Who's Who - 25.02.2011

Mahmoud Sami NABI

Mahmoud Sami NABI
35 years, Tunisian
Married, 2 children

Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Sousse, IHEC
World Bank Consultant
Research Fellow of LEGI- Tunisia Polytechnic School
Research Associate of the Economic Research Forum, Cairo.
Fellow of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance, London.

nabi@univ-paris1.fr

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Economic Development; International Macroeconomics; Banking and Currency Crises

EDUCATION

2010 Habilitation in Economics
Ministry of Higher Education and Research, University of Sousse, Tunisia.

2004 Ph.D. in Economics University of Paris I- Pantheon Sorbonne.

Thesis: “Economic Development, Banking Intermediation and Crises: Theoretical Essays”.
Mention: highest distinction.

2002 Diploma of Islamic Banking and Insurance
Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance - London

1999 Postgraduate Studies in Mathematical Modelling in Economics and Finance
University of Paris I- Pantheon Sorbonne

1998 Diploma of Engineer
Tunisia Polytechnic School

1993 Baccalaureate of mathematics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 - Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Sousse
International Economics, International Finance, Monetary Economics, Microeconomics, Principles of Modern Economics, Seminar on the economics of banking regulation, Dissertation Supervision.

2002-2004 Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Evry Val d’Essonne I
Principles of Modern Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics.

2001-2002 Teaching Assistant at the University of Paris Panthéon —Sorbonne
Linear Algebra for economics.

1999 Research training at the Institute of National Research in Computer Science and
Automatics (INRIA Reconquourt, French)

1998 Research training at the Institute of Quantitative Economics (the Tunisian ministry of economics) Analysis of the TFP in five Tunisian public firms.

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• “Financial Imperfections, Inequality and Capital Accumulation,”
Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29 no.3, September, 2009, pp. 2400-2415.

• '“External Debt, Informal Economy and Growth,”
Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29 no.3, July, 2009, pp. 1704-1716. (Co-author: I. Drine).

• “Institutions, Banking Development, and Economic Growth,”
The Developing Economies, Volume 47, no.4, December, 2009. (Co-author: M.O. Suliman).

• “Public External Debt, Informality and Production Efficiency in Developing Countries,”
Economic Modelling, Volume 27, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 487-495. (Co-author: I. Drine).

• “Financial Openness and Technology Gap: Evidence from the Mediterranean Bassin”,
In African Development Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (eds.)
Globalisation, Institutions and African Economic Development — Proceedings of the African
Economic conference 2008, Economica: Paris, May 2010. (Co-authors: M.S. Ben Aissa and
I. Drine).

• “Capital mobility and the optimal monetary policy rule: a Tunisian case study”, In David
Cobham and Mongi Boughzala (eds.): Inflation Targeting in MENA Countries, Palgrave
Macmillan, August 2011. (Co-author: Ndiame Diop)

WORKING PAPERS

• Have Islamic banks been more resistant than conventional banks to the 2007-2008
financial crisis? (with K. Bourkhis)

• “Credit rationing, Interest Rates and Capital Accumulation” (with M.O. Suliman)

• “Information Sharing in Credit Market: Analysis of a Credit Bureau Disciplinary Role”
(with S. Ben Souissi)

• “Financial Crises’ Prevention and Recovery” (with W. Khallouli), Presented at the GDN 11th
Annual Conference and the ERF 16th Annual Conference

• “Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: Theory and Evidence from the GCC”
(With M.O. Suliman), API-Working Paper Series 0806, Arab Planning Institute - Kuwait, Information Center.

• “Banking Emergence, Credit Rationing and Endogenous Growth”
(with T. Rajhi), Presented at the 11th ERF Conference and the Middle East Economic
Association 5th Congress.

• “The Effects of Capital Account Liberalization on the Economic Development Process”
(with T. Rajhi), Presented at the 9th ERF Conference
• “Banking Efficiency and the Economic Development Process” (with T. Rajhi), Cahiers de la
MSE- Série Blanche, N° 2002.85

• “Banking Efficiency, Speculative Attacks and Financial Crises under Asymmetric
Information”, Presented at the Annual Conference of the French Economic Association, Cahiers
de la MSE- Série Blanche, N° 2001.64

SYMPOSIUMS AND TRAINING

  •  World Bank Institute Training, “Financial and ICT/ITES Services Trade: A Training of Trainers and Executive Course for MENA Countries”, Vienna Joint Institute, June 28 — July 2, 2010.
     
  • World Bank Institute Course, “WBI Course on Food and Agricultural Trade for MENA”, Vienna Joint Institute, April 6-9, 2010.
     
  • GDN Annual Conferences of 2009 and 2010.
     
  • ERF Annual Conferences of October 2002, December 2005, December 2007 andDecember 2009.
     
  • 58th Annual Conference of the French Economic Association, September 10-11, 2009.
     
  • World Bank Institute Workshop, “Research Capacity Building Program on Regional Integration and Agricultural”, Vienna Joint Institute, April 6-9, 2009.
     
  • African Economic Conference, 2007 and 2008.
     
  • Arab Planning Institute Conference “The Unemployment Crisis in the Arab Countries” (17-18 March 2008, Cairo- Egypt)
     
  • High-Level Seminar on African Finance for the 21st Century, Organized by the IMF Institute and the Joint Africa Institute, Tunis, Tunisia, March 4 — 5, 2008.
     
  • The second five-day training workshop for the project “Assessing Development Strategies to Achieve the MDGs in the Arab Region”, organized by the UN Development Policy and Analysis Division, Tunis, January 21-24, 2008.
     
  • Eleven Euro-Mediterranean Meeting on the Financing of Mediterranean economies, Nice, November 2007.
     
  • International Conference of the Middle East Economic Association, Sousse, March 2006.
     
  • Fourth International Conference on Economics and Finance in the Middle East and North Africa, Byblos, May 2002.
     
  • Symposium «Recent Development in International Economics”, organized by the GDR Economics and international Finance, Bordeaux, June, 2002.
     
  • XIX International Conference of Monetary and Banking Economics, Groupe de Travail et de Théorie Economique, Lyon, June, 2002.

LANGUAGES

Arab, French: Bilingual. English: written and spoken.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Oracle 7, Matematica, Matlab, Stata.
Language: Pascal, C, SQL.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Sports: Soccer.

Administrative activities:

2010- Vice-president of “Tunisia Polytechnic School Alumni Association” (ADEPT).

2008 - Vice-Director and Director of Studies and Internships at the University of Sousse, IHEC.

1998-1999 Assistant for the treasurer of the International Association of Residents of the International Students’ Residence of Paris.

1999-2000 Vice-president of “IPEST Alumni Association ” (ADAI). Responsible for cultural activities of the “Association of the residents of the Tunisian hall of residence at Paris.