K. Peren Arin received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State Uni­versity in 2003. He worked at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, and currently he is employed by Zayed Uni­versity, Abu Dhabi, UAE, and he is a research associate at the Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian Na­tional University, Canberra, Australia. His area of specializa­tion is macroeconomics, and he has wide research interests in the areas of monetary and fiscal policy, open economy macroeconomics and public economics. He has published over 20 articles in journals such as the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economics Letters, Journal of Management, Public Choice, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Macroeconomics, Open Economies Review, Applied Economics, and World Development. His email address is Kerim.Arin@​zu.ac.ae.