Walid Marrouch
Full Professor, Department of Economics, Lebanese American University (LAU), Beirut
Walid Marrouch is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the Lebanese American University (LAU), Beirut, Lebanon. His research focuses on topics related to Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Applied Game Theory and Development Economics. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from HEC Montréal (aff. with University of Montreal). He is a Fellow at the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO) and an external expert at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen International).
Areas of Interest:
- Environmental and Resource Economics
- Energy Economics
- Applied Game Theory
- Development Economics
- Ph.D. Applied Economics, HEC Montréal (aff. with University of Montreal), 2009
- M.A. Economics, Concordia University, 2004
- B.A. Economics, American University of Beirut, 2002
- Full Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University (LAU), Beirut, Lebanon, September 2022-Present
- Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, Lebanese American University (LAU), January 2019 - Present
- Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Economics, Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University (LAU), Beirut, Lebanon, September 2015-August 2022
- Associate Chairperson, Department of Economics, LAU (October 2012 – January 2019)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University (October 2009 – August 2015)
- Short-term consultant with UN-ESCWA (2021), UNDP (2014), ILO (2013), & European Commission (2011)
- Lecturer, Department of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal (2007 –2009)
- Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal (2002–2004)
- “Monitoring poverty in a data deprived environment: The case of Lebanon” (with Makdissi, P., and Yazbeck, M.). Forthcoming at Review of Income and Wealth.
- “Central Air Conditioning, Air Pollution and Housing Location: Evidence from Lebanon” (with Al Gharib, F.), International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, volume 16, issue 5, 2023, pp. 979-990.
- “A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions” (with Fakih, A., Makdissi, P., Tabri, R., and Yazbeck, M.), Journal of Econometrics, volume 228, issue 2, June 2022, pp. 342-358.
