Kamiar Mohaddes

BSc (University of Warwick), MPhil, PhD (University of Cambridge)

Research interests

Macroeconomics; global and national macroeconometric modelling; energy economics; climate change.

Professional experience

Kamiar is an Economic Research Forum (ERF) Research Fellow, and serves as its Thematic Co-Leader for the macroeconomics theme. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge, an Associate Fellow of the USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking, a Research Associate at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at ANU in Australia.

His articles have been published in a number of edited volumes (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge) as well as in leading journals, including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of International Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. His research has also been covered in major international news outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, the Financial Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

He is currently a Departmental Special Advisor at the Bank of Canada, a consultant at the United Nations ESCWA, and has been a regular visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund. He has worked closely with colleagues at these institutions to, for instance, develop tools to help examine and disentangle the size and speed of the transmission of different global, regional, and national macroeconomic shocks.

Previous appointments

Dr Kamiar Mohaddes was previously a Janeway Fellow in Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

Selected publications

Here are a selection of Kamiar Mohaddes’ publications. Please see the “Selected publications” tab above for a more comprehensive list.

Chudik, A., Pesaran, M.H. and Mohaddes, K. (2019) “Identifying global and national output and fiscal policy shocks using a GVAR.” In: Pesaran, M.H., Li, T. and Terrell, D. (eds.) Advances in econometrics: vol.41: essays in honor of Cheng Hsiao. Bingley: Emerald Publishing (forthcoming)

Mohaddes, K., Nugent, J.B. and Selim, H. (2019) Institutions and macroeconomic policies in resource-rich Arab economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press (DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198822226.001.0001)

Chudik, A., Mohaddes, K., Pesaran, H.M. and Raissi, M. (2017) “Is there a debt-threshold effect on output growth?” Review of Economics and Statistics, 99(1): 135-150 (DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00593)

Cashin, P., Mohaddes, K. and Raissi, M. (2017) “Fair weather or foul? The macroeconomic effects of El Niño.” Journal of International Economics, 106: 37-54 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.01.010)

Mohaddes, K. and Pesaran, M.H. (2016) “Country-specific oil supply shocks and the global economy: a counterfactual analysis.” Energy Economics, 59: 382-399 (DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2016.08.007)

Cavalcanti, T.V.D.V., Mohaddes, K. and Raissi, M. (2015) “Commodity price volatility and the sources of growth.” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 30(6): 857-873 (DOI: 10.1002/jae.2407)