Muhammad Asali

Selected Publications

Exchange rates and recoveries from crises: The role of labor market institutions
VoxEU, Labor Markets, 21 Jan 2025. (With Vytautas Kuokstis and Simonas Spurga)

Violence and cooperation in geopolitical conflicts: Evidence from the Second Intifada
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 217: 261-286. (With A.A. & M.B., PDF)

Labor market flexibility and exchange rate regimes.
European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 75: 102205. (With V.K. and S.S., PDF)

Civil Rights Experiments versus Enrichment Experiments in Wage Gap Analysis.
Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30(10): 1395-1399. (PDF)

The Cycle of Violence in the Second Intifada: Causality in Nonlinear Vector Autoregressive Models.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32(6): 1197-1205. (With A. A. and M.B.) (PDF) 

Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy.
Economics of Transition, 2020, 28(3): 515-533. (with R.G.)  (PDF. Earlier version: IZA DP 12101)

The End of Tenure? Not Really!!  A Tale of Two Tracks.
Education Economics, 2019, 27(3): 323-337. (PDF. Earlier version: IZA DP 11423)

Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic: Evidence from a Field Experiment.
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46(4): 1294-1309. (With N.P. and S.S.)  (PDF. Earlier version: IZA DP 11056)

vgets: A command to estimate general-to-specific VARs, Granger causality, steady-state effects, and cumulative impulse responses.
Stata Journal, 2020, 20(2), 426-434. (PDF. To install the command in Stata type "net sj 20-2", then "net install st0602", and "net get st0602". Without quotation marks.)

“Intralesional Injection of the Calcium Channel Blocker Verapamil in Peyronie's Disease: A critical review.”
Archives of Italian Urology and Andrology, 2020, 92(3). (With M. Asali)

Compulsory Military Service and Future Earnings: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Defence and Peace Economics, 2019, 30(4): 402-420. (PDF. Earlier version: IZA DP 8892)

Military Service and Future Earnings: Evidence from an Informed Difference-in-Differences (IDID) Approach.
Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38(3): 1583-1589.

The Effects of (Different Types of) Immigrants on Labor Market Outcomes of (Different Groups of) Natives.
International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38(3): 338-353. (PDF)

Local Human Capital Formation and Optimal FDI.
Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 25(5), 2016, 691-705. (With A.C.C. and A.S.) (PDF)

Recessions are Not Good for Your Health: the Counter-Cyclical Health Outcomes Revisited.
European Economics Letters, Volume 4(1), June 2015, 11-14. (PDF)

The Effect of Immigration on Unskilled Native Workers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Southern Economic Journal, Volume 80(2), October 2013, 345-365. (PDF)

 On the Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Human Capital Formation.
Cuadernos de economía, Volume 34(96), December 2011, 153-161. (With A.C.C.) (PDF)

 Jewish-Arab Wage Gap: What are the Causes?
Defence and Peace Economics, Volume 21, Issue 4, August 2010, pp. 367-380. (PDF)

 Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise. in Arguments for a Better World—Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Ed. Kaushik Basu and Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University Press, 2008, Vol. 2, Chapter 1, pp. 7-30. (Joint with S.R and S.V.) (PDF)