The linkage between monetary policy decisions and stock market performance is an important topic. Having reliable estimates of the reaction of asset prices to the policy instrument helps understanding and assessing the stock market channel for monetary policy transmission. The availability of...

Since few decades, a wide theoretical debate is concerned with the fundamental relationship between financial development and economic growth. An efficient financial system leads to a sustainable economic growth. In this study, we are interested especially with stock markets as a main component...

In order to investigate the impact of financial market liberalization on economic growth in the MENA region, we need to replace our contribution in the economic growth literature. Our project is related to the literature on policy impacting growth rather than the debate on quot;convergencequot;...

The paper works with a sample of 95 newly privatized firms (NPFs) that went public through stock markets in four Middle East and North Africa countries (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey). We find that these firms experience significant increase in profitability and operating efficiency, and...

This study examines the effect of financial-sector reform on bank performance in selected Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries in the period 1994 -2008. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and we...