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M. Shahe Emran

Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs

Monroe 302
2115 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6922
Fax: (202) 994-7743
E-mail: semran@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Stanford University

Expertise:

Development Economics, Public Economics, International Economics, Applied Econometrics

Background:

M. Shahe Emran is Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University and the coordinator of Tax Task Force at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University. He was educated at Stanford University (Ph.D. in Economics, Advisors: Joseph Stiglitz, Masahiko Aoki and Avner Greif) and Dhaka University (M.S.S in Economics). He previously worked at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies and the World Bank. His research interests focus on Development Economics, Public Economics, and Applied Econometrics.

Published Papers:

(1) "Economic Liberalization and the Price Response of Aggregate Private Investment: Time Series Evidence from India" (with Forhad Shilpi and Imam Alam), Canadian Journal of Economics, August 2007.
(2) "On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries" (with Joseph Stiglitz), Journal of Public Economics, April, 2005.
(3) "Revenue-Increasing and Welfare-Enhancing Reform of Indirect Taxes on Exports", Journal of Development Economics, June, 2005.
(4) "Weak-Separability of Non-Tradables from Consumer Good Imports: A Simple Test With Evidence from Bangladesh" (with Imam Alam), Economics Letters, May 1999, p. 225-234.
(5) "Foreign Exchange Rationing and the Aggregate Import Demand Function," (with Forhad Shilpi), Economics Letters, June 1996, p. 315-322.

Working Papers:

(1) "Microfinance and Missing Markets" (with AKM Mahbub Morshed and Joseph Stiglitz).
(2) "Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint, and Entrepreneurial Development" (with Joseph Stiglitz).
(3) "Efficiency and Equity in Tax Reform in Developing Countries" (with Joseph Stiglitz).
(4) "Local versus Global: Access to Markets and Rural Poverty" (with Zhaoyang Hou).
(5) "Consumer Price-Neutral Reform of Trade Taxes and Consumption Taxes with Costly Administration."
(6) "Price-Neutral Tax Reform with an Informal Economy" (with Joseph Stiglitz).
(7) "Estimating Aggregate Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka" (with Forhad Shilpi).
(8) "Is Black Market Exchange Rate a Good Proxy for Equilibrium Exchange Rate? A Simple Test with Evidence from South Asia" (with Forhad Shilpi).
(9) "Marketing Externalities and Market Development" (with Forhad Shilpi).
(10) "The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization" (with Forhad Shilpi).
(11) "Genes, Gender, and Role Models: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in a Rural Economy" (with Forhad Shilpi).

Work in Progress:

(1) "Microfinance and Ultra-Poor" (with Forhad Shilpi).
(2) "VAT, Trade Taxes, and the Extent of the Market" (with Joseph Stiglitz).
(3) "Indirect Tax Reform and Unemployment" (with joseph Stiglitz).
(4) "Secrecy, Search, and Bureaucratic Corruption" (with Joseph Stiglitz).
(5) "Optimal Taxation of an Informal Economy: The Role of VAT and Trade Taxes" (with Joseph Stiglitz).
(6) "Extent versus Depth: Understanding the Interaction Between International Trade and Domestic Market in Long Run Growth" (with Forhad Shilpi and Migiwa Tanaka).
(7) "Government Borrowing and Private Investment: Disentangling Crowding in and Crowding out" (with Subika Farazi).
(8) "Access to Markets and Rural Income Inequality: Evidence from China" (with Zhaoyang Hou).

Courses Taught:

Econ 151 Economic Development
Econ 250 Survey of Development Economics
Econ 352 Development Economics II

Last update: 07.11.07