Welcome to my personal page, my name is Jamel Saadaoui. I am a teacher and researcher in social sciences, specialized in several topics related to international economics. On this page, I present my current and future research projects and I try to provide some information for the public and for my students. I sometimes write on Probability, Philosophy, Economics, and other topics with a macro perspective. My recent works explore the interactions between geopolitical tensions and the economy.
I am currently a Senior Lecturer with Habilitation in Economics at the University of Strasbourg, and I am affiliated to the BETA laboratory for my research activities. Furthermore, I teach Economics and Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, FSEG, of the University of Strasbourg. Besides, I have been an elected member of the National Council of Universities since 2016. I co-organize the Cournot Seminar, the main seminar of the BETA-Strasbourg since 2020. Recently, I have been elected to the board of trustees of the University of Strasbourg. I defended my habilitation to supervise research on July 11, 2022. As of the next academic year, I have been promoted to Head of the Master 1 Macroeconomics and European Policy at University of Strasbourg. You can reach me at my professional address. You can find more information on my professional CV.
Research areas
Applied Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, European Economics, International Economics.
Scientific social networks profiles
Scholar – ResearchGate – EconPapers – ORCID – SSRN – LinkedIn – GitHub – Medium.
My latest works and projects
Forthcoming
- Guest editor with Jan-Egbert Strum and Amélie Barbier-Gauchard of a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal European Journal of Political Economy: Geopolitical risks, political tensions and the European economy, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-journal-of-political-economy/about/call-for-papers#geopolitical-risks-political-tensions-and-the-european-economy, Deadline for submitting: 25th March 2024. [UPDATE, September 2023] The portal is now open, please select “VSI: Political risks in Europe” when submitting. [UPDATE, March 2024] The deadline has been extended to 30th April 2024.
Recent book
- Statistiques. Principes et méthodes. Giuseppe Cicchitelli, Pierpaolo D’Urso, Marco Minozzo. Translation in French by Jamel Saadaoui, Julien Jacob, Jalal El Ouardighi, Katharina Priedl. Pearson, 16th of June 2023. https://www.pearson.fr/book/?gcoi=27440100901150
Recent special issue
- Guest editor with Amélie Barbier-Gauchard and Samuel Ligonnière of a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal International Economics: The European Economy in the Time of COVID-19: Towards a New Dawn, https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-economics/special-issue/10TMZXX625C, February 2023.
Recent peer-reviewed publications
- Issiaka Coulibaly, Blaise Gnimassoun, Jamel Saadaoui, Hamza Mighri, International reserves, currency depreciation and public debt: new evidence of buffer effects in Africa, 101130, 2024, Emerging Markets Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2024.101130.
- Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Jamel Saadaoui, Gazi Salah Uddin, Real exchange rate and international reserves in the era of financial integration, Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024, 103014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2024.103014.
- Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui, How Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices? Energy Economics, Volume 129, January 2024, 107219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2023.107219.
- Yifei Cai, Jamel Saadaoui, Yanrui Wu, Political Relations and Trade: New Evidence from Australia, China and the United States, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2023. Open Access thanks to a grant from The University of Western Australia: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sjpe.12367.
- Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman, Jamel Saadaoui, Gazi Salah Uddin. On the Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Reserves during the 2021-22 U.S. Monetary Tightening Cycle, Economics Letters, 233, December 2023, 111367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111367.
- Jamel Saadaoui, Chi Keung Marco Lau, Yifei Cai. Testing fiscal sustainability in OECD countries: new evidence from the past centuries, Applied Economics Letters 31:7, pp. 676-682, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2142502.
- Yifei Cai, Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui. Not All Political Relation Shocks are Alike: Assessing the Impacts of US-China Tensions on the Oil Market. Energy Economics 114, 106199, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106199.
- Yifei Cai, Jamel Saadaoui. Fourier DF Unit Root Test for R&D Intensity of G7 Countries. Applied Economics 54:42, pp. 4900-4914, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2038776.
- Sy-Hoa Ho, Jamel Saadaoui. Bank credit and economic growth: a dynamic threshold panel model for ASEAN countries. International Economics, 170, pp. 115-128, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2022.03.001.
- Sy-Hoa Ho, Jamel Saadaoui. Symmetric and asymmetric effects of exchange rates on money demand: empirical evidence from Vietnam. Applied Economics 53:34, pp. 3948-3961, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1888864.
Recent expertise report
- Jamel Saadaoui (décembre 2022, in French), Les accords de libre-échange : quels sont les enjeux pour l’UE ?, Recherche effectuée dans le Cadre d’une convention conclue entre l’Institut de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (IRES) et la CFE-CGC, https://ires.fr/publications/cfe-cgc/13433-2/
Recent policy brief
- Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Jamel Saadaoui, Gazi Salah Uddin (July 21, 2023), Real Exchange Rate and International Reserves in the Era of Financial Integration. INFER BRIEF SERIES No. 3 | 2023, https://infer-research.eu/publication/real-exchange-rate-and-international-reserves-in-the-era-of-financial-integration/
Recent working papers
- William Ginn, Jamel Saadaoui (17 March 2024), Monetary Policy Reaction to Geopolitical Risks: Some Nonlinear Evidence, SSRN Working Paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4762672. INFER Working paper 2024.03: https://infer-research.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WP2024.03.pdf.
