Publications

Connecting People and Ideas... Through its impartial, independent and timely analysis of economic problems on the one hand and a well-established publications process on the other, ERF seeks maximize impact of development research and to inform policy debate and policy discussions. Our portfolio includes a Series of Working Papers and Series of Policy Reports, Policy Briefs and Policy Perspectives.

Latest ERF Publications

Working Papers

Financialization and Income Inequality

This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1821

Topic

F6. Economic Impacts of Globalization

F4. Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

O1. Economic Development

Working Papers

Informality and Heterogeneity: Assessing Monetary Policy Transmission in...

This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1820

Topic

E1. General Aggregative Models

E3. Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

E5. Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

E2. Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy

Working Papers

Innovation Activities and Sustainable Firm Growth in Arab...

This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1819

Topic

L1. Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

O3. Technological Change, Research and Development, Intellectual Property Rights

Working Papers

Stuck in War: The PKK Conflict and Intergenerational...

This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1818

Topic

N3. Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy

I1. Health

I2. Education and Research Institutions

J2. Demand and Supply of Labor

Working Papers

Investor Herding and Islamic Moral Economy and Finance:...

This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the... Read More

Date

December, 2025

No.

1817

Topic

G1. General Financial Markets

Full List of ERF Publications

Working Papers
State Business Relations and the Dynamics of Job Flows in Egypt and Turkey

This study is motivated by the ongoing interest of policy makers in the possible sources... Read More

Working Papers
Global Value Chains and Business Environment: Which Factors Do Really Matter?

This study attempts to assess the effect of business environment on the possibility of a... Read More

Working Papers
Productivity, Structural Change and Skills Dynamics in Tunisia and Turkey

This article explores the contribution of the structural change and the skill upgrading of the... Read More

Working Papers
A Multi-Dimensional Measure of Well-being among Youth: The Case of Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon

This paper develops a youth well-being index, which allows for the first time to expand... Read More

Working Papers
Price Synchronicity, Inter-Firm Networks, and Business Groups in the Middle East and North Africa

Business groups are an essential part of the political economy of almost all capitalist countries.... Read More

Working Papers
Productivity and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from Firms in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region Countries

Resource reallocation from low to high productivity firms can generate large aggregate productivity gains with... Read More

Working Papers
Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their... Read More

Working Papers
Social Security Entitlement in Maghreb Countries: Who is Excluded? Who is not Interested?

The issue of whether informal jobs are chosen voluntarily by workers or as a strategy... Read More

Working Papers
Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: The Youth Crisis

This paper combines micro-level and macro-level approaches into a unified empirical design to understand the... Read More

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