Wajih Khallouli

Umm Al-Qura University · Economics

In this paper, we estimate and decompose the public–private wage differentials for urban areas, using the 2012 Tunisia urban youth survey. Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that, on average, public sector workers earn more than their private counterparts. Additionally, the results indicate that a substantial part of the conditional gap in urban...

The paper investigates the interplay between clean energy, environmental pollution reduction, and economic growth in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries from 1980 to 2019, utilizing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method. The study underscores the global transition towards cleaner energy sources and its implications for the regio...

The study revisits the stock‐oil nexus by examining the reactions of equity markets to oil price shocks at national and sectoral levels for Saudi Arabia in a time‐varying framework by employing the Markov switching EGARCH model developed by Henry (2009). Based on weekly data, the findings reveal that the behaviour of all stock markets switches betw...

This paper is an empirical study that seeks to determine whether any of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stock markets are vulnerable to financial contagion in the wake of the 2001 Turkish crisis. We test the nonlinearity of the mechanisms spreading shocks, estimated with a model of long-term interdependence. Our results provide evidence of...

This paper combines micro-level and macro-level approaches into a unified empirical design to understand the gender gap in Tunisian labor market participation. We use a multilevel propensity score matching analysis in order to reduce selection bias by accounting for the random effects across areas in a hierarchical data structure. Our empirical evi...

In this paper we estimate and decompose the public-private wage differentials for both rural and urban areas, using the 2012 household survey on Tunisian youth. Oaxaca decomposition results suggest that the average public-sector worker earns more than his/her private counterpart. The results suggest that a substantial part of the conditional gap in...

Does Eurozone equity market liquidity affect economic growth? If so, how does the Euro currency affect the dynamic relationship between growth and stock market liquidity (macro-liquidity relation) of the Eurozone? We address these questions using data from ten Eurozone countries and the UK. The findings document the predictability role of liquidity...

Does Eurozone equity market liquidity affect economic growth? If so, how does the Euro currency affect the dynamic relationship between growth and stock market liquidity (macro-liquidity relation) of the Eurozone? We address these questions using data from ten Eurozone countries and the UK. The findings document the predictability role of liquidity...

This paper seeks to elucidate dimensions and directions of the liquidity spillover phenomenon in the Eurozone equity markets during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. The research examines questions relevant to the shift-contagion in the Eurozone countries during the time of crisis, as well as the role of a liquidity channel of transmission...

This paper develops an Early Warning System (EWS) based on third-generation mechanism of financial crises using the Markov switching model and a new twin-crisis index. We apply the EWS to Turkey using monthly data ranging between February 1992 and December 2007. We show that the model captures the two major Turkish financial crises of April 1994 an...

RESUME : L'objet de cet article est d'identifier le rôle des fondamentaux, des phénomènes de type « tache solaire » et de la contagion pure au sens de Masson (1999) à travers une étude empirique de la dynamique des anticipations des investisseurs. À cet effet, nous estimons un modèle à changement de régimes de Markov dans la lignée des travaux effe...

In this paper, we investigate whether the recent financial turmoil which arose in the United States has contaminated the Middle East and North African countries (MENA). In contrast to Lagoard-Segot and Lucey (2009), we try to identify the existence of pure contagion (Masson, 1999) rather than shift-contagion (Rigobon, 2003). Then, we explicitly def...

After the completion of the capital account liberalization in 1989, Turkey recovered from two financial crises which occurred in 1994 and 2000/2001. Focusing on the twin crises dynamics, this paper delves into the roles of the banking system soundness and the political stability in the design of preventive and recovering economic policies. Using a...

In this paper we are testing for contagion caused by the Thai baht collapse of July 1997. In line with earlier work, shift-contagion is defined as a structural change within the international propagation mechanisms of financial shocks. We adopt Bai and Perrons (1998) structural break approach in order to detect the endogenous break points of the pa...

The object of this article, applied to the case of Korean currency crisis of 1997-1998, is to identify the contagion through an empirical study of the investor anticipations dynamics which is freed from the pseudo explanation hiding place misery by ‘sunspot’. To this end, we develop a, Markov-switching model in line with Jeanne and Masson (2000), b...

Recent studies argue that the spread-adjusted Taylor rule (STR), which includes a response to the credit spread, replicates monetary policy in the United State. We show (1) STR is a theoretically optimal monetary policy under heterogeneous loan interest rate contracts in both discretionay and commitment monetary policies, (2) however, the optimal r...

Ce papier a pour objectif de vérifier empiriquement une idée qui tend de plus largement à s'imposer : plutôt que d'opposer les deux explications des crises financières des crises financières récentes basées soit sur des facteurs endogènes aux pays affectés, soit sur des facteurs exogènes à ces pays, notre intelligence de ces périodes critiques gagn...

Dans cet article, nous testons la presence de contagion durant la crise financiere asiatique. A cet effet, nous proposons une nouvelle procedure qui consiste a tester la non-linearite des mecanismes de propagation des chocs estimes a travers un modele d’interdependance de long terme. Nous appliquons cette methodologie aux marches des dettes souvera...

Résumé : Ce papier a pour objectif de vérifier empiriquement l'effet de la libéralisation de l'échange des services financiers sur la croissance économique en menant une analyse comparative entre les pays de la région MENA (Moyen Orient Nord Afrique) et d'autres pays émergents et développés d'autres régions. Dans le plus part de travaux empiriques,...