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EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Economics, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Visiting Scholar, Toulouse School of Economics, France
- M.A., Economics, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Ingénieur Statisticien Economiste, ENSEA of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University
- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University
- Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Paris-Nanterre, France
- Visiting Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Visiting Economist, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC
- Economic Adviser, Cameroon Council of Business Managers
- Senior Statistician, National Institute of Statistics, Cameroon
HONORS AND AWARDS
Significant Honors and Awards
- Dean’s Early Career Award, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, GSU
- Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) Fellowship, National Science Foundation
- Young Researcher Fellowship, Lindau-Nobel Council
- Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC – Canada; $40,000
- CIREQ Scholarship of Excellence, University of Montreal; $18,000
- Tradek-Matuszewski Fellowship of Excellence; $25,000 (declined)
- Scholarship of excellence, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; as top student in the African competitive admission to ENSEA-Abidjan: €25,000
- Scholarship of excellence, European Union; as top student in the African competitive admission to ISSEA-Yaoundé: €12,000
Other Honors and Awards
- Young African Scholar Program (YASP) Fellowship, International Economic Association
- Medal of Academic Excellence nomination, Simon Fraser University
- President’s Doctoral Scholarship, Simon Fraser University; $6,250
- Travel Grant, The OPEC Fund for International Development; €2,000
- Conference Grant, The Royal Economic Society; £1,500
- Graduate Fellowships, SFU Dean of Graduate studies; $6,250 x 3
- Conference Award, SFU Department of Economics; $1,500
- Minor Research and Travel Award, SFU Dean of Graduate studies; $1,500
- Young Scholar Grant, African Econometric Society; $1,500
- Special Award, High Commission for the Republic of Cameroon in Canada; $800
- Tuition waive Scholarship, Department of Economics, University of Montreal
RESEARCH
Publications
- “A Structural Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurship”, Economic Development & Cultural Change
- “Why is the Number of COVID-19 Cases Lower than Expected in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Role of Demographic and Geographic Factors” (with S. Tadadjeu), World Development, 2020.
- “Early Dynamics of Transmission and Projections of COVID-19 in Some West African Countries” (with J.C. Assob and D. Dongo), Infectious Disease Modelling, 5, 839-847, 2020.
- “Bootstrapping Mean Squared Errors of Robust Small-Area Estimators: Application to the Method-of-Payments Data” (with Valery D. Jiongo), Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2019.
- “On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting” (with Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis), Journal of Econometrics, 208 (2), 487-506, 2019.
- “Response to Comment: Estimating the productivity Impact of Technology adoption in the Presence of Misclassification” (with T. Wossen, T. Abdoulaye, A. Alene, S. Feleke, M. Haile), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101 (1), 19, 2019.
- “Estimating the Productivity Impact of Technology Adoption in the Presence of Misclassification” (with T. Wossen, T. Abdoulaye, A. Alene, S. Feleke, M. Haile), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101 (1), 1-16, 2019. Lead article.
- “Does Social Pressure Hinder Entrepreneurship in Africa? The Forced Mutual Help Hypothesis” (with Philippe Alby and Emmanuelle Auriol), Economica, 2018.
- “Robust Learning in Foreign Exchange Market” (with Edouard Djeutem), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018.
- “The effect of a performance-based financing program on HIV and maternal/child health services in Mozambique” (with Y. Rajkotia, O. Zang, J. Gergen, I. Djurovic, P. Vaz, F. Mbofana, K. Jobarteh ), Health Policy and Planning 10, 1–11, 2017.
- “Habit formation and Exhaustible Resource Risk-Pricing” (with J. Kakeu), Energy Economics 64, 1-12,2017. Lead article.
- “Some Effects of Business Environment on Retail Firms”, Applied Economics 48(18), 1647-1654, 2016.
- “An Improved AR(1) vs MA(1) Errors Test in Regression Models”, Journal of Time Series Econometrics 8(1), 41-54, 2015.
- “A Structural Econometric Analysis of the Informal Sector Heterogeneity“, Journal of Development Economics 107, 175-191, 2014.
- “ Uniform-in-Bandwidth Tests of Specification for Conditional Moment Restrictions Models” (with P. Lavergne), in Econometric Methods and Their Applications in Finance, Macro and Related Fields, K. Haddri and W. Mikhail (eds),World Scientific Publisher & Imperial College Press,223-241, 2014
- “A Simple Selection Test Between the Gompertz and the Logistic Growth Curves”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 88, 98-105, 2014.
