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Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between current account and financial development, while taking into account institutional quality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the period 1990–2018. By applying various measures of the quality of institutions and two indices representing financial development, we found that, while most financial development indices have a significant positive effect on the current account, the coefficients of the interaction term are significantly negative. This clearly shows that institutional quality mitigates the positive effect of financial development on the current account. Our empirical results allow us to conclude that the level of financial development in a country with a high level of corruption increases the current account deficit. These results suggest that, in order to benefit from financial development, financial systems in MENA countries must be embedded within a sound institutional framework.
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Comparative Economic Studies is a journal of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES). It aims to publish papers that address several objectives: that provide original political economy analysis from a comparative perspective, that are an accessible source for state-of-the-art comparative economics thinking, that encourage cross-fertilization of ideas, that debate directions for future research in comparative economics, and that can provide materials and insights that are relevant for teaching, public policy debate and the media. Comparative Economic Studies welcome both submissions that are explicitly comparative and case studies of single countries or regions. The journal is interested in papers that investigate how economic systems respond to economic transitions, crises and to structural change, brought about by globalization, demographics, institutions, technology, politics, and the environment. While maintaining its position as an important outlet for work on Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, the scope of Comparative Economic Studies encompasses other areas as well (European Union, Asia, Latin America, and Africa).
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