CV Walid MEROUANI

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.

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