University Degrees

• Diplom-Kaufmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Title of Thesis: Die Deutsche Elektrizitaetswirtschaft nach der Wiedervereinigung (The Market for Electricity in Germany after its Unification), 05/1992.
• Doctor rerum politicarum (Dr. rer. pol.), magna cum laude, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, Title of Thesis: System transformation und Kluberweiterung (System Transformation and Club Enlargement), 07/1997.
• Master of Science in Applied Economics, University of North Texas, USA, Title of Thesis: A Comparison of Economic Development in Latin America, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia in the 1990s, 05/1999.

Research Interests

• Political Economy, especially the socioeconomic fundamentals of regime evolution and regime performance Resource
• Economics, especially the socioeconomic impacts of the oil curse
• Trade Policy, especially the socioeconomic determinants of protectionism in developing countries

Current Research Project

• "Democracy and Development in the Arab World, the case of Lebanon": this is part of a project sponsored by the Institute of Financial Economics and co-managed by I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi.
• "Economics, Politics and Political-Economic Empowerment"; Paper develops a model that explains the evolution of democratic and autocratic regimes and whether their rule is responsive or oppressive as a function of organizational constraints of the citizenry, prevailing economic rent extraction potentials, and the primary allocation of resources; Research completed in form of discussion paper.
• "The Development Potential of Democratization, Pacification, Industrial Development, and Family Planning" (with Joana Nasr); Paper estimates empirically the links between economic structure, oppressive governance, income inequality, industrial development deficits, low capital formation, and demography. Using simulation software, we then estimate the impacts of democratization, pacification, industrial development, and family planning policies; Research completed and write-up in progress.
• "The Political Economy of Exchange Rate Misalignment in the Middle East" (with Joanna Nasr); Paper develops and tests empirically a model that explains misalignments in dependence of socioeconomic empowerment deficits; Research completed in form of discussion paper.
• "Do traditional Autocracy Theories Apply to the Middle East" (with Emile Sahliyeh, University of North Texas); Paper argues and supports empirically the idea that in addition to the traditional rentier state argument, authoritarianism in the Middle East is also a function of the Arab-Israeli conflict, channeled through the refugee problem; Research completed in form of discussion paper.

Recent Publications

• Monograph
  Sytemtransformation und Kluberweiterung.  Chancen und Risiken der Aufnahme
  von Reformastaaten in Wirtschaftsroume, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1997
  (Doctoral Thesis).
  
• Refereed Journal Articles
  Externalities , International Policy Cooperation and Systems Competitions.  In: Global Business and Economy Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2004, pp. 171-183.
  
  Why Do Politicians in Developed Nations Prefer Foreign Trade Policy to Income Redistribution to Count Income Inequality from Globalization?  In:  Global Business and Economics Review, Vol. 2, Number 2000, pp. 235-245.
  
• Refereed Conference Proceedings
  Inequality and Democratization, Kantarelis, D. (Editor): Global Business and Economics Review - Anthology 2005 (Forthcoming).
  
  Determinants of Investment Climates, Kantarelis, D. (Editor): Global Business and Economics Review - Anthology 2005 (Forthcoming).
  
  Fragile Democratization – Please Handle With Care! Kantarelis, D. (Editor): Global Business and Economics Review - Anthology 2004, pp. 515-523.
  
  Did Import-Substituting Developing Countries Abuse Dependence Theory? Kantarelis, D. (Editor): Global Business and Economics Review - Anthology 2004, pp. 434-444.
  
  Hosting the Olympics – Business and the Economy (with Bradley, L., Brathwaite, T., Fent, T., Veloutsou, C.), Kantarelis, D. (Editor): Global Business and Economics Review - Anthology 2004, pp. 602-613 (2004 Annual Meeting of the Business and Economics Society International, Island of Rhodes, Greece, July 19-22, 2004).
  
  Growth, Social Conflict, and Democracy, Kantarelis, D. (Editor): Global Business and Economics Review – Anthology 2003, p. 346-356 (2003 Annual Meeting of the Business and Economics Society International, San Francisco, USA, July 24-28, 2003).
  
  Is there a limit in Transition from Plan to Market?  Financial Interdependence of the East Asian Economies - Anthology, Volume A-2-4, International Economic Cooperation, pp. 1-12, 1996.