Fields
Microeconomics, Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
Dissertation
Environmental Policy and Markets
Background
I will be completing the requirements for my Ph.D Applied Economics in the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst by July this year, 2009. I hold a Masters of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics from the American University in Cairo, Egypt and the University of Buea, Cameroon respectively. Under the supervision of John Stranlund I am currently exploring the use of capital markets to design more efficient environmental regulations and the effects of enforcement costs and market structure on emissions taxes.
Teaching
I have teaching experience dating back to my undergraduate studies when I tutored classmates in Statistics and Microeconomics courses. In graduate school I have been very active in teaching, serving as an instructor in the Talent Advance Program, School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As an instructor in this program I was responsible for teaching two required courses - Microeconomics and Statistics for Business majors. Before then I served as a teaching assistant in a wide range of Economics, Statistics and Econometric courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the American University in Cairo. I have a strong background in Economics and the flexibility to teach any core economics courses and associated disciplines.
Instructor (Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst):
- Introduction to Statistics, Spring 2008
- Introduction to Statistics, Spring 2007
- Introduction to Resource Economics, Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant (Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst):
- Introduction to Resource Economics (Tom Stevens), Spring through Fall 2006
- Introduction to Resource Economics (Nathalie Lavoie), Spring through Fall 2005
Teaching Assistant, (Department of Economics, American University in Cairo):
- Econometrics (Seda Rodrigo), Fall 2003 through Spring 2004
- Project Evaluation (Makary Samir), Spring through Summer 2003
- Macroeconomics, Fall 2001 through fall 2002
Publications and Research in Progress
Nyiwul, Linus and Selim, Tarek. 2006. "Poverty as Social Deprivation: A Survey," Review of Social Economy, Volume 64, Number 2, pp.181-204 (24)
Work in Progress:
- Exploiting Stock Markets to Improve Environmental Quality
- Effects of Enforcement Costs and Market Structure on an Emissions tax
- Over-compliance as Rank Order Tournament
