1st Edition
Economic Performance in the Middle East and North Africa Institutions, Corruption and Reform
List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. Foreword by Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1. Institutions and Economic Performance in the MENA Region - Serdar Sayan. 2. Corruption in MENA Countries: An Empirical Investigation - Rajeev K. Goel and Michael A. Nelson. 3. Does Corruption Hurt Economic Development?: Evidence from Middle Eastern-North African and Latin American Countries – Ali M. Kutan, Thomas J. Douglas and William Q. Judge. 4. Corruption, Corruption Perception and Economic Growth – Naci Mocan. 5. Why Does It Take So Long to Collect on a Bad Check through the Courts? A Case of Institutional Path Dependence with Special Reference to the MENA Region – Jeffrey B. Nugent and Constantine Glezakos. 6. Do Political and Governance Institutions Matter for Private Investment Decisions?: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa – Ahmet Faruk Aysan and Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis. 7. Unexplained Differences in the FDI Receipts of MENA – Ayça Tekin-Koru. 8. Governance and Fiscal Structure in the MENA Region – Mehmet Serkan Tosun. 9. The Effects of Corruption on Credibility of Monetary Policy - Adel Boughrara. 10. Conclusions – Serdar Sayan. Notes. Bibliography.
Biography
Serdar Sayan is Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate School for Social Sciences at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Economics and Foreign Trade Policies. He is a widely published computational economist whose contributions have concentrated on international economics and international trade, development economics and demography.
