December 2014
CURRICULUM VITAE
JEFFREY B. NUGENT
Office Address: Department of Economics
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, California 90089-0253
Telephone:
(213) 740-2107
e-mail: nugent@rcf.usc.edu
FAX:
(213) 740-8543
Home Address: 2401 Washington Avenue
Santa Monica, California 90403
Telephone: (310) 828-1649
Marital Status: Married, Patricia Cameron Nugent
Children:
Two (Daphne Dorian Nugent Laiken, Nikaela Nugent Lyon)
Education
B.A.
Amherst College, American Studies, 1957, Honors Program
M.A.
New School for Social Research, Economics, 1961
Ph.D. New School for Social Research, Economics, 1965
Diploma Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University, Syracuse,
N.Y.: Diploma, Center for Overseas Operations, 1961
Professional Experience
Professor of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1976- \ ; Acting Chairman Fall,
1986; December 1989-1991.
Associate Professor of Economics 1969-1976; Chairman, 1969-70.
Assistant Professor of Economics, USC, 1964-69.
U.S. Representative to the Structural Issues Committee, Pacific Economic Outlook, 1994-2012
Member, Board of Advisory Council, Center for International Business Education and Research
(CIBER), USC Marshall School of Business, 1995-Present
Senior Associate, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey, Cairo, 1992Present, Member of the Board of Trustees, 2002-2006. Member of Institutional Economics Selection
Committee, 2005 - Present
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Member of the Prize Selection Committee, 2012 Sabanci Prize for the Best Study on “Performance of the
Turkish Economy During Global Crises”, Sabanci University, Istanbul April 15-17, 2012
Chair of the Ibn Khaldun Prize Selection Committee, Middle East Economic Association, 1994-Present
Visiting Researcher, University of Rome Tre, Rome Italy, Summer 2008, 2011
Visiting Lecturer, GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan Summer 2007
External Advisor, Political Economy of Trade in Selected MENA Countries, Economic Research Forum,
Cairo, 2004-present.
Consultant, World Bank, Gravity Models and Trade in the Middle East, 2002.
Consultant, IRIS, University of Maryland, NIE and Trade Liberalization, 2002.
Visiting Scholar, CERGE-EI, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, May-June 1998
Visiting Lecturer, University of Calabria, May-June, 2000
Member of Fulbright Scholar Selection Committee for Mediterranean Countries, San Francisco, 19971998
Visiting Scholar, Department Evaluator, Kuwait University, December 1996
Visiting Research Scholar, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Castanet, Toulouse, IDEI,
Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Fall 1995
Consultant World Bank, Evaluation Unit, 1998
Linkage Coordinator, University of Southern California and Rural Economy Research Center, Ministry
of Agriculture, Beijing, 1990-1992
Visiting Research Fellow, Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Korea, 1989; Korea University, 1992.
Consultant World Bank, Washington, D.C. ``Informal Systems of Old Age Support'', 1993.
Consultant, World Bank Washington D.C. and Korea. The Conditions for Success of Small and Medium
Manufacturing Firms in Exports, 1991-1993, 1998-1999, 2002
Consultant, World Bank ``The Role of the State in Development'' for Vietnam's State Planning
Committee. Hanoi, Vietnam, Spring 1990.
Visiting Research Scholar, University of Barcelona on grant from the Ministry of Science and Education,
Government of Spain 1988-89.
Consultant, Employment and Development Programme, International Labour Office, Geneva. 1989-1992,
Old Age Security and Fertility.
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Visiting Research Scholar, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. “Concentration of Industry in Greater Cairo”
Project. May 1988
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of the Peoples Bank of China, Beijing, China, August-October 1988.
Visiting Research Scholar, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India - November,
1986-January, 1987.
Consultant, Regional and Country Studies, Industry Studies, UNIDO, Vienna, Summer 1988.
Visiting Fellow, Development Economics Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, England,
Summer 1986.
Consultant, Economic Cooperation among Developing Countries, United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development, 1983-84.
Consultant, Global and Conceptual Studies, Industry Studies, United Nations Industrial Development
Organization, UNIDO, Vienna, Austria, 1982-5.
Principal Investigator, Linkage Grant Agreement, USC-University of Tunis, 1982-1986, United States
Information Agency.
Visitor, Institute of World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, August,
1982.
Faculty Research Associate, Population Research Laboratory, Department of Sociology, University of
Southern California, 1982-.
Lecturer, International Communications Agency, Saudi Arabia, 1981.
Principal Investigator (with Robin Walther), ``Old Age Pensions and Human Fertility in Rural Areas of
Developing Countries,'' U.S. Agency for International Development, 1980-1984.
Principal Investigator, ``Prototype Macroeconomic Model for Resource Allocation Analysis,'' Agency for
International Development, AID/SOD/IIA-C-0003, 1978-1980.
Investigator, World Energy Model, OPEC, June, 1978-1980.
Regional Director, Far West Region, Omicron Delta Epsilon, International Honor Society in Economics,
1978-1980.
Consultant on Economic Cooperation and Integration, United Nations, Economic Commission for
Western Asia, Development Planning Division, Summers of 1980 and 1983.
Consultant, ``Foreign Assistance Planning Models,'' U.S. Agency for International Development,
Washington, DC, February 1978.
Co-Principal Investigator - Seminar Leader, ``Dynamics of a Development Project: The Case of the
Aleman Dam on Mexico's Rio Papaloapan,'' USC and Pan American Health Organization, 1977-1978.
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Consultant on Economics of Agricultural Marketing, United Nations Development Programme, Cairo,
Egypt, October - November 1977.
Lecturer, Project Evaluation, USC-Autonomous University of the State of Mexico Tultec, Mexico, June
1976.
Consultant, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, 1976.
Consultant, Asian Department, International Monetary Fund, Summer 1975, Washington, DC.
Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations, Economic and Social Office in Beirut, Lebanon, 1971-1973.
Investment Criteria and Regional Coordination of Industrial Development.
Consultant, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria, Summer 1971.
Consultant, Agency for International Development, Regional Office for Central America and Panama,
1969-1970.
Research Associate, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, September 1968-August 1969.
Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968.
Economist, Regional Office for Central America and Panama, Agency for International Development,
Guatemala City, Guatemala, Summer 1967.
Technical Assistance Consultant, Junta Nacional de Planificacion, Quito, Ecuador, (under AID contract),
Summer 1969.
Consultant, McCone Commission, Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots (services offered
free of charge), Fall, 1965.
Consultant, Agency for International Development, Buenos Aires and Washington, Summer 1965.
Center for Economic Research, Athens, Greece, Research Associate, Lecturer on Linear Programming,
Winter 1962-1964.
Agency for International Development, Agricultural Division, Lagos, Nigeria - Summer Internship
Program with Syracuse University, 1961. (Director of two economic research projects.)
Foundation Library Center, New York, Research Assistant for a book on philanthropic foundations in the
U.S.A., September 1957-July 1958.
Academic and Professional Honors
Grant from Economic Research Forum, to lead project (7 Case Studies and Overview) Fiscal Institutions
and Macroeconomic Management in Oil-Rich Arab Countries
Received special mention as the runner up for best paper award by the organizers of the 11th Wageningen
International Conference on Chain and Network Management, June 4-6 in Capri, Naples, Italy.
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Winner of Best Paper Award, Leadership for Peace and Prosperity Conference, Institute for Economics
and Peace, University of San Diego Oct. 5, 2013
Research Fellow, IZA, 2009 to present
Research Grant, Center for International Studies, USC. “Political Economy of Protest and Response in
the Middle East and North Africa”, 2011-2012
Winner (with Nauro Campos and Cheng Hsiao) of the 2011 Dudley Seers Award for the best article
published in the Journal of Development Studies in 2010
Winner (with Grigor Sukiassyan) of the 2009 Best Article Award of Contemporary Economic Policy,
June 2010.
Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Publication of Economics of Development: Empirical
Investigations (with Pan A. Yotopoulos), Tokyo: University of Tokyo, August 8, 2007.
Faculty Fellowship, John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, 1999 “Sustainable Development in the
Los Angeles Basin”
Research Grant, Comparing Methods for Evaluating the Effects of Community Health Programs in
Indonesia, USC- Asian Initiative
Research Grant (with Victor Gomez) “Desired and Actual Fertility and Various Dimensions of Labor
Force Participation in Rural Costa Rica: The Effects of Social Security Participation”, Mellon
Foundation - RAND Corporation: Small Grant for Research on Central America 1996
Research Grant for Research on the Use of Export Support Systems by California-Based Small and
Medium Sized Exporters, CIBEAR, University of Southern California
Honorary Member, Recognized for Teaching, Golden Key Society
Certificate of Appreciation, Alpha Lambda Delta 2006
Teaching and Service Award, Omicron Delta Epsilon, 1995.
