Contact
Full Teaching Professor, Faculty of Arts - Economics Dept
- sharaf@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Development Economics Economic Policies Health Economics Applied Econometrics
About
Education
• PhD. in Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Fall 2012.
Employment History
• Full Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, August 2019 – Present.
• Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, July 2018 – July 2019.
• Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2014 – 2018.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2012 – 2014.
Courses
ECON 101 - Introduction to Microeconomics
How markets and governments determine which products are produced and how income is distributed in the Canadian economy. Not open to students with credit in ECON 204.
ECON 102 - Introduction to Macroeconomics
Employment, inflation, international payments, monetary policy, and fiscal policy, all in the Canadian economy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or consent of Department. Not open to students with credit in ECON 204.
ECON 281 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I
The theory of consumer behavior; theory of production and cost; price and output determination under competition, monopoly and other market structures. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or equivalent.
Featured Publications
Mesbah Fathy Sharaf, Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen
International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis. 2025 May; 10.1108/ijhma-03-2025-0060
Mesbah Fathy Sharaf, Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen, Badr Abdulaziz Binzaid
Journal of Financial Economic Policy. 2025 January; 10.1108/jfep-06-2023-0148
Mesbah Fathy Sharaf, Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen, Badr Abdulaziz Binzaid
Economies. 2024 January; 10.3390/economies12010018
International Journal of Development Issues. 2020 January; 10.1108/IJDI-01-2020-0005
European Journal of Development Research. 2019 January; 10.1057/s41287-018-0187-7
Journal of International Development. 2019 January; 10.1002/jid.3414
Oxford Development Studies. 2019 January; 10.1080/13600818.2018.1497589
Journal of Biosocial Science. 2019 January; 10.1017/S0021932017000633
Middle East Development Journal. 2019 January; 10.1080/17938120.2019.1664837
Social Indicators Research. 2018 January; 10.1007/s11205-016-1515-y
Social Indicators Research. 2018 January; 10.1007/s11205-017-1631-3
Journal of International Development. 2017 January; 10.1002/jid.3295
Social Sciences. 2015 January; 10.3390/socsci4041162
Health Economics Review. 2015 January; 10.1186/s13561-016-0097-3
Economies. 2015 January; 10.3390/economies3040216
Journal of Primary Prevention. 2015 January; 10.1007/s10935-014-0377-9
Economies. 2015 January; 10.3390/economies3030128
Addictive Behaviors. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.12.005
Preventive Medicine. 2014 January; 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.01.013
Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 2014 January; 10.1123/jpah.2011-0305
Cancer Causes and Control. 2014 January; 10.1007/s10552-014-0410-6
Nicotine and Tobacco Research. 2013 January; 10.1093/ntr/nts194
IZA Journal of Migration. 2013 January; 10.1186/2193-9039-2-13
International Journal of Public Health. 2013 January; 10.1007/s00038-013-0452-7
Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2012 January; 10.1177/2150131911417445
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. 2012 January; 10.1177/2150131911434206
BMC Public Health. 2012 January; 10.1186/1471-2458-12-123
International Journal of Public Health. 2012 January; 10.1007/s00038-012-0348-y
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2011 January; 10.3390/ijerph8051583
Nutrition Journal. 2011 January; 10.1186/1475-2891-10-118
BMC Public Health. 2011 January; 10.1186/1471-2458-11-642
Health Economics Review. 2011 January; 10.1186/2191-1991-1-15
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