BUSINESS ECONOMICS

Business Economics
Business economics is an applied economics stream that deals with business decisions related to choices, incentives, and resource allocation. Business economics’ principles and tools are essential, to navigate through the complexities and interactions of different economic agents and answer questions related to market design, competition, pricing, regulation, and strategic behaviors, among others.
In Africa Business School, such tools and principles are used, to understand and assess the concepts of sustainable development and energy transition. Indeed, climate change is closely associated with conventional energy use, is seen as the biggest threat to sustainable development. Business economics can play an important role in informing business and policy decision-makers on sustainable solutions that ensure a just and inclusive energy transition.
Research Interests
At ABS, there is a strong interest in the application of business economics tools and principles to understand the many facets of energy transition, sustainable development and corporate sustainability.
Typical applied research topics that are of interest to us are including but not limited to:

bullet  Energy, water and food nexus
bullet  National and corporate energy strategies
bullet  Sustainability in transportation
bullet  Estimating and decreasing the carbon footprint
bullet  Utilities regulation
bullet  Urbanization and growth 
bullet  Fertilizers markets.

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Related Publications:

bullet  Kharbach.M; Chfadi.T. Oil prices and electricity production in Morocco. Energy Strategy Reviews, 2018.

bullet  Kharbach.M; Chfadi.T. CO2 Emissions in the Moroccan transport sector: Decomposition and Cointegration.

bullet  Sustainable Cities and Society, 2017.

bullet  Kharbach.M. Fuel consumption efficiency for electricity and water production in Abu Dhabi. Energy Strategy  Reviews, 2016.

bullet  Kharbach.M. Diversification criteria for power systems. Energy Policy, 2016.