Jalal Qanas

Jalal Qanas

Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Qatar University

Jalal Qanas is an assistant professor of Economics at the college of Business and Economics at Qatar University. He holds a PhD from Leeds University Business School and an MA in Economics from University of Ottawa. He has been Teaching Assistant in Economics for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students at the University of Leeds. He has also taught a summer course in the Economics of Brexit at Oxford University. Before joining Qatar University, He has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of West London. He has had considerable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience in different courses, such as advanced macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Monetary Economics, Development Economics, International Political Economy, The Economics of Brexit, Statistics and Mathematics for Economics and Business. Thus, Teaching has been extremely an important part of his Academic career. His Research Interest are mainly in Macroeconomic Policies, Monetary Economics, Central Banking, Money and Banks, International Finance and Economics, Political Economy. He has published few articles in monetary policy, financialisation and political economy at the Review of Political Economy, Bulletin of political economy, Ideology and Politics Journal. In addition, a book chapter in Central Banking and Inequality.

Areas of Interest:
  • Political Economy
  • International Economics
  • Money and Banks
  • Central Banking
  • Monetary economics
  • Monetary and Fiscal Policies
  • Macroeconomics Analysis
  • Global Finance
  • International Finance
  • Financialization
Education:
  • PhD in Economics, University of Leeds, UK, 2018
  • Master in economics and finance University of Ottawa, Canada, 2012
  • Maitrise en sciences economiques, concentration: Money et Banques, Université de Bourgogne, France, 2008
Experience:
  • Assistant Professor in Economics, Qatar University, August 2019-Present
  • Visiting Lecturer in Economics, University of West London, February-July 2019
  • Lecturer in Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst's -Oxford Summer School, July-August 2018
Latest Publications:
  • Jalal Qanas & Nawar Kassomeh (2021), Wealth and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in the Gulf States: An Economic Privilage or a Cultrual Phenomenen, the Ideology and Politics Journal.
  • Qanas J, Sawyer Malcolm, Remarks on Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy in an Era of Financialisation, BULLETIN OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 13:2 (2019): 85-94
  • Jalal Qanas & Hamid Raza (2021) Does Securitisation Make Monetary Policy Less Effective?, Review of Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2021.1882190
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