This paper utilizes a time series analysis to test the impact of the population growth rate on the transitional dynamics of the economic growth rate of Egypt through the use of main concepts of basic exogenous growth theories in their open economy versions under the assumption of perfect capital...

This paper tests the spillover effect of the foreign capital inflows on the long run growth under conditions of international economic exposure to foreign exchange rate fluctuations. The paper utilizes a simple open economy version of the Solow growth model with main features of real business...

This paper adopts a theoretical framework that depends on the development of Weitzman (2001)'s theory in dynamic net social welfare and tries to quantify the concept of the net social welfare within a theoretical macroeconomic framework. The paper tests the impact of the foreign direct...

This paper examines the effectiveness of the financial embargo on South Africa, which was imposed in 1985 and lifted in 1993. The theoretical framework is a simple small open economy version of Ramsey's growth model calibrated to South African conditions. The South African embargo event is...

This paper tries to address the impact of different factors that are theoretically believed to have significant impact on the status of the balance of payment. The paper applies those theoretical concepts on the status of the balance of payment of Saudi Arabia from 1981 to 2007. The paper gives...

The paper explores different views of regime choice and investigates theoretically and empirically the feasibility of a potential monetary union among the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council – the United Arab Emirates, the State of Bahrain, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of...

This paper tests empirically the effect of the real inflows of the foreign direct investment on the Egyptian growth rate by utilizing a simple intervention time series model to capture the dynamism of such effect over time. The results show positive significant effects of the real foreign direct...

This manuscript presents a theoretical cognitive game approach to analyze the potential behavior of consumers as a reaction to a government bailout plan at times of big recessions.The research found that the win-win situation is only achieved when consumers trust the government policy to expand...