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A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of Covid-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model
This paper develops a threshold-augmented dynamic multi-country model (TG-VAR) to quantify the macroeconomic effects of... Read More
Agree to Disagree? Making Sense of Vagueness in International Environmental Agreements
This paper explains vagueness in International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) by the heterogeneity in institutional capacities... Read More
Determinants of Growth Performance of High Growth Firms: An Analysis of The Turkish Manufacturing Sector
Due to their important contribution to overall growth performance of economies policy makers have attributed... Read More
Trade and Exchange Rate Effects: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
We estimate an augmented gravity model using a firm-level database on Turkish firms to revisit... Read More
Informal Employment in the Kabylia Region (Algeria): Labor Force Segmentation, Mobility and Earnings
This investigation on informal employment uses a pooled sample of 3,290 workers from two household... Read More
Civil War Onset, Natural Resource Rents and Social Cohesion
This paper examines the nexus between civil war onset, natural resource rents, and social cohesion.... Read More
Patterns of Regional Income Inequality in Egypt: Implications for Sustainable Development Goal 10
Income distribution is seen as instrumental to human development and to a number of development... Read More
Does Health Reform Reduce Inequalities? Primary Healthcare of Young Children in Turkey
Health service utilization in early childhood is crucial. It is often observed that children from... Read More
Prospects for Egypt’s Population and Labor Force: 2000 to 2050
I argue in this paper that although recent developments had temporarily reduced demographic pressures on... Read More