Proceedings of the Middle East Economic Association
2015 Proceedings of the Middle East Economic Association
Selected papers presented in the
13th International Summer Meeting in Tlemcen, Algeria, March 20, 2014 and in the
35th Annual Conference of MEEA in Boston, Massachusetts, January 3-6, 2015
89th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association in Denver, Colorado, June 27 - July 1st, 2014
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Presentation of the articles in the Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies was made possible by a limited license granted to Loyola University Chicago and Middle East Economics Association from the authors who have retained all copyrights in the articles. The articles in this volume shall be cited as follows: (authors/title)Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, electronic journal, Volume 17, Number, Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University Chicago, 2015, http://meea.sites.luc.edu.
Editor and Publisher of Electronic Journal
E. Mine Cinar, Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA
Research Associate
William Horwitz, Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA
Editorial Advisory Board for Volume 17
Hassan Aly, Ohio State University and Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Rania A. Al-Mashat, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), Egypt
Mohammed Benbouziane, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
Claude Berthomieu, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Fatma Dogruel, Marmara University, Turkey
Hadi Esfahani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Hisham Foad, San Diego State University
Nathalie Hilmi, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Pricipality of Monaco
Ipek Ilkkaracan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Shawkat Hammoudeh, Drexel University, Philadelphia
Jeffrey Nugent, University of Southern California
Edward Sayre, University of Southern Mississippi,
Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies - Volume 17, Number 1, May 2015
Guest Editors for Issue Number 1
Fatma Dogruel, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Rahel Schomaker, German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Speyer, Germany
The Impact of Standards on Egyptian Trade
Hoda El-Enbaby, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt
Rana Hendy, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt
Chahir Zaki, Cairo University, Cairo Egypt
Bringing a New Perspective on Co-Movements of Stock Markets in Emerging Economies Through Causality and Wavelet Analysis
Emel Baydan, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sadullah Çelik, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Environmental Risks and Policy Decisions in Tunisia
Natalie Hilmi, Centre scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
Ihsen Ketata, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Alain Safa, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France
Sinem Sefil, Istanbul Commerce University, Istanbul, Turkey
Sustainable Tourism in Some MENA Countries
Natalie Hilmi, Centre scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
Nicolas Peridy, Université de Toulon, Toulon, France
Alain Safa, Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France
Brice Teisserenc, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco
The Determinants of Broadband Access and Usage in Turkey: Do Regions Matter?
Bülent Anil, Bahçesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Emin Köksal, Bahçesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Self Employment And Unemployment In Turkey
Fatma Dogruel, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Yasemin Ozerkek, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