Grant, IRIS Foundation, University of Maryland, for continuing institutional research on the Tunisian
economy, and Sudan, 1991-1993.
Research Grant for work in the Spanish Royal Archives, Madrid, Spain, Del Amo Foundation 1988-89.
Research Grant ``New Institutional Economics and Economic Development'' \linebreak Science in
Developing Countries Program. National Science Foundation, 1987-9.
Indo-American Research Fellowship, Research on the Effect of Old-Age Security on Tea Estate Workers
in Rural India, November, 1986-January, 1987.
Raubenheimer Award for Scholarship, Teaching and Service, University of Southern California, Spring
1986.
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Research Grant (with Gerald Nickelsburg) Gold and Silver Standards: An Economic Evaluation of the
Late Nineteenth Century Experience. USC Research and Innovation Fund 1985-1986.
Research Grant (with Samar K. Datta) ``Agrarian Institutions in Developing Countries: A Comparative
Static Analysis'' USC Research and Innovation Fund 1983-1984.
Contract, Agency for International Development, 1979-1983.
Linkage Grant, United States Information Agency, 1982-1986.
Research Grant, Agency for International Development, 1978-1979.
Research Contract Grant, Center for Human Health and Ecology, Pan American Health Organization,
Mexico City, Mexico, 1977-1978.
Research Contract Grant, Regional Office for Central America and Panama, Agency for International
Development, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1968-1971.
Research Grant, Harvard Development Advisory Service, Harvard University, June 1967.
Valedictory Award, New School of Social Research, New York, June 1965.
Graduate Faculty Award for the Outstanding PhD Dissertation, New School for Social Research, June
1965.
Research and Publication Awards, University of Southern California,1964-1968.
Travel, Research, and Completion of the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research
Council, New York, 1963-1964.
Travel Grant and Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1962-1964.
Award for the Best M.A. Thesis submitted in 1961, New School for Social Research, 1961.
Fellowship, National Defense Education Act, New School for Social Research, 1960-1962.
Travel Grant and Training Fellowship, Maxwell Graduate School, Syracuse University, Summer 1961.
Scholarship, Amherst College, Honors Program.
Scholarship, Lakeland Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, 1953-1957.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Economic Principles, Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, International Economics, Economics of Less
Developed Countries, Honors Seminar, Economic Development of the Middle East, Latin American
Studies Seminar, Economics of Household Behavior.
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Graduate
Macroeconomic Theory, Theory of Production and Growth, Economic Planning, Economic
Development, Interdisciplinary Seminar on International Development, Dissertation Research Seminar,
Advanced Seminar in the Economics of Urban, Regional and International Development, Development
Finance, Institutions and Economic Development, New Institutional Economics, The Economics of the
Natural Resource Curse, TA Training for Economics.
Books and Monographs
Jeffrey B. Nugent and Hashem Pesaran, eds., 2006, Explaining Growth in the Middle East , Amsterdam:
Elsevier, Contributions to Economic Analysis Series
Hassan Hakimian and Jeffrey B. Nugent, eds. Trade Policy and Economic Integration in the Middle East
and North Africa. London: Curzon-Routledge 2003.
(with Brian Levy and Albert Berry) Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms, Boston,
Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1999.
Theory of Development and Transitions to Market Economies (in Vietnamese) Hanoi: Central Plan
Committee, 1991.
(with Samar Datta and others) Nueva Economia Institucional, Special Issue V. 19, No. 56, Sept.-Dec.
1991 Cuadernos de Economia \/, Barcelona: University of Barcelona.
(with Mustapha K. Nabli and others) New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and
Applications to Tunisia, Amsterdam: North-Holland, Contributions to Economic Analysis series, 1989.
(with Theodore Thomas, ed.) Bahrain and the Gulf: Past Perspectives and Alternative Futures, London:
Croom Helm, New York: MacMillan, 1985.
(with P.A. Yotopoulos) Economics of Development: Empirical Investigations, New York: Harper and
Row, 1976; Spanish edition, 1981. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica; Japanese edition
(translation by Yasuhiko Torii) Tokyo: University Press and Japan University, 1984.
Economic Integration in Central America: Empirical Investigations, Baltimore: John Hopkins
University Press, 1974.
Programming the Optimal Development of the Greek Economy 1954-1961, Athens: Center of Planning
and Economic Research, 1966. (Two volumes) Greek translation published in 1970.
Articles
(with Zara Liaqat) “When Do Firms Choose to Train? The Roles of Labor Regulations, Their
Enforcement, and Firm and Industry Characteristics”, Journal of Development Studies,
forthcoming,
(with Austin Carter and Yun Gong) 2015 “Measuring Trade Advantages of the Qualifying
Industrial Zones Program of Jordan and Egypt Offered by the United States for Having Signed
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Peace Treaties with Israel”, Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies, 17 (2) 192215.
(with Arian Farshbaf) “What Explains the Central Asian “Trade Puzzle”? With Whom is Central
Asia Under-Trading and Why?: Possible Steps Toward Some Solutions” forthcoming in Nevzat
Simsek, ed.
(with Luisa Blanco and Kelsey O’Connor) “Oil Curse and Institutional Changes: Which Institutions Are
Most Vulnerable to the Curse and Under What Circumstances?”, Contemporary Economic Policy, 33 (2),
229-249 (April 2015).
“Some Lessons of the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) Experience in the Middle East for Business
Initiated Programs Promoting both Development and Peace”, Business, Peace and Sustainable
Development, (3), Greenleaf Publishing, 2014, p. 99-114.
(with Mariarosaria Agostino, Anna Giunta, Domenico Scalera and Francesco Trivieri), “The Importance
of Being a Capable Supplier: Italian Industrial Firms in Global Value Chains", International Small
Business Journal, 2014, 1-23.
“Does Labor Law Reform Offer an Opportunity for Reducing the Youth Unemployment
Problem? If so, How and Why?”, in Edward Sayre et al, Eds., Young Generation Awakening:
Economics, Society and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring, Oxford University Press,
forthcoming
“Small and Medium Sized Firms in Korea” in Leo Paul Dana, ed. Asian Entrepreneurship,
SAGE 2015, forthcoming.
“Transaction Cost Economics”, in Dominic Brewer and Lawrence Picus, eds, Encyclopedia of
Education Economics and Finance, SAGE, forthcoming.
(with Malgorzata Switek) “Life Satisfaction and Oil Prices: Asymmetries between Oil Importing and
Exporting Countries” Applied Economics, 45 (33), 4603-4628.
“Detecting Corruption and Evaluating Programs to Control It: Some Lessons for MENA”,
Proceedings of the Economic Research Forum Conference on Corruption, 2011, 64-82.
also in Ishac Diwan, ed., After the Arab Spring: Political and Economic Transformations in the
Arab World.” World Scientific 2014
(with Arian Farshbaf) “Does MENA Trade Too Little, Both Within the Region and with Other Regions?
If so, Why? If not, Why Not?” in Carlo ltomomte and Massimiliano Ferrara, eds., The Economic and
Political Aftermath of the Arab Spring: Perspectives from Middle Eastern and North African Countries,
Cheltenham, UK:Edward Elgar 2014, 35-78.
(with Guillaume Vandenbrouke), “United States” in Akira Kohsaka, ed, Aging and Economic Growth
Potentials in the Pacific Region. London: Routledge, 137-168. 2013
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(with Matthew Shapiro) “Institutions and the Sources of Innovation: the Determinants and Effects of
International R&D Collaboration”, International Journal of Public Policy, International Journal of Public
Policy, 8(4-6): 230-250. 2012
(with Constantine Glezakos), “To What Extent Does Greece Underperform in its Efforts to Attract FDI
Relative to its Regional Competitors and Why?”, Essays in Economics: Applied Studies on the Greek
Economy, S. Balfoussias, P. Hitzipanayotou and Costas Kanellopoulos, eds. Athens: Centre of Planning
and Economic Research, 2011, 605-626.
"Institutions and Development: Generalizations that Endanger Progress" Journal of Institutional
Economics, 7 (4), Dec 2011, 561-568.
(with Sumon Bhaumik and Ralitza Dimova) “Off-farm Labor Supply and Labor Markets in Rapidly
Changing Circumstances: Bulgaria during Transition”, Economic Systems, 35 (3) September 2011, 378390.
(with Mariarosaria Agostino, Anna Giunta, Domenico Scalera and Francesco Trivieri) “Italian
subcontractor manufacturing firm in the global value chains. A comparison of productivity performance”,
Reti di Imprese e territorio:tra vincoli e nuove opportunita dopo la crisi . Bologna: Il Mulino, forthoming.
“Korea’s Industrial Development: Views from Afar” in Il Sakong, ed, The Korean Economy: Six
Decades of Growth and Development, Seoul: Korea Development Institute.2011.
