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Prior to the war of 1975, Lebanon played a pivotal role in the regional trade between Europe and the Middle East. Lebanon is now negotiating a European-Mediterranean Agreement (EMA) with the European Union (EU), a treaty that could decide whether the country would regain its pre…

This thesis analyses the impact of tax policy on firms' leverage ratios in a balanced panel of 129 medium-sized listed companies from II European countries from 1993 to 2005. A general model of company leverage is applied within which King's tax ratios are used to capture tax po…

The present quantitative study explored the relationship between the application of the performance measurement system and the ability of the decision-makers of a government revenue agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan to detect the events that could harm the operations of the e…

This dissertation considers two distinct issues in macroeconomics. The first is the effect of tax changes on the level of productivity of an economy and the second concerns the implications of cross-national migration for long-run growth and welfare. In the first chapter, I anal…

The ongoing revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa represent a turning point in the political systems of these predominantly Muslim countries. This dissertation argues that the variation in the type of the social movements these populaces adopted is partly a function of…

This study examines the effect of the policies of the government on peasant land tenure during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the literature on rural Egypt, the government harshly exploited the peasants while paying virtually no attention to their welfare. The result o…

This dissertation consists of three essays examining and analyzing Michigan property assessment practices. The first essay estimates the property assessment expenditure function for Michigan local government (townships and cities) using panel data with 1,310 governmental units f…

Imperial Roman trading activity within the Indian Ocean has received increasing attention from scholars during the last few decades, much of it considering the role played by the Roman state. These studies have convincingly shown that state involvement was motivated, primarily, …

Following the debt crisis, the composition of capital flows changed in favor of foreign direct investment (FDI). Simultaneously there was an outgrowth of literature on the determinants of FDI. Most of this work focused on exchange rates, tax rates and locational advantages, but …