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Firm Productivity, Technology and Export Status, What Can We Learn from Egyptian Industries?
We explore to what extent the export status and technological choices are related to firm... Read More
Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?
This paper examines the long-term impact of the legal status of overseas temporary migrants. Using... Read More
Targeting Debt in Lebanon: A Structural Macro-Econometric Model
Quality statistics on developing economies in the Arab region are rare, and their advanced analysis... Read More
Standards and Market Power: Evidence from Tunisia
We develop a theoretical model and derive conditions under which firms with market power try... Read More
To Bank or Not to Bank: The Determination of Cash Holdings and Lines of Credit
This paper investigates two liquidity choices of listed Jordanian firms: internal represented by cash holdings... Read More
The Impact of Major Oil, Financial and Uncertainty Factors on Sovereign CDS Spreads: Evidence from GCC, Other Oil-Exporting Countries and Regional Markets
The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of oil price volatility and... Read More
Economic Voting Under Single-Party and Coalition Governments: Evidence From The Turkish Case
Strength of economic voting under single-party and coalition governments is investigated in the case of... Read More
How Gender Biased Are Female-Headed Household Transfers in Egypt?
In this paper, we claim that the policy of targeting female-headed households’ (FHHs) may generate... Read More
Collusion Detection in Public Procurement with Limited Information
Public procurement data sets usually lack detailed data that are needed to implement existing methods.... Read More