- “Improved Inference for Moving Average Disturbances in Nonlinear Regression Models”, Journal of Probability and Statistics, Volume 2014, Article ID 207087, 2014.
- “Interval Estimation for the Stress-Strength Reliability with Bivariate Normal Variables” (with Marie Rekkas and Augustine Wong), Open Journal of Statistics 4, 630-640, 2014.
- “Highly Accurate Interval Estimation of the Stress-Strength Reliability with Normal Random Variables” (with Marie Rekkas and Augustine Wong), Communication in Statistics: Theory and Methods 44(6), 1210-1221, 2013.
- “On the Sustainability of Current Account Deficits in Cameroon” (with Edouard Djeutem), International Journal of Economics and Finance 3(2), 486-495, 2013.
- “Third-order Inference for Autocorrelation in Nonlinear Regression Models” (with Marie Rekkas), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 141, 3413-3425, 2011.
Working Papers
- “Regression with a Misclassified Binary Regressor: Correcting for the Hidden Bias” (with R. Rosenman and V. Tennekoon)[pdf]
- “A Hausman Specification Test of Conditional Moments Restrictions” (with Pascal Lavergne) [pdf]
- “Credit Constraints and Delayed Entrepreneurship” [pdf]
- “Capital-Resource Economies under Recursive Preferences” (with Johnson Kakeu) [pdf]
- “Tricks with Metrics: Modified Statistics for Improved Inference with Small Samples”
- “Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa” (with Albert G. Zeufack), TheWorld Bank, 2019
Work in Progress
- “Spatial and Sectoral Heterogeneity of Occupational Choice in Cameroon” (with Theophile Bougna)
- “Occupational Choice and Aggregate Productivity” (with Constant Lonkeng)
- “Do we Recycle too Much? Evidence from the U.S.” (with Francis Tatoutchoup)
- “Evaluating the Intrinsic Effect of Political Institutions’’ (with Y. Atchadé and L. Wantchekon)
- “Optimal Taxation of Road Quality with Gasoline Pricing” (with Samuel Asare)
Other Publications
- Nguimkeu, P. and C. Okou (2020), “Tale of Africa Today: balancing the lives and livelihoods of informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic” Africa Knowledge in Time Policy Brief, 1(3), 1-6. World Bank Group.
- “Informality” (with Cedric Okou), In The Future of Work in Africa: Harnessing the Potential of Digital Technologies for All, Jieun Choi, Mark Dutz, and Zainab Usman (Eds.), 2019
- “Réforme de la structure fiscale et Intégration régionale”, Revue Interventions Economiques/Papers in Political Economy, 2017, 83-86.
- “Has performance-based financing accelerated progress towards controlling the HIV epidemic? An impact evaluation of Mozambique’s HIV-focused PBF programme” (with Rajkotia, Y., Zang, O., and I. Djurovic), Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18 (Suppl 4), 86.
- “Diagnostic du Secteur du Commerce et Proposition de Solutions” in A. Fotso and R. Tsafack Nanfosso(Eds) “Les 100 Propositions du GICAM pour l’Emergence du Cameroun”, Editions Clé, 2014.
- “Bayesian Estimation of Correlation Matrices: Application to the Multivariate G.A.R.C.H. Model”, M.Sc. Thesis; University of Montreal, 2008.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Instructor
- Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
- Econometric Theory II (Graduate); Introduction to Statistical Foundations for Econometrics (Graduate); Applied Econometrics and Statistics (Graduate); Principles of Microeconomics (Undergraduate)
- Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
- Statistical Analysis of Economic Data-Econometrics (Undergraduate)
- Department of Economics, University of Paris-Nanterre
- Econometrics of Impact Evaluation (Graduate)
- Subregional Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, Cameroon
- Dynamic Optimization (Graduate); Public Economics (Graduate)
- Teaching Assistant
- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Toulouse I
- Methods of Mathematical and Statistical Analysis (Undergraduate)
- Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University
- Mathematical Economics (Graduate); Econometric Theory (Graduate); Applied Econometrics (Graduate); Intro to Mathematical Economics (Undergraduate); Economics of Risk Management (Undergraduate); Principles of Macroeconomics.
