{"id":4388,"date":"2020-11-09T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/staff-members\/amel-ben-abdesslem\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:07:50","slug":"amel-ben-abdesslem","status":"publish","type":"staff-member","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/staff-members\/amel-ben-abdesslem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Amel Ben Abdesslem"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n \r\n
Assistant Professor<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t
Accounting, Economics and Finance, College of Business, Innovation, Leadership and Technology, School of Business<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t
Academic Credentials<\/b><\/p>\n
Ph.D., Economics, University of Bordeaux<\/p>\n
Biography<\/b><\/p>\n
Dr. Amel has been a faculty member at Marymount University since 2017. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bordeaux (France). She also holds a B.S. in Economics and two master’s degrees in International Economics and Finance.<\/p>\n
Her main research interests are focused on industrial policy, cluster policy, economic growth, innovation and monetary unions. She has manipulated large datasets and has published in peer-reviewed journals. For instance, she used quantitative skills to analyze the selection process of a cluster policy through a logit model, and to capture its impact on firms’ performance in the optic\/photonic industry by combining a propensity score matching procedure and a differences-in-differences estimation. This work was published in 2019 in the peer-reviewed journal Regional Studies<\/em> and was supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency. Dr. Amel collaborates with the University of Bordeaux<\/em> on research projects related to competitiveness.<\/p>\n Dr. Amel has been teaching economics at several institutions since 2009. She has received a Turnitin Global Innovation Award<\/em> in 2018 for her efforts to address academic integrity issues, and she offers her economic expertise to the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys<\/em>. She speaks four languages and has lived in France, England and Scotland before settling in the DC area. <\/p>\n Other Information<\/b><\/p>\n Teaching Area<\/b><\/p>\n Research Interests<\/b><\/p>\n Publications<\/b><\/p>\n\n
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