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NYU Abu Dhabi's unique location in the Middle East makes it the ideal headquarters for social scientists working to better understand complex global societies, both past and present. Our faculty are working on fieldwork projects throughout the region on topics ranging from religious mobilization in Turkey to political systems in Afghanistan, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Our research in Economics is celebrated, with 5th place in Asia in the RePEc ranking. Our faculty conduct world-class research that is cross-disciplinary and conducted across countries, with implications for both, the local and world economy.

Our faculty conduct interdisciplinary research across the following areas: Institutions and market design; Inequality, labor markets and social mobility; Behavior and community development; Trade and diversification; Human and economic development; Conflict and cooperation; Identity and heritage; Public policy.
Aikaterini Kyriazidou
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Econometrics; Applied economics; Big data

Alessandro Citanna
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Economic theory; Quantitative methods; Financial economics; Macroeconomics

Andrzej Baranski
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Game theory; Experimental economics; Decision-Making

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Bernardo Bortolotti
Visiting Professor of Economics
Affiliation: Bocconi University

RESEARCH AREAS
Corporate finance; Corporate governance; Sovereign wealth funds; Long-term finance

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Christian Haefke
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Labor markets; Applied econometrics

Family Business Histories

David Blakeslee
Associate Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Political economy of development

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Ernesto Reuben
Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Societal Impact; Professor of Economics & Business, Organizations and Society

RESEARCH AREAS
Social norms and behavior; Interest politics; Stereotypes in hiring

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Etienne Wasmer
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Labor economics; Macroeconomics; Search theory; Urban economics

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François Bourguignon
Visiting Global Professor of Economics
Affiliation: Paris School of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Development economics

Georgia Michailidou
Postdoctoral Associate

RESEARCH AREAS
Experimental economics; Economic morality

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Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL)

Gilles Saint-Paul
Visiting Global Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Economic growth; Income distribution; Political economy; Labor markets; Unemployment; Fiscal policy

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Giovanni Federico
Professor of Economic History

RESEARCH AREAS
Trade and globalization; Agriculture; Long-term population growth

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Heitor Pellegrina
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Agricultural trade; Food security; Economic geography

Jean M Imbs
Global Network Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
International Economics; Macroeconomics; Development

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Johanna Haefke-Schoenthaler
Adjunct Professor

RESEARCH AREAS
Teaching methods and quality assessment in the fields of accounting, controlling, business, higher education

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Jonathan Chapman
Assistant Professor of Economic History

RESEARCH AREAS
Economic history; Political economy; Behavioral economics

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John Ham
Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

RESEARCH AREAS
Applied microeconomics; Labor; Health; Experimental economics

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John Wooders
Global Network Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Game theory; Economic behavior

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Jordan Norris
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Spatial, Macro and Trade Economics

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Kevin O'Rourke
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Economic history; International trade; History of globalization

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Lucas Siga
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Information economics; Political economy; Game theory

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Luciano Jannelli
Adjunct Professor

RESEARCH AREAS
Investment Strategy; Asset Allocation; GCC economies

Maximilan Mihm
Associate Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Economics of information and uncertainty

Mayada Oudah
Postdoctoral Associate

RESEARCH AREAS
Artificial Intelligence; Multi-Agent Systems; Human-Machine Interactions; Social Science; Social Robotics; Game Theory

Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL)

Melanie Meng Xue
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Economic History; Political Economy

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Michael Reiter
Visiting Professor of Economics
Affiliation: Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS)

RESEARCH AREAS
Computational macroeconomics

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Mingye Ma
Postdoctoral Associate

RESEARCH AREAS
Behavior/Experimental Economics; Economic Psychology

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Morgan Hardy
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Development economics; Firms; Labor markets; Social networks

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Center for Technology and Economic Development

Research Group in Network Science

COVID-19 and Women in the Garment Industry in Ethiopia

Mounther Barakat
Professor of Practice

RESEARCH AREAS
Financial Markets; Securities; Corporate Finance; Derivatives; Event Studies; Agency Theory; Investments

Nikos Nikiforakis
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Behavioral and public economics

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Olivier Bochet
Program Head, Economics; Associate Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Incentives; Efficiency; Equity

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Pablo Hernandez-Lagos
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Leadership; Social welfare

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Raša Karapandža
Visiting Professor of Economics
Affiliation: EBS Business School

RESEARCH AREAS
Investments,; Empirical asset pricing; Portfolio management

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Robert Allen
Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History

RESEARCH AREAS
Global economic growth

Re-counting the Past

Romain Gauriot
Postdoctoral Associate

RESEARCH AREAS
Applied microeconomics, Microeconometrics, Contest theory

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Samreen Malik
Associate Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
International finance; Open economy macroeconomics

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Torsten Figueiredo Walter
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Development economics

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Wifag Adnan
Assistant Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Labor markets; Job search; Unemployment; Wage differentials; Female labor force; Education

