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ARTICLES
The Competitive Nature of the Arab Middle Eastern Banking Markets Waleed Murjan and Cristina Ruza	267
The EU-Turkey Customs Union and Greece: Who is the Loser? Dimitri Mardas and Thomas Moutos	275
Prices and Interest Rate Behavior in the European Monetary Union: The First 18 Months Agustin Alonso-Rodriguez	287
Growth and Distribution in Russia and China: A Social Accounting Matrix Analysis S. I. Cohen	296
Pros and Cons of Official Dollarization in Eastern Europe Antonin Rusek	305
Disentangling the Wage-Productivity Relationship: Evidence from Select OECD Member Countries Meghan Millea	314
Forecasting Crude Oil Spot Price Using OECD Petroleum Inventory Levels Michael Ye, John Zyren, and Joanne Shore	324
Central City Fiscal Conditions and MSA Population Distribution Paul L. Hettler	334
Unit and Fractional Roots with Deterministic Trends in the UK Output Luis A. Gil-Alana	348
E-Index for Measuring Concentration José María Montero Lorenzo	357
RESEARCH NOTES
Estimating Oil Price Pass-Through on Domestic Prices Using an ANN Model Mona R. El Shazly	362
Economic Liberalization and Money Demand Stability in Jamaica Anne J. Bynoe	362
The Effect of AGOA on U.S. Imports from Sub-Saharan Africa Pan G. Yatrakis	363
Illegal Immigration and Employer Sanctions Chisato Yoshida	363
SEC Rules Fair Disclosure: Corporate America Responds Darrol J. Stanley, Clinton M. Bidwell, III, and Bruce A. Samuelson	363
Capital Market in Intergovernmental Tax Competition Claudia Hensberg	364
Machine Learning Techniques in Evaluation of the Steel Market in Poland Andrez Maciol, Bogdan Rebiasz, and Adam Stawowy	364
DOO-WOPoly Paul M. Sommers	365
Maddison Countries' Growth Paths in a Kornai World (The HAM Model, 1880-1998) Péter Csillik and Tamás G. Tarján	365
Evaluation of European Structural Policies for the Period 2000-06 Stavros Rodokanakis	366

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International Advances in Economic Research, Volume 8, Number 4, November 2002

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