(with Constantine Glezakos) “Greece’s Lagging Relative Ability to Attract FDI: Some Clues to the
Explanation” Greek Economic Outlook 13 (September 2010) 81-90.
Greek Translation in OIKONOMIKES EXELIXEIS, 2011.
(with Grigor Sukiassyan) “Lobbying or Information Provision: Which Functions of Associations Matter
Most for Member Performance?”, Eastern European Economics, forthcoming
(with Cheng Hsiao and Nauro Campos). “Crises, What Crises?” Journal of Development Studies, 47
(November) 2010, 1670-1691.
(with James A. Robinson) “Are Factor Endowments Fate?” Revista de Historia Economica Journal of
Iberian and Latin America Economic History, 28 (1) March, 2010, 45-82.
(with Constantine Glezakos) “To What Extent Does Greece Underperform in its Efforts to Attract FDI
Relative to Its Regional Competitors and Why?” in T. Skountzos, ed., 50th Anniversary Volume of the
Founding of the Center or Planning and Economic Research, Athens, 2011.
(with Grigor Sukiassyan), “Small Firms and Formality: The Influence of Judicial Efficiency and
Regulations Costs” Review of Industrial Organization, 34, July, 2009, 349-371.
(with Sumon Bhaumik) “Real Options and Demographic Decisions: Empirical evidence from East and
West Germany” Applied Economics, forthcoming.
(with Laura Armey) “ Civil Wars and Their Determinants: Are MENA Countries Different?” in
Hadi S. Esfahani and Gulay Tuna, eds. Economic Development in the Middle East and North
African Countries: Some Contemporary Issues, Nova Science 2012.
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(with Grigor Sukiassyan) “Alternative Strategies for Firms in Oppressive and Corrupt States: Informality
or Formality via Business Associations?” Contemporary Economic Policy, 27 (4) October 2009, 423439.
“Bahrain-US Relations” in The Handbook of US-Middle East Relations, Robert Looney, ed. London:
Routledge, 2009.
“Institutions and Economic Performance: The Use and Abuse of Culture in New Institutional Economics:
Response to Steven Heydemann”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 43 (2) June 2008,
206-217.
(with Cheng Hsiao and Yan Shen) "Foreign Direct Investment and the Importance of Institutions — A
Reconciliation of Cross-Sectional and Panel Data Analysis", India Macroeconomics Annual 2008, 3958.
(with Sripad Motiram), “Inequality, Quality of Primary Education and Development in Latin America
and the Caribbean”, Well Being and Social Policy,3 (1), 2008, 5-24. Also published in Spanish as “Las
Desigualidades, La Calidad de la Educacion Primaria y El Desarrollo en America Latina y El Caribe”in
Bienestar y Politica Social 3(1), 5-27
(with Grigor Sukiassyan) “Associations vs. Registration with Authorities as Alternative Strategies of
Small Firms for Dealing with Contract Enforcement Problems in the Presence of Judicial Inefficiency”,
Small Business Economics, 31 (2008), 147-16.
(with Sripad Motiram) “Economic and Political Inequality and The Quality Of Public Education: An
Empirical Analysis” International Journal of Development Issues, 6 (2), 2008 142-167.
(with Hashem Pesaran) 2006. “Introduction: Explaining Growth in the Middle East” in Jeffrey B. Nugent
and Hashem Pesaran, eds. Explaining Growth in the Middle East. Amsterdam, New York: Elsevier,
Contributions to Economic Analysis Series, 1-30.
(with Timur Kuran) 2007 “Economic Development”, Encyclopedia of Islam, London: Oxford University
Press, 2007.
(with Harrison Cheng, Cheng Hsiao and Jicheng Qiu) 2006 “Managerial Autonomy, Contractual
Incentives and Productivity in a Transition Economy: Some Evidence from China’s TVEs”, Pacific
Economic Review, 11 (3), 323-249.
(with Rania Miniesy) 2008. “Are There Shortfalls in MENA Trade? If So, to What Can They Be
Attributed?” in Anna Maria Ferragina, ed. Bridging the Gap: The Role of Trade and FDI in the
Mediterranean. Naples: Sprint Campania, 197-238.
“Bridging the EU-Southern Mediterranean Gap through Trade and FDI: Are They Doing It and What
Have We Learned? in Anna Maria Ferragina, ed. Bridging the Gap: The Role of Trade and FDI in the
Mediterranean . 2008. Naples: Sprint Campania, 715-722.
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(with Constantine Glezakos) 2009 “Why Does It Take So Long to Collect on a Bad Check through the
Courts? A Case of Institutional Path Dependence?” In Serdar Sayan, ed, Economic Performance in the
Middle East and North Africa: Institutions, Corruption and Reform, London: Routledge, 67-93.
(with Rania Miniesy) “With Whom To Trade? An Examination of the Effects of Intra-national and
Between-Country Income Inequality on Bilateral Trade”, in Pan A. Yotopoulos and Donato Romano, eds.
The Asymmetries of Globalization. London: Routledge 2006.
(with Robert Dekle) “Public Infrastructure, Private Infrastructure and Productivity in the US: 1960-2000”
in A. Kohsaka, ed. Infrastructure in the Pacific Region,
(with Shailender Swaminathan) “Voluntary Contributions to Informal Activities Producing Public
Goods: Can These be Induced by Government and other Formal Sector Agents? Some Evidence from
Indonesian Posyandus”, In Chen, Kanbur and Elinor Ostrom, eds. Linking the Formal and Informal
Economy: Concepts and Policies 2006. Oxford University Press, Ch. 14.
(with Junkyu Lee) “Capital Mobility, Financial Risk, Institutions and Redistributive Spending” Seoul
Journal of Economics 17 (3) Fall 2004, 309-334.
(with Milindo Chakrabarti, Samar Datta and Lance Howe) “Joint Forest Management: Experience and
Modelling” in R. Albert Berry and Shashi Kant, eds. , Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources:
Economics of Sustainable Forest Management, Dordrecht: Springer, 223-252. 2005.
(with Ayman Kandeel) “Leading Indicators, Institutions and the Development of Financial Markets in the
MENA Region” in Heba Nassar and Haba El-Said, eds. Rising to the Challenge: International Crisis and
Economic Management in Egypt, Cairo: Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies of
Cairo University, 2004. 385-409.
(with Shailender Swaminathan) “Household Investments in Education and Income Inequality at the
Community Level”, in Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur, Eds, Poverty, Inequality and Development.
London:Routledge 2006, Ch. 7, 109-130.
“The Role of Institutions in Development Performance”, in I. Limam and N. Eltony, Institutions and
Development Performance, Kuwait: Arab Planning Institute 2005, 11-36.
(with Sheikh Shahnawaz), “Is Natural Wealth Compatible with Good Governance?” Review of Middle
East Economics and Finance, 2 (3), December 2004, 159-192.
(with Rania Miniesy) “Egyptian Competitiveness in International Trade: Evidence from a Gravity Model
of Bilateral Trade and Various Institutional Indicators”, in Heba Nassar and Ahmed Ghoneim, eds,
Assessing Egyptian Competitiveness, Cairo: Center for Economic and Financial Research and
Studies,2005.
(with Samar Datta and Asher Tishler “Determination of the Contractual Mix between Cash and Kind
Wages in an Agrarian Economy” Review of Development Economics, 8 (4) November 2004, 521-540.
“New Institutional Economics: Can It Deliver for Change and Development?” In Understanding Change:
Models, Methodologies and Metaphors, Andreas Wimmer and Reinhart Kössler, eds. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 161-176.
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(with Ayman Kandeel)2005 “Leading Indicators, Institutions and the Development of Financial Markets
in the MENA Region” in Heba Nassar and Hala H. El-Said, eds. Rising to the Challenge: International
Crisis and Economic Management in Egypt.Cairo: Center for Economic and Financial Research and
Studies, 385-409.
(with Roberto Basile and Anna Giunta) “Foreign Expansion by Italian Manufacturing Firms in the
Nineties: an Ordered Probit Analysis”, The Review of Industrial Organization, 23 (1), 1-24.
(with Fahyre De Alencar Loiola) “Jordan’s Patterns and Prospects of Trade and FDI: Some Implications
of Euro-Med, GAFTA and the QIZ” in The Jordanian Economy in a Changing Environment, Ibrahin
Saif, ed. 2005. Amman: University of Jordan Center for Strategic Studies., 273-297.
(with Hassan Hakimian) “Introduction”, in Hassan Hakimian and Jeffrey B. Nugent, eds. Trade Policy
and Economic Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: Economic Boundaries in Flux.. London:
Curzon-Routledge 2003, 1-10.
