Majdy Barakat

Majdy Barakat
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  • PhD Student at University of Michigan

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Financial Econometrics
Finance
Asset Pricing
Math Modeling
Macroeconomics
International Economics
Current institution
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
  • Department of Economics
  • Ann Arbor, United States
Current position
  • PhD Student

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Publication (1)
From tweets to markets: Lebanon’s policy uncertainty and volatility spillovers in MENA stock markets
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  • May 2025
This paper examines the spillover effects of policy uncertainty in Lebanon on stock market volatility in seven MENA countries using a network connectedness approach. For this purpose, it constructs an economic policy uncertainty index for Lebanon using data extracted from Twitter (now X) for the period January 1, 2011, to January 18, 2023. The Twit...
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