Celebrating Excellence – ERF 31st Annual Conference Best Papers Award!

In keeping with ERF tradition to unveil talent, raise profile of young researchers, encourage innovative approaches to address key regional challenges, six teams were awarded Best Papers Award during the ERF 31tst Annual Conference, April in Cairo.

ERF extends special congratulations and best wishes to all in their pursuit of their career.

Congratulations to all!

Best Papers are:

• Youth Entrepreneurial Capabilities and Performance of their Businesses Digital Technology, Firms and Applied Micro Issues, Mohamed Elsayed Abdelmomen & Munira Abdalla Yousif
• Powering Minds, Empowering Lives: Understanding the Effects of Energy Poverty- Low-Carbon Energy Transition Nexus on Children in MENA, Yasmine Abdelfattah, Vladimir Hlasny, Shireen Alazzawi, Rania Megally & Hala Abou-Ali
• Firm-level Effects of Minimum Wages, Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Ugur Aytun and Seyit Mumin Cılasun
• Do Employment Subsidies Have an Impact on Skill Intensity and Technological Level of Production? Güneş Aşık and Çağlar Yüncüler
• The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in Tunisia and Lebanon, Markus Loewe & Holger Albrecht
• Dust Storms and House Prices, Mohammad Ahmadizadeh, Amirhossein Amini & Hadi Salehi Esfahani
• MENA Stock Markets Decoupling: Winners and Losers from the Wars in Ukraine and Middle East, Sam Hakim & Simon Neaime
• Fiscal Limits in the MENA Region: A Structural Analysis of Debt Sustainability, Nadine Yamout
• Market Integration in the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Mediterranean from the Sixteenth Century until World War I, Pınar Ceylan, Kivanc Karaman & Şevket Pamuk