(with Rania Miniesy and Tarek M. Yousef) “Intra-regional Trade Integration in the Middle East: Past
Performance and Future Potential”, Trade Policy and Economic Integration in the Middle East and
North Africa: Economic Boundaries in Flux.. London: Curzon-Routledge 2003, 41-65.
“Explaining the Paradox: Generous Foreign Investment Laws but Little Foreign Investment in Arab
Countries – The Role of Legal Shortcomings” in Tarik M. Yousef, ed. forthcoming.
“Review of Jean Philippe Platteau’s ‘Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development’,” Journal
of Economic Literature, 2002.
“Yemeni Agriculture: Historical Overview, Policy Lessons and Prospects” in Hans Lofgren, ed., Food,
Agriculture and Economic Policy in the Middle East and North Africa, Research in Middle East
Economics 5,2003. New York: Elsevier Science, 257-288.
(with Samar K. Datta and Jone-lin Wang) “ Intrahousehold Sources of Male-Female Differences in Labor
Force Participation” Development Studies Review (2), 2003, 25-40.
(with Seung-Jae Yhee) “Korea’s SMEs” in Farrukh Iqbal and Shujiro Urata, eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer
Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia, 85-119.
(with Robert Dekle) “Changing Fiscal Position of the United States: Issues, Lessons and Prospects” in A.
Kohsaka, ed. Fiscal Policy Evolution in the PECC Region. forthcoming.
“Dispute Resolution and Firms’ Competitiveness in the MENA Region”, in Samiha Fawzy, ed.
Globalization and Firm Competitiveness in the Middle East and North Africa Region, Washington, D.C.:
World Bank, 78-115.
(with Nauro Campos) “Investment and Instability: An Econometric Investigation” Economica, 70 (279),
(August 2003), 533-549., previously issued as Working Paper 337, May 2000, Davidson Institute.
“Common Goods” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Joel Mokyr, ed., Oxford 2003.
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(with Roberto Basile and Anna Giunta 2002, forthcoming, “Internationalization Process of Small and
Medium Sized Firms in Italy over the Nineties” in Carlo Pietrobelli and Arni Sverrisson, eds., Linking
Local and Global Economies: Organization, Technology and Export Opportunities for SMEs. London
and New York: Routledge, Chapter 6,
(with Seung-Jae Yhee) “South Korea’s SMEs: Achievements, Problems and Policy Issues” Small
Business Economics, 18, 2002, 85-119. Reprinted in David B. Audretsch, ed.,SMEs in the Age of
Globalization. Camberley, England and Northampton, Mass.: E. Elgar. 2004.
(with Nauro Campos) “Who’s Afraid of Political Instability?”, Journal of Development Economics, 67,
2002, 157-172.
(with CVSK Sarma) “Efficiency, Equity and Environment: In Search of Win-Win-Win Policies” Journal
of Policy Modeling, 24, 2002, 19-50.
“Comparisons of Asian Developing Countries Liberalization Experience: Comment” in I. Yamazawa and
N. Amakawa, eds. Development Strategies toward the 21st Century. Chiba: Institute of Developing
Economies, 91-93. 2002
(with Mohamed Bechri and Tijani Najeh) “Tunisia’s Lending Program to SMEs: Anatomy of an
Institutional Failure” Small Business Economics, 17 (2001), 293-308.
(with Victor Gomez) “Aging and Changing Expectations of Support in Old Age: Some Lessons from a
Rural Costa Rican Survey” in Luis Rosero Bixby ed, Population of the Isthmus 2000: Family, Migration,
Violence and the Environment. San Jose: Central American Center of Population 2001, 141-154.
(with Makoto Yano) “Aid, Non-Traded Goods and the Transfer Paradox in Small Countries,” American
Economic Review, 89 (3) (June 1999), 431-449.
(with Kitty Chan) “Factor Endowments, Trade Liberalization and the Future of APEC Trade Patterns”
Contemporary Economic Policy, 17 (4) (October 1999), 517-529.
(with Caroline Betts) “Sectoral TFP Growth Patterns of the United States: Comparisons, Determinants
and Future Prospects” in A. Kohsaka, ed. Total Factor Productivity Patterns in the PECC Region,
Osaka: Kansai Economic Group, 2000, 479-518.
(with Seung-Jae Yhee and Cheng Hsiao) “A Censored Switching Regression Approach to Evaluating the
Effects of Sunk Costs and Firm Level Disequilibrium on Export Performance" in C. Hsiao, M. Morimune
and James Powell eds, Nonlinear Statistical Modeling: Essays in Honor of Takeshi Amemiya,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 403-439.
(with Nicolas Sanchez) “Fence Laws vs. Herd Laws: A Nineteenth Century Kansas Paradox”, Land
Economics, 76 (November 2000) 518-533..
“Identifying the Potential Role of NIE in the Development Problems of Poor Countries: A More
Optimistic View” Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics 156, 1 (March, 2000), 236-240.
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(with Nauro Campos and James A. Robinson “External Threats, Socio-Political Instability and Links to
Growth in MENA Countries” in Imed Limam, ed., Institutional Reform and Development in the MENA
Region, Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait and the Economic Research Forum, Cairo, 1999, 59-92.
(with Ayman Kandeel) “Unraveling the Paradox in Egypt’s Trend of Inequality and Poverty” in
Ghassan Diba and Wassim Shahin, eds. Earnings Inequality, Unemployment
and Poverty in the Middle-East and North Africa", Greenwood Press, 2000, 29-49.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``Inflation Uncertainty, Relative Price Variability and Short Run Changes in
Income'', Finances et Developpement au Maghreb No 24, (December 1999), 69-78.
(with Nauro Campos) “Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance: Evidence from
East Asia and Latin America”, World Development 27, March 1999, 439-452.
(with Caroline Betts) “Domestic Savings in the United States: Trends and Prospects” in A. Kohsaka,
Pacific Economic Outlook: Structure Project: Domestic Savings in the Pacific Region: Trends and
Prospects, Japan Committee for the PECC, Osaka, 377-429.
(with Nicolas Sanchez) “The Local Variability of Rainfall and Tribal Institutions: The Case of Sudan,”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 39 (1999), 263-291.
"Institutions, Markets and Development Outcomes" Evaluation and Development: The Institutional
Dimension, Robert Picciotto and Eduardo Wiesner, eds., New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1998, 723.
(with Sumon Bhaumik) "Analysis of Food Demand in Peru: Implications for Food-Feed
Competition", Review of Development Economics,3 (3) 1999, 242-257.
(with Victor Gastanaga and Bistra Pashamova) "Host Country Reforms and FDI Flows: How Much
Difference Do They Make?" World Development, 26, (7) July 1998, 1299-1314.
(with Caroline Betts) "Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Macroeconomic Management in the United
States" in A. Kohsaka, ed. Exchange Rate Fluctuations and Macroeconomic Management in PECC
Countries, Osaka: PECC, 1997, 447-485.
(with Isabelle M. Perrigne and Jicheng Qiu) “Competition, Incentives and Productivity in Chinese
Township and Village Enterprises,” Pacific Economic Review, 4 (2)91-114.
"APEC's Impact on Patterns of Trade and Investment Flows in the Region" Joint-US-Korea Academic
Studies 8, (1998), 145-182.
"Economic Development and Income Distribution", Proceedings of the EDAP Conference, Seoul: Korea
Development Institute, International Development Exchange Program for the United Nations
Development Programme. 1998
(with Nicolas Sanchez) "Common Property Rights as an Endogenous Response to Risk", American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 80 (August 1998), 651-657. (reprinted in Bruce Larson, ed., Property
Rights and Environmental Problems, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2003
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(with Sumon Bhaumik) “Wealth Accumulation, Fertility and Transfers to Elderly Heads in Peru” in
Sharing the Wealth: Demographic Change and Economic Transfers between Generations, edited by
Andrew Mason and George Tapinos, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 256-281.
(with Nauro Campos) " Institutions and Growth in Latin America: Can Human Capital Be the Link?"
CEPAL Review, 64, April 1998, 7-27. (also in Spanish)
(with Nauro Campos) "Institutions and Capabilities: Revisiting the Miracle That Is versus the Miracle
That Was Controversy" in James Maguire, ed., Rethinking Development in East Asia and Latin America,
Pacific Council on International Policy, 1998, 86-95.
(with Cheng Hsiao, Isabelle Perrigne and Jicheng Qiu) "Shares vs. Residual Claimant Contracts: The
Case of Chinese TVEs", Journal of Comparative Economics, 26, 1998, 317-337.
(with Constantine Glezakos) "Determinants of Fiscal Adjustments to Falling Oil Prices: Evidence from
the Middle East", The Journal of Energy and Development 22, (1) Autumn 1996, 17-44.