- Issiaka Coulibaly, Blaise Gnimassoun, Jamel Saadaoui, Hamza Mighri (18 December 2023), International reserves, currency depreciation and public debt: new evidence of buffer effects in Africa, BETA Working Paper 2023-43: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4664347.
- António Afonso, Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui (November 27, 2023), On the time-varying impact of China’s bilateral political relations on its trading partners (1960–2022), CESifo Working paper 10814: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4665574.
- David E. Bloom, Klaus Prettner, Jamel Saadaoui, Mario Veruete (October 18, 2023), Artificial intelligence and the skill premium, BETA Working Paper 2023-37: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4607353. ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09255. WU Vienna University of Economics and Business WP 353: https://research.wu.ac.at/de/publications/artificial-intelligence-and-the-skill-premium
- Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui, How Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices? [UPDATED VERSION, October 2023] EconomiX Working Paper 2023.28: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/drmwpaper/2023-28.htm. Slides for the 3rd MORSE conference, University of Maastricht, October 2023: here.
- Philipp Roderweis, Jamel Saadaoui, Francisco Serranito (15 May, 2023), Is Quantitative Easing Productive? The Role of Bank Lending in the Monetary Transmission Process. EconomiX Working Paper 2023-17. [UPDATED VERSION, October 2023] The Unintended Consequences of ECB’s Asset Purchases. How Excess Reserves Shape Bank Lending, BETA Working Paper Series, 2023-34, https://beta-economics.fr/working-papers/2023-34/.
- Rashad Ahmed, Joshua Aizenman, Jamel Saadaoui, Gazi Salah Uddin (February 13, 2023), On the Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Reserves During the 2021-22 U.S. Monetary Tightening Cycle. [UPDATED VERSION, August 2023] NBER Working Paper Series, 30935, https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/30935.html. Media coverage: The Economist.
- Joshua Aizenman, Sy-Hoa Ho, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Jamel Saadaoui, Gazi Salah Uddin (January 30, 2023), Real Exchange Rate and International Reserves in the Era of Financial Integration. [UPDATED VERSION, January 2024], NBER Working Paper Series, 30891, https://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/30891.html. Related VoxEU column: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/real-exchange-rate-and-international-reserves-era-financial-integration
- Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui, Asymmetries in the oil market: Accounting for the growing role of China through quantile regressions (December 11, 2022). [UPDATED VERSION, February 2023] EconomiX Working paper: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/drmwpaper/2023-6.htm.
- Francesco De Palma, Samuel Ligonnière, Jamel Saadaoui, Yann Thommen, The role of wage bargaining institutions in the Phillips curve flattening (July 25, 2022). ISEG / REM — Research in Economics and Mathematics Working paper 2022-07: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/iseremwps/wp02362022.htm. Slides for the Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics, April 2023: here.
- Yifei Cai, Valérie Mignon, Jamel Saadaoui. Not All Political Relation Shocks are Alike: Assessing the Impacts of US-China Tensions on the Oil Market. (May 20, 2022). CEPII Working paper 2022-07: https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/ciicepidt/2022-07.htm.
Selected blog posts
The codes for most of my blogs are available on my GitHub page:
- Guest blog, Jamel Saadaoui, Monetary Policy Reaction to Geopolitical Risks: Some Nonlinear Evidence, Econbrowser, invited by Menzie Chinn, March 24, 2024, https://econbrowser.com/archives/2024/03/guest-contribution-monetary-policy-reaction-to-geopolitical-risks-some-nonlinear-evidence.
- Guest blog, Jamel Saadaoui, How Political Tensions and Geopolitical Risks Impact Oil Prices, Econbrowser, invited by Menzie Chinn, August 5, 2023, https://econbrowser.com/archives/2023/08/guest-contribution-how-political-tensions-and-geopolitical-risks-impact-oil-prices.
- Staff Picks on the Wolfram Community, Jamel Saadaoui, The fragility of an incomplete monetary union, Wolfram Community Blog, March 4, 2023, https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2844405.
- Jamel Saadaoui, Visualizing CES production functions with Wolfram Alpha, EconMacro Blog, February 20, 2023, https://www.jamelsaadaoui.com/visualizing-ces-production-functions-with-wolfram-alpha/
- Guest Blog, Eric Clower, Jamel Saadaoui, Addressing Conditional Heteroscedasticity in SVAR Models, APTECH Data Analytics Blog, September 14, 2022, https://www.aptech.com/blog/addressing-conditional-heteroscedasticity-in-svar-models/.
- Jamel Saadaoui, Panel Data Econometrics: Common Factor Analysis for Empirical Researchers, EconMacro Blog, September 3, 2022, https://www.jamelsaadaoui.com/panel-data-econometrics-common-factor-analysis-for-empirical-researchers/.
- Jamel Saadaoui, Using DBnomics with Stata, EconMacro Blog, July 27, 2022, https://www.jamelsaadaoui.com/using-dbnomics-with-stata/.
- Jamel Saadaoui, L’inférence statistique : clairement expliquée, projet ANR DéPHy, April 1, 2022, https://celest.esr-grandest.fr/ori-oai-search/notice/view/uds-ori-511.
- Staff Picks on the Wolfram Community, Jamel Saadaoui, A simple model of the determination of the GDP with Mathematica, Wolfram Community Blog, December 19, 2021, https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2479315.
- Jamel Saadaoui, Unbiased estimator for population variance: clearly explained! EconMacro Blog, July 15, 2020, https://www.jamelsaadaoui.com/unbiased-estimator-for-population-variance-clearly-explained/.