Enas Farag

Enas is a third-year Economics PhD student at UIUC. Her research is focused on imperfect competition in labor markets. She earned her MS degree in Economics from the University of Utah as a Fulbright scholar. In her master’s thesis, which was accepted for publication in REStat, she studied the effect of CVS Health’s acquisition of Target’s pharmacy business on annual posted salary in the affected local labor markets. Enas holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Statistics from Cairo University, Egypt, where she was ranked top 1st among her class.

Enas is currently working as a Research Assistant for Prof. Adam Osman and she’s also a Teaching Assistant at the Economics department at UIUC. Previously, she worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She also worked as an Economic Researcher at the Egyptian Competition Authority, where she worked on several antitrust cases and market studies in the following divisions: Food and Agriculture, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Equipment, and Heavy Industries. In addition, she contributed to drafting a series of policy papers on assessing the Egyptian competition law and policy and how to use it to achieve other macroeconomic goals.