Contact Information
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Description
Hadi Esfahani, Director of CSAMES, is a Professor of Economics and Business Administration. Dr. Esfahani is a distinguished scholar and educator in economics with a long and successful career at Illinois. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical issues in the political economy of development; the role of country institutions in the formation and reform of fiscal, trade, and regulatory policies, especially in the Middle East region. He has been a consultant to the World Bank on regulation in developing countries. He was previously CSAMES director from 2009 to 2011.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Professor, Economics
Professor, Global Studies Programs and Courses
Professor, Business Administration
Editor-in-Chief, Bureau of Economic & Business Research, Gies College of Business
Recent Publications
Lee, S., & Esfahani, H. S. (2020). The effect of fiscal system reform on fiscal policy outcomes. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 67(2), 186-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12230
Cinar, M., Esfahani, H. S., & Nugent, J. B. (2019). An introduction to the special issue of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance on the economies of Middle East and North Africa. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 73, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2019.08.003
Bahramitash, R., & Esfahani, H. S. (2016). Introduction. In R. Bahramitash, & H. S. Esfahani (Eds.), Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 1-20). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481429_1
Bahramitash, R., & Esfahani, H. S. (Eds.) (2016). Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481429
Bahramitash, R., & Esfahani, H. S. (2016). Women’s Economic Role in the MENA Region: Growth and Equality through Female-Owned SMEs. In R. Bahramitash, & H. S. Esfahani (Eds.), Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 155-190). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481429_6