 2018, "Envy and the Islamic Revival: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1235, Oct, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Mahmoud Ali Hailat, 2018, "Education of Jordanians: Outcomes in a Challenging Environment," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1221, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Hoda Selim & Kamiar Mohaddes & Jeffrey Nugent, 2018, "Reforming Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies: Policy Proposals," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1228, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Rana Sawaya & Donabelle Zakkour Tabchoury & Marc Bonnet, 2018, "Riding the Roller-Coaster of the Accreditation Process at Higher Education Institutions through Employees Engagement," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-01907980.
• Ahmed Mohamed Ezzat, 2018, "Trade Openness: An Effective tool for Poverty Alleviation or an Instrument for Increasing Poverty Severity?," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1248, Nov, revised 07 Nov 2018.
• Ali Akarca, 2018, "Political Determinants of Government Structure and Economic Performance in Turkey since 1950," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1241, Oct, revised 23 Oct 2018.
• George Naufal & Michael Malcolm & Vidya Diwakar, 2018, "Armed Conflict and Child Labor: Evidence from Iraq," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1225, Sep, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali & Manal Mahagoub Elshakh & Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla, 2018, "Does Foreign Aid Promote Economic Growth in Sudan? Evidence from ARDL Bounds Testing Analysis," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1251, Nov, revised 13 Nov 2018.
• Mohamed Osman Shereif Mahdi Abaker, 2018, "Educational Portals and Employee Performance in the Sultanate of Oman," GATR Journals, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise, number jmmr199, Dec.
• Ana Sasi-Brodesky, 2017, "Recovery rates in the Israeli corporate bond market 2008-2015," Bank of Israel Working Papers, Bank of Israel, number 2017.17, Jul.
• BENYOUB, Mohammed, 2018, "L’impact De L’investissement Des Revenus Pétroliers Sur La Croissance, L’inflation Et Le Chômage : Cas D’Algérie (2000-2015)
  [The Impact of Oil Revenue Investment on Growth, Inflation and Unemployment: The Case of Algeria (2000-2015)]," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 90489, Jan, revised 05 Jul 2018.
• Hajer Habib & Ghazi Boulila, 2018, "Transferts de fonds migratoires, chômage et changements démographiques entre la Tunisie et l’Europe," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1253, Nov, revised 15 Nov 2018.

Report NEP-ARA-2019-01-14

This is the archive for NEP-ARA, a report on new working papers in the area of MENA - Middle East and North Africa. Paul Makdissi issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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The following items were announced in this report: