Proceedings of the Middle East Economic Association

2020 Proceedings of the Middle East Economic Association

Issues 1&2: Selected papers presented in the

40th Annual Conference of MEEA in San Diego, CA, USA January 4-6, 2020

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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 22, Number, Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University Chicago, 2020, http://meea.sites.luc.edu

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E. Mine Cinar, Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA

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Katie Myers, Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA

Abby Peterson, Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA



Editorial Advisory Board for Volume 22

Hassan Aly, Emeritus, Ohio State University, and Dean, Nile University, Cairo, Egypt
Hadi Esfahani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Moamen Gouda, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea
Shawkat Hammoudeh, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA  
Nathalie Hilmi, Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Pricipality of Monaco
Mahdi Majbouri, Babson College, MA, USA 
Marcus Marktanner, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA
Mahmoud Mohieldin, The World Bank, USA, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
Jeffrey Nugent, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Rahel Schomaker, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria and German Research Institute for Public Administration in Speyer, Germany
 Wassim Shahin, Dean, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon