• A financial stress index for a highly dollarized developing country: The case of Lebanon 

  Ishrakieh, Layal Mansour; Dagher, Leila; El Hariri, Sadika (Elsevier B.V., 2020)

  The aim of this paper is to construct the first comprehensive Financial Stress Index for Lebanon, dubbed the IFEFSI (Institute of Financial Economics Financial Stress Index). This is a broad coincident composite index that ...
• The eurozone debt crisis: A structural VAR approach 

  Neaime, Simon; Gaysset, Isabelle; Badra, Nasser (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

  This paper examines empirically the causes of the 2010 Eurozone debt crisis. We use a battery of econometric models with quarterly data from 2004 to 2014 to identify domestic and external nominal shocks and their transmission ...
• Fiscal asymmetries and debt crises: Evidence from Lebanon using a sign restricted structural VAR model 

  Neaime, Simon; Badra, Nasser; Gaysset, Isabelle (Elsevier B.V., 2023)

  This study identifies empirically Lebanon's fiscal asymmetries and shocks and traces their effects on GDP using a sign-restricted structural VAR approach. Following Arias et al.’s (2018) identification procedure of sign ...
• Macroeconomic and monetary policy responses in selected highly indebted MENA countries post Covid 19: A structural VAR approach 

  Neaime, Simon; Gaysset, Isabelle (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  With limited fiscal space, MENA governments with flexible exchange rates have been relying extensively on accommodative monetary policy to circumvent external shocks such as Covid 19 and other domestic macroeconomic ...
• Not the usual suspects: Critical indicators in a dollarized country's Financial Stress Index 

  Ishrakieh, Layal Mansour; Dagher, Leila; El Hariri, Sadika (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)

  In this paper we investigate the importance of the dollarization rate in heavily dollarized economies as one of the indicators in a Financial Stress Index. We use data on Lebanon, a middle-income developing country, ...
• Twin deficits and fiscal spillovers in the EMU's periphery. A Keynesian perspective 

  Gaysset, Isabelle; Lagoarde-Segot, Thomas; Neaime, Simon (Elsevier B.V., 2019)

  The objective of this paper is to shed light on the twin deficit hypothesis in Southern Europe and the MENA region, taking into account fiscal spillovers from the core during the global crisis. Using Godley and Lavoie ...
• Financial inclusion and stability in MENA: Evidence from poverty and inequality 

  Neaime, Simon; Gaysset, Isabelle (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

  Despite a significant growth in profitability and efficiency, MENA's well developed banking system seems to be unable to reach vast segments of the population, especially the underprivileged ones. To this end, the onus of ...
• Sustainability of macroeconomic policies in selected MENA countries: Post financial and debt crises 

  Neaime, Simon; Gaysset, Isabelle (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)

  In the wake of the recent financial and debt crises, the conduct of macroeconomic policies in the emerging MENA economies has recently become critical in determining those countries future economic situation, due to the ...
• Inequalities in Wellbeing in Lebanese Children and Different Refugee Subpopulations: A Multidimensional Child Deprivation Analysis 

  Jamaluddine, Zeina; Safadi, Gloria; Irani, Alexandra; Salti, Nisreen I.; Chaaban, Jad M.; Abdulrahim, Sawsan; Thomas, Alban; Ghattas, Hala (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023)

  Background and Objectives: This study constitutes the first attempt to describe the overlapping deprivations faced by Lebanese children (Lebanese) and that of the three sub-populations of refugees living in Lebanon: ...
• Reconciling economics with naturalist ethical theory 

  Bashour, Bana; Mabsout, Ramzi (Routledge, 2016)

  Abstract: The exclusive use of evolutionary explanations and game theory to justify moral claims has led economists to an impasse. Our discussion of this problem is focused on arguments made by Kenneth Binmore and Herbert ...
• The determinants of sustained adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon 

  Salti, Nisreen I.; McCall, Stephen J.; Zeid, Berthe Abi; El Salibi, Noura; Alawieh, Marwan F.; Ramadan, Zeinab; Ghattas, Hala; Abdulrahim, Sawsan (Public Library of Science, 2023)

  Introduction Lebanon has battled the COVID-19 pandemic in the midst of an economic crisis. The evolution of the pandemic and a fragile health system have meant that public health policy has had to rely heavily on ...
• Securitization of subprime credit and the propagation of housing shocks 

  Yamout, Nadine (Elsevier Inc., 2023)

  The 2007–2009 global financial crisis which originated in the U.S. subprime mortgage market and then spread to the whole financial system, drew attention to the impact that subprime lending and subprime mortgage securitization ...
• A Twitter-Based Economic Policy Uncertainty Index: Expert Opinion and Financial Market Dynamics in an Emerging Market Economy 

  Yesiltas, Sevcan; Şen, Anıl; Arslan, Beyza; Altuǧ, Sumru G. (Frontiers Media SA, 2022)

  In this paper, we construct a Twitter-based high-frequency Economic Policy Uncertainty (TEPU) index built on a select set of Twitter user accounts whose tweets are considered to reflect expert opinion on the topic. We study ...
• Good for the planet, good for the wallet: The ESG impact on financial performance in India 

  Rao, Amar; Dagar, Vishal; Sohag, Kazi; Dagher, Leila; Tanin, Tauhidul Islam (Elsevier Ltd, 2023)

  We examine the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices on financial performance among Nifty 50 companies in India from 2015 to 2022. Using fixed-effects panel quantile regression, we observe that ...
• The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugee children in Lebanon 

  Moussa, Wael S.; Irani, Alexandra; Salti, Nisreen I.; Mokdad, Rima Al; Jamaluddine, Zeina; Chaaban, Jad M.; Ghattas, Hala (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  This paper evaluates the impact of multi-purpose cash assistance on Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon. Using a sharp multidimensional regression discontinuity design, we estimate the program impact of varying cash ...
• John Stuart Mill, soft paternalist 

  Mabsout, Ramzi (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022)

  According to John Stuart Mill’s (1806–1873) Liberty Principle, when certain social and cognitive conditions are satisfied and as long as no one else is harmed, an individual’s self-regarding thoughts and actions ought to ...
• Extreme energy poverty: The aftermath of Lebanon's economic collapse 

  Dagher, Leila; Jamali, Ibrahim I.; Abi Younes, Oussama (Elsevier Ltd, 2023)

  We collect primary data by conducting a survey on 931 Lebanese households who work in seven pre-specified sectors across all Lebanese governorates. The survey was supplemented by five groups of Key Informant Interviews ...
• The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Evidence from a multidimensional regression discontinuity design 

  Salti, Nisreen I.; Chaaban, Jad M.; Moussa, Wael S.; Irani, Alexandra; Al-Mokdad, Rima; Jamaluddine, Zeina; Ghattas, Hala (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  This paper evaluates the impact of multipurpose cash assistance on refugee households, by relying on an original sampling design that allows tracing these impacts over multiple periods. Using two waves of household survey ...
• Oil market shocks and financial instability in Asian countries 

  Dagher, Leila; Hasanov, Fakhri J. (Elsevier Inc., 2023)

  This paper examines the relationship between oil market shocks and financial instability in Asian countries using a Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) following Kilian and Park's (2009) methodology. Instability in the ...
• In and out of Self-Employment, Are You Really an Entrepreneur: The Rise of a New Division? 

  Hussein, Hiba Maher; Haj Youssef, Moustafa Salman (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023)

  This paper examines self-employed individuals in the UK Labour market. We use an amalgamated dataset, the British Household Panel Survey, from the years 1991 to 2008, and its successor the United Kingdom Longitudinal Study, ...

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