After the ousting of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, much debate surrounded the reasons for the former regime's longevity and its collapse. Here …
H Chekir, I Diwan - Journal of Globalization and Development, 2014 - degruyter.com
The paper studies the nature and extent of Egyptian “crony” capitalism by comparing the corporate performance and the stock market valuation of politically connected and …
JA Gould, C Sickner - Review of International Political Economy, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Neoliberal market reformers stress the 'market building instincts' of private owners to justify rapid forms of property transformation under illiberal political conditions. Private owners …
What is the relationship between globalization and the political power of business? Much of the existing literature focuses on the ability of mobile capital to threaten exit in order to press …
HC Fors, O Olsson - European Economic Review, 2007 - Elsevier
Independence from colonial rule was a key event for both political and economic reasons. We argue that newly independent countries often inherited sub-optimal institutional …
K Harris - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2013 - cambridge.org
Since 2009, analyses of Iran have stressed the centralizing takeover of the country's economy by a single state institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. At the same …
K Chandra - Economic and Political Weekly, 2015 - JSTOR
Describing the relocation of the patronage-based relationship between the state and the private sector in post-liberalisation India, this article goes on to address the consequences of …
I Diwan, P Keefer, M Schiffbauer - World Bank Group, 2013 - femise.org
The objective of this paper is to explore if cronyism can account for the modest growth performance of Egypt. Therefore, we construct a unique dataset of 469 politically connected …
How do property rights become secure? How does rule of law take hold in an economy? The author uses an original survey of 516 firms in Russia and Ukraine, as well as interview …