Cremed Working Paper Series

[WP 13]  Moroccans', Ecuadorians', and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain, by Núria Rodríguez-Planas (UAB, IZA, MOVE, CREMed, FEDEA, Inside-Spain) and Raquel Vegas (FEDEA). December 2011.

[WP 12]  Trade Facilitation and Corruption: A CGE Model of Egypt by Chahir Zaki. (Cairo University, Giza, Egypt) CREMed Best Paper Award Winner 2011. December 2011.

[WP 11]  The Determinants of Expansion of SMEs under a Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme: The Case of Lebanon, by Serena Canaan. (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) CREMed Best Student Paper Award Winner. December 2011.

[WP 10]  Is the road to regional integration paved with pollution convergence? The case of the Euro-Med agreements, by L. Baghdadi (University of 7th November at Carthage, Tunisia and Tunis University), I. Martínez-Zarzoso (Universitat Jaume I, University of Goettigen, Germany), C. Suárez (Universitat Jaume I), H. Zitouna (FSEGN and LIM-MES Polytechnic School of Tunisia, University of Carthage, Tunisia). November 2011.

[WP 9]  The Geography of Trade and the Environment: The case of CO2 emissions, by S. Bensassi (Universitat Jaume I), Laura Márquez-Ramos (Universitat Jaume I), I. Martínez-Zarzoso (Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany and Universitat Jaume I, Spain), H. Zitouna (University of Carthage, Tunisia). October 2011 (a preliminary version of this paper was presented in June 2011 at the II Workshop on Economies of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process).

[WP 8]  Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration, by Núria Rodríguez-Planas (UAB, IZA, MOVE, CREMed, FEDEA, Inside-Spain) and Raquel Vegas (FEDEA). August 2011 (first version July 2011). Published in Middle East Development Journal, Volume 3; issue 2 Page: 119-139 December 2011.

[WP 7]  Mediterranean Business cycles: structure and characteristics, by Fabio Canova (ICREA-UPF, CREI, CREMed, EPrism, CEPR; Department of Economics, UPF and Barcelona GSE) and Alain Schlaepfer (CREI and Department of Economics, UPF). February 2011.

[WP 6]  Assessing the Macroeconomic Effects of the Barcelona Initiative, by Bernd Lucke (University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) and Jacopo Zotti (University of Hamburg)  CREMed Best Paper Award Finalist, September 2010.

[WP 5]  The Impact of MENA-to-EU migration in the context of demographic change, by Frédéric Docquier (IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain, and FNRS, Belgium  and Luca Marchiori (IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain, CREA, University of Luxembourg)  CREMed Best Paper Award Finalist, December 2010. Published June, 2011: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (Cambridge)

[WP 4]  Occupational Assimilation After a Recent and Unprecedented Immigration Boom, Miguel Angel Alcobendas (Université de Toulouse) and Núria Rodríguez-Planas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CREMed and Barcelona GSE)  CREMed Best Paper Award Finalist, July 2010.

[WP 3]  Trade Liberalization and Labor Rewards in Egyptian Manufacturing: Is There a Wage-Job Quality Tradeoff?, by Mona Said (London Middle East Institute, University of London, UK, and The American University in Cairo) and Shireen Al-Azzawi (San Jose State University, USA)  CREMed Best Paper Award Finalist, December 2010.

[WP 2 ]  Economic integration and the two margins of trade: the impact of the Barcelona Process on North African countries' exports, by Sami Bensassi (Universitat Jaume I, Spain),  Laura Márquez-Ramos (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (Universitat Jaume I, Spain and Ibero-American Institute for Economic Research, University of Goettingen, Germany)  CREMed Best Paper Award Winner, December 2010.  Published under the title Economic Integration and the Two Margins of Trade: The Impact of the Barcelona Process on North African Countries’ Exports, in Oxford Journal of African Economies, Vol. 0, number 0, pp. 1–38 November 2011.

[WP 1]  ClubMed? Cyclical fluctuations in the Mediterranean basin, by Fabio Canova (ICREA-UPF, CREI, CREMed, AMeN, CEPR) and Matteo Ciccarelli (European Central Bank). January 2011 (first version August 2010).