Abdelkrim Seghir

Associate Professor
Department of Economics
The American University in Cairo
Egypt

Biography

Abdelkrim Seghir earned his BS in Mathematics in 1997 from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis. He earned an MA in Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance and a PhD in Mathematical Economics from University of Paris 1 Sorbonne in 1998 and 2002 respectively. Seghir has worked as a visiting researcher at the economics department "Universidade NOVA" in Lisbon from September 2002 to September 2004. Before arriving at AUC, he worked as an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut from September 2004 to September 2006.

Research Intrest

Mathematical Economics, General Equilibrium Theory, Incomplete Financial Markets, Overlapping Generations Models, Default in Credit Markets

List of Publications
Abdelkrim Seghir, 2005: “Overlapping Generations Model with Incomplete Markets: The Numeraire Case II”, The Annals of Economics and Statistics, No. 81, pp.113-140.
Abdelkrim Seghir and Juan Pablo Torres-Martinez, 2008: “Wealth transfer and the role of collateral when lifetimes are uncertain”, Economic Theory,Springer,vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 471-502.
M.R. Pascoa and A. Seghir, 2009, “Harsh Default Penalties Lead to Ponzi Schemes”, Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 270-286.

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