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The list of speakers for the academic year 2024-2025

Spring Semester:

The Beirut Economics Research Seminar Series is co-organized by the Department of Economics at the American University of Beirut in collaboration with the department of Economics at the Lebanese American University. The list of speakers for the academic year 2024-2025 is provided below.

Speaker	Date	Campus
Ishac Diwan (AUB and Finance for Development Lab)	February 4	AUB
Theocharis Grigoriadis (Free University of Berlin)	February 18	LAU
Branco Milanovic (City University of New York)	March 11	AUB
Hicham Safieddine (University of British Columbia)	April 8	LAU
Ugo Panizza (Geneva Graduate Institute)	April 15	AUB
Myra Yazbeck (University of Ottawa)	April 29	LAU

This seminar series is generously funded by the FAS Dean's office at AUB and the AKSOB Dean’s office at LAU.

The Impact of Education on Values

Speaker: Ishac Diwan

Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 3:30 – 4:45pm

Location: IFI 4th floor Conference Room, AUB Campus

Based on Al-Ississ & Diwan (2016) and Diwan & Vartanova (2020), this talk explores why higher education in autocratic contexts often yields lower civic engagement and democratic preferences, and whether this pattern holds globally.

The Three Eras of Global Inequality, 1820-2020

Speaker: Branko Milanovic

Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 3:30 – 4:45pm

Location: IFI 4th floor Conference Room, AUB Campus

An analysis of global income distribution over the past two centuries—highlighting the rise of Asia’s middle class, stagnation in rich countries, shifts between China/Asia and the West, and future prospects for India and Africa—drawing political implications from recent 2008–2020 data.

Public Investment Quality and its Implications for Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability

Speaker: Ugo Panizza

Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 3:30 – 4:45pm

Location: IFI 4th Floor Conference Room, AUB Campus

This paper introduces a novel index to measure public investment quality using World Bank project data (2000–2021), and shows that high‐quality investment lowers sovereign risk and enhances debt sustainability, while low‐quality investment does the opposite—especially in sub‐investment grade countries.

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