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Hadi S Esfahani

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Contact Information

220 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Professor Emeritus

Research Description

Hadi Esfahani, Director of CSAMES, is a Professor of Economics and Business Administration. Dr. Esfahani is a distinguished scholar and educator in economics with a long and successful career at Illinois. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical issues in the political economy of development; the role of country institutions in the formation and reform of fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies, especially in the Middle East region. He has been a consultant to the World Bank on regulation in developing countries. He was previously CSAMES director from 2009 to 2011.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor Emeritus, Economics
Professor Emeritus, Center for Global Studies

Recent Publications

Lee, S., & Esfahani, H. S. (2020). The effect of fiscal system reform on fiscal policy outcomes. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 67(2), 186-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12230

Cinar, M., Esfahani, H. S., & Nugent, J. B. (2019). An introduction to the special issue of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance on the economies of Middle East and North Africa. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 73, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2019.08.003

Bahramitash, R., & Esfahani, H. S. (2016). Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran. In Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa: The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies (pp. 291-319). World Scientific Publishing Co.. https://doi.org/10.1142/9781783267347_00011

Bahramitash, R., & Esfahani, H. S. (2016). Introduction. In R. Bahramitash, & H. S. Esfahani (Eds.), Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 1-20). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481429_1

Bahramitash, R., & Esfahani, H. S. (Eds.) (2016). Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481429

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