Khalid Sekkat - Economic Research Forum (ERF)

Areas of Interest:

• International Economics
• Development Economics
• Institutions
• Industrial Organization

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Brussels, 1989
• M.A., Econometrics, University of Brussels, 1985
• B.A., Econometrics, University of Brussels, 1983

Experience:

• Full Professor of Economics, University of Brussels (ULB), 2004-present
• Research Director, Economic Research Forum, 2008-2010
• Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Technologies (Morocco), 2006-present

Latest Publications:

• “Efficiency gains from liberalizing labor mobility”, (with F. Docquier and J. Machado), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117: 2, pp. 303–346.
• “Inter-state tensions and regional integration: could the Arab Spring initiate a virtuous circle?”, Contemporary Arab Affairs, 2014, 7: 3, pp. 363-379.
• “The formal and informal institutional framework of capital accumulation”, (with P-G Méon), Journal of Comparative Economics, Forthcoming.