(with Abla Abdel-Latif) `` Barter Trade in Egypt: Trade Creation or Rent-Seeking?'', Research in
Middle East Economics, v. 1, JAI Press, 1996, 109-126.
``What Explains the Trend Reversal in the Size Distribution of Korean Manufacturing Establishments?'',
Journal of Development Economics, 48 1996, 225-251.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ”Relative Price Variability, Inflation Rate Uncertainty and Postwar
Investment in the United States,” Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, 1997.
(with Linsu Kim and Seung-Jae Yhee) “Transaction Costs and Export Channel Evaluations by Korean
SMEs,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 15, January 1997, 104-120.
“Capital Flows to and from the United States: Past Trends and Future Prospects” in Capital Flows in
the Pacific Region: Past Trends and Future Prospects. Osaka: Japan Committee for Pacific Economic
Outlook. 1996, 489-544.
(with Abla Abdel-Latif) “Export Promotion Policies: Transaction Costs and Export Channel Choices
in Egypt”, Contemporary Economic Policy, 14 (April, 1996), 1-14. Reprinted in Rolf Mirus and Bernard
Yeung, eds. The Economics of Barter and Countertrade, 2001, Cheltenham: Elgar, 249-259.
(with M. Chowdhury)``Old Age Security: Families vs. Governments or Families and Governments?''
Social Change, Special Issue on The Family: Past, Present and Future, 26, No. 2, 87-97.
(with Linsu Kim) ``Korean SMEs and Their Support Mechanisms'', World Bank, Working Paper
1994.
``The Role of Local Organizations: An Institutional Analysis'', in A. de Janvry and E. Sadoulet, eds.
State, Market and Civil Organizations. New York: Macmillan Press, 1995, 202-219.
(with M. Chowdhury) ``Informal Arrangements'' ch. 2 in World Bank, Averting the Old Age Crisis.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 49-71. 1994.
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(with Abla AbdelLatif) ``Countertrade, Licencing and Direct Foreign Investment - Comparative Effects
on LDCs and MNEs'' Asian Journal of Economics and Social Studies, (April 1993), 81-96. Also
reprinted in Rolf Mirus and Bernard Yeung, eds. The Economics of Barter and Countertrade, EE Elgar,
2001, 260-275.
(with Abla AbdelLatif) ``Countertrade as Trade Creation and Trade Diversion: Theory and Case Study
Illustration,'' Contemporary Economic Policy, 12 (January 1994), 1-11, . Also reprinted in Rolf Mirus
and Bernard Yeung, eds. The Economics of Barter and Countertrade, EE Elgar, 2002.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``On the Determination of Net Factor Income in Selected Countries of the
Middle East: A Preliminary Assessment'' Middle East Business and Economics Review, Vol 5 (July,
1994).
(with Justin Yifu Lin) ``Institutions and Economic Development'' J. Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan, eds.
Handbook of Development Economics, Vol 3 (ch.38), Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1995, 2302-2369.
(Translated into Chinese Justin Yifu Lin, Zai Lun Zhidu Jishu Yu Zhongguo Nongye Fazhan. Beijing:
Beijing University Press, 2000, 11-102.
(with Timur Kuran) ``Economic Development'' in Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, John L.
Esposito, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 393-397.
``After NAFTA: Environmental Implications for Mexico'', Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of
Development Studies, Environment and Development Vol. XI 1995, 3-18.
(with Fadle M. Naqib) ``Macroeconomic Perspective and Policy Recommendations'' in UNCTAD
Macro Perspectives on the Sustained Development of the Palestinian Economy of the West Bank and
Gaza,.
(with Jean-Philippe Platteau) ``Share Contracts and their Rationale: Lessons from Marine Fishing,''
Journal of Development Studies, 28 (April 1992) : 386-422.
(with Nicolas Sanchez) ``Tribes, Chiefs and Transhumance: A Comparative Institutional Analysis,''
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 42 (1) Oct. 1993, 87-113.
(with Nicholas Sanchez) ``When Common Property Rights can be Optimal: The Case of Cattle Grazing
in the Semi-Arid Portions of the American West in the Nineteenth Century'', in Terry L. Anderson and
P.J. Hill Property Rights of the American West, Lanhem, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994.
(with M.K. Nabli) ``Development of Financial Markets and the Size Distribution of Manufacturing
Establishments: International Comparisons'', World Development, 20 (October 1992): 1489-1500.
``Between State, Markets and Households: A Neoinstitutional Analysis of Local Organizations and
Institutions'', World Development, 21 (April 1993), 623-632.
``From Import Substitution to Export Led Development: Some Institutional and Political Economy
Conditions for Success'' in Heba Handoussa, ed., Economic Transition in the Middle East: Global
Challenges and Adjustment Strategies, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1997, 89-105.
`The Demise of Economic Development in Latin America and its Implications for Other Developing
Countries'' Journal of Economic Development, 16 (1), (June 1991): 7-35.
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(with Abla Abel Latif) ``On the Allocative Efficiency of Counter Trade'' in R. Tandon, ed., Foreign
Direct Investments, 1996.
(with C. Glezakos) ``The Measure of Inflation Rate Unpredictability and its Relation to the Rate of
Inflation'' Journal of International Development, forthcoming.
(with A. Mahbob) ``The North's Demand for Southern Exports and Immiserization
of the South'' in North-South Trade in Manufactures, H. Singer, N.Hatti and R. Tandon, eds., New Delhi:
India, p. 461-473, 1991.
``Variations in the Size Distribution of Korean Manufacturing Establishment across Sectors and over
Time'' Seoul: KDI Working Paper No. 8932.
(with M.K. Nabli) ``The New Institutional Economics and its Applicability to Development'' {\it World
Development 17, No. 9 (Sept.1989): 1333-1347.
(with C. Glezakos, ``Inflation and its Short-run Effects on Income Growth in The East Asian
Countries,'' Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 26 (December) 1989: 27-33.
(with M. Azabou) ``Contractual Choice in Tax Collection Activities: Some Implications of the
Experience with Tax Farming,'' Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics 144, 1988: 684-705.
Spanish translation in Nueva Economia Institutional, Barcelona: Cuadernos de Economia, v.19 (Sept.Dec. 1991), 467-494.
``Economic Development Processes in Latin America and Their Implications for Korea'' in Korea
Economic Research Institute, in The Latin American Development Experience and the Korean Economy.
Seoul: Korea Economic Research Institute, 1990.
``Old Age Security and the Defense of Social Norms'' Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology 5 (3)
1990: 133-144.
(with R.H. Day, S.K. Datta and S. Dasgupta) ``Instability in Rural-Urban Migration'' Economic
Journal 97,\/ Dec. 1987, 940-949.
(with Mohamed Salah Matoussi) ``The Switch to Sharecropping in Medjez-el Bab'' in Isaac M. Ofori,
ed. President Chiang Kai-shek and Land Reform Taipei: China Land Reform Association 293-308. Also
in Nabli and Nugent eds. The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to
Tunisia Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1989.
``Public Enterprise Multinational Joint Ventures: Lessons of the Arab Experience'' in Marjan
Svetlicic, ed. Joint Ventures among Developing Countries: The Arab Experience Ljubljana: International
Center for Public Enterprise, 1987; 33-140.
(with M. Azabou, and L. Bouzaiane) ``Contractual Choice in Tunisian Fishing'' in Nabli and Nugent,
eds. The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to Tunisia.
Amsterdam: North-Holland 1989.
(with M.K. Nabli) ``New Institutional Economics and Development: An
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Introduction'' in Nabli and Nugent, eds. The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and
Applications to Tunisia, 1989.
(with M.K. Nabli) ``Collective Action, Institutions and Development'' in M.K. Nabli and J.B. Nugent,
eds., op. cit., 1989; Spanish Translation in Nueva Economia Institutional, Barcelona: Cuadernos de
Economic, 19 (Sept-Dec. 1991), 343-403.
(with S.K. Datta) ``Transaction Cost Economics and Contractual Choice: Theory and Evidence'' in
M.K. Nabli and J.B. Nugent, eds., op. cit., 1989.
``Collective Action in Tunisia's Producer Organizations: Some Variations on the Olsonian Theme'' in
M.K. Nabli and J.B. Nugent, eds., op. cit., 1989.
(with M.K. Nabli) ``The New Institutional Economics and Development: Concluding Remarks'' in
M.K. Nabli and J.B. Nugent, eds., op. cit., 1989.
(with M.K. Nabli and Lameen Doghri) ``The Size Distribution and Ownership Type in Tunisian
Manufacturing Firms.'' in M.K. Nabli and J.B. Nugent, eds. op. cit., 1989. Spanish Translation in Nueva
Economia Institutional Barcelona: Cuadernos de Economia, 19 (Sept-Dec. 1991): 495-530.
