CV - Pierre Nguimkeu

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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

“Credit Constraints and Delayed Entrepreneurship”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 224, 156-180, 2024.
“Tricks with Metrics: Combining Statistics for Improved Inference with Small Samples”, Econometric Reviews, 1-14, 2024.
“Manufacturing in Structural Change in Africa” (with Albert G. Zeufack), World Development, 177, 106542, 2023.
“A Structural Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurship”, Economic Development & Cultural Change, 70.3 : 941-980, 2022.
“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]
“Capital-Resource Economies under Recursive Preferences” (with Johnson Kakeu) [pdf]
“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)
“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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