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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
Social Contacts, Wages, and Turnover: The Case of the Egyptian Labour Market
The objective of this paper is to investigate empirically the role of social networks in... Read More
Covid-19 Shock: Pass-Through to Consumer Prices in Tunisia
In this paper, we evaluate the pass-through of the COVID-19 shock on international prices and... Read More
The 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic and Foreign Workers’ Income-Consumption Profiles: Accounts from Two Micro-Level Surveys
Applying rich micro-level data for 2013 and 2020, this paper juxtaposes the living conditions and... Read More