(with Robin J. Walther) ``Vertical Extension of the Household: An Empirical Analysis of Rural
India'', Indian Journal of Economics 68 Part III, No. 270, Jan. 1988: 421-446.
(with Nicolas Sanchez) ``The Efficiency of the Spanish Mesta Reconsidered: A Parable'' Explorations
in Economic History, 26, (1989), 261-284. Spanish Translation ``La Eficiencia de la Mesta: una
Parabola'', Cuadernos de Economia, 18 no.52 (May-August 1990) 217-244.
``Institutions and Development: The Potential Role of the Theory of Collective Action,'' Anuari,
7 (1989) 96-106.
``New Institutional Economics and Development: Some Lessons for Institutional Design with
Reference to Small Scale Industry'' in New Institutional Economics and Development: A Primrose Path?,
Ruud Picavet, ed., forthcoming.
``International Instability and the Survival Capabilities of Inter-Arab Public Enterprise Joint Ventures''
in Marjan Svetlicic, ed. Joint Ventures among Developing Countries: The Arab Experience Ljubljana:
International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries 1987;
346-359.
``L'avvocato buca le tasche a: cittadini,'' Politica ed Economia, 18 (3) December 1987 : 30-31.
``Jeffrey B. Nugent: Ma Esiste un'economia dello sviluppo: Intervista,'' Politica ed Economia, 19 (1)
January 1988 : 27-28.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``The Relationships between the Rate of Inflation and its
Unpredictability in High Inflation Latin American Countries,'' World Development 15, No. 2 (February,
1987) 291-293.
(with Arie Kapteyn and Robin J. Walther) ``Weather Changes and the Distribution of Rural Income:
A Model for India,'' Indian Journal of Economics, 68 (July 1987): 79-98.
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``Foreign Aid, Economic Development and Income Distribution: Some Inferences from a CGE Model
for Egypt,'' in J.K. Sengupta and G. Kadekodi, eds. Econometrics of Planning and Efficiency, Dordrecht,
Boston: Kluwer 1988: 63-90.
``Some New Initiatives in South-South Cooperation for the Late Eighties,'' Development and South-South
Cooperation, Vol. 11, No. 2: 67-75.
(with Samar K. Datta) ``Adversary Activities and Per Capita Income Growth,'' World Development,
14, No. 12 (December, 1986) 1457-1462. Spanish Translation in Nueva Economia Institutional,
Barcelona: Cuadernos de Economia, 19 (Sept.-Dec. 1991), 545-551.
``Arab Multinationals: Problems, Potential and Policies'' in Khushi M. Khan, ed., Third World
Multinationals: New Actors in the International Economy, London: Frances Pinter, 1986, 165-183.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``A Confirmation of the Relation between Inflation and Relative Price
Variability.'' Journal of Political Economy, 94 (August, 1986): 895-900.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``Inflation and Relative Price Variability Once Again,'' Journal of Post
Keynesian Economics, 8, No. 4 (Summer, 1986): 607-613.
(with Samar K. Datta and Donald J. O'Hara) ``Choice of Agricultural Contracts in the Presence of
Transactions Costs,'' Land Economics, 62 No. 2 (May, 1986): 145-158; Spanish Translation in Nueva
Economia Institutional, Barcelona: Cuadernos de Economia, 19 (Sept.-Dec. 1991), 421-446.
Inter-Arab Joint Ventures in Western Asia: An Analysis of their Actual and Potential Contributions to
Development and Regional Cooperation, United Nations, Economic Commission for Western Asia,
1984.
``Normal Growth Patterns and Their Implications for Bahrain's Future Economic Structure,'' in J.B.
Nugent and T.H. Thomas, eds., Bahrain and the Gulf: Past Perspectives and Alternative Futures,
London: Croom Helm, 1985; 25-41.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``The Over Time Relationship between Inflation and its Variability Once
Again,'' Kyklos, 27 (Fasc.1): 104-109.
``Industrial Development and South-South Cooperation,'' Vienna, UNIDO Research Monograph,
NIDO/IS, 453.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``Inflation and its Variability: The Latin American Case,'' World
Development, 12, No. 7, 755-758.
``Upheavals in International Political Relations and the Survival Capabilities of Inter Arab Joint
Ventures,'' Public Enterprise, V. 4, No. 3, 11-22.
(with Theodore H. Thomas) ``Introduction'' in Nugent and Thomas, eds., Bahrain and the Gulf: Past
Perspectives and Alternative Futures, London: Croom Helm: 25-41.
(with Samar K. Datta) ``Bahrain's Pearling Industry: How it Was, Why it Was that Way and its
Implications'' in Nugent and Thomas, eds., Bahrain and the Gulf: Past Perspectives and Alternative
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Futures, London: Croom Helm: 25-41; Spanish Translation in Nueva Economia Institutional, Barcelona:
Cuadernos de Economia, 19 (Sept.-Dec. 1991) 449-466
``The Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility'' Population and Development Review 11, No. 1 March
1985) 75-97.
``South-South Cooperation in Capital Goods Industries'' Industry and Development, 14, March 1986,
reprinted in H.W. Singer, N. Hatti, and R. Tandon, eds. Challenges of South-South Cooperation. New
Delhi: Ashish Publishing House.
(with Samar K. Datta) ``Are Old-Age Security and the Utility of Children in Rural India Really
Unimportant?'' Population Studies, 38 (Dec. 1984): 507-509.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``Problems in the Macroeconomics of Development Planning,'' in S.
Bhagwan Dehiya, ed., Development Policy and the Planning Process, Vol. 1 of Theoretical
Foundations of Development Planning. New Delhi: Concept Pub., ch. 4, 1990.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``More on the Causes of Instability in Export Earnings,'' Oxford Bulletin of
Economics and Statistics 45 (November), 379-384.
(with Samar K. Datta and Asher Tishler and Jone-Lin Wang) ``Seasonality, Differential Access and
Interlinking of Labor and Credit,'' Journal of Development Studies, 24, No. 3 (1988): 379-393.
(with S.K. Datta) ``Agricultural Development and Land Tenancy in a Peasant Economy: Comments on
Bardhan's Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,'' American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 67 August,
1985: 688-690.
(with F. Tarawneh) ``Anatomia de los Cambios Ocurridos en la Distribucion del Ingreso y de la
Pobreza entre la Poblacion Economicamente Activa de Mexico en el Periodo de 1950-1970,'' El
Trimestre Economico, 49 (3), July-Sept. 1982, 731-769.
``Multinational Joint Venture Companies of Developing Countries as Instruments of Economic
Integration for Developing Countries,'' Development and Peace, 3 (1), Spring 1982, 52-60; Spanish
Translation in Nueva Economia Institutional, Barcelona: Cuadernos de Economic, 19 (Sept.-Dec. 1991),
531-543. Reprinted in H. W-C Yeung, ed., The Globalization of Business Firms from Emerging
Economies, London: Edward Elgar. 1999.
(with Robin J. Walther) ``A Model of Marriage Services in Rural Areas of Developing Countries,'' Los
Angeles: University of Southern California, Economics Working Paper Series.
``A New Deal on the Old International Economic Order: A Program of Arab-African Cooperation in
Industrial Development and Trade.'' Symposium on Afro-Arab Cooperation, Jordan Center for Studies
and Information, Amman, Jordan, Sept. 1982.
(with Robin J. Walther) ``Women, Widowhood and Fertility: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of
Rural India,'' Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Economics Working Paper Series.
``The EEC as a Model for Regional Integration among Developing Countries. Does it Fit?'' Finance
and Industry, November 1982, 7-20.
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(with Peter Van de Zilver) ``From Surplus Land to Surplus Labor Via Regional Development,'' The
Southeast Asian Economic Review, 1 (1) April 1980, 35-52.
(with Robin J. Walther) ``The Structure of the Household and its Future in Rural India,'' in N.S. Bose,
ed., India in the Eighties: New Perspective, Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1982, 125-147.
(with Robin J. Walther) ``Short-run Changes in Rural Income Inequality: A Decomposition Analysis,''
Journal of Development Studies, 18 (2), January 1982, 239-269.
``A Feasible Path Toward Economic Cooperation in Western Asia,'' Part III in Economic Integration
in Western Asia, London: Frances Pinter 1985: 164-325.
(with Charles S. Williams) A User's Guide to Economy-wide Modeling of External Assistance Effects,
Resource Allocation and Growth, Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Modeling Research
Group Working Paper, \#8009.
``Multinational Joint Venture Companies of Developing Countries as Instruments of Economic
Integration for Development (with special reference to the Arab Countries' Experience),'' B. Cizelj, B.
Pavlic, M. Svetlicic and R.R. Uranga, eds., Challenges of South-South Cooperation Countries, Boulder:
Westview Press, 1983, 189-204.
(with Samar K. Datta and Lee J. Alston) ``Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with
Transaction Costs: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,'' Journal of Political Economy, 92 (December
1984): 1121-1133.
