
Tarek SelimAmerican University in Cairo | AUC · Department of Economics
Tarek Selim
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Introduction
Dr. Selim has 30 years of academic and professional experience in microeconomics, market structure and competition, business economics, game theory, and strategy. He has been visiting researcher at MIT and faculty affiliate to the Microeconomics of Competitiveness Network at Harvard Business School. He is member of the global experts panel of World Economic Forum (Davos) and MIT Technology Review.
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Egypt's oil and gas sector is one of the most strategic sectors in the economy being the single largest industrial activity in the economy, with exports of crude oil and petroleum products constituting 40% of Egypt's export revenues and 20% of its GDP. However, Egypt is currently trapped between dwindling oil production and increasing domestic cons...
This paper analyzes marble extraction and production in Egypt from an applied industrial economics point of view. The marble industry in Egypt could be a promising sector if regulated properly. Market structure, conduct and performance is analyzed including degree of differentiation, nature of competition, barriers to entry, and needed regulations....
The impact of information technology (IT) on the stability of market equilibrium is explained from a simple microeconomic standpoint. Attributes of a dynamically stable "virtual" market equilibrium are described assuming consumer rationality, an elastic supply curve, and minimum static market demand. Three conditions are necessary for long-run pric...
In this paper, game theory is applied to the case of price wars in a market scenario game towards a converging solution of Nash equilibrium. This is done using the famous Bertrand Game, starting first with a simple version of a game involving two players with undifferentiated products who move simultaneously by merely choosing their prices, and the...
The cement industry is a capital intensive, energy consuming, and vital industry for sustaining infrastructure of nations. The international cement market –while constituting a small share of world industry output—has been growing at an increasing rate relative to local production in recent years. Attempts to protect the environment in developed co...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of the Islamic financing method based on direct musharakah to the conventional capital asset pricing model yielding several interesting hypotheses.
Design/methodology/approach
Theoretical methodology, with maximin criteria, and rational economic optimization.
Findings
There are four...
The objective of this research is to derive a comparative human development index by which to study the social welfare position of the Egyptian economy relative to the Middle East region and developing countries. This includes a comprehensive set of economic development indicators: per-capita income, poverty ratio, poverty gap, inequality of income...
Education in Egypt has been an economic paradox for a long time and there is urgent need for change. The Egyptian Constitution guarantees the "right of education in all its stages" for every citizen free of charge in state educational institutions. Yet, there is overwhelming evidence suggesting that such a right is not exercised without the heavy f...
This paper presents a microeconomic assessment of the marble industry in Egypt. The marble industry is considered one of the oldest industries in the world. Historically, the industry moved from labor-intensive to capital-intensive with the advent of technological advancement, including development of automated production tools like cranes and diam...
The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income based, consumption based, or entitlement based. The variation in the concept of poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptu...
The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptu...
This paper is concerned with providing a core model to address the issue of firms simultaneously competing in both prices and quantities (capacity levels) within a simple duopoly market setting where products are asymmetrically differentiated by endogenous quality location. A three-stage competitive framework is introduced such that non-collusive f...
Spatial quality choice is introduced where consumers are horizontally differentiated by taste and firms vertically differentiated by quality location, within an equilibrium model of duopoly competition that it characterized by asymmetric fixed and variable costs. Firms choose quality location followed by prices, but may vertically relocate their qu...
The local steel industry in Egypt has been protected by high tariffs which were relaxed lately. The market is segmented according to steel type and there is a dominant steel producer acting as a monopoly in the market. Due to barriers to entry in the short run and the dominant market position of the monopoly, price elasticity became more demand ine...
p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-indent: 0in; margin: 0in 39.3pt 0pt 33.75pt;"> The usage of information technology (IT) towards sustainable economic growth is found to yield three main effects: (1) an efficiency effect , (2) a scale effect, and (3) a capital utilization effect. The first two effects are multiplicative whereas the third effe...
The present paper is concerned with addressing the issue of firms competing in both prices and quantities (capacity levels) within a simple differentiated duopoly where products are asymmetrically differentiated by quality location. A three-stage competitive model is investigated such that firms compete in quality, followed by choice of fixed capac...
We study students placement in Egyptian colleges under the current demand/supply placement mechanism implemented in Egypt (ǫ-mechanism). We show that the ǫ-mechanism is not Pareto efficient nor strategy proof and, moreover, it cannot be improved to accommodate Pareto efficiency nor strategy proofness. The final conclu-sion is that it is better, fro...
Typescript. At head of title: American University in Cairo. School of Science and Engineering. Thesis (M.A.)--American University in Cairo, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111).