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS
Presentations at Conferences
- African Meeting of the Econometric Society 2018, Cotonou, Benin
- Southern Economic Association Conference 2017, Tampa-Florida, USA
- UNU-WIDER Conference 2017, Maputo, Mozambique
- IEA World Economic Congress, Mexico City, Mexico
- AEA/ASSA Conference, Chicago, USA
- Summer Institute for Economic Research (SIER), ASE, Cotonou, Benin
- 86th Southern Economic Association Conference, Washington D.C., USA
- International Association for Applied Econometrics Conference, Milano, Italy
- 2016 International Conference on Growth, Trade and Dynamics, Taipei, Taiwan
- 3e Edition des Journées de l’Entreprise et Université du GICAM, Douala, Cameroon
- Summer Institute for Economic Research (SIER), ASE, Cotonou, Benin
- 85th Southern Economic Association Conference, New-Orleans, USA
- 10th IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development, Bonn, Germany
- Canadian Development Economics Study Group Conference, Toronto, Canada
- 84th Southern Economic Association Conference, Atlanta, USA
- 78th International Atlantic Economic Conference, Savannah, USA
- 89th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, Denver, USA
- 17th World Economic Congress 2014, Dead Sea, Jordan
- CSAE Conference on Economic Development in Africa, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 6th DBAE Research Colloquium, Morehouse College, Atlanta, USA
- 2e Edition des Journees de l’Entreprise, Douala, Cameroon
- 46th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economic Association, Calgary, Canada
- Third Conference on Business and Entrepreneurship in Africa, Quebec-City, Canada
- 52e Congrès de la Société Canadienne de Sciences Economiques, Montebello, Canada
- 86th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, San Diego, USA
- North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, St Louis, USA
- 45th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economic Association, Ottawa, Canada
- SFU-UBC PhD Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
- Royal Economic Society 2011 Conference, London, United Kingdom
- Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics-SFU, Vancouver, Canada
- 27th Canadian Econometrics Study Group Meeting (CESG), Vancouver, Canada
- Joint Statistical Meeting of North American Stat Associations, Vancouver, Canada
- 15th Annual Meeting of the African Econometric Society, Cairo, Egypt
- 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economic Association, Quebec-city, Canada
- Economic Graduate Seminar, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- The 2007 International Society of Ecological Economics conference, New-York, USA
Invited Seminars
- University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- African Development Bank, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
- The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
- African School of Economics, Cotonou, Benin
- The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
- Princeton University, USA
- Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- University of Paris-Nanterre, Paris, France
- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
- Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, USA
- Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
- Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK
- Tulane University, New-Orleans, USA
- Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, Canada
- Université du Québec A Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, Canada
- University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, France
Summer Schools and Workshops
- Summer Institute of the Econometric Society, Cotonou, Benin
- DITE Workshop, New-Mexico, USA
- 4th Nobel Laureates meeting in Economic Sciences, Lindau, Germany
- GREMAQ Instrumental Variables Econometrics Workshop, Toulouse, France
- Bridging The Gap Development Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
- CLSRN workshop on “What’s new in Econometrics?”, Toronto, Canada
- CEFES workshop on Advanced teaching methods; Montreal, Canada
- IFM2 workshop on Advanced Matlab programming techniques; Montreal, Canada
STUDENT ADVISING
Supervision of Doctoral Dissertations
- Augustine Denteh (2018), Giulia Zilio (spring 2017), Oronde Small (spring 2017), Biplab Datta (summer 2017), Sohani Fatehin (summer 2017), Peyman Firouzi (in progress), Francisco Beltran (in Progress).
Supervision of Masters Theses
- Mattew DeLeonardis (fall 2016); Katie Huang (fall 2014); Andrew Burford (spring 2014); Khouredia Niang (fall 2013)
SERVICE IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Reviewer for Grants Applications
- African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 2016-present
- African Development Bank (AfDB), 2015-present
Scientific/Program Committee Member
- Econometric Society-African Meeting, Cotonou-Benin, July 2018
- ACFAS Conference on Informality, Entrepreneurship and Employment, Montreal, May 11-12, 2016
Session Organizer and/or Chair:
- American Economic Association meeting (2017); Southern Economic Association meeting (20142015, 2016), Canadian Economic Association meeting (2015), CSAE Conference on EconomicDevelopment in Africa (2014)
Editorial Board
- International Journal of Economics And Finance, 2012 – present
- International Journal of Statistics and Probability, 2012 -2013
Referee for Academic Journals
- African Development Review; Applied Economics; Applied mathematical Modeling; Communication in Statistics: T&M; Economics Bulletin; Economic Systems; International Journal of Economics and Finance;International Journal of Statistics and Probability; Journal of Applied Statistics; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Policy Analysis & Management; Journal of Statistical Planning & Inference; Revue Economique; Technological Forecasting & Social Change; World Development
Professional Affiliation
- American Economic Association; Canadian Economic Association; The Econometric Society; American Statistical Association; African Econometric Society; African Finance and Economic Association; Western Economic Association.
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