Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies

Kamiar Mohaddes, Janeway Fellow in Economics, University of Cambridge, UK; Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum, Egypt; Research Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, USA; Associate Researcher, Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge; Associate Fellow, USC Dornsife Institute for Economic Thought, University of Southern California, USA, Jeffrey B. Nugent, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California, USA; Senior Associate, Economic Research Forum, Egypt; Research Fellow, IZA; Associate Fellow, USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Southern California, USA, Hoda Selim, Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum, Egypt

Kamiar Mohaddes is a Janeway Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Lecturer and Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He is a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum, and serves as its Thematic Co-Leader for the macroeconomics theme. His main areas of research are macroeconomics, global and national macroeconometric modelling, and energy economics. His research has been published in edited volumes and leading journals, and has been covered in major international news outlets. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Jeffrey Nugent is a Development Economist who has worked on a wide variety of issues, problems and analytical techniques and in and on a variety of countries from Latin America, Africa, South and East Asia and especially the Middle East and North Africa. In recent years, much of it has made use of new institutional economics and political economy perspectives. Among his most recent research interests in the Middle East region have been the measurement, determinants and effects of rigidity in labor regulations, trade and economic integration, the effects of natural resources on institutions and growth, conflict, refugees and approaches to conflict resolution.

Hoda Selim is an Economist at International Monetary Fund. Previously, she worked the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo and the World Bank's Cairo Office. She is a research fellow at ERF. Her research focuses on the macroeconomics of oil management, the political economy of development as well as macroeconomic policy issues in the Arab region. She is a contributor to International Development Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her co-edited volume, Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World, was published in 2016 (Cambridge University Press).