This paper examines the impact of privatization on stock market size and liquidity in a multinational sample of 31 emerging markets. We find that the intensity of privatization and the use of privatization offerings on the stock market contribute to enhance stock market development. To enable...

This paper examines the impact of privatization on stock market size and liquidity in a multinational sample of 31 emerging markets. We find that the intensity of privatization and the use of privatization offerings (POs) on the stock market contribute to enhance stock market development, but...

[ger] Mikroökonometrische Analyse der Nachfrage nach stâdtischen Verkehrsleistungen in Tunis, . von Samir Ghazouani und Mohamed Goaïed.. . Dieser Artikel enthält eine Analyse der Nachfrage nach städtischen Verkehrsleistungen in Tunis. Hierbei wird auf die Modelle der diskreten Auswahl...

Purpose -The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stock markets in economic growth and to shed some light on the macroeconomic determinants which must have an important influence on stock markets development. Design/methodology/approach -The empirical study is conducted using an...

This study gives some issues regarding the relationship between inflation and the financial sector performance for some MENA region countries. The negative association is confirmed through the estimation of a dynamic panel model using the GMM methodology. Moreover, a threshold effect must be...

In spite of popularity and theoretical simplicity of the one-factor Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) used in the valuation of financial assets, researchers are more concerned with the important extension proposed by Fama and French (1993), that is, the Three-Factor Pricing Model (TFPM)....

In order to investigate the impact of stock market liberalization on economic growth in the MENA region, we need to place our contribution in the economic growth literature. Our study is related to the literature on policy impacting growth rather than the debate on "convergence" between...

This paper investigates whether there are differential effects of monetary policy across bank size, liquidity and capitalization in some selected MENA countries namely Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, to test for the presence of the bank lending channel. It uses a panel of bank balance sheet...