Yaw Nyarko
Professor of Economics

RESEARCH AREAS
Human capital; Economic growth

Center for Technology and Economic Development

Research & Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration
Aaron Kaufman
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Computational Social Science; Data Science; American Politics

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Abdul Noury
Associate Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
European Union ideology; Nationality; Party systems

Adam Ramey
Associate Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
American politics; Legislative institutions; Political methodology

Barry Hashimoto
Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA
International law and courts; Human rights; Political economy

Christopher Paik
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
International politics; Political geography; Comparative political economy; Economic history

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Giuliana Pardelli
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Political economy; Latin American politics; Ethnic politics and redistribution

Jeffrey Jensen
Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA
Comparative political economy

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Jeffrey F. Timmons
Program Head, Political Science; Associate Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Public finance; Corporate lobbying; Economic development; Labor markets; Inequality

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Joan Barceló
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Conflict; Terrorism; Political behavior

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CoronaNet

Jonathan Andrew Harris
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Institutions and political behavior in Africa

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Leonid Peisakhin
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Comparative politics; Political economy; Political identities; Historical legacies; Post-conflict reconciliation; Eastern Europe

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View Leonid Peisakhin's Google Scholar profile

Melina Platas
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Comparative Political and Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Research Group in Network Science

Working Group in African Political Economy

Identity and Politics Workgroup

Muhammet Ali Bas
Associate Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
International relations; Formal modeling; Political methodology

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Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Nancy W. Gleason
Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice

RESEARCH AREA
Industry 4.0; The Future of Work; Higher Education Learning; Pedagogy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Lifelong Learning; Sustainability

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Peter Cornelis van der Windt
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Political economy of development in conflict-prone areas of Africa

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Sierra Leone COVID-19 Dashboard

FieldLab DRC

Rahul Sagar
Associate Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Political theory; Political ethics; Public policy

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Ideas of India

Robert Kubinec
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Middle East Political Economy; Online Sampling Techniques; Computational Bayesian Statistics

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CoronaNet

Soo Jin Kim
Assistant Professor of Political Science

RESEARCH AREA
Political theory; Political Philosophy; Ethics & Public Policy
Blaine Robbins
Assistant Professor of Sociology

RESEARCH AREA
Group processes; Political sociology; Social networks; Social psychology; Experiments

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Research Group in Network Science

Bedoor Al Shebli
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science

RESEARCH AREA
Computational social science; Data science; Big data; Science of science

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Elisabeth Anderson
Assistant Professor of Sociology

RESEARCH AREA
Historical and comparative sociology; Political sociology; Social theory

Eric Hamilton
Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA
International Relations Theory; Security Studies; US Foreign and National Security Policy; Middle East Politics and Security; Qualitative Research Methods

Georgi Derluguian
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Revolutions; Social change; Ethnography

Hannah Brückner
Associate Dean for Curricular Matters; Program Head, Social Research and Public Policy; Professor

RESEARCH AREA
Inequality; Health; Gender; Sexuality

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Jemima A. Frimpong
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Adoption of Innovation; Decision Making; Health Care Organizations; Organizational Behavior

John O'Brien
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Culture; Religion; Social identity

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Family Business Histories

Kangsan Lee
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Economic sociology; Organizations; Sociology of culture; Entrepreneurship; Social networks; Creative industries

Research Group in Network Science

Kinga Makovi
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Popular mobilization for the abolition of the British slave trade

Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES)

Research Group in Network Science

Malte Reichelt
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Labor markets; Occupations; Migration; Gender; Inequality

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Research Group in Network Science

Mattias Smångs
Visiting Senior Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA
Race and Ethnicity; Crime and Violence; Historical Sociology; Cultural Sociology; Social Movements; Organizational Sociology; Social Network Analysis

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May Al-Dabbagh
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Gender; Globalization in the Middle East

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Family Business Histories

Onoso Imoagene
Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
International Migration; Race and Ethnicity

Paula England
Silver Professor of Sociology

RESEARCH AREA
Gender inequality; Families; Sexualities

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Peter Goodrich
Visiting Professor of Law
Affiliation: Cardozo Law School

RESEARCH AREA
Legal history and theory; Law and literature

Rana Tomaira
Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA
Development and public policy; Comparative development practices; Development

Sabino Kornrich
Associate Professor

RESEARCH AREA
Family; Inequality; Gender

Stephane Helleringer
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Demography; Epidemics; Mortality and Causes of Deaths

William Stahl
Adjunt Lecturer

RESEARCH AREA
Political Theory

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Zeynep Ozgen
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy

RESEARCH AREA
Political sociology; Social movements; Culture

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NYU Abu Dhabi economics ranked 8th in Asia by Research Papers in Economics

Research at NYUAD focuses on finding culturally sensitive ways to study social behavior in the Middle East.

The Social Science Experimental Laboratory (SSEL) at NYUAD is an interdisciplinary center which aims to create mutually beneficial relationships with local universities, organizations, and the wider community by offering their members a useful opportunity to participate in behavioral research activities.