Rabah Arezki is joining the CERDI

Rabah Arezki rejoint le CERDI

The CERDI is very pleased to announce that Rabah Arezki has been recruited as Director of Research by the CNRS, The French National Centre for Scientific Research. He will be joining the CERDI in the coming academic year.

Rabah has obtained his PhD in Economics from the European University Institute. He previously served as Chief Economist and Vice President at the African Development Bank (AfDB), and as Chief Economist of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Region. He has also worked as Head of the Commodities Unit of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is a Research Associate at Harvard University and at Ferdi.

He has published (among others) in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Nature, The Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and in the World Bank Economic Review.

Research Publications:

• Arezki, R. (2021). Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity. Nature Climate Change, 11(11), 888‑888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01191-7
• Arezki, R., & Belhaj, F. (2019). Developing public-private partnership initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa : From public debt to maximizing finance for development (SSRN Scholarly Paper Nᵒ 3393960). Social Science Research Network.
• Arezki, R., & Brückner, M. (2011). Oil rents, corruption, and state stability: Evidence from panel data regressions. European Economic Review, 55(7), 955‑963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2011.03.004
• Arezki, R., & Brückner, M. (2012). Commodity windfalls, democracy and external debt. The Economic Journal, 122(561), 848‑866. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02508.x
• Arezki, R., Deininger, K., & Selod, H. (2015). What drives the global “land rush”? The World Bank Economic Review, 29(2), 207‑233. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lht034
• Arezki, R., Dupuy, A., & Gelb, A. (2020). Resource windfalls, optimal public investment, and redistribution: The role of total factor productivity and state capacity. Revue deconomie du developpement, 28(1), 5‑41.
• (Arezki et al., 2017)Arezki, R., Fetzer, T., & Pisch, F. (2017). On the comparative advantage of U.S. manufacturing : Evidence from the shale gas revolution. Journal of International Economics, 107, 34‑59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.03.002
• Arezki, R., & Ismail, K. (2013). Boom–bust cycle, asymmetrical fiscal response and the Dutch disease. Journal of Development Economics, 101, 256‑267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.11.007
• Arezki, R., Ramey, V. A., & Sheng, L. (2017). News shocks in open economies: Evidence from giant oil discoveries. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(1), 103‑155. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw030
• Arezki, R., & van der Ploeg, R. (2007). Can the natural resource curse be turned into a blessing? The role of trade policies and institutions (SSRN Scholarly Paper Nᵒ 1135465). Social Science Research Network.
• Bhattacharyya, S., Conradie, L., & Arezki, R. (2017). Resource discovery and the politics of fiscal decentralization. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45(2), 366‑382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2017.02.003
• Mamo, N., Bhattacharyya, S., & Moradi, A. (2019). Intensive and extensive margins of mining and development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Development Economics, 139, 28‑49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.02.001

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