Serdar Sayan is Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate School for Social Sciences at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Economics and Foreign Trade Policies. He is a widely published computational economist whose contributions have concentrated on international economics and international trade, development economics and demography.

• 1. Institutions and Economic Performance in the MENA Region 2. Corruption in MENA Countries: An Empirical Investigation 3. Does Corruption Hurt Economic Development?: Evidence from Middle Eastern-North African and Latin American Countries 4. Corruption, Corruption Perception and Economic Growth 5. Why Does It Take So Long to Collect on a Bad Check through the Courts? A Case of Institutional Path Dependence with Special Reference to the MENA Region 6. Do Political and Governance Institutions Matter for Private Investment Decisions?: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa 7. Unexplained Differences in the FDI Receipts of MENA 8. Governance and Fiscal Structure in the MENA Region 9. The Effects of Corruption on Credibility of Monetary Policy 10. Conclusions.

Serdar Sayan is Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate School for Social Sciences at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Economics and Foreign Trade Policies. He is a widely published computational economist whose contributions have concentrated on international economics and international trade, development economics and demography.

• 1. Institutions and Economic Performance in the MENA Region 2. Corruption in MENA Countries: An Empirical Investigation 3. Does Corruption Hurt Economic Development?: Evidence from Middle Eastern-North African and Latin American Countries 4. Corruption, Corruption Perception and Economic Growth 5. Why Does It Take So Long to Collect on a Bad Check through the Courts? A Case of Institutional Path Dependence with Special Reference to the MENA Region 6. Do Political and Governance Institutions Matter for Private Investment Decisions?: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa 7. Unexplained Differences in the FDI Receipts of MENA 8. Governance and Fiscal Structure in the MENA Region 9. The Effects of Corruption on Credibility of Monetary Policy 10. Conclusions.

Serdar Sayan is Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate School for Social Sciences at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Economics and Foreign Trade Policies. He is a widely published computational economist whose contributions have concentrated on international economics and international trade, development economics and demography.

• 1. Institutions and Economic Performance in the MENA Region 2. Corruption in MENA Countries: An Empirical Investigation 3. Does Corruption Hurt Economic Development?: Evidence from Middle Eastern-North African and Latin American Countries 4. Corruption, Corruption Perception and Economic Growth 5. Why Does It Take So Long to Collect on a Bad Check through the Courts? A Case of Institutional Path Dependence with Special Reference to the MENA Region 6. Do Political and Governance Institutions Matter for Private Investment Decisions?: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa 7. Unexplained Differences in the FDI Receipts of MENA 8. Governance and Fiscal Structure in the MENA Region 9. The Effects of Corruption on Credibility of Monetary Policy 10. Conclusions.