Sohrab Abizadeh

Languages spoken other than English: Persian (Fārsi)

Research fields: public finance, international trade, economic growth

Expertise:
• growth and size of government with special emphasis on causes and consequences of government expenditure growth
• international trade and productivity with special emphasis on the impact of trade liberalization on total factor productivity (TFP)

Selected publications:

“Equities, Liquidity and Consumption: Does the Stock Market Matter?” (with Dennis Ng), Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 19, No. 15 (August 2009), pp. 1187–1196.

“Economic Growth and Tax Components: An Analysis of Tax Changes in OECD” (with Mehmet Serkan Tosun), Applied Economics, Vol. 37, No. 19 (20 October 2005), pp. 2251–2263.

“Trade Liberalization and Employment: Verdoorn’s Law Meets the Asian Tigers” (with Hugh Grant), Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 20, Special Issue (1999), pp. 717–729; reprinted in Progress in International Economic Research, ed. Albert Tavidze, Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2001, pp. 181–192; also reprinted in Asian Economic and Political Issues, Volume 6, ed. Frank Columbus, Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2002, pp. 25–36.

“Transition Economies: A Temporal Comparative Analysis,” The Return of Mitteleuropa: Socio-Economic Transition in Post-Communist Central Europe, ed. with Allen Mills, NOVA Science Publishers, Inc., 1999, pp. 31–68. [cover]

“On Distinguishing between Leviathan and Public Interest Governments in a Federal State” (with Philippe Cyrenne), Public Choice, Vol. 92, No. 3/4 (1997), pp. 281–299.

“Potential For Economic Development: A Quantitative Approach” (with Fay Abizadeh and Alexander Basilevsky), Social Indicators Research, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 1990), pp. 97–113.

“Wagner’s Law: A Pooled Time-Series, Cross-Section Comparison” (with John Gray), National Tax Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 1985), pp. 209–218.

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