Dr Bassam Fattouh
Reader in Finance and Management
Academic Director for the MSc in International Management for the Middle East
Email: bf11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 515
Research Interests
- Capital Structure;
- Finance and Growth;
- Oil Prices and Markets.
Selected Publications
Fattouh, Bassam and L Deidda, Banks, Markets and Growth, Journal of Financial Intermediation, forthcoming.
Fattouh, Bassam, OPEC Pricing Power: The Need for a New Perspective, in D. Helmes (ed.), The New Energy Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Fattouh, Bassam and P. Demetriades, Unproductive Credit and the South Korean Crisis, in G. Mavrotas (ed.) “Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development”, UN WIDER, forthcoming.
Fattouh, Bassam and J. Kolb (2006) The Outlook for Lebanese Reconstruction: Competition and Legitimacy, MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol.6, 96-114.
Fattouh, Bassam (2006) The Origins and Evolution of the Current International Oil Pricing Regime: A Critical Assessment, in Robert Mabro (ed.) Oil in the 21st Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fattouh, Bassam and Robert Mabro (2006) The Under-Investment Problem in the Oil Sector, in Robert Mabro (ed.) Oil in the 21st Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fattouh, Bassam (2005) Capital Mobility and Sustainability: Evidence from US Current Account Data, Empirical Economics, vol. 30(1) 245-253.
Fattouh, Bassam and L Deidda (2005) Concentration in the Banking Industry and Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 9(2).
Fattouh, Bassam, P. Scaramozzino and L. Harris (2005) Capital Structure and the South Korean Crisis: A Quantile Regression Approach, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 76(1) 231-250.
Fattouh, Bassam, P. Arestis and A. Cipolliniand (2004) Threshold Effects in the U.S. Budget Deficit, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 42, 214-222.
Fattouh, Bassam, P. Arestis and P. Demetriades (2003) Financial Policies and the Aggregate Productivity of the Capital Stock: Evidence from Developed and Developing Economies, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 29, 183-190.
Fattouh, Bassam and L Deidda (2002) Non-Linearity between Finance and Growth, Economics Letters, Vol. 74, 339-345.
Fattouh, Bassam, P. Arestis, P. Demetriades and K. Mouratidis (2002) The Impact of Financial Liberalization Policies on Financial Development: Evidence from Developing Economies, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Vol.7, 109-121.
Fattouh, Bassam, P. Arestis, and L Deidda (2001) Emergence and Evolution of Cross-Border Banking: Evidence from the UK, The Greek Economic Review, Vol.21, 47-64.
Teaching
- Management in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) I: Business and Economic Environment of the Middle East (MSc);
- Management in MENA II: Managerial Systems and Management of Renewable and non-Renewable Resources in the Middle East (MSc);
- Islamic Banking and Finance.
