Report NEP-ARA-2019-01-14

This is the archive for NEP-ARA, a report on new working papers in the area of MENA - Middle East and North Africa. Paul Makdissi issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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The following items were announced in this report:

• Rim Mouelhi & Monia Ghazali, 2018. "Structural Transformation in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia: Patterns, Drivers and Constraints," Working Papers 1231, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Imad Moosa, 2018. "Growth and Environmental Degradation in MENA Countries: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence," Working Papers 1260, Economic Research Forum, revised 03 Dec 2018.
• Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla & Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali, 2018. "Chronic Illness and Labor Market Participation in Arab Countries: Evidence from Egypt and Tunisia," Working Papers 1229, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Ali, Abdelrahman Elzahi Saaid, 2017. "Challenges Facing Intra-Regional Trade among North African Countries," Policy Papers 2017-7, The Islamic Research and Teaching Institute (IRTI).
• Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar, 2018. "State Business Relations and the Dynamics of Job Flows in Egypt and Turkey," Working Papers 1271, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar, 2018. "The Nexus Between Business-Investment Climate and Firm Performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region," Working Papers 1277, Economic Research Forum, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Shireen Al Azzawi & Vladimir Hlasny, 2018. "Youth Vulnerability in Egypt and Jordan: Dimensions and Determinants," Working Papers 1275, Economic Research Forum, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Touhami Abdelkhalek & Moundir Lassassi, 2018. "Inequality of Opportunity in Early Childhood Development in Algeria Over Time," Working Papers 1254, Economic Research Forum, revised 15 Nov 2018.
• Ulger, Ozlem & Uçan, Okyay, 2018. "R&D expenditures - growth nexus in Turkey," MPRA Paper 91060, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Obbey Ahmed Elamin, 2018. "Impact of Informal Job-search on Wages for University Graduates in Egypt and Jordan," Working Papers 1272, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Burhan Can Karahasan & Firat Bilgel, 2018. "State-Business Relations and Financial Accessibility: Explaining Firm Performance in the MENA Region," Working Papers 1279, Economic Research Forum, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Davide Luca, 2018. "Picking Winners at the Ballot Box: Votes and Local Economic Growth in Turkey," Working Papers 1232, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Mohamed Mekki Ben Jemaa & Sahar Obey, 2018. "On the Trade-off Between Size, Sustainability and Social Outcome of the Microfinance Institutions: A Two Stages Bootstrapped DEA Approach," Working Papers 1246, Economic Research Forum, revised 28 Oct 2018.
• Nada Shokry & Mohamed Bouaddi, 2018. "Devaluation: Is it Contractionary or Expansionary to Economic Sectors? The Case of Egypt," Working Papers 1252, Economic Research Forum, revised 13 Nov 2018.
• Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso & Mona Said & Chahir Zaki, 2018. "Trade Policy and Input Liberalization: The Effect on Egyptian Firms’ Productivity," Working Papers 1238, Economic Research Forum, revised 14 Oct 2018.
• Hoda Selim, 2018. "Does Central Bank Independence Matter in Arab Oil Exporters," Working Papers 1223, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Mohamed Oubenal, 2018. "The Political Economy of Business Elites in Tunisia: Actors, Strategies and Identities," Working Papers 1273, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Hatem Jemmali & Fatma El-Hamidi, 2018. "Does it Still Pay to Go to College in Egypt? Decomposition Analysis of Wage Differentials For College and Non-College Graduates," Working Papers 1224, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Burhan Can Karahasan & Firat Bilgel, 2018. "Economic Geography, Growth Dynamics and Human Capital Accumulation in Turkey: Evidence from Regional and Micro Data," Working Papers 1233, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Aysit Tansel & Halil Ibrahim Keskin & Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir, 2018. "Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data," Working Papers 1265, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Dec 2018.
• Mohammad Reza Farzanegan & Tim Krieger, 2018. "Oil Revenues Shocks and Inequality in Iran," Working Papers 1226, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Karim Badr & Reham Rizk & Chahir Zaki, 2018. "Firm Productivity and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Egyptian Data," Working Papers 1239, Economic Research Forum, revised 15 Oct 2018.
• Anda David & Mohamed Ali Marouani & Charbel Nahas & Björn Nilsson, 2018. "The Economics of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Neighboring Countries. The Case of Lebanon," Working Papers 1249, Economic Research Forum, revised 07 Nov 2018.
• Ragui Assaad & Caroline Krafft & Shaimaa Yassin, 2018. "Job Creation or Labor Absorption? An Analysis of Private Sector Job Growth in Egypt," Working Papers 1237, Economic Research Forum, revised 14 Oct 2018.
• G. Gulsun Akin & Ahmet Faruk Aysan & Ezgi Özer & Levent Yildiran, 2018. "Consumer Preferences and Market Structure in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey," Working Papers 1258, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Nov 2018.
• Ragui Assaad & Colette Salemi, 2018. "The Structure of Employment and Job Creation in Jordan: 2010-2016," Working Papers 1259, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Nov 2018.
• Stefano Farolfi & Dimitri Dubois & Sylvie Morardet & Imen Nouichi & Serge Marlet, 2018. "Information provision and willingness to pay irrigation water in Tunisian local associations for agricultural development: an experimental economics study [Fourniture d’information et consentement ," Post-Print hal-01952779, HAL.
• Caroline Krafft & Reham Rizk, 2018. "The Promise and Peril of Youth Entrepreneurship in MENA," Working Papers 1257, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Nov 2018.
