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Overview

Rabah Arezki is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their expertise is primarily situated within the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a total of 51 publications in this broad area. Key subfields of their work include Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Accounting, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research covers a diverse range of topics such as Natural Resources and Economic Development, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Global Trade and Economics, International Development and Aid, Climate Change Policy and Economics, and Economic Growth and Development.

Rabah Arezki has contributed multiple scholarly papers published in various academic journals and platforms. Selected recent papers include:

  • Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Technology adoption and the middle-income trap: Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia (2021, Review of Development Economics)
  • On the (Changing) asymmetry of global spillovers: Emerging markets vs. advanced economies (2020, Journal of International Money and Finance)
  • Revisiting the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Taxation (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Cash payments in Africa could boost vaccine uptake (2021, Nature)

Frequent collaborators include Ha Nguyen, Simeon Djankov, Ivan Yotzov, Frederick van der Ploeg, and Rachel Yuting Fan.

The scientist has published books primarily with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, as well as the World Bank policy research working paper series and publications under the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Notable book titles include:

  • Transforming Finance in the Middle East and North Africa (2020)
  • Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports (2023)
  • Reform Chatter and Democracy (2020)
  • Reversal of Fortune for Political Incumbents after Oil Shocks (2020)
  • Taming Private Leviathans: Regulation versus Taxation (2021)
  • Contagious Protests (2020)
  • Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era (2020)
  • Middle East and North Africa Economic Update, April 2020: How Transparency Can Help the Middle East and North Africa (2020)
  • From #Hashtags to Legislation: Engagement and Support for Economic Reforms in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries (2022)
  • Corporate Debt and Stock Returns: Evidence from U.S. Firms during the 2020 Oil Crash (2022)
  • Climate Change, Natural Resources and Geopolitics (2024)

Publication venues where Rabah Arezki frequently appears include SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature, Revue d'économie du développement, Nature Climate Change, and Review of Development Economics.

Best Publications

  • Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers; Evidence from the European Debt Crisis

    Rabah Arezki;Bertrand Candelon;Amadou Sy

  • What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?

    Rabah Arezki;Klaus Deininger;Harris Selod

  • Oil rents, corruption, and state stability: Evidence from panel data regressions

    Rabah Arezki;Markus Brückner

  • Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions

    Rabah Arezki;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • News Shocks in Open Economies: Evidence from Giant Oil Discoveries

    Rabah Arezki;Valerie A Ramey;Liugang Sheng

  • Tourism Specialization and Economic Development: Evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage List

    Rabah Arezki;Reda Cherif;John Piotrowski

  • Food prices and political instability

    Rabah Arezki;Markus Brückner

  • Testing the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis since 1650: Evidence from panel techniques that allow for multiple breaks ☆

    Rabah Arezki;Kaddour Hadri;Prakash Loungani;Yao Rao

  • Do natural resources depress income per capita

    Rabah Arezki;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • Resource Rents, Democracy, Corruption and Conflict: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

    Rabah Arezki;Thorvaldur Gylfason

  • Boom–bust cycle, asymmetrical fiscal response and the Dutch disease

    Rabah Arezki;Kareem Ismail

  • Commodity Windfalls, Democracy and External Debt

    Rabah Arezki;Markus Brückner

  • Global Implications of Lower Oil Prices

    Aasim M. Husain;Rabah Arezki;Peter Breuer;Vikram Haksar

  • Understanding international commodity price fluctuations

    Rabah Arezki;Prakash Loungani;Rick van der Ploeg;Anthony J. Venables

  • What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?

    Rabah Arezki;Klaus W. Deininger;Harris Selod

  • Trade policies, institutions and the natural resource curse

    R. Arezki;F. van der Ploeg

  • Natural resources, volatility, and inclusive growth perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa

    Rabah Arezki;Mustapha K. Nabli

  • Tourism Specialization and Economic Development: Evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage List

    John M. Piotrowski;Rabah Arezki;Reda Cherif

  • Rainfall, financial development, and remittances: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa☆

    Rabah Arezki;Markus Brückner

  • Tourism Specialization and Economic Development: Evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage List

    John M. Piotrowski;Rabah Arezki;Reda Cherif

  • Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions

    Rabah Arezki;Rick van der Ploeg

  • Commodity Prices and Exchange Rate Volatility: Lessons from South Africa's Capital Account Liberalization

    Rabah Arezki;Elena Dumitrescu;Andreas Freytag;Andreas Freytag;Marc Quintyn

  • Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers; Evidence from the European Debt Crisis

    Bertrand Candelon;Amadou N Sy;Rabah Arezki

  • Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era

    Rabah Arezki;Blanca Moreno-Dodson;Rachel Yuting Fan;Romeo Gansey

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorvaldur Gylfason
Thorvaldur Gylfason University of Iceland
Lemma W. Senbet
Lemma W. Senbet University of Maryland, College Park
Bertrand Candelon
Bertrand Candelon Université Catholique de Louvain
Prakash Loungani
Prakash Loungani Johns Hopkins University
Frederick van der Ploeg
Frederick van der Ploeg University of Oxford
Valerie A. Ramey
Valerie A. Ramey University of California, San Diego
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Douglas Laxton
Douglas Laxton International Monetary Fund

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