Reyadh Faras

Kuwait University | KU · Department of Economics

This paper explores the political and economic determinants of remittance transfers by foreign workers in hosting countries with an application to the case of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Our empirical model is estimated with the fixed-effects technique applied on annual data covering the period 1996-2019. The main result confirms...

This paper examines the influence of political stability on economic performance across different political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study uses panel data of MENA sample countries from 1996 to 2018. The pooled OLS, fixed effects, random effects, and Hausman techniques are used to examine the estimated model. Th...

The objective of this paper is to contribute to the empirical literature on the relationship between the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in the host country and that by investigating this relationship in the particular case of the GCC countries, whose specific features as oil producing countries makes this investigatio...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of interest rates which represent the main monetary policy tool of the central bank in Kuwait. The aim is to provide a clear understanding of how a reaction function can fit the need of monetary policy in an oil-producing country like Kuwait where a significant part of infla...