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Trade Liberalization, Local Air Pollution, and Public Health in Tunisia: Assessing the Ancillary Health Benefits of Pollution Abatement Policy
Abstract Since the middle of the last century, Tunisia is embarked in an ambitious trade... Read More
Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth: The Role of Political Institutions
Abstract We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting... Read More
Measuring the Damage from Financial Integration in the GCC: Lessons from the Global Crisis
Abstract In the wake of the global financial crisis, several leading countries of the Gulf... Read More
How Can Recessions Be Brought to An End? Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Actions on Durations of Recessions
Abstract This paper analyzes how effective macroeconomic policy actions are in ending recessions. We also... Read More
Have Islamic Banks Been More Resistant Than Conventional Banks to the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis?
Abstract The recent global financial crisis has induced a series of failures of many conventional... Read More
Business Cycle Leading Indicators for the Tunisian Economy
Abstract This paper investigates the Tunisian business cycle with an objective of constructing an index... Read More
A Unified Framework to Decomposing Inequality with Illustrations to Some Arab Countries
Abstract It is common to decompose the inequality indices of the General Entropy class to... Read More
Migration Aspirations among Young People in Egypt: Who Desires to Migrate?
Abstract International migration has been a vital aspect of labor markets in the Middle East... Read More
Board Independence and Corporate Fraud: The Case of Tunisian Firms
Abstract The question we address in this paper is: what is the role played by... Read More