Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is a professor of economics at

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, and a visiting fellow at the

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at the Wolfensohn Center for Development housed in th
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. His expertise and research focus is in

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, demographic economics, energy economics, and the economics of Iran and of the larger Middle East. Salehi-Isfahani served as Assistant Professor of Economics at the

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and was a visiting professor at the

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. He has been a research fellow with the Economic Research Forum, a regional association of Middle Eastern economists based in Cairo, since 1993, and served on their Board of Trustees between 2001 and 2006. He additionally serves on the board of the Middle East Economic Associationhttp://meeaweb.org Salehi-Isfahani holds a BSc from the

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Queen Mary College , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...

and a Ph.D. in economics from

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. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Development Economics,

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, Iranian Studies,

Economic Development and Cultural Change ''Economic Development and Cultural Change (EDCC)'' publishes studies that use modern theoretical and empirical approaches to examine both the determinants and the effects of various dimensions of economic development and cultural change. It cover ...

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, and the Journal of Economic Inequality, among others.

Selected bibliography

* ''Models of the Oil Market'' (1991)
The Production and Diffusion of Public Choice Political Economy: Reflections of the VPI
(2004)
Labor and Human Capital in the Middle East: Studies of Markets and Household Behavior
(2001) *Government subsidies and demand for petroleum products in Iran (WPM) (1996)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad Living people Iranian economists Harvard University alumni Alumni of Queen Mary University of London University of Pennsylvania faculty Virginia Tech faculty Iranian expatriate academics Iranian emigrants to the United States Year of birth missing (living people)