Areas of Interest:

• Labor economics
• Development economics
• Econometrics
• Finance-Growth nexus
• Political transformations
• MENA economies

Education:

• Ph.D. in Applied Economics, HEC Montréal-Business School of the Université de Montréal 2011
• M.Sc. in Economics, Université de Montréal, Canada  2005
• B.Sc. in Economics, Lebanese University, Lebanon 2002

Experience:

• Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Department of Economics, Lebanese American University. 2017-Present
• Associate Chair, Department of Economics, Lebanese American University. 2019-Present
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Lebanese American University. 2011-2017
• Research Affiliate, Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany. 2012-2017

Latest Publications:

• Government Intervention and Business Response as Determinants of Business Continuity amid COVID-19: The Case of Jordan and Morocco (with Anthony Fakhoury), forthcoming, International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies.
• Youth Unemployment, Gender and Institutions during Transition: Evidence from the Arab Spring (with Nathir Haimoun and Mohamad Kassem), Social Indicators Research, volume 150, 2020, pp. 311-336.
• Tourism-Growth Nexus under Duress: Lebanon during the Syrian Crisis (with Ghassan Dibeh and Walid Marrouch), Tourism Economics, volume 26, issue 3, 2020, pp. 353-370. (LEAD ARTICLE).
• Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries’ growth? (with Mahmoud Arayssi and Nathir Haimoun), Applied Economics Letters, volume 26, issue 19, 2019, pp. 1579-1585.