Modeling with Impact

Middle East and North Africa

M. Reza ABEDIN, Shahnaz ABEDINI M.
The Commercial Implications of PTA between Iran and MENA Countries

Salah S. ABOSEDRA, Hassan ALY, Ali F. DARRAT,
Assessing the Role of Financial Deepening in Business Cycles: The Experience of the United Arab Emirates

Basher ABUZAROUR
Testing Random Walk Behavior and Market Efficiency: Evidence from New Emerging Equity Markets in the Middle East

Kay ADAMSON
Exploring the Reasons why the Provision of Agricultural Credit is more than an Economic Issues, Using the Maghreb Countries as a Case Study of the Problem

Tamer AFIFI
Egypt in an Arab-African-Sandwich: Are GAFTA and COMESA to be Implemented?

Khalid ALQUDAIR
The Causal Relationship between Trade Openness and Government Size: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Ted Nabil ARANKI
The Effect of Israeli Closure Policy on Wage Earnings in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Arno BAECKER
The Development of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment under the Influence of the Barcelona Process – An Initial Assessmentt

Cem BASLEVENT
Party Preferences and Economic Voting in Turkey (Now That the Crisis is Over)

Ali BAYAR, Durmus OZDEMIR,
The Impacts of Sectoral Demand for Military Expenditure on Peace Dividend: A Case for Turkey and Greece

Riadh BEN JELILI
Persistence of Profitability and Intensity of Competition in Tunisian Manufacturing Sectors

Khalifa BEN JEMAA AMENE
Manufactured Exports, Learning and Growth: the Case of Tunisia

Frank BUNTE
Liberalising EU-Mediterranean Trade for Fruits and Vegetables

Erol CAKMAK, H. Ozan ERUYGUR,
Trade Implications of Extending the Turkey-EU Customs Union Agreement to Agricultural Products

Cem CAKMAKLI, Oner GUNCAVDI
The Link between Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth: A Case Study: Turkey

Sana CHEIK ZAOUALI
Ten Years after Barcelona, What Lessons ? The Case of Association Agreements between Tunisia and European Union

Serhan CIFTCIOGLU
New Insights about the Possible Growth Retarding Effects of Capital Account Liberalisation. Case of Turkey

Mine CINAR, Joseph POULOUS, Eric SLEAR,
Changes in Freedom Indices and Economic Growth

Inon DAFNI, Sema KALAYCIOGLU , Lior HERMAN , Ester RUBEN, Alfred TOVIAS ,
Economic Cooperation Potential between the Mashrek Countries, Turkey and Israel

Yousef DAOUD, Mahmoud ELKHAFIF, Basim MAKHOOL
Palestinian Economy, Policy Framework and Growth Prospects: A Modeling Perspective

Anil DIVARCI, Mehtap HISARCIKLILAR, Ozgur KAYALICA, Saime KAYAM
Foreign Direct Investment and Development in MENA Countries

Salpie DJOUNDOURIAN, Elias RAAD
Efficiency of Commercial Banks in Lebanon

Michaela DODINI
Review of Public Finance Management Reforms in the EU Mediterranean partners

Marion DOVIS
Measuring Productivity: An Application to Moroccan Firms

Florence EID
Private Equity Contracting in the MENA Region: A First Look at the Role of Islamic Securities

Nevine EID
Public Finance Management: In the Context of Centralisation/Decentralisation

Salma ELLOUMI
The Impact of the End of Multifibre Agreement on Tunisian Economy: Evaluation with a General Equilibrium Model

H. Ozan ERUYGUR, Erol H. CAKMAK
Trade Implications of Extending the Turkey-EU Customs Union to Agricultural Products

Zeki FATTAH
The Global Industrial Scene and the MENA Region

Omar FERABOLI
Policy Implications of the Euro-Med Partnership: The Case of Jordan

Beatriz GAITAN S., Bernd LUCKE , Jacopo ZOTTI
Assessing Economic and Fiscal Reforms in Lebanon. A dynamic CGE Analysis with Debt Constraints

Marco GALLEGATI
A Wavelet Analysis of MENA stock markets

Asli GUNAY, Kivilcim METIN-OZCAN , Umit OZLALE
Measuring the Probability of Crises in the Turkish Economy

Mahmoud HADDAD, Sam HAKIM
The Cost of Sovereign Lending in the Middle East after September 11

Haykel HADJ SALEM
Impacts of the Euro-Tunisian Agreements of Free Exchange: Evaluation by a Computable General Equilibrium Model in 1996

Haykel HADJ SALEM
Various Methods of Balancing of the Macro SAM of Tunisia during the Year 2000

Yilmaz KILICASLAN, Guldem SARAL
Locating Population Dynamics in Explaining Regional Income Differentials

Murat Guray KIRDAR
Determinants of Return Migration: Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Denise KONAN, Ari Van ASSCHE
Regulation, Market Structure and Service Trade Liberalization: A CGE Analysis

Denise KONAN, Bernard HOEKMAN
Deepening Egypt-US Trade Integration: Economic Implications of Alternative Options

Thomas LAGOARDE-SEGOT, Brian M. LUCEY
Long run Equity Market Linkages in the Middle East and North Africa: in Search for Diversification Benefits

Bernd LUCKE , Beatriz GAITAN S. , Jacopo ZOTTI
Assessing Economic and Fiscal Reforms in Lebanon. A Dynamic CGE Analysis with Debt Constraints

Konstantinos MATTAS, Agapi SOMWARU, Efthimia TSAKIRIDOU
Multilateral or RTA: The Case of Mediterranean Counties

Rania MINIESY, Jeffrey B. NUGENT,
Explaining Trade Shortfalls in the MENA Region

Christophe MULLER, Christophe NORDMAN,
Wages and Human Capital in Exporting Firms in Morocco

Knud MUNK
Tax-Tariff Reform with costs of Tax Administration

Ihab NADIM, Doaa SALMAN
Deepening Competitiveness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Countries

Peter NUNNENKAMP
Why Economic Growth Has Been Weak in Arab Countries: The Role of Exogenous Shocks, Economic Policy Failure and Institutional Defiencies

Hassan OUALI
EU-MENA Association Agreements; Competition for FDI and Sustainable Growth

Cem PAYASLIOGLU
A Tail Index Tour across Foreign Exchange Regimes in Turkey

Gulcay Tuna PAYASLIOGLU
The Effectiveness Of Central Bank Intervention on Exchange Rate Volatility: Evidence from Turkey

Thilakaratna RANAWEERA, Srinivasan THIRUMALAI,
Coping with Oil Depletion in Yemen: A Quantitative Evaluation

Sergei SHATALOV
Rebuilding Iraq: Economic Reform and Transition

Paul SLETTEN
The Unemployment Situation in Iraq after the War

Massimo TAMBERI
Specialization and Growth Perspectives in the South Mediterranean Area

Aysit TANSEL, H. Mehmet TASCI
Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey

George B. TAWADROS
Testing the Hypothesis of Long-Run Money Neutrality in the Middle East

Ege YAZGAN, Hakan YILMAZKUDAY
Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Evidence from Turkey and Israel

Sana ZAOUALI
Ten Years After Barcelona, What lessons ? The Case of Association Agreements Between Tunisia and European Union