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Inflation irrelevance and financial market efficiency: an empirical study on BLOM Listed and Solidere A share prices

Lately there was a renewed interest about the relation between the inflation rate and stock returns (Azar, 2022). However, the case of Lebanon has not been considered and tested so far. This is the purpose ... read more

An Empirical Note on the Desirability of a Reasonable Customs Dollar Rate

Now that a comprehensive IMF program is in jeopardy given the loaded political agenda of forming a new government and of electing a new president, the need for piecemeal policy changes has assumed new ... read more

Providing Electricity To Lebanese Households: A Feasibility Study and A Sensitivity Analysis

The purpose of this note is twofold: (1) to study the feasibility of a project of providing a 24 over 24 hour electricity power to Lebanese households, and (2) to undertake a sensitivity analysis by ... read more

How High is Inflation to the Lebanese Poor? An Approximation

There are three interrelated things that stand out about the Lebanese crisis that has entered its 32nd month by June 2022: the disintegration of the banking sector, the collapse of the exchange rate ... read more

Who owns Public Assets? And What Are Their Implications for the Lebanese Financial Crisis? A Brief Investigation

There is a very poignant debate going on in Lebanon right now whether public assets should be used or even sold to pay back depositors who lost more than $60 billion of deposits as a result of the ... read more

Overview of the Worldwide and Lebanese Economy in 2021

The global economy has recovered in 2021, even as the pandemic resurges. However, the rapid spread and the threat of new variants (Omicron) have increased uncertainty as to how quickly the pandemic can be ... read more

Can the Lebanese Government Assume More Foreign Currency Debt to Close BDL’s Financial Gap?

According to the reform plan prepared by the Lebanese Government and presumably approved by the IMF, BDL’s financial losses or gap was estimated, not surprisingly, at $60 billion[1]. What is surprising, ... read more

Credit facilities, where they stand and what’s next?

It has been nearly three years of political, economic and social conflagrations in Lebanon; in fact, in the absence of any competent leadership, Lebanon’s economy is teetering on the verge of total ... read more

Analysis of Lebanon’s Balance of Payments: Q1 2020- Q1 2021 and the Policies in Between (Part 1)

For a country like Lebanon, that is open, export based, and global, the balance of payments is perhaps the most congenial mirror that reflects the state of the Lebanese economy. This is especially the case ... read more

Lebanese Banking Sector in 2021

The banking sector continued its retrenchment in 2021. It was a year where the economic and financial crisis continued un-abated with no corrective measures whatsoever to arrest the decline, especially a ... read more

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