• Maia Sieverding & Caroline Krafft & Nasma Berri & Caitlyn Keo & Mariam Sharpless, 2018. "Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan," Working Papers 1261, Economic Research Forum, revised 03 Dec 2018.
• Abdelkafi, Rami & Nabi, Mahmoud Sami, 2017. "Integrating Microfinance and Cooperatives for Jobs Creation in Tunisia," Policy Papers 2017-2, The Islamic Research and Teaching Institute (IRTI).
• Hany Abdel-Latif & Mahmoud El-Gamal, 2018. "Financial Liquidity, Geopolitics, and Oil Prices," Working Papers 1255, Economic Research Forum, revised 15 Nov 2018.
• Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla & Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali, 2018. "Assessing the Intra-Arab Trade Integration and Potential: Evidence from Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model," Working Papers 1247, Economic Research Forum, revised 07 Nov 2018.
• Robert Kubinec, 2018. "Patrons or Clients? Measuring and Experimentally Evaluating Political Connections of Firms in Morocco and Jordan," Working Papers 1280, Economic Research Forum, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Khaled Nasri & Besma Belhadj, 2018. "Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Tunisia: Dual cut-off method and Fuzzy Sets approach," Working Papers 1262, Economic Research Forum, revised 03 Dec 2018.
• Ridha Nouira & Mohamed Kouni, 2018. "Optimal Government Size and Economic Growth in Developing and MENA Countries: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Analysis," Working Papers 1256, Economic Research Forum, revised 15 Nov 2018.
• Belal Fallah & Ayhab Saad, 2018. "Schooling Choices’ Responses to Labor Market Shocks: Evidence From a Natural Experiment," Working Papers 1227, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• A. Talha Yalta & Yasemin Yalta, 2018. "Are the Credit Rating Agencies Biased Against MENA Countries?," Working Papers 1274, Economic Research Forum, revised 19 Dec 2018.
• Abeer Elshennawy & Mohamed Bouaddi, 2018. "Sources of Heterogeneity in Labor Productivity and Total Factor Productivity in Egyptian Manufacturing," Working Papers 1276, Economic Research Forum, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Lassaâd Mbarek & Hardik A. Marfatia & Sonja Juko, 2018. "Time-varying Response of Treasury Yields to Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from the Tunisian Bond Market," Working Papers 1243, Economic Research Forum, revised 23 Oct 2018.
• Abdullah Bataineh & Pierluigi Montalbano, 2018. "The Impact of Syrian Crisis on the Quality of Education in Jordan: A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment," Working Papers 7/18, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.
• Caroline Krafft & Ragui Assaad, 2018. "Do More Productive Firms Pay Workers More? Evidence from Egypt," Working Papers 1222, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Jamal Bouoiyour & Refk Selmi, 2018. "The gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi : Saudi Arabia's new economy dream at risk ?," Papers 1812.11336, arXiv.org.
• Safa Joudeh, 2018. "Global Value Chain Participation and Prospects for Local Upgrading in the Egyptian-Chinese Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone," Working Papers 1278, Economic Research Forum, revised 26 Dec 2018.
• Maleke Fourati, 2018. "Envy and the Islamic Revival: Experimental Evidence from Tunisia," Working Papers 1235, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Oct 2018.
• Mahmoud Ali Hailat, 2018. "Education of Jordanians: Outcomes in a Challenging Environment," Working Papers 1221, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Hoda Selim & Kamiar Mohaddes & Jeffrey Nugent, 2018. "Reforming Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies: Policy Proposals," Working Papers 1228, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Rana Sawaya & Donabelle Zakkour Tabchoury & Marc Bonnet, 2018. "Riding the Roller-Coaster of the Accreditation Process at Higher Education Institutions through Employees Engagement," Post-Print hal-01907980, HAL.
• Ahmed Mohamed Ezzat, 2018. "Trade Openness: An Effective tool for Poverty Alleviation or an Instrument for Increasing Poverty Severity?," Working Papers 1248, Economic Research Forum, revised 07 Nov 2018.
• Ali Akarca, 2018. "Political Determinants of Government Structure and Economic Performance in Turkey since 1950," Working Papers 1241, Economic Research Forum, revised 23 Oct 2018.
• George Naufal & Michael Malcolm & Vidya Diwakar, 2018. "Armed Conflict and Child Labor: Evidence from Iraq," Working Papers 1225, Economic Research Forum, revised 18 Sep 2018.
• Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali & Manal Mahagoub Elshakh & Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla, 2018. "Does Foreign Aid Promote Economic Growth in Sudan? Evidence from ARDL Bounds Testing Analysis," Working Papers 1251, Economic Research Forum, revised 13 Nov 2018.
• Mohamed Osman Shereif Mahdi Abaker, 2018. "Educational Portals and Employee Performance in the Sultanate of Oman," GATR Journals jmmr199, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.
• Ana Sasi-Brodesky, 2017. "Recovery rates in the Israeli corporate bond market 2008-2015," Bank of Israel Working Papers 2017.17, Bank of Israel.
• BENYOUB, Mohammed, 2018. "L’impact De L’investissement Des Revenus Pétroliers Sur La Croissance, L’inflation Et Le Chômage : Cas D’Algérie (2000-2015) [The Impact of Oil Revenue Investment on Growth, Inflation and Unemploym," MPRA Paper 90489, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 05 Jul 2018.
• Hajer Habib & Ghazi Boulila, 2018. "Transferts de fonds migratoires, chômage et changements démographiques entre la Tunisie et l’Europe," Working Papers 1253, Economic Research Forum, revised 15 Nov 2018.