(with Massoud M. Saghafi) ``Foreign Aid in the Form of Commodity Transfers that Increase the
Income Gap between Rich and Poor Countries: The Chichilnisky Theorems Revisited,'' Journal of
Development Economics, 13, 213-216.
(with Fayez A. Tarawneh) ``The Anatomy of Changes in Income Distribution and Poverty among
Mexico's Economically Active Population between 1950 and 1970,'' Journal of Developing Areas, 17
(January) 1983: 197-226.
(with Robin J. Walther) The Effects of Old-Age Pensions on Household Structure, Marriage, Fertility,
and Resource Allocation in Rural Areas of Developing Countries, Los Angeles: University of Southern
California, October 1983.
``An Alternative Source of Measurement Error as an Explanation for the Inverted-U Hypothesis,''
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 31 (2), January 1983, 385-396.
(with Thomas Gillaspy) ``Old-Age Pensions and Fertility in Rural Areas of Less Developed
Countries: Some Evidence from Mexico,'' Economic Development and Cultural Change, 31 (4), July
1983, 809-829.
Research Review in ``Publicly Supported Pension: Developing Countries,'' Aging International, 7 (4),
Winter 1980, 10-11.
``The Papaloapan Dam and Resettlement Project,'' (with A.B. Brown, W.L. Partridge) in Forced
Migration and Resettlement, T. Oliver-Smith and A. Hansen, eds., Boulder: Westview Press, 1981.
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(with Ichiro Otani) ``Introduccion a las Teorias de la `Estanflacion,'' Boletin, Centro de Estudios
Monetarios Latin Americanos 24 (4), July-August 1979, 214-271.
``Contemporary Issues in Development Economics,'' in R.H. Day and N.H. Kamrany, Contemporary
Issues in World Economics, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 262-271.
(with W.L. Partridge, A.N. Brown and J.D. Rees) ``An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of the Human
Ecology and Health Impact of the Aleman Dam,'' University of Southern California, Pan American
Health Organization.
(with P.A. Yotopoulos) ``Morphology of Growth: Country Size, Structure and Linkages,'' Journal of
Development Economics, 10 (3), June 1982, 279-296.
``The Distribution of Income and Its Determinants: A Review Article,'' Latin American Research
Review, 14 (1), Spring 1979, 239-245.
(with Ichiro Otani) ``Stagflation in the World Economy,'' International Economic Reform: Issues and
Policies, N. Kamrany (ed.), Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1977.
``Momentum for Development and Development Disequilibria,'' Journal of Economic Development, 2
(1), July 1977, 31-52.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``A Model of Inflation and Expectations in Latin America,'' Journal of
Development Economics, 6, December 1979, 431-446.
(with Fayez Tarawneh and Malik Younas) ``Gainers and Losers in a Developing Region:
Distributional Dynamics in the Papaloapan River Basin,'' Annals of the Pacific Coast Conference in Latin
American Studies, Vol. 8, 1980.
``Modelos Macroeconometricos para Formular Politicas de Desarrollo y Planeacion,'' Demografia y
Economia, 9 (3), 1975, 375-383.
(with Constantine Glezakos) ``On the Nature of Phillips Curves in Developing Countries: The Latin
American Case,'' Economic Development and Cultural Change, 30, (2), January 1982, 321-334.
(with Ichiro Otani) ``Stagflation Theory: A Critical Survey,'' International Monetary Fund, Department
Memorandum, Fall 1977.
(with P.A. Yotopoulos) ``What has Orthodox Economics Learned from Recent Experience?'' World
Development, June 1979, 541-554. Reprinted in Charles K. Wilber, ed., The Political Economy of
Development and Underdevelopment, New York: Random House, 1983; also reprinted in David Korten
and Rudi Klauss, eds., People Centered Development, Kumerian Press, 1983.
``The Selection of Industries for Regional Coordination Among Developing Countries,'' Journal of
Common Market Studies, 14 (2), December 1975, 198-212.
``Policy-Oriented Macroeconomic Models for Development: Reflections on Latin American
Experience,'' Annals of Economic and Social Measurement, 4 (4), November, 509-529.
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(with Lawrence R. Klein, Lawrence J. Lau and Stefan Schleicher), ``Bibliography of Econometric
Models of Developing Countries,'' Stanford University.
(with Ichiro Otani) ``An Analysis of Stagflation with Special Reference to Countries of the Pacific
Basin,'' IMF, Department Memorandum, Fall 1975.
(with Pan A. Yotopoulos) ``In Defense of a Test of the Linkage Hypothesis,'' Quarterly Journal of
Economics, May 1976, 334-343.
``Coordinacion Regional: Schema Para Seleccion de Industrias,'' El Trimestre Economico, 24 (4),
Spring 1976.
``Exchange Rate Policy and Economic Development in Late Nineteenth Century,'' Journal of Political
Economy, 81 (5), September-October1973, 1110-1135.
(with Pan A. Yotopoulos) ``The Balanced-Growth Version of the Linkage Hypothesis: A Test,''
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 87 (2), May 1973, 157-171.; reprinted in Heinz D. Kurz, Christian
Lager and Erik Dietzenbacher, eds. Input-Output Analysis, London: Edward Elgar, 1997..
``Linear Programming Models for National Planning: Demonstration of a Testing Procedure,''
Econometrica, 38 (4), November 1970, 831-854.
``Economic Growth and Development,'' in Perspectives in Economics, A.A. Brown, Egon Neuberger
and Malcolm Palmatier, eds., New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
(with Michael E. DePrano) ``The Welfare Tradeoffs of Mergers: The Required Economies,'' American
Economic Review, 59 (5), December 1969, 947-954. Reprinted in Journal of Reprints for Antitrust Law
and Economics.
``An Alternative Method for Estimating the Effects of a Customs Union Among Less Developed
Countries: The Case of the Central American Common Market,'' paper presented to the Western
Economic Association, Long Beach, California, August 21, 1969. Abstract in Western Economic Journal,
7 3), September 1969.
``The Tariff Structure and the Cost of Protection in Central America,'' El Trimestre Economico,
XXXV (4), October-December 1968, 751-766.
(with Michael E. DePrano) ``The Effects of Long-Run and Short-Run Planning Goals on Economic
Policy Instrument,'' paper presented to the Econometric Society; Washington, DC: December 28, 1967.
Abstract in Econometrica, 36 (5), 1968, 102-103.
``Methodology in Economics: Some Implications of Pessimism and Some Suggestions for
Improvement,'' American Economist, Fall 1967.
``Construction and Use of an Input-Output Model in Testing for Consistency of Ecuador's
Development Plan,'' Planificacion, Spring 1967.
``Economic Thought, Investment Criteria and Development Strategies in Greece - a Postwar Survey,''
Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 1967. Also published in Greek, in the Greek journal,
Spoudai, May-June 1966, 689-698.
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``Some Experiments in Programming the Greek Economy: Formulation and Application of a Linear
Programming Model,'' PhD Dissertation, New School for Social Research, January 1965, published by
University Microfilm, April 1966.
Recently Completed Papers in Non-refereed Journals or Not yet published
(with Zara Liaqat) Under-provision of Private Training by MENA Firms: What to Do About It?
(with Malgorzata Switek) How Do Oil Price Changes Affect Political Attitudes and Activities?
Paper presented at the Western Economic Association International, July 1, 2013
Some Lessons of the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ) Experience in the Middle East for
Business Initiated Programs Promoting both Development and Peace, paper presented at the
Leadership for Peace and Prosperity Conference at the University of San Diego, October 3-5,
2013.
(with Malgorzata Switek) Socio-political Attitudes across the World: To What Extent Are They
Affected by One’s Religion, Its Importance, Majority Status and Relative Income?, Paper
presented at the Religious Faith and Social and Applied Sciences Conference at the Woodbury
School of Business at Utah Valley University, Oct. 10-12, 2013
(with Zara Liaqat) When Do Firms Choose to Train? The Roles of Labor Regulations, Their
Enforcement, and Firm and Industry Characteristics, Workshop on Institutions, Governance and
Development at Manchester University, May 2013, and the 88th Annual Conference of the
Western Economic Association International in Seattle, July 1, 2013
(with Yunsun Li) What Can Be Learned about the Employment Effects of Labor Market Deregulation
from the Answers to Hypothetical Questions about it to Firms?: Evidence from Egypt and Morocco,
presented at WEA Conference in San Francisco, June 2012, also at the Middle East Economic
Association International Conference in Alexandria Egypt, June 2012.
(with Yanyu Wu) “How Would Firms Adjust Employment if Labor Market Regulations Were
Eliminated? Evidence from the Enterprise Surveys” presented at WEA Conference in San Francisco,
June 2012
Keynote Presentation, “An Aerotropolis in MENA and its Challenges”, Global Competitiveness Forum,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 23, 2012.
