Azzouz Zouaoui

King Saud University | KKUH

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the economic, political or sociocultural determinants of corruption in Tunisia. Design/methodology/approach To better understand the main determinants of corruption in Tunisia. This study uses The Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) model, which allows us to include a large number of explanatory variables and for...

The objective of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the short-and long-run relationships between the short-term interest rate, London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) and macroeconomic policy objectives, such as price stability, economic growth, and stability of the exchange rate market. For this purpose, we deploy quarterly frequency dat...

Purpose; This study’s primary objective is to better understand the phenomenon of corruption in Tunisia in relation to its impact on economic development. The period of study is 1995 to 2014. The auto-regressive lag distributed (ARDL) model is adopted to examine the existence of a long-term relationship between the above-mentioned variables and als...

In this paper, we predict the economic development of Tunisia by applying the alpha (α) model. The model is first validated for ten countries which were qualified as the less corrupted countries worldwide using the classification of International Transparency during the period of 1995 to 2014. Five variables are considered in the model to predict t...

Although corruption is measured and defined by different institutions yet there is no agreement on one perfect definition. In this study attempt to analyze the results of corruption index using the definition and the index of Transparency International and the standard deviation of the scores of its corruption perception index. The study investigat...

In this paper, we predict the economic development of Tunisia by applying the alpha (α) model. The model is first validated for ten countries which were qualified as the less corrupted countries worldwide using the classification of International Transparency during the period of 1995 to 2014. Five variables are considered in the model to predict t...

The rising economic and political power of the BRICS countries cannot be neglected or ignored. Without doubt, it is difficult to believe that this growing power will have no effect on developing countries specially those belonging to the MENA region. Positive and negatives effects could be significant in both sides. How BRICSS's emergence is affect...