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Technology Diffusion, International Spillovers and Human Capital in the Mediterranean Agricultural Sector
Abstract This paper investigates the roles of human capital and openness in the process of... Read More
Liberalizing Trade in Services in Tunisia: General Equilibrium Effects
Abstract The main objective of the paper is to simulate removal of barriers to trade... Read More
Estimating The Size of Turkey’s Informal Sector: An Expenditure Based Approach
Abstract How extensive is the Turkish unofficial economy? An accurate answer to this question has considerable... Read More
Agricultural Trade Liberalization and Poverty in Tunisia: Micro-Simulation in a General Equilibrium Framework
Abstract This study tries to answer the following questions: Will exposure to world agricultural prices raise... Read More
Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches to Exits from Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes
Abstract When the Bretton-Woods system collapsed in the mid 1970s, almost all countries were pursuing one... Read More
Emerging Market Sovereign Spreads, Global Financial Conditions and US Macroeconomic News
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of global financial conditions, US macroeconomic news and domestic macroeconomic... Read More
Impacts of World Prices Transmission to Domestic Markets and Welfare of Marginal Households: An Empirical Application to Rice in Iran
Abstract This paper attempts to assess the degree by which Iranian households have responded to... Read More
Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes and the 2001 Economic Crisis on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
Abstract The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts... Read More
The Role of Government Activities in Explaining the Growth Failure of the Oil Exporting Countries
Abstract In standard growth models such as Barro’s (1990), government size is related to economic growth... Read More