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Dr. Eskander Alvi
Ph.D, John Hopkins University,1985
Associate Professor
5422, Friedman Hall
Phone: 269-387-5547
Email: Eskander.Alvi@wmich.edu
 
Areas of Interest:
Economic Growth and Development; Asymmetric Information Theory; Macroeconomic Theory; Monetary Economics; and Labor Economics
Current Research: Population, Finance, and Economic Growth; Herd Behavior; Microfoundations of Wage and Price Stickiness; Business Cycle Theory; and Involuntary Unemployment

Selected Publications:

“R & D Expenditure and Economic Growth: A Semiparametric Panel Data Study” with Debasri Mukherjee and Ashraf Eid, forthcoming in Atlantic Economic Journal.

"U.S. Regional Income and Technology: A Unit-Root and Cointegration Study" (with Habibur Rahman), Topics in Macroeconomics: Vol. 5, 2005.

"Unemployment Insurance and Experience-Rating in a Simple Model of Involuntary Unemployment," Public Finance Review, Vol.26, July 1998.

"Job Security and Unemployment in An Efficiency-Wage Model," Journal of Labor Research, Vol.19, 1998.

"Faimess and Self-Interest: An Assessment," Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol.27, 1998.

"First-order Approach to Principal-Agent Problems: A Generalization," Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory, Vol.22, June 1997.

"Three Departures from Maximizing Behavior and Their Keynesian Features: A Simple Exposition," Economic Theory, 4, 1994.

"Near-rationality/Menu Cost, Strategic Complementarity, and Real Rigidity: An Integration," Journal of Macroeconomics, Fall 1993.

"Strategic Interactions and Real Rigidity: Complementarity Between Two Keynesian Concepts," Southern Economic Journal, January 1993.

"Effort-Inducing Contracts," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Summer 1992.

"Information Revelation and Principal-Agent Contracts," Journal of Labor Economics, January 1988.

"The Production Process in a Competitive Economy -- A Comment," American Economic Review, December 1986.

 

Working Papers

“Malthusian Growth: Role of Finance and Human Capital in Low-Income Countries,” with Seife Dendir, 2004.

“Determinants of R&D Investments,” with Ashraf Eid and Debasri Mukherjee, 2004.

“Herd Behavior When Quality is Unknown,” 2003.

“An Economic Relationship Between Fertility and Longevity, and Implications for Growth,” with Habib Rahman, 2003.

"Old-Age Security Hypothesis Meets Neoclassical Growth Model," 1998. (WMU Economics Department Working Paper)

"Bandwagon Effects When Quality is Unknown," with Professor Ronald Oaxaca, University of Arizona, 1998.

 

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