Prof. Salaheddin Abosedra

Prof. Salaheddin Saleh Abosedra

Professor - College of Business Administration

Publications : 28
Citations : 909
h-Index : 14
Last Updated : May/28/2023 02:10:51

Professor Abosedra is an economist whose areas of expertise include macroeconomic policies in developing countries & oil-based economies and energy economics. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at the Lebanese American University (LAU) and of the Department of Economics at UAE University. He conducted research at the IMF, held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Qatar and taught at several universities in the Middle East and the United States. He spent two years as a Regional Advisor, Macroeconomics Policies at ESCWA, UN (2009-2011). His articles have appeared in such publications as Energy Economics, Research in Transportation Economics, Empirical Economics, International Journal of Tourism Research, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Energy and Development, The Middle East Business and Economics Review, Energy Policy and Applied Energy among others. He holds a B.S. (Accounting), from the University of Garyounis, (Libya) and M.A. degrees in both Finance (Univ. of Florida) and Economics (Univ. of Colorado-Boulder), earning a Ph.D. in Economics from the latter University.

Publications

Journal

Cover Date	Title	Citations
03/15/2019	Are exports a reliable source of economic growth in MENA countries? New evidence from the rolling Granger causality method	7
04/01/2005	Assessing the role of financial deepening in business cycles: The experience of the United Arab Emirates	20
03/01/2017	Assessing the Role of Remittances and Financial Deepening in Growth: The Experience of Lebanon	6
01/01/2021	Determinants of FDI in France: Role of transport infrastructure, education, financial development and energy consumption	13
01/01/2002	Does advertising stimulate sales or mainly deliver signals? A multivariate analysis	9
11/01/2020	Does Financial Development Moderate the Effects on Growth Volatility? The Experience of Malaysia	4
03/01/2021	Does the quality of institutions and education strengthen the quality of the environment? Evidence from a global perspective	21
05/03/2016	Does tourism expansion effectively spur economic growth in Morocco and Tunisia? Evidence from time series and panel data	24
01/01/2020	Dynamic interaction of tourism, finance, and institutions in explaining growth in Asia's little dragon economies	9
11/01/2021	Dynamics and asymmetries between consumer sentiment and consumption in pre- and during-COVID-19 time: Evidence from the US	15
01/01/2023	Economic volatility and financial deepening in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel cointegration with cross-sectional heterogeneity and endogenous structural breaks	0
01/01/2009	Electricity consumption and economic growth, the case of Lebanon	150
07/01/2020	Exploring GDP growth volatility spillovers across countries	22
01/01/2018	Finance-growth volatility nexus: Evidence from lebanon	7
01/01/2021	Financial development and business cycle volatility nexus in the UAE: Evidence from non-linear regime-shift and asymmetric tests	7
01/01/1994	Imported inflation in an oil-exporting country: an empirical investigation	0
12/01/2019	Logistics performance, exports, and growth: Evidence from Asian economies	39
04/01/2016	Modeling Causality Between Financial Deepening and Poverty Reduction in Egypt	45
08/01/2004	On the predictive accuracy of crude oil futures prices	55
07/01/2012	Short-run price and income elasticity of gasoline demand: Evidence from Lebanon	25
01/01/2014	Small sample evidence on the tourism-led growth hypothesis in Lebanon	112
05/01/2022	The Fatality Rate of COVID-19: How Does Education, Health Infrastructure and Institutional Quality Make a Change?	0
05/01/2014	The impacts of tourism, energy consumption and political instability on economic growth in the MENA countries	126
01/01/2022	The influences of telecommunication technology and gender differences on private savings in the Asia–Pacific region	0
03/01/2018	The role of globalization in energy consumption: A quantile cointegrating regression approach	141
03/01/2016	Tourism and growth in Lebanon: new evidence from bootstrap simulation and rolling causality approaches	50
04/11/2023	UNEMPLOYMENT BEHAVIOUR IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: EVIDENCE FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES	0
01/01/2012	Volatility spillovers: Evidence on U.S. oil product markets	2