Mohammad Arzaghi, Assistant Professor
PhD, Brown University, 2005

Address: Department of Economics School of Business and Management (SBM) American University of Sharjah P.O. Box 26666 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Room: NAB119 Office: +(971) 6 515 2730 E-mail: marzaghi@aus.edu

Research Interests:

1. Industrial Organization, Urban Economics, Spatial Economics, Economics of Advertising and Marketing, Applied Microeconomics.

Selected Publications:

1. Why Countries Are Fiscally Decentralizing, Journal of Public Economics, 89(7), pp. 1157-1189, 2005. (Co-authored with Vernon Henderson).
2. Arzaghi, Mohammad and Henderson, Vernon, “Networking off Madison Avenue,” Review of Economic Studies, 75 (4), pp. 1011-1038, 2008. http://www.restud.com/abstract.asp?vid=75&iid=4&aid=499&s=-9999 *

Papers under Reviews:

1. The Economics Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services, with Ernst Berndt,
   James Davis, and Alvin Silk, March 2009 (under review at Journal of Law and Economics)
2. A Confidence Interval Test For The Detection Of Structural Breaks , March 2009, (under review at the Journal of The Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics). (Co-authored with Ismail Genc).

Working Papers:

1. Port City Growth, April 2009
2. Migration as a Way to Diversify: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migration in the United States, with Anil Rupasingha, February 2008
3. "Quality Sorting and Networking: Evidence from the Advertising Agency Industry”, July 2008.
4. "Urban Resurgence," (Co-authored with James Davis, U.S. Census Bureau) Working Paper, November 2006.
5. "Spatial Mobility and Geographic Concentration," (Co-authored with James Davis, US Census Bureau) Working Paper, April 2005.

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