Topic: 'Political Connections and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890–1950' (with C. Artunc)

About the speaker: 

Mohamed is a Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, and Research Affiliate at CEPR.
His primary fields of interest are Economic History, Political Economy, and Development Economics. His research is focused on the Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa, where he employs novel primary (archival) and secondary (published) data sources to address long-standing questions in the field. He has been interested in two main themes of research: (1) The Economic History of Religion, and in particular how fiscal policy impacted the formation of religious groups and their socioeconomic outcomes in the Middle East and North Africa, via tax-induced conversions, and (2) The Historical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, and in particular, the coercion of labor, land inequality, and the evolution of the political institutions.
Mohamed's research features in Econometrica, Journal of Economic History, World Bank Economic Review, and others.

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Meeting ID: 949 5219 9257
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