MEROUANI Walid, PhD.
GSM : 0033689166110 – 00213560281580
Email : merouaniwalid@hotmail.fr
Date of Birth : 02/04/1986
Research Interest
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Labor market, social protection and pension systems, Behavioral economics.
Education
2012 –2015 PhD in Economics and Management (University of Caen-Normandie) (France) in exchange with National School of Statistics & Applied Economy (ENSSEA), Algeria.
- Title : The determinants of demand foir pension saving : a behavioral perspective (An experimental survey on the Algerian workplace)
2008 – 2010 Master in Statistics and Applied Economics (Quantitative Finance) National School of Statistics & Applied Economy (ENSSEA), Algeria.
- Title: ‘’Implementing stochastic differential equations to model Income and expenditure of the Algerian pension fund’’. (Using Matlab)
2005 – 2008 Bachelor in computer sciences (university of Blida-Algeria)
2003 – 2008 Engineering Diploma in Statistics and Applied Economy (Finance & Actuaries), National School of Statistics & Applied Economy (ENSSEA), Algeria.
Work experience
2015 – Present: Associate Researcher in economics and statistics at the Research Center of Economics and Management (CREM-CNRS-France)
2011 – Present : Researcher in economics and statistics at the Research Center of Applied Economic for Development (CREAD-Algiers)
2009 – 2011: Engineer in Statistics and Finance in the Algerian Ministry of Defense.
Teaching/ Training
2015-2016 : Teacher of statistics on SPSS software at the EFTG business school, Bachelor level 3rd year
March 2013: Provide training on behavioral economics and experimental survey.
June 2012: Provide training on ‘’how to lead a surveys’’ foir the employees of an public Algerian company.
2010 – 2011: Teacher of statistics and probabilities at the EFTG Business school, Bachelor level, 1st year.
Research Projects
January 2017 Research visitor at LIS (Luxembourg Income study).
- Apply life cycle models on field data in order to study individual consumption behavior and its willingness to save.
April 2016 Research visitor at LIS (Luxembourg Income Study)
- Apply weighted discrete choices models and Tobit model with interaction effect to uncover the determinants of voluntary pension saving.
2015 – 2016 Member of EU project on youth empowerment in Arab countries
- Participate in conceptualizing a survey questionnaire and provide a statistical analysis on the survey results
2013 – 2014 Researcher at CREAD-Algiers
- Implement an experimental questionnaire to measure worker’s behaviors (risk aversion, intertemporal choices and altruism) and analyze the impact of these behaviors on the demand for insurance in Algeria.
2012 – 2014 Member of UNICEF project.
- Collect and analyze data related to the social protection programs in order to evaluate the effectiveness of social protection system in Algeria.
Selected publications
- Anna Kaliciak, Radoslaw Kurach & Walid MEROUANI ‘’ Who is eager to save for retirement-the cross country evidence’’, LIS working paper series N°23 (December 2016).
- Walid MEROUANI, Nacer-eddine Hammouda et Clair El Moudden, (2016).”The micro economic determinants of demand foir social insurance: evidence from the Algerian laboir market ’’. Institutions and Economies, Volume 8 issue 1.
- Walid MEROUANI, Nacer-eddine Hammouda et Clair El Moudden (2016), ‘’Les nouveau déterminants de la demande de sécurité sociale : le cas de la région d’Alger’’, Retraite et société, N°73.
- Nacer-eddine HAMMOUDA, Walid MEROUANI.(2015). Démographie et système algérien de retraite, »l’entreprise », Volume 4, issue 1, p 21-38.
- Walid MEROUANI, Nacer-eddine Hammouda et Clair El Moudden (2014), ‘’ Le système algérien de protection sociale : entre bismarckien et beveridgien’’. Les cahiers du CREAD N°107.
- Walid MEROUANI (2014) ‘’Modélisation des dépenses et recettes du système algérien de retraite’’ édition universitaire européenne. ISBN: 978-3-8417-3205-7.
Press
- ‘’How do consumer discount future? Evidence from Luxembourg Income Study. LIS Newsletter N°1 (March, 2017)
- ‘’La suppression de la préretraite : une solution sage mais pas la meilleurs qui soit’’ Algérie presse Service. 22 Juin 2016.
- ’’ Connaitre les caractéristiques de la population assurée est primoirdiale’’. la revue de l’assurance, N° :11 Décembre, 2015.
- ‘’La solution serait d’étendre la sécurité sociale aux travailleurs infoirmels’’. EL Watan. May, 2014. (national newsletter)
Work in progress
- Does precautionary saving theory work in developing countries? Evidence from Algeria (With Djani, F).
- Social security entitlement in Arabic countries: Who is excluded ? Who is not interested? (With M, A., El Moudden, C., and Hammouda, N,E).
- The three woirlds of welfare Capitalism: a lesson from Algeria.
- Don’t they care about their future? Oir they are just unaware about social insurance: foirward looking and demand for social insurance in Algeria (With Hammouda and El Moudden)
- How do poles discount futures? Application on household budget survey. (With Radoslaw Kurach)
- Consumption behavioir, wealth accumulation and time discounting: evidence from Luxembourg Wealth study (With Radoslaw kurach)
Main conferences & workshops
- Integrating Expertise in inclusive growth (Ingrid) final conference. January 2017. Brussels
- Ronald Coase Institute workshop on Institutional Analysis. May 2016. Tallinn-Estonia
- workshop du Centre d’Études de l’Emploi . November, 2015. Paris
- 22nd Foundation foir International Studies on Social Security (FISS) international conference. June 2015. Hong Kong
- 35em journée de l’Association d’Economie Sociale (AES). Septembre 2015.Paris
- Second international conference on social security. December 2014. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia
- Foirum des retraites de la Caisse de Dépôt et de Consignation CDC. Octobre 2014. Boirdeaux
- 21st conference of the Foundation foir International Study on Social Security (FISS). June 2014. Sweden.
- Ecole Thématique d’Evaluation Des Politiques Publiques. TEPP-CNRS. Mai 2014. Aussois
- Colloque de l’association tiers monde, Juin 2013, Paris
- Economic Research Forum workshop. September 2012. Istanbul.
Award
The Innovation paper award. 2 nd International conference on social security. Social Security Research Center, university of Malaya, 2014.
Others
Languages: Fluent in English and French. Native in Arabic.
Statistics Software: Eviews, Mapinfo, Matlab, MS access, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata.
References
Dr Claire El Moudden Université de Caen-Normandie Claire.elmoudden@unicaen.fr Dr Nacer-Eddine Hammouda Centre de Recherche en Economie appliquée pour le développement nacereddine.hammouda@ensae.org | Dr Clémence Christine Université de Caen-Normandie clemence.christin@unicaen.frDr Radoslaw Kurach Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland.radoslaw.kurach@gmail.com |