Dr. Jamal Haidar
Jamal Ibrahim Haidar is a visiting assistant professor of economics at the Lebanese American University. He completed his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University after earning a PhD in economics from the Paris School of Economics, University of Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne and a MA degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University (US). His research work is available here.
Teaching Interests
- International Economics
- Economic Development
- Political Economy
- Macroeconomics
Research Interests
- International Economics
- Economic Development
- Political Economy
- Macroeconomics
Selected Publications
- Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19, (with Ina Ganguli, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Samuel W. Stemper, and Basit Zafar), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 29921.
- Internalization of Externalities in International Trade, Empirical Economics, July 2022, Vol. 63(1), pp. 469-497.
- Political Connections Reduce Job Creation: Firm-Level Evidence from Lebanon, Journal of Development Studies, July 2021, Vol. 57(8), pp. 1373-1396, with Ishac Diwan.
- How Did Egypt Soften the Impact of Covid-19?, in Shaping Africa’s Post-Covid Recovery (edited by Rabah Arezki, Simeon Djankov, and Ugo Panizza), Centre for Economic Policy Research (C.E.P.R.), February 2021
- Late-Movers Outperform First-Movers in Export Markets, Economics Letters, November 2020, Vol. 196.
- Clientelism, Cronyism, and Job Creation in Lebanon, (with Ishac Diwan), in Crony Capitalism in the Middle East: Business and Politics from Liberalization to the Arab Spring (edited by Ishac Diwan, Izak Atiyas, and Adeel Malik), Oxford University Press, May 2019.
- Sanctions and Export Deflection: Evidence from Iran, Economic Policy (Oxford University Press), April 2017, Vol. 32(90), pp. 319-355.
- Implementing Structural Reforms in Abenomics: How to Reduce the Cost of Doing Business in Japan (with Takeo Hoshi), also available as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 21507.
- Bridging Iranian Exporters with Foreign Markets: Does Diaspora Matter?, Journal of Economic Integration, September 2016, Vol. 31(3), pp. 609-630, with Seyed Hossein Mirjalili.
- Can the Euro Survive?, The World Economy, March 2015, Vol. 38(3), pp. 553-567.A
- Trade Facilitation and Country Size, Empirical Economics, December 2014, Vol. 47(4), pp. 1441-1466, with Mohammad Amin.
- The Impact of Business Regulatory Reforms on Economic Growth, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, September 2012, Vol. 26(3), pp. 285-307.
- Trade and Productivity: Self Selection or Learning-by-Exporting in India, Economic Modelling, September 2012, Vol. 29(5), pp. 1766-1773.
- The Cost of Registering Property: Does Legal Origin Matter?, Empirical Economics, June 2012, Vol. 42(3), pp. 1035-1050, with Mohammad Amin.
- Currency Crises Transmission through International Trade, Economic Modelling, March 2012, Vol. 29(2), pp. 151-157.
- Sovereign Credit Risk in the Euro Zone, World Economics, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, March 2012.
- Currency Valuation and Purchasing Power Parity, World Economics, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, September 2011.
- Investor Protections and Economic Growth, Economics Letters, April 2009, Vol. 103(1), pp. 1-4.
Policy Publications
- How Foreign Powers Could Break Lebanon’s Gridlock, (with Adeel Malik), Project Syndicate, June 2022.
- Why Can’t Lebanon’s Leaders Fix its Economic Crisis?, (with Adeel Malik), Washington Post, October 2021.
- Access to Finance for Egypt’s Private Sector during the Pandemic, The Forum (ERF), May 2021.
- Late-Movers Outperform First-Movers in Export Markets, VoxEu-CEPR, September 2020.
- Why Do Foreign Donors Face a Tough Choice in Dealing with Lebanon’s Economic Crisis? (with Adeel Malik), Washington Post, July 2020.
- Public Resource Allocation in Lebanon: How Uncompetitive is CDR’s Procurement Process? (with Sami Atallah, Ishac Diwan, and Wassim Maktabi), Lebanese Center for Policy Studies Policy Brief, July 2020.
- More Money is Not the Answer to Lebanon’s Troubles (with Adeel Malik), Al Jazeera English, July 2020.
- Cronyism Reduces Job Creation in Lebanon, (with Ishac Diwan), VoxEu-CEPR, January 2020.
- Creating Jobs Through Pro-Market Rather Than Pro-Business Policies, (with Ishac Diwan), Lebanese Center for Policy Studies Policy Brief, February 2017.
- Sanctions and Export Deflection, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, September 2016.
- Going Beyond Doing Business to Foster Job Creation in Arab Countries, (with Hedi Larbi), Economic Research Forum Policy Brief, April 2016.
- Using the World Bank Doing Business Ranking to Inform Economic Reforms in Japan, (with Takeo Hoshi), VoxEu-CEPR, October 2015.
- Business Regulations in Lebanon: Where Are We? Where Do We Go Now?, The World Bank Blog, January 2013.
- Do Business Regulatory Reforms Impact Growth?, The World Bank Blog, May 2012.
- Arab Exporters: Are They Different?, VoxEu-CEPR, February 2012.
- Doing Business 2012, (Team member), The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, October 2011.
- Doing Business 2009, (Team member), The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, October 2008.
- Competitiveness from Innovation, not Inheritance, (with Karim Belayachi), in Celebrating Reform 2008 (edited by Simeon Djankov), The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, July 2008.
- How to Raise Revenues by Lowering Fees, in Celebrating Reform 2008 (edited by Simeon Djankov), The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, July 2008.
- Doing Business in the Philippines 2008, The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, May 2008, Co-author.
- Doing Business in Egypt 2008, The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, January 2008, Co-author.
- How Efficiently is Capital Created? Evidence from Property Registration Reform in Egypt, in Smart Lessons in Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation, November 2007.
