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The Threshold Impact of Remittances on Financial Development: New Evidence from Egypt
This study examines the nonlinear impact of remittances on financial development (FD) in Egypt over... Read More
Spatial Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers in Turkey
This paper estimates spatial wage curves for formal and informal workers in Turkey using individual... Read More
A Double-Edged Sword: Impact of Covid-19 on Environment
In this paper, we study the causal effect of COVID-19 related reduction in mobility and... Read More
Fiscal Policy Response to Public Debt: Evidence for the MENA Region
This paper deals with fiscal sustainability by estimating fiscal reaction functions (FRF) for a panel... Read More
Impact of Tax Reforms in Applied Models: Which Functional Forms Should Be Chosen for the Demand System? Theory and Application for Morocco
When researchers and policymakers conduct impact analyses of economic reforms, especially fiscal reforms, the specification... Read More
Essays on Fiscal Sustainability in Algeria
The topic of fiscal policy sustainability has received much attention during the last two decades,... Read More
Survival of The Fittest: A Natural Experiment from Crypto Exchanges
This paper explores the applicability of universal cryptocurrency exchange by analyzing crypto exchanges of Binance,... Read More
Economic, Social and Institutional Determinants of Internal Conflict in Fragile States
In this paper, we use fixed-effect Poisson regressions (FEPR) with robust standard errors and instrumental... Read More
Towards A “New Normal” in Health Policies in the Arab Countries
This paper reviews the impacts of COVID19 on health policies in the Arab region, benchmarking... Read More