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Marcus Marktanner
Contact Information Phone: (961) 1 350000 ext. 4072 Fax: (961) 1 744484 Email: marktanner@aub.edu.lb Office: Ada Dodge Hall - Room 241
University Degrees   Diplom-Kaufmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Title of Thesis: Die Deutsche Elektrizitaetswirtschaft nach der Wiedervereinigung (The Market for Electricity in Germany after its Unification), 05/1992.   Doctor rerum politicarum (Dr. rer. pol.), magna cum laude, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, Title of Thesis: System transformation und Kluberweiterung (System Transformation and Club Enlargement), 07/1997.   Master of Science in Applied Economics, University of North Texas, USA, Title of Thesis: A Comparison of Economic Development in Latin America, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia in the 1990s, 05/1999.
Research Interests   Political Economy, especially the socioeconomic fundamentals of regime evolution and regime performance Resource   Economics, especially the socioeconomic impacts of the oil curse   Trade Policy, especially the socioeconomic determinants of protectionism in developing countries
Current Research Project   "Democracy and Development in the Arab World, the case of Lebanon": this is part of a project sponsored by the Institute of Financial Economics and co-managed by I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi.   "Economics, Politics and Political-Economic Empowerment"; Paper develops a model that explains the evolution of democratic and autocratic regimes and whether their rule is responsive or oppressive as a function of organizational constraints of the citizenry, prevailing economic rent extraction potentials, and the primary allocation of resources; Research completed in form of discussion paper.   "The Development Potential of Democratization, Pacification, Industrial Development, and Family Planning" (with Joana Nasr); Paper estimates empirically the links between economic structure, oppressive governance, income inequality, industrial development deficits, low capital formation, and demography. Using simulation software, we then estimate the impacts of democratization, pacification, industrial development, and family planning policies; Research completed and write-up in progress.   "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Misalignment in the Middle East" (with Joanna Nasr); Paper develops and tests empirically a model that explains misalignments in dependence of socioeconomic empowerment deficits; Research completed in form of discussion paper.   "Do traditional Autocracy Theories Apply to the Middle East" (with Emile Sahliyeh, University of North Texas); Paper argues and supports empirically the idea that in addition to the traditional rentier state argument, authoritarianism in the Middle East is also a function of the Arab-Israeli conflict, channeled through the refugee problem; Research completed in form of discussion paper.
Recent Publications Refereed Articles   Resource Mobilization Climates in the World (with Joanna Nasr), Journal of Developing Areas, forthcoming (accepted January 23, 2006)   What does General System Theory say about Economic Transition?  Central European Political Science Review, Vol.17, Fall 2004, pp. 6-13   Externalities, International Policy Cooperation and Systems Competition.  Global Business and Economics Review, Vol.6, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 171-183. Refereed Conference Proceedings   Income Inequality and Democratization, Global Business and Economics Review-Anthology 2005, December 2005, pp. 112-119.   Determinants of Investment Climates, Global Business and Economics Review - Anthology 2005, pp. 120-127.