Mohammad Arzaghi
Associate Professor of Economics, American University of Sharjah
Mohammad Arzaghi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the American University of Sharjah. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in May 2006. He also holds two M.A. in Economics from Brown University and Virginia Tech and a B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Tehran. His research interests are in Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, and Political Economy. His publications include “Why countries are fiscally decentralizing” at the Journal of Public Economics, which is a seminal work on decentralization and intergovernmental relationship. He was a core team member of the World Development Report 1999/2000 at the World Bank. He was ranked 54 by RePEc/IDEAS in the list of the top 100 young economists in 2009. He has been ranked among the top 20 economists by RePEc/IDEAS in the UAE in the past 12 years (rank 18th as of May 2021).
Areas of Interest:
- Regional and Urban Economics
- Migration
- Industrial Organization
- Economics of Advertising
- Discrete Choice Models
- Location Decisions
Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, Brown University, 2006
- A.M., Economics, Brown University, 2001
- M.A., Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998
- B.S., Telecommunication Engineering, University of Tehran, 1991
Experience:
- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, American University of Sharjah, June 2014–Present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, American University of Sharjah, Aug 2005–June 2013
- Researcher at U.S. Census Bureau, Boston Census Research Data Center (BRDC),May 2000–Present
- Member of Real Estate Council-Dubai Land Department, 2018-Present
- Researcher at U.S. Census Bureau, Boston Census Research Data Center (BRDC), 2000–2015
- Research Fellow at Harvard University-Kennedy School of Government in 2007-2008
- World Development Report, Core Team Member, World Bank, 1998-1999
Latest Publications:
- "No taxation, no representation: An investigation of the relationship between natural resources and fiscal decentralization," with Andrew Balthrop, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36(7), December 2018.
- “On the accuracy of Blue Chip forecasts of interest rates and country risk premiums,” with Hamid Baghestani and Ilker Kaya, Applied Economics, 47(2), January 2015.
- “How price inelastic is the demand for gasoline in fuel-subsidizing economies?” with Jay Squalli, Energy Economics, 2015.
- “Migration as a Way to Diversify: Evidence from Rural to Urban Migration in the US,” with Anil Rupasingha, Journal of Regional Science, 45, October 2013.
