Publications

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1. Egypt's Lost Spring: Causes and Consequences. Praeger, ABC-CLIO, 2015.

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2. Geography and the Wealth of Nations. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

PUBLICATIONS

1. " Heterogeneous Workers and Occupations: Inequality, Unemployment, and Crowding Out ." Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4): 1141-1164, 2009.

2. "Conditionality Covenants: Commitment Versus Discretion in Sovereign Credit Contracts." Journal of International Development, 22: 411-423, 2010.

3. "Heterogeneity in Ability and Inheritance, Disparities and Development." International Economic Journal, 24 (2): 255-282, 2010.

4. "Income Disparities, Economic Growth, and Development as a Threshold (PDF)." Journal of Economic Development, 35 (2): 23-36, 2010. (with Sherine El Hag)

5. "Offshoring and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries (PDF)." Journal of Economic Development, 35 (3): 1-42, 2010. (with Evelina Mengova)

6. "Undiscounted Optimal Growth with Consumable Capital: Application to Water Resources." Journal of Applied Economics, 14(1): 145-166, 2011. (with Ihsan Hurçan)

7. "Undiscounted Optimal Growth with Consumable Capital and Labor-Intensive Consumption Goods." Economic Modelling, 28: 1673-1682, 2011.

8. "Financial Wealth Effect: Evidence from Threshold Estimation." Applied Economics Letters, 18 (13): 1303-1305, 2011. (with Ousmane Seck and Elwin Tobing)

9. "Job Competition, Crowding Out and Unemployment Fluctuations." Macroeconomic Dynamics, 16: 1-34, 2012.

10. "Undiscounted Optimal Growth with Consumable Capital and Capital-Intensive Consumption Goods." Mathematical Social Sciences, 65: 118-135, 2013.

11. "Housing Wealth Effect: Evidence from Threshold Estimation." Journal of Housing Economics, 22: 25-35, 2013. (with Ousmane Seck and Elwin Tobing)

12. "Cyclical Job Upgrading, Wage Inequality, and Unemployment Dynamics." International Economic Journal, 27 (4): 549-585, 2013.

13. "Labor Mismatch, Skill Obsolescence, and Unemployment Persistence (PDF)." Journal of Quantitative Economics, 11 (1&2): 199-229, 2013.

14. "Labor Mismatch and Skill Premia." Eastern Economic Journal, 40: 249-273, 2014.

15. "Direction of Trade and Wage Inequality." Applied Economics Letters, 21 (13): 898-901, 2014.

16. "South-South Trade and Skill Premia." The World Economy, 37 (11): 1634-1648, 2014.

17. "Learning-by-Doing, and Unemployment Dynamics." Economic Modelling, 44: 180-187, 2015.

18. "Trading Tasks and Skill Premia (PDF)." Journal of Finance and Economics, 3 (3): 46-71, 2015. (with Evelina Mengova)

19. "Trade, Overeducation, and Wage Inequality." Journal of Developing Areas, 50 (2): 153-183, 2016.

20. "Trust, Landscape, and Economic Development (PDF)." Journal of Economic Development, 41 (1): 19-32, 2016.

21. "Endowments, Culture, and Economic Development." Review of Development Economics, 21(3): 664-677, 2017.

22. " Long-Term Vision and Economic Development." The World Economy, 43(11): 3088-3102, 2020. (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

23. "African Junta and Defense Spending: A Capture Effect or Self Preservation?" Journal of African Economies, 30(3): 285–300, 2021. (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

24. "Official Visits and Democracy." International Economic Journal, 35(4): 434-468, 2021. (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

25. "Epidemics, Pandemics and Income Inequality." Health Economics Review, 12(7): 1-15, 2022. (with Omar Galarraga and Chrys Esseau-Thomas)

26. "Official Visits and Foreign Debt (PDF)." Journal of Developing Areas, forthcoming (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

27. "Distributive Justice, Democracy and Growth." Journal of Income Distribution, forthcoming.

28. "State History and State Fragility in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)." Journal of Economic Development, Revise and Resubmit (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

WORKING PAPERS

1. "Social Trust and Democracy (PDF)."

2. "Leader's Education and Reform Enactments from 1900-2010 (PDF)." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika and Christian Otchia)

3. "Epidemics and Capital Flight in Africa." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika, Omar Galarraga and Chrys Esseau-Thomas)

4. "Leader's Foreign Travel and Foreign Investment Inflows (PDF)." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

5. " Official Visits and Conflict." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

6. "The Effect of Leader's Visits on Foreign Aid (PDF)." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

7. "Do Leader's Visits Increase Trade Flows? (PDF)" (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

8. "Official Visits and Institutions (PDF)." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

9. "The Rise of Military Autocracy: Inequality and the Resource Curse." (with Oasis Kodila-Tedika)

OPINION ARTICLES

1. "Egypt: To Bequest a Country." Foreign Policy Journal, October, 11, 2010.

2. " Paddling in the Bosphorus, Floating on the Nile " Foreign Policy Journal, November, 28, 2010.

3. " Egypt: A Requiem for Democracy " Foreign Policy Journal, December, 20, 2010.

4. " The Tunisian Syndrome. " Foreign Policy Journal, January, 21, 2011.

5. " Egypt: The Day of Reckoning. "Foreign Policy Journal, January, 29, 2011.

6. " A Deadlock: The Egyptian Dilemma " Foreign Policy Journal, February, 6, 2011.

7. " مصر تتحسس طريقها " Aljazeera.net, April, 6, 2011.

8. " مصر وأسئلة المصير " www.25yanayer.net, May, 4, 2011.

9. "مصر وأسئلة المصير " Shorouk, May, 20, 2011.

10. "مصر ومصالحة مع النفس" www.25yanayer.net, October, 28, 2011.

11." The Neo-Islamists . " Foreign Policy Journal, January, 29, 2012.

12. " Egypt's Gaze Into the Abyss. " Foreign Policy Journal, June, 20, 2013.

13. " Egypt's Predicament. " Foreign Policy Journal, July, 9, 2013.

14. "فى وصف المأزق المصرى " Shorouk, July, 31, 2013.

15. " Egypt Election: A Vote in a Game of Charades. " Foreign Policy Journal, May, 6, 2014.

16." A Requiem to Egypt's Spring " The Orange County Register, June, 14, 2016.