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)
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Work
- Saqib Amin & Syed Mansoob Murshed (2025) - Diversity Matters in the World of Finance: Does Ethnic and Religious Diversity Hinder Financial Development in Developing Countries? - Developing Economies - doi: 10.1111/deve.12434 - [link]
- Tung Nguyen, Mansoob Murshed & Hoai Nguyen Trong (2025) - Bilateral Trade Agreements Enhance External Debt Markets Accessibility – Empirical Evidence of Vietnam with Synthetic Control Analysis - International Economic Journal, 39 (1), 219-239 - doi: 10.1080/10168737.2024.2448621
- Rio Widianto, Matthias Rieger, Vid Adrison & Mansoob Murshed (2024) - Nudging Taxpayers via Instant Messaging to Submit Their Annual Tax Return: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia - Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 1-28 - doi: 10.1080/00074918.2024.2437824
- Anna Giulla, Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits & Mansoob Murshed (2024) - War Economies, Post-Conflict Transition and Human Trafficking - Journal of Human Trafficking - doi: 10.1080/23322705.2024.2423328 - [link]
- Carmen Van Klaveren, Syed Mansoob Murshed & Elissaios Papyrakis (2024) - Media Credibility and Voter Penalization of Corrupt Politicians in Latin America - Latin American Politics and Society, 66 (4), 40-57 - doi: 10.1017/lap.2024.16 - [link]
- Binyam Afewerk Demena, Amar Anwar & Syed Mansoob Murshed (2024) - A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of External Interventions on Conflict Intensity: Navigating Heterogeneity and Unveiling Genuine Effects - SAGE Open, 14 (4) - doi: 10.1177/21582440241299976 - [link]
- Sabna Ali, Syed Mansoob Murshed & Elissaios Papyrakis (2024) - The Socio-Economic Impact of an Abrupt Loss of Oil: A Synthetic Control Approach in the Case of Sudan - Journal of Asian and African Studies - doi: 10.1177/00219096241249981 - [link]
- Sajjad Faraji Dizaji & Syed Mansoob Murshed (2024) - External arms embargoes and their implications for government expenditure, democracy and internal conflict - World Development, 173 - doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106410 - [link]
- Tung Nguyen-Thanh, Syed Mansoob Murshed & Hoai Nguyen-Trong (2024) - External Debts, Re-Election Possibilities and the Infrastructure Development Via Public Private Partnership: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries - International Economic Journal, 38 (3), 426-445 - doi: 10.1080/10168737.2024.2355522 - [link]
- Brahim Bergougui, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Muhammad Shahbaz, Manuel A. Zambrano-Monserrate, Ahmed Samour & Mohammed Ibrahim Aldawsari (2024) - Towards secure energy systems: Examining asymmetric impact of energy transition, environmental technology and digitalization on Chinese city-level energy security - Renewable Energy, 238 - doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2024.121883 - [link]
- Mansoob Murshed (2022) - Trust, Ethnicity and Conflict: Experimental Evidence from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (co-authors M Badiuzzaman and Matthias Rieger) (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On the Scarcity of Critical Materials (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On Human Rights (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - New Directions in Conflict Research (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On Identity and Conflict (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - On the Resource Curse, Growth and Conflict (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - 2.Keynote address: PIVOTAL TO PEACE IN THE PLANET: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Mansoob Murshed (2011) - Global Discourse on Kashmir : the EU's possible role (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2010) - The South at the Crossroads of Change (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Mansoob Murshed (2010) - On Trade and Conflict (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional
Coventry University
- Start date approval
- September 2023
- End date approval
- December 9999
- Place
- COVENTRY, UNITED KINGDOM
- Description
- Research
