Professor M. Douch
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Most Recent Publications here.
Short Bio
Employment History
Mohamed Douch is Full Professor of Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada (in Kingston, Ontario since 2006). He holds a M.Sc in Financial Economics (with distiction) and PhD in Macroeconomics from the University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada). Mohamed is also a research fellow of The Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University and a fellow of The John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy at Queen’s.
As of his research and publications, Dr. Douch has presented numerous papers at international conferences with a recent involvement in the Military Expenditure Expert Workshop at SIPRI in Stockholm, Sweden. An on invitation workshop for experts on the field of Defense Economics focussing on the release of a new extended dataset, along with additional methodological information about the new release (to be publicly available in the late 2016). He published numerous articles in the fields of Macroeconomics, financial economics and defense economics. Mohamed is also a reviewer for number of international journals including recent contributions to the Defense and Peace Economics journal and the Economics of Peace and Security Journal both as an author and reviewer.
As a consultant Prof. Douch has been involved in projects with various institutions such as the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA), National Defense Canada, DRDC Ottawa and DRDC Toronto, Canada.
Since joining the, then, department of Politics & Economics at RMCC in 2006, he has served as Deputy Head of the Department and PIC of Economics for several years. Mohamed was also deputy head of the department of Management and Economics (2015-2016). He was also involved in various committee, college wide and outside of the institution.
Mohamed has been a member of the Canadian Economic Association (CEA), The Americain Economic Association (AEA) and Société Canadienne de Sciences Économiques (SCSE).
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Areas of Interest
Principal Areas and Research Interests
- Macroeconomics: Monetary Policy Analysis, Small Open Economy, DSGE Modeling.
- Applied Econometrics: Time Series Analysis, Panel Data, Financial Econometrics, Stochastic Optimization.
- Statistics and Quantitative Methods: Descriptive Stats, Inferential Stats, Quant./Statistical Research Methods.
- Financial Economics: International Trade, Exchange Rate, Risks in the International Markets.
- Defense Economics: Economic Effects of Civil Wars, Determinants of Military Spending, Threat to international stability.
Current Research Projects
- PI of the Determinants of Military Expenditures projects - Funded by CDARP
- CO-PI, 'Families of Univariate Skew Distributions'. (Joint with M. Bouaddi). Partially Funded by AUC
- CO-PI, 'Equity Premium Puzzle in a Data-Rich Environment'. (Joint with M. Bouaddi).
- PI, 'Inflation-Price-Level Targeting in a Small Open Economy with Imperfect Pass-Through'.
- PI, 'Civil conflict and economic shocks: causal effects'.
Select Recent Publications
- Douch, M., "FDI, Defense Spending and Economic Prosperity," Bulletin of Economic Research, 77, 86–118. https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12473 - available online.
- Douch, M. and M., Bouaddi "Revisiting Equity Premium Puzzles in a Data-Rich Environment," Applied Economics Quarterly, Duncker & Humblot GmbH, Volume 65, Issue 4: 257-275, - available online.
- Douch, M., "Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Imperfect Pass-Through," Atlantic Economic Journal – Springer - available online.
- Douch, M., O. Farooq and Y. Kalinina, "Exposure to Provincial and National Information and Firm Performance: Crisis Period Evidence from China," International Advances in Economic Research – Springer, Volume 267: 1-11 - available online.
- Douch, M. and Solomon, B.,'Status or Security: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa Region, Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 24(3), pages 1-12, September 2018.
- Douch, M., 'Asset Returns and Economic Conditions', International Advances in Economic Research, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11294-018-9677-9
- Douch, M., and Solomon, B., 'A Dynamic Panel Analysis Using SIPRI's Extended Military Expenditure Data: The Case of Middle Power Nations', The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Vol. 11 No 2.
- Douch, M., O. Farooq and M. Bouaddi, 'Stock Price Synchronicity and Tails of Return Distribution', Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Vol. 37, pp, 1–11.
- Douch, M., and Solomon, B., 'Middle Powers and the Demand for Military Expenditures', Defence and Peace Economics, Vol. 24, No 6, Francis & Taylor.
You can also find my most recent working papers and other publications by checking the SSRN Author Page and the Google Scholar Citation Page.
Teaching Statement
Professor Douch teaches classes in a wide variety of subjects, such as Macroeconomics, Quantitative methods and Statistics, Econometrics and Financial Economics both at the undergard and graduate levels.
Mohamed Douch, PhD
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Department of Management and Economics
Royal Military College of Canada
P.O.Box 17000, Station Forces
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
K7K 7B4
(613) 541-6000 ext. 3642
(613) 541-6315 (fax)
mdouch @ mdouch.net
orcid.org/0000-0001-6828-858X
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