Manijeh Sabi
Professor of Economics
Contact Information:
101 B Gurley Hall
Troy, NY 12180
(518) 244-2397 ph
(518) 244-3160 fax
sabim@sage.edu
Education
Ph.D. Economics - Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Fields of Concentration: Money and Banking, International Banking, Manpower Planning, and Applied Econometrics.
M.A. Economics - Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Field of Concentration: Quantitative Methods.
B.A. Economics - Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
Short-term Program: Institut international de planification de l' education, UNESCO: Paris, France.
In Brief
Manijeh Sabi was born in Tehran Iran. She came to the U.S. as a high school exchange student. She received her BA in Economics from Wittenberg University (Ohio), MA in Economics from Kent State University (Ohio), and Ph.D. from Northeastern University (Massachusetts), where she wrote her dissertation on determinants of growth of multinational banks in less developed countries.
Before joining the faculty of The Sage Colleges, Dr. Sabi was a research analyst for the UNESCO functional literacy projects in Iran. She designed a quantitative plan for non-formal education in Iran, which was successfully implemented nationwide. Dr. Sabi has published articles in professional journals and presented papers in economic conferences on international finance and the economic status of women. She has also taught at Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts in Boston, and the State University of New York at Albany.
In 1993 she was awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to participate in a seminar in Budapest regarding Hungary's transition, and in 1996 was a visiting lecturer at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade in China (as part of SAGE-SIFT faculty exchange program).
She was a Fulbright Lecturer at Khazar University in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1995.
"It was a great experience to be in Azerbaijan at this turning point in history. Witnessing the challenges of independence and the transition from a command to a market economy had a significant and lasting impact on me both personally and professionally. I was there at the right moment as I was able to observe the first democratic election and visit refugee camps. These experiences obliged me to go beyond my field of specialization and develop new interests in exploring the complexities of nationality and religion in political development of independence. Observing the cultural and social paradoxes in Azerbaijan has definitely changed my views on issues concerning transition and I am sure it will affect how and what I lecture and write about the region."
Dr. Sabi has taught at Kazakhstan Institute of Management and Strategic Research (funded by United States Information Services and Open Society Institute) in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1998, and Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey in 1999.
In 2001 she directed a summer school, "Teaching Economics - Visual, Web-based, and Interactive," at Tomsk State University in Siberia, Russia. The Soros Foundation/Russia and Higher Education Support Program fund this summer school. Dr. Sabi participated in teaching a similar summer school at Kemerovo State University in Siberia, Russia in 2002.
Currently, she is the project director for a multiyear Soros Foundation’s Higher Education Support Program - Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching grant. The aim of this project is to encourage students in Central Asia and Caucasus to develop an understanding of how their own culture and heritage mold the economic institutions in their countries. The project was also designed to address the lack of teaching materials on financial economics. Participants collaborated to produce monographs aimed at preparing supplements to western textbooks on monetary issues. These supplements depict the special character of the local financial institutions. The project will complete teaching modules for: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kygryzstan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan.
This project so far has been hosted by American University - Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan- January 2005 and July 2005), Georgia State Economics School (Tbilisi, Georgia - March 2006 and July 2006), and Caucasus Research Resource Center (Yerevan, Armenia – July 2007).
Dr. Sabi has published articles in professional journals and presented papers in economic conferences regarding international finance and the economic status of women. Students can research with Dr. Sabi in the area of problems of economic transition, foreign direct investment, international banking, and Women in Development.
Manijeh Sabi in Issy-Kul, Kyrgyzstan.
Selected Publications
“Globalization and Human Development," International Conference on Globalization and Its Discontents, Proceedings, SUNY Cortland, 2008: 100-117. (ISBN: 978-975-8789-19-1).
“Globalization in Financial Sector: The Case of Multinational Banks in Transitional Economies,” paper presented in the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) annual meetings, New York, NY, February 2007.
“Corruption in Transitional Economies,” paper presented in the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) annual meetings, Philadelphia, PA, February 2006.
“Application of Foreign Direct Investment Theories to Transitional Economies,” paper presented in the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) annual meetings, New York, NY, March 2005.
“Factors Influencing Foreign Banks Presence in Transitional Economies,” paper presented in the EEA annual meetings, Washington, DC – February 2004
“Turkey’s Foreign Direct Investment Abroad.” Paper presented in the EEA annual meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2002.
"The Development and Problems of Banking System in Kazakhstan." Paper presented in the EEA annual meetings, Washington DC, March 2000.
"The Impact of Political and Economic Transformation on Women: the Case of Azerbaijan. Central Asia Survey, volume 18(1), 1999: 113-122.
"Does Economic Liberalization Matter? Evidence from Regional Comparison." Paper presented in the Northeast Regional Science Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 1997.
"Banking in Transition: Development and Current Problems in Azerbaijan." Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, volume 9, no. 4, 1997: 491-499.
"Comparative Analysis of Foreign and Domestic Bank Operations in Hungary." Journal of Comparative Economics, April 1996: 179-188.
"The Economic Status of Women in Transition to a Market System: The Case of Hungary." Paper presented in the EEA Annual meetings, New York, March 1995.
"What's Behind the Recent Growth of Foreign Banks in the U.S?: A Test of Conventional Hypotheses." Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money, volume 5, no. 4, 1995: 51-59.
"Are Trade Deficit Announcements Informative?" Applied Financial Economics, volume 4, 1994: 441-447. (with Dr. Kutty).
"Motivational Factors for the Establishment of U.S. Banks in Developing Countries." Social and Economic Studies, volume 43, no. 2, 1994: 91-105.
"An Application of the Theory of Foreign Direct Investment to Multinational Banking in LDCs." Journal of International Business Studies, Fall 1988: 433-447.
Other Publications – CD ROMs
Course packages, “Cultural Heritage and Monetary Institutions and Central Asia and Caucasus," for ReSET workshops in: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, January 2005; Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, July 2005; Tbilisi Georgia, March and July 2006;Yerevan, Armenia, July 2007.
Course Package, “Techniques for Teaching Economics," for Higher Education Support Program (HESP) Summer School Workshop in Kemerovo, Russia, July 2002 (with Dr. John Tribble).
Proceedings, “Teaching Economics: Visual, Web-based and Interactive,” for HESP, Summer School 2001 – Tomsk, Russia: Teaching Economics: An interactive CD Rom with documents in both Russian and English, published under a grant from the Open Society Institute – Soros Foundation (with Dr. John Tribble).
