Pierre N'Guimkeu

About

Dr. Nguimkeu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. His research interests are in Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Statistics, and Development Economics. He received his PhD from Simon Fraser University in June 2012. He also received a Master’s degree in Economics from University of Montreal, a Master’s degree in Statistics from ENSEA of Abidjan, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Dschang. His research and studies have been funded by several grants including the Lindau-Nobel Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Centre for Interuniversity Research in Quantitative Economics (CIREQ), the European Development Fund (EDF), and the French Cooperation Fund (FAC). He currently teaches Statistics and Econometrics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He also serves as Economic Adviser to the Cameroon Council of Business Managers and Professional Associations (GICAM).

Curiculumn Vitae

Publications

“On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting” (with Augustine Denteh and Rusty Tchernis), Journal of Econometrics, 2018.
Does Social Pressure Hinder Entrepreneurship in Africa? The Forced Mutual Help Hypothesis” (with Philippe Alby and Emmanuelle Auriol), Economica, 2018.
“Robust Learning in the Foreign Exchange Market” (with Edouard Djeutem), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2018.
“Estimating the Productivity Impact of Technology Adoption in the Presence of Misclassification” (with T. Wossen, A. Alene, S. Feleke, M. Haile), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 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 .
“Some Effects of Business Environment on Retail Firms”, Applied Economics, 48(18), 1647-1654, 2016.
“Improved AR(1) vs MA(1) Specification Test in Linear Regression”, 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 for 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.