Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies
Proceedings of the Middle East Economic Association
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E. Mine Cinar
Selected condensed and edited papers presented in the annual meetings of Middle East Economic Association and other associated conferences. Full papers can be requested from the authors. Presentation of the articles in the Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies was made possible by a limited license granted to Loyola University Chicago and Middle East Economics Association from the authors who have retained all copyrights in the articles.
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Submissions from 2016
Financial Development and the Oil Curse: Evidence from Algeria, Farah Elias Elhannani, Abou Bakr Boussalem, and Mohamed Benbouziane
Oil Price Fluctuations and the Economies of the GCC, Magda Elsayed Kandil
The impact of governance on economic growth: The Case of Middle Eastwen and North African Countries, Noha Emara and And I-Ming Chiu
The Impact of Governance on Economic Growth: The Case of Middle Eastern and North African Countries, Noha Emara and I-Ming Chiu
Energy consumption and economic growth in Egypt: A disaggregated causality analysis with structural breaks, Mesbah Fathy Sharaf
Housing Costs and Divorce Rate in the MENA Countries, Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni
An economic analysis of sustainability of a potential GCC economic and monetary union during 2005-2014, Subhadra Ganguli
Oil and GCC financial markets: The significance of the oil price collapse, Shawkat Hammoudeh
Productivity Change of the Egyptian Banking Sector: A Two Stage Non-Parametric Approach, Ammar Jreisat and Hassan Hassan
Volatility transmission across currencies and commodities with US uncertainty measures, Ahmed A.A. Khalifa, Edoardo Otranto, Shawkat Hammoudeh, and Sanjay Ramchander
Oil price and inflation in Algeria: A nonlinear ARDL approach, Miloud Lacheheb and Abdalla Sirag
Algeria: Comparing the Last Two Oil Shocks and Policy Responses, Jose R. Lopez-Calix and Irum Touqeer
The effect of oil price shocks on the Saudi manufacturing sector, Abdelhamid A. Mahboub and Heba E. Ahmad
Children and Mothers’ Labor Force Participation in MENA, Mahdi Majbouri
Oil rents and economic growth in oil-abundant MENA countries: Governance is the trump card to escape the resource trap, Siham Matallah and Amal Matallah
Crude oil price changes: Common trend and common cycle features, Ibrahim A. Onour
An empirical analysis of household education expenditures in Turkey, Elif Öznur Acar, Burak Günalp, and Seyit Mümin Cilasun
Sharia Law and the Transition Towards More Democracy and a Market Economy – Restrictions and Opportunities, Rahel Schomaker
Functional Income Distribution Consequences of Financial Crisis in Turkey, Senim Sefil
The impact of oil prices on macroeconomic fundamentals, monetary policy and stock market for eight Middle East and North African countries, Kamel Si Mohammed, Abderrezzak Benhabib, and Samir Maliki
Natural resource export revenues and construction activities in OPEC countries, Reza Tajaddini and Hassan Gholipour Fereidouni
Submissions from 2015
Does Public Employment Reduce Unemployment?, Alberto Behar and Junghwan Mok
Measuring Trade Advantages of the Qualifying Industrial Zones Program of Jordan and Egypt Offered by the United States for Having Signed Peace Treaties with Israel, Austin Carter, Yun Gong, and Jeffrey B. Nugent
Bringing a New Perspective on Co-Movements of Stock Markets in Emerging Economies Through Causality and Wavelet Analysis, Sadullah Çelik and Emel Baydan
Historical Perspectives on Trade and Risk on the Silk Road, Middle East and China, E. Mine Cinar, Katherine Geusz, and Joseph Johnson
