Mohamed Abubraidaa
PhD in Economics, Simon Fraser University
Economist with experience in business and economic research and advanced technical skills in large-scale data analysis. My work covers applied macroeconomics in two areas: entrepreneurial investment risk and finance decisions, and the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy.
Experience
- Produced macroeconomic forecasts and nowcasts, with comparative analysis across countries.
- Estimated impulse responses with SVAR and VAR models.
- Studied wealth distribution and measured household wealth redistribution.
- Calibrated models and derived a general framework for household heterogeneity and wealth distribution, and built an original economic framework for an interest-free economy.
- Worked with large, complex datasets: cleaning, filtering, and merging data.
- Used empirical models to evaluate evidence and support well-informed decisions, connecting theoretical models and methods to real-world practice.
Worked with large U.S. household survey data: cleaned and filtered the data, merged datasets in the PSID, ran regression models, and produced clean results tables.
Money and Banking, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Canadian Microeconomic Policy. Ran tutorials, office hours, and grading.
Econometrics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, corporate finance, and mathematical analysis.
Market research and statistical reports for the CEO and senior management.
Courses: Mathematical Analysis for Economics; Introduction to Microeconomics.
Taught Introduction to Microeconomics.
Education
Skills
SAS (certified), STATA, R, SPSS, Shazam, Gretl, MATLAB, Python (machine learning, data analysis), SAP for accounting, LaTeX, Excel.
Research
A modified TANK model with redistributive fiscal policy shows that dividend taxation and the share of hand-to-mouth households can amplify or dampen monetary transmission. Calibrated to U.S. and Canadian data, the model's impulse responses closely match empirical VAR evidence.
A heterogeneous-agent model (Aiyagari-style, incomplete markets, entrepreneurial risk) studying how profit–loss sharing contracts shape wealth distribution and capital pricing in an interest-free economy.