(with Nauro Campos) “The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed
Countries, 1960-2005” third round of re-submission (latest, September 2012
(with Nauro Campos) “The Dynamics of Employment Protection Legislation and Natural Resource
Abundance: A First Look at This Relationship Using Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa”
2011
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(with Malgorzata Switek) “Oil Prices, Religion and and Life Satisfaction: Are There Asymmetries
between Oil Exporting and Importing Countries?” 2011, presented at the Western Economic Association,
International June 2012
(with Nauro F. Campos) “Why Has This One Been Such a Disappointing Crisis?” VOX (research –based
Policy Analysis and commentary from leading economists, (www.voxeu.org). 10 July, 2011.
(with Grigor Sukiassyan) What Matters More for Firm Investments in a High Information Cost
Environment: Property Rights, Other Institutions or Firm Signals?
(with Grigor Sukiassyan) “Firm Litigation in Commercial Disputes: Who Litigates, When and Why? Any
Role for Institutional Influences? : Evidence from Transition Economies”, Paper presented to the First
Turgut Ozal International Conference on Economics and Politics. Malatya, Turkey April 15-16, 2010
“Business Associations and their Functions in Developing and Transition Economies” Keynote Address
at the International Conference on Business Associations and Economic Performance, TUSIAD, Istanbul,
Turkey, June 2008.
(with Mohamed Saleh) Intergenerational Transmission of and Returns to Human Capital and Changes
Therein over Time: Empirical Evidence from Egypt, Paper presented to the 15th Annual Conference of
the Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt, November 2008.
(with Grigor Sukiassyan) “Signaling Quality: How and to What Effect on Firm Finance in Weak
Institutional Environments” January, 2009 incomplete
(with Abla Abdel-Latif) 2011 “A Quiz on QIZs: Trade Diversion, Trade Creation and Other Effects”,
latest presentation German Research Institute for Administrative Sciences Speyer, Spring 2012
“Advantages of Port Cities for Development (with Special Reference to those of the Persian Gulf and
Indian Ocean”, Conference on Dubai and the Ports of the Indian Ocean, Harvard University, February
2008.
(with Mustapha K. Nabli) “Why Tunisia Has Done Better in Development than Other MENA Countries”
Paper presented at the UCSD Conference on the Political Economy of Development in Latin America
and the Middle East, May 2008. In revised form presented at the Development Conference 2010,
Damascus, Syria Jan 2010
(with Vitoria Saddi) When Do Land Rights Become Effective? Evidence from Brazil’s Coffee-Growing
States” in revision
(with Joserra Perea) “Free Trade Arrangements Versus Institutional Changes as Measures for Increasing
Bilateral FDI Flows: Insights for MENA Countries from a Gravity Model”,
(with Sripad Motiram) "Inequality, Preference Structure and Human Capital: A Theoretical Note"
(with Hatem Samman) Comparative Welfare Effects of Quotas and Taxes on Foreign Labor in a GCC
Country Characterized by Rent-Seeking
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(with Robert Dekle) “External Adjustment Problems of the United States in an Increasingly Integrated
World” Presented to the Pacific Economic Outlook Osaka, Japan, March, 2008, Revised Version
Presented September 2008.
(with Constantine Glezakos) 2006 “Why Does It Take So Long to Evict and Rent-Defaulting Tenant,
Especially in MENA?
(with Weilue Hu) “Changing Generations and Actual and Expected Support from Children in Rural
China” July 1994
(with Enrique Rayon), Mexico’s Experience with Financial Repression and Liberalization: Firm Level
Response Differences to Macro-level Shocks”, August, 1995
(with Nauro Campos and James Robinson) "Can Social and Political Instability be Good for Growth?"
2000
(with Nicolas Sanchez) Some Implications for the Grassroots of Local Variation in Environmental
Conditions" 1997
(with K.S. Sastry “Flat Tax Reform without Raising Income Inequality” 1998
(with Abla Abdel-Latif) “Coping with Environmental Constraints on Exports” 2002
(with Slailender Swaminathan and Tomoya Matsumoto) “Midwives and Maternal Mortality: How
Effective Has Indonesia’s Village Midwife Program Been?” submitted, 2011
(with Sanjeev Sabhlok) “Institutions and the Old Age Security Theory of Fertility in Rural Thailand”
(with Shailender Swaminathan) “An Instrumental Variable Approach to Improving Assessments of
Community Programs on Human Health: An Application to Indonesia”
(with Samar Datta and Hatem Samman) “Labor Market and Private Sector Development”
(with Joserra Perea) “Free Trade Arrangements Versus Institutional Changes as Measures for Increasing
Bilateral FDI Flows: Insights for MENA Countries from a Gravity Model”
(with Nicolas Sanchez) The Political Economy of Pastoral Policy Failure in Sub-Sahara Africa: A CrossSection Analysis, paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association
International, July 2008
(with Kitty Chan) “Intertemporal Variation in Enrollment Rates as an Explanation for the Micro – Macro
Paradox concerning the Effect of Human Capital on Economic Growth”
(with Shailender Swaminathan), “Income Inequality and Investments in Prenatal Care: Evidence from
Indonesia”
(with Sripad Motiram) “Inequality and the Quality of Primary Education: Is MENA Different?
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Current Research Interests
Income Inequality at the Local Level and Investment
Institutions and Development; Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Enterprises, Contractual Choice
Old Age Security and Fertility
Regional (Supranational) Coordination of Industrial Development in Developing Countries
Economic Integration
The Role of Exchange Rate Movements in the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Empirical Investigations in Economic Development
China’s TVEs and Their Incentive Structure: Determinants and Effects
Econometric Modelling of the Development Process
Inflation in Latin America - Phillips Curve Tradeoffs
Dealing with Weather and Other Risks in Rural Areas of Developing Country
The Determinants and Effects of Institutional Change
Book Reviews, Refereeing, Professional Association Functions
Borsa Istanbul Review, Member of the Editorial Board 2013 -present
Journal of Economic History
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal of Population Economics
Development Studies Review, Member, Board of Editors
Contemporary Economic Policy, Member, Board of Editors
Journal of Development Economics
Pacific Economic Review, Member, Board of Editors
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Economic Development, Member, Board of Editors
American Economic Review
African Development Review
Economic Research Forum, Member of the Board of Directors, 2003-2006; Senior Associate 2007Econometrica
European Journal of Development Research
The World Economy
Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade, Board of Editors
Economic Development and Cultural Change (5 book reviews)
Economic Inquiry
International Journal of Development Issues, Member of Board of Editors
International Journal of Public Policy
International Economic Review
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Associate Editor
Journal of Human Resources
Journal of Monetary Economics
Journal of Developing Areas
Annals of Regional Science
Latin America Research Review
Journal of Economics and Business
Eastern Economic Journal
World Development
Journal of Policy Modelling
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Current Anthropology
International Studies Quarterly
International Regional Science Review
Middle East Business and Economic Review, Member, Board of Editors
Middle East Development Journal
Journal of Regional Science
Journal of Macroeconomics
Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies (on-line Journal of the MEEA)
Journal of Comparative Economics
Population and Development Review
Public Enterprise
Small Business Economics Journal
Southern Economic Journal
Journal of Econometrics
Economic Journal
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Explorations in Economic History
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, Associate Editor
Bulletin of Inter-American Affairs
National Science Foundation
Social Science Research Council of Canada
Cambridge University Press
Mc-Graw Hill
Center of Planning and Economic Research
Cuadernos de Economia, Member, Board of Editors
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
World Bank Economic Review
International Organization
Journal of Asian Economics
Journal of Theoretical Politics
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Journal of King Saud University
Mediterranean Economic Review, member of the Board of Editors
Review of Development Economics
Sabanci Univerity Prize Committee, April 2012. Istanbul
Judge, Far Western Regional Competition, Omicron Delta Epsilon, 1977-1978, Regional Director, ODE,
1978-1980.
International Economics Association, December 1996, 1990
LACEA
Routledge-Curzon Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa Series, member of Editorial
Advisory Board, 2003Middle East Economic Association, Executive Secretary 1999-2003, President, 2004-2006, Board
Member 1994-Present, Ibn Khaldun Prize Committee Co-Chair 2001-Present
American Economic Association
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), member 2014 to date
Population Association of America
Eastern Economic Association
Royal Economic Society
Econometric Society
Southern Economic Association
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Western Economic Association International, Member of Board of Directors 2000-2003.Member 1990present, Member of Program Committee 2024.
Demographic Economics, Referee
Middle East Studies Association, member
Cliometric Society, member
International Economics Association
Global Journal of Business and Economics, Honorary Associate Editor
Economic and Social Research Council
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