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Corruption and Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Corruption is believed to be widespread and it adversely affects countries at different intervals, in different degrees. Corruption scandals show that bribes are commonplace and that even societies that are supposedly free ...
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Despite the global liberalization of trade, financial and technological flows, there still are tremendous disparities in terms of income per capita and growth rates across countries (Hall and Jones, 1999). Among the plethora ...
FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ...
Remittances, institutions and economic growth: A closer look at some proxies for institutions
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Economics Bulletin
, 2016 , Article)
This paper re-examines the relationship between remittances and economic growth by giving a closer look at the role of institutions. Using data on 55 developing countries over the period 1991-2011 and estimates from empirical ...
Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Examination of the growth phases in developed and in developing countries and their involvement in international trade shows the importance of trade policies in these countries. In recent decades, many developing countries ...
Stock Prices and Crude Oil Shocks: The Case of GCC Countries
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
The aim of this chapter is to identify the effects of oil price volatility on stock market volatility for eight oil exporter or importer countries. Using weekly data for the 2004-15 period, we model the relationship between ...
Testing the risk-return tradeoff in the emerging market of Jordan: What role for financial crises?
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
This study investigates the risk-return relationship at sector level in the emerging market of Jordan (ASE) over the period 1999-2014. The results of an unconditional test with a structural breakpoint show that the ...
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book)
Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ...
Does Official development assistance for health from developed countries displace government health expenditure in sub-saharan countries?
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Economics Bulletin
, 2016 , Article)
This paper empirically examines the foreign aid fungibility in the health sector of 45 Sub-Saharan countries over the period of 1995-2012. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of foreign health aid on government ...
Do financial distress and liquidity crises affect value and size premiums?
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
This study investigates the impact of liquidity crises on the relationship between stock (value and size) premiums and default risk in the US market. It first examines whether financial distress can explain value and size ...