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Are Politically Connected Firms Turtles or Gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian Uprising

Hassan Youssef Aly, Hany Abdel-Latif, Hany Mohamed

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Swansea University Author: Hany Mohamed

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DOI (Published version): 10.2139/ssrn.3166302

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Using an original firm-level dataset and utilizing the incidence of the Egyptian uprising of 2011, this paper provides an empirical investigation of the effects of firms' political connections on employment growth in Egypt. We use the differences in differences (DiD) framework to compare employ...

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ISSN: 1556-5068
Published: 2018
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title Are Politically Connected Firms Turtles or Gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian Uprising
spellingShingle Are Politically Connected Firms Turtles or Gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian Uprising
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title_short Are Politically Connected Firms Turtles or Gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian Uprising
title_full Are Politically Connected Firms Turtles or Gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian Uprising
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description Using an original firm-level dataset and utilizing the incidence of the Egyptian uprising of 2011, this paper provides an empirical investigation of the effects of firms' political connections on employment growth in Egypt. We use the differences in differences (DiD) framework to compare employment growth in both politically connected firms (PCFs) and their unconnected counterparts before and after the Egyptian uprising. To minimize possible bias in the DiD estimation due to dealing with a heterogeneous group of firms, we apply the propensity score matching (PSM). We find that politically connected firms have decreased their job creation after the uprising.
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