{"id":9854,"date":"2011-02-10T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:09:16","slug":"abizadeh-sohrab","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/people\/abizadeh-sohrab\/","title":{"rendered":"Abizadeh, Sohrab"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Languages spoken other than English<\/strong>: Persian (F\u0101rsi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research fields<\/strong>: public finance, international trade, economic growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Expertise<\/strong>:<br>\n\u2022 growth and size of government with special emphasis on causes and consequences of government expenditure growth<br>\n\u2022 international trade and productivity with special emphasis on the impact of trade liberalization on total factor productivity (TFP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected publications:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEquities, Liquidity and Consumption: Does the Stock Market Matter?\u201d (with Dennis Ng), <em>Applied Financial Economics<\/em>, Vol. 19, No. 15 (August 2009), pp. 1187\u20131196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEconomic Growth and Tax Components: An Analysis of Tax Changes in OECD\u201d (with Mehmet Serkan Tosun),<em> Applied Economics<\/em>, Vol. 37, No. 19 (20 October 2005), pp. 2251\u20132263.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrade Liberalization and Employment: Verdoorn\u2019s Law Meets the Asian Tigers\u201d (with Hugh Grant), <em>Canadian Journal of Development Studies<\/em>, Vol. 20, Special Issue (1999), pp. 717\u2013729; reprinted in <em>Progress in International Economic Research<\/em>, ed. Albert Tavidze, Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2001, pp. 181\u2013192; also reprinted in <em>Asian Economic and Political Issues, Volume 6<\/em>, ed. Frank Columbus, Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2002, pp. 25\u201336.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTransition Economies: A Temporal Comparative Analysis,\u201d <em>The Return of Mitteleuropa: Socio-Economic Transition in Post-Communist Central Europe<\/em>, ed. with Allen Mills, NOVA Science Publishers, Inc., 1999, pp. 31\u201368. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/mitteleuropa.jpg\">[cover]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/30024263\">\u201cOn Distinguishing between Leviathan and Public Interest Governments in a Federal State\u201d (with Philippe Cyrenne), <em>Public Choice<\/em>, Vol. 92, No. 3\/4 (1997), pp. 281\u2013299.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPotential For Economic Development: A Quantitative Approach\u201d (with Fay Abizadeh and Alexander Basilevsky), <em>Social Indicators Research<\/em>, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 1990), pp. 97\u2013113.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWagner\u2019s Law: A Pooled Time-Series, Cross-Section Comparison\u201d (with John Gray), <em>National Tax Journal<\/em>, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 1985), pp. 209\u2013218.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35195,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Sohrab","cu_people_last_name":"Abizadeh","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-9854","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.Sc. 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