Aleksandr Gevorkyan

Aleksandr Gevorkyan

Keywords : economic development International Economics emerging markets macroeconomic policy transition

Country : United States

Organization : St. John's University

Department :

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Biography :

Assistant Professor
Economics and Finance
PhD, Macroeconomic development and fiscal policy, The New School
MPhil, Economics, The New School
MS, Economics, Louisiana State University
BS, International Trade & Finance, Louisiana State University
Dr. Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan is Assistant Professor of Economics in Department of Economics and Finance of the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University in New York City. He is a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Business Stewardship and a Vincentian Research Fellow at the Vincentian Centre for Church and Society. Dr. Gevorkyan also serves as Economics Subject Matter Expert for the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See To the United Nations in New York. Additionally, Dr. Gevorkyan has worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Central Bank of Armenia. Dr. Gevorkyan’s extensive teaching and research experience covers themes in macroeconomic policy, economic development, international financial economics, labor migration, sovereign debt, commodities markets, and post-socialist transition economics. Dr. Gevorkyan is a co-editor (with Otaviano Canuto) of Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging Markets (Palgrave MacMillan in 2016). He is also the author of Innovative Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Transition Economies (Routledge, 2013 in paperback; 2011 in hardcover).

Teaching Interests

Macroeconomics, Economic development, Economic history, Financial economics, International economics, Money and Banking, Transition economics, Urban economics

Research Interests

Commodity derivatives, Economics of climate change, Economic development, Exchange rate, Financial economics, Macroeconomic policy, Mandated benefits, Labor migration, Post-socialist transformation, Sovereign debt

Courses Taught

ECO
606
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
ECO
631
MONETARY & FISCAL POLICIES
ECO
1302
PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS II
ECO
1326
ECO HISTORY OF THE WESTERN COM
ECO
2309
MONEY AND BANKING
ECO
3341
MACROECONOMIC THEORY

Select Publications

Journal Articles

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Kvangraven, I. H. (2016). Assessing Recent Determinants of Borrowing Costs in Sub-Saharan AfricaReview of Development Economics. vol. 20, pp. 721-738.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2016). Development through Diversity: Engaging Armenia’s New and Old Diaspora. Washington, D.C.: Migration Information Source.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2015). The legends of the Caucasus: economic transformation of Armenia and GeorgiaInternational Business Review. vol. 24, pp. 1009–1024.

Bernard, L., Gevorkyan, A. V., Palley, T. I., and Semmler, W. (2014). Time Scales and Mechanisms of Economic Cycles: A Review of Theories of Long WavesReview of Keynesian Economics. vol. 2, pp. 98-107.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2012). Is Russia Still a BRIC? Some Observations on the Economy and Its Potential for DiversificationChallenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. vol. 55, pp. 88-116.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2012). Redefined fundamental uncertainty, fiscal rules, fiscal net, fiscal sustainability and emerging markets scenariosAestimatio, the IEB International Journal of Finance. vol. 5, pp. 126-161.

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Gevorkyan, A. (2012). Factoring Turbulence out: Diaspora Regulatory Mechanism and Migration Development BankInternational Migration. vol. 50, pp. 92-112.

Gevorkyan, A. V., Gevorkyan, A., and Mashuryan, K. (2008). Little Job Growth Makes Labor Migration and Remittances the Norm in Post-Soviet ArmeniaMigration Information Source.

Books

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Canuto, O. (2016). Financial Deepening and Post-Crisis Development in Emerging MarketsPalgrave Macmillan. pp. 270.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2011). Innovative Fiscal Policy and Economic Development in Transition EconomiesRoutledge (Taylor & Francis).

Book Chapters

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2015). Central Bank Bills. In: The Encyclopedia of Central BankingEdward Elgar.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2015). Economic crisis. In: Wiley Encyclopedia of Management (Vol. 6)John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1-5.

Gevorkyan, A. V. (2013). Armenia, Diaspora. In: The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Oxford, UK: J. Wiley & Sons; Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Gevorkyan, A. (2012). Derivatives, commodities, and social costs: exploring correlation in economic uncertainty. In: Derivative Securities Pricing and Modelling (Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, V. 94)Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pp. 47-70.

Others

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Harvold Kvangraven, I. (2016). The Trouble with Sub-Saharan African DebtThe Developing Economics blog.

Canuto, O., and Gevorkyan, A. V. (2016). Tales Of Emerging MarketsRoubini Economonitor.

Canuto, O., and Gevorkyan, A. V. (2016). Capital Flows and Deleveraging in Emerging Markets: the Great Portfolio RebalancingRoubini Economonitor.

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Canuto, O. (2015). Toward a Migration Development Bank for Transition EconomiesHuffington Post.

Gevorkyan, A. V., and Gevorkyan, A. (2006). Economics of Labor Migration from Armenia: A Conceptual StudyArmenian International Policy Research Group.