Biography
Syed Mansoob Murshed is Professor of the Economics of Peace and Conflict at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University in the Netherlands. His research interests are in the economics of conflict, resource abundance, aid conditionality, political economy, macroeconomics and international economics.
He was the first holder of the rotating Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity in 2003. He was a Research Fellow at UNU/WIDER in Helsinki where he ran projects on Globalization and Vulnerable Economies and Why Some Countries Avoid Conflict, While Others Fail. He also ran a project on The Two Economies of Ireland, financed by the International Fund for Ireland at the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre (NIERC), Belfast.
He is the author of ten books and over 170 refereed journal papers and book chapters. His latest monograph, published in 2010, is Explaining Civil War (Edward Elgar).
He is on the Editorial boards of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (PEPS), as well as Civil Wars.
He is an associate Editor of the Journal of Peace Research (JPR)
International Institute of Social Studies
Full professor | Academic staff unit
- murshed@iss.nl
- Room
- I4-29
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
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Work
- Binyam Afewerk Demena, Amar Anwar & Mansoob Murshed (2023) - Can external interventions restrain conflict intensity?: Eight hundred estimates from 1996 – 2020 say “probably not”
- Mansoob Murshed, Manzoor Hasan & Priya Pillai (2022) - Introduction: The complex Rohingya humanitarian crisis - doi: 10.4324/9781003304883-1 - [link]
- Mansoob Murshed, Manzoor Hasan & Priya Pillai (2022) - The Rohingya Crisis: Humanitarian and Legal Approaches - [link]
- Sabna Ali, Mansoob Murshed & Elissaios Papyrakis (2022) - Oil, export diversification and economic growth in Sudan: evidence from a VAR model - Mineral Economics, 36 (1), 77-96 - doi: 10.1007/s13563-022-00310-w - [link]
- Brahim Bergougui & Syed Mansoob Murshed (2022) - A sectoral analysis of institutional quality and foreign direct investment in Mena countries: does sector type matter? - Review of World Economics - doi: 10.1007/s10290-022-00486-x - [link]
- Kumba Digdowiseiso, Syed Mansoob Murshed & Sylvia I. Bergh (2022) - What Drives Regional Proliferation in Indonesia? Assessing the Role of Institutions - Lex Localis, 20 (1), 27-55 - doi: 10.4335/20.1.27-54(2022) - [link]
- SM (Mansoob) Murshed (2022) - Consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for economic inequality - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82339-9_5#DOI - [link]
- Kumba Digdowiseiso, Syed M. Murshed & Sylvia I. Bergh (2022) - How Effective Is Fiscal Decentralization for Inequality Reduction in Developing Countries? - Sustainability (Switzerland), 14 (1) - doi: 10.3390/su14010505 - [link]
- Saqib Amin & Mansoob Murshed (2022) - Diversity matters in the world of finance: does ethnic and religious diversity hinder financial development in developing countries
- Michael Bayerlein, Vanessa A. Boese, Scott Gates, Katrin Kamin & SM (Mansoob) Murshed (2021) - Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic - Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy,, 2 (3), 389-428 - doi: 10.1561/113.00000043
- Md. Shahnewaz Khan & SM (Mansoob) Murshed (2021) - Do Citizens Matter for Economic Growth?-Evidence from Panel data - Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy, 37 (1)
- Brahim Bergougui & Mansoob Murshed (2021) - Revisiting the oil wealth- growth nexus: The role of economic norms in avoiding the oil curse - The Extractive Industries and Society: an International Journal (print), 8 (3) - doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100929 - [link]
- Yanbai Li, Syed Mansoob Murshed & Elissaios Papyrakis (2021) - Public capital and income inequality: some empirical evidence
- Mansoob Murshed (2021) - Reformulating Jan Tinbergen’s Normative Vision on Welfare and Security - Journal of Peace Research, 58 (5), 962-972 - doi: 10.1177/0022343320969771 - [link]
- Mansoob Murshed (2021) - Essays on Civil War , Inequality and Underdevelopment
- Mansoob Murshed (2021) - Globalization and the Twin Scourges of Illiberalism and Inequality
- Brahim Bergougui & Mansoob Murshed (2020) - New evidence on the oil-democracy nexus utilising the Varieties of Democracy data - Resources Policy, 69 - doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101905 - [link]
- Syed Mansoob Murshed (2020) - Populist politics and pandemics: some simple analytics
- Mansoob Murshed, Brahim Bergougui, Muhammad Badiuzzaman & MH Pulok (2020) - Fiscal Capacity, Democratic Institutions and Social Welfare Outcomes in Developing Countries - Defence and Peace Economics, 56 (2) - doi: 10.1080/10242694.2020.1817259 - [link]
- Mansoob Murshed (2022) - Trust, Ethnicity and Conflict: Experimental Evidence from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (co-authors M Badiuzzaman and Matthias Rieger)
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On the Scarcity of Critical Materials
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On Human Rights
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - New Directions in Conflict Research
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On Identity and Conflict
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On the Resource Curse, Growth and Conflict
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - 2.Keynote address: PIVOTAL TO PEACE IN THE PLANET: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION
- Mansoob Murshed (2011) - Global Discourse on Kashmir : the EU's possible role
- Mansoob Murshed (2010) - The South at the Crossroads of Change
- Mansoob Murshed (2010) - On Trade and Conflict
Major ECD
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-ECD-22-23
General Information
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-23-24
4217 Conflict Analysis
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-4217-23-24
4231 Growth, Inequality and Poverty
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-4231-23-24
4151 Principles of Economic Development
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-4151-23-24
Major ECD
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-ECD-23-24
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-23-24
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-23-24
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-23-24
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