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What Drives Stock Market Development in the Middle East and Central Asia--Institutions, Remittances, or Natural Resources?
In this paper, authors assess the macroeconomic determinants of stock market capitalization in a panel of 17 countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including both hydrocarbon-rich countries and economies without sizeable natural resource wealth.
http://www.imf.org/extern…bs/ft/wp/2007/wp07157.pdf