Mahmoud El-Gamal

Rice University - Department of Economics

Professor of Economics and Statistics

6100 South Main Street

Houston, TX 77005

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1.

An Economic Explication of the Prohibition of Gharar in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence

Islamic Economic Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2001
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Apr 2018
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
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Financial Market Liquidity and the Distribution of Prices

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Nov 1999
Ian Domowitz and Mahmoud El-Gamal
ITG, Inc. and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Efficiencies and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Turkish Banking: 1990-2000

Rice University Working Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Nov 2003
Mahmoud El-Gamal and Hulusi Inanoglu
Rice University - Department of Economics and U.S. Treasury - Comptroller of the Currency
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Turkish banking, Islamic banking, bank privatization, stochastic frontier, efficiency analysis, unobserved heterogeneity, estimation-classification

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A Consistent Nonparametric Test of Ergodicity for Time Series with Applications

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Oct 1999
Ian Domowitz and Mahmoud El-Gamal
ITG, Inc. and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Financial Liquidity, Geopolitics, and Oil Prices

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Jan 2018
Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Geopolitics, Global Liquidity, Oil Prices, MENA Region, Arab Spring, Global VAR

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Investment and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

IMF Working Paper No. 96/124
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Mohamed A. El-Erian, Mahmoud El-Gamal and Francesco Paolo Mongelli
Salomon Smith Barney, Rice University - Department of Economics and European Central Bank (ECB)
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Al-Sanhuri on Riba (Translation of Excerpt from Abdul-Razzaq Al-Sanhuri's Sources of Rights in Islamic Jurisprudence)

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 Jan 2020
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
Downloads 162 (395,107)
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Antecedents of War: The Geopolitics of Low Oil Prices and Decelerating Financial Liquidity

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 May 2018
Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Geopolitics, Global Liquidity, Oil Prices, Global VAR

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The Ephemeral Brent Geopolitical Risk Premium

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Hany Abdel-Latif, Mahmoud El-Gamal and Amy Myers Jaffe
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Rice University - Department of Economics and New York University (NYU) - New York University
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Oil price cycle, geopolitics, economic activity, oil inventories

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إشراك المصارف الإسلامية في معاملات السوق المفتوحة للبنوك المركزية (Involving Islamic Banks in Central Bank Open Market Operations)

Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2003
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
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Risk Loving after the Storm: A Bayesian-Network Study of Hurricane-Katrina Evacuees

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 69, No. 2, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 May 2011
Catherine C. Eckel, Mahmoud El-Gamal and Rick K. Wilson
Texas A&M University, Rice University - Department of Economics and Rice University - Department of Political Science
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Cheap Money, Geopolitics and Supernormal Backwardation of the WTI Forward Curve

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Mahmoud El-Gamal, Amy Myers Jaffe and Kenneth Medlock III
Rice University - Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) - New York University and Rice University
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Speculation, backwardation, oil, futures, geopolitics

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Egyptian Economic and De-Democratization Trends

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 29 Apr 2018
Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Winter is Coming: Controlled Conflicts and the Oil-Price Geopolitical-Risk Premium

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
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Bread (Rawls) + Freedom (Sen) = Social Justice? Religion and Economics in the Egyptian Spring

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 25 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2017
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
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Pro-Capitalist Trends in Muslim Attitudes: A Change-in-Change Analysis

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2020
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
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Islam, capitalism, inequality, difference in difference analysis, survey data design

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The Survival of Islamic Banking: A Micro-Evolutionary Perspective

Islamic Economic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1 & 2, 1998
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Apr 2018
Mahmoud El-Gamal
Rice University - Department of Economics
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White Elephants on Quicksand: Low Oil Prices and High Geopolitical Risk

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Feb 2020
Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Rice University - Department of Economics
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New Normal, Oil Price Shock, Geopolitical Risk, Economic Growth, Mega Investment Projects, MENA, Global VAR

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Fraying Threads: Exclusion and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Feb 2024
Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Conflict, Social exclusion, Political exclusion, Economic exclusion

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Fraying Threads: Exclusion and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

IMF Working Paper No. 2024/004
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Jan 2024
Hany Abdel-Latif and Mahmoud El-Gamal
Swansea University - School of Management and Rice University - Department of Economics
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Conflict, Social exclusion, Political exclusion, Economic exclusion