As part of its role in making available on going research, within and outside the university, related to economic issues of special concern to developing countries, the Institute  initiated in 2003, a series of guests lectures and working papers. While financial, monetary, and international economic issues form a major part of the Institute's work its research interests are not confined to these areas but extend to include other domains of relevance to the developing world (e.g. trade, development, and institutions) in the form of general analysis or country-specific studies.

These papers are presented online in Portable Document Format (PDF). They can be accessed below.

Lecture and Working Paper Series

Series No. 3, 2008
Initial Inequality and Protectionism: A Political-Economy Approach
Marcus Marktaner¹ and Nagham Sayour^2
1 Assistant professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut
² Nagham Sayour is a Masters student of Financial Economics at AUB Department of Economics

Series No. 2, 2008
Twin Deficit in Lebanon:  A Time Series Analysis
Simon Neaime
Associate Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No. 1, 2008
Trapped by Consociationalism:  The Case of Lebanon  
Samir Makdisi¹ and Marcus Marktanner²
1  Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut
2 Assistant Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No. 4, 2007
Measurement of Financial Integration in the GCC Equity Markets:  A Novel Perspective 
Salwa Hammami¹ and Simon Neaime²
1 Assistant Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut
2 Associate Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No. 3, 2007
Rebuilding without Resolution: The Lebanese Economy and State in the Post-Civil War Period
Samir Makdisi
Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Financial Economics , American University of Beirut

Series No. 2, 2007
Horse Race of Utility-Based Asset Pricing Models:  Ranking through  Specification Errors
Salwa Hammami
Assistant Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No. 1, 2007
Returns to Education and the Transition from School to Work in Syria
Henrik Huitfeldt¹ and Nader Kabbani^2
1 Labour market specialist, the European Training Foundation, Torino
² Assistant Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No. 3, 2006
From Rentier State and Resource Curse to Even Worse?
Marcus Marktaner¹ and Joanna Nasr^2
1 Assistant professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut
² Joanna Nasr holds a Master of Arts in financial economics from AUB and is currently a graduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Series No. 2, 2006
Institutional Quality and Trade:  Which Institutions?  Which Trade?
Pierre-Guillaume Méon¹ and Khalid Sekkat^2
1 Associate professor of Economics, University of Brussels
² Professor of Economics, University of Brussels

Series No. 1, 2006
Harsh Default Penalties Lead to Ponzi Schemes
Mário Rui Páscoa¹ and Abdelkrim Seghir^2
1 Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide, 1099-032 Lisboa, Portugal
² Assistant Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No. 2, 2005
Democracy and Development in the Arab World
Ibrahim A. Elbadawi¹ and Samir Makdisi^2
1 Lead economist, Development Economics Research Group (DECRG), The World Bank
² Professor of Economics and Director, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No.1, 2005
Sovereign Credit Rating:  Guilty Beyond Reasonable Doubt?
Nada Mora
Assistant Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut

Series No.3, 2004
Portfolio Diversification and Financial Integration of MENA Stock Markets
Simon Neaime
Associate Professor of Economics and Fellow, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut


Series No.2, 2004
The Politics of Sustaining Growth in the Arab World: Getting Democracy Right
Ibrahim A. Elbadawi
Lead economist, Development Economics Research Group (DECRG), The World Bank


Series No.1, 2004
Exchange Rate Management within the Middle East and North Africa Region: The Cost to Manufacturing Competitiveness
Mustapha Nabli , Jennifer Keller, and Marie-Ange Veganzones, The World Bank

Series No.3, 2003
The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990
Samir Makdisi¹ and Richard Sadaka²
1 Professor of Economics and Director of Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut
2 Assistant Professor of Economics , American University of Beirut


Series No.2, 2003
Prospects for World Economy
Richard N. Cooper
Mauritz C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University


Series No.1, 2003
A Reexamination of the Political Economy of Growth in MENA Countries
Hadi Salehi Esfahani
Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign