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| University Degrees Diplom-Kaufmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Title of Thesis: Die Deutsche Elektrizitaetswirtschaft nach der Wiedervereinigung (The Market for Electricity in Germany after its Unification), 05/1992. Doctor rerum politicarum (Dr. rer. pol.), magna cum laude, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, Title of Thesis: System transformation und Kluberweiterung (System Transformation and Club Enlargement), 07/1997. Master of Science in Applied Economics, University of North Texas, USA, Title of Thesis: A Comparison of Economic Development in Latin America, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia in the 1990s, 05/1999. | |||||||||||
| Research Interests Political Economy, especially the socioeconomic fundamentals of regime evolution and regime performance Resource Economics, especially the socioeconomic impacts of the oil curse Trade Policy, especially the socioeconomic determinants of protectionism in developing countries | |||||||||||
| Current Research Project "Democracy and Development in the Arab World, the case of Lebanon": this is part of a project sponsored by the Institute of Financial Economics and co-managed by I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi. "Economics, Politics and Political-Economic Empowerment"; Paper develops a model that explains the evolution of democratic and autocratic regimes and whether their rule is responsive or oppressive as a function of organizational constraints of the citizenry, prevailing economic rent extraction potentials, and the primary allocation of resources; Research completed in form of discussion paper. "The Development Potential of Democratization, Pacification, Industrial Development, and Family Planning" (with Joana Nasr); Paper estimates empirically the links between economic structure, oppressive governance, income inequality, industrial development deficits, low capital formation, and demography. Using simulation software, we then estimate the impacts of democratization, pacification, industrial development, and family planning policies; Research completed and write-up in progress. "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Misalignment in the Middle East" (with Joanna Nasr); Paper develops and tests empirically a model that explains misalignments in dependence of socioeconomic empowerment deficits; Research completed in form of discussion paper. "Do traditional Autocracy Theories Apply to the Middle East" (with Emile Sahliyeh, University of North Texas); Paper argues and supports empirically the idea that in addition to the traditional rentier state argument, authoritarianism in the Middle East is also a function of the Arab-Israeli conflict, channeled through the refugee problem; Research completed in form of discussion paper. | |||||||||||
| Recent Publications (since 2004) Articles Potentials of Democratization, Demilitarization, Industrialization, and Contraception (with J. Nasr), Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 36, Issue 3 2009 pp. 236-246. Development against all Odds? The Case of Lebanon (with S. Makdisi), Review of Middle Eastern Economics and Finance, Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2008, Article 4. Social, Economic and Political Ingredients of Regime Success and Failure Revisited (with H. Bekdash and L. Salman), Research Journal of International Studies, Issue 8, November 2008, pp. 85-97. Resource Mobilization Climates in the World (with J. Nasr), Journal of Developing Aeas, Vol. 41, No. 2, spring 2008, pp. 27-43. What does General System Theory say about Economic Transition? Central European Political Science Review, Vol. 17, Fall 2004, pp. 6-13. International Policy Cooperation and systems Competition, global Business and Economics Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 171-183. Book chapters Precarious Consociationalism: lebanon's Predicament in Promoting Development (with S. Makdisi) in K.C. Roy & A. Medhekar (eds), Readings in world Development, Globalization and Development: Country Experiences (Nova Science Publishers, 2010 forthcoming). Rhetoric vs. Reality in Palestine's political Development (with E. Sahliyeh and S. Goedeken) in H. Fuertig (ed), The Arab Authoritarian Regime between Reform and Persistence, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2007, pp. 103-135. Resource Curse Spillovers in the Middle East (with J. Nasr) in A. Abdel Gadir Ali (ed), Issues in the Design of Development Policies, Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, December 2006, pp. 205-224.
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