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Kevah Majlesi

  • Assistant Professor, Lund University

Kaveh Majlesi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies at Lund University.  He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s degree in Public Administration/International Development from Harvard University. Kaveh’s research interests are in the areas of Labor economics, Development economics, and Household finance. His current research focuses on the effect of labor market shocks on different decisions at the firm, household and individual level as well as the determinants and consequences of different types of asset holding.

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Importing Political Polarization?

Paper Conference paper | By Kevah Majlesi | Oct 2017

The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure

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Reawakening

From the Origins of Economic Ideas to the Challenges of Our Time

Event Plenary | Oct 21–23, 2017

INET gathered hundreds of new economic thinkers in Edinburgh to discuss the past, present, and future of the economics profession.