I am a freshly minted Ph.D. economist from the University of Notre Dame. My research interests include International
Macroeconomics and Time Series Econometrics.
My current research studies how global shocks affect macroeconomic dynamics around the
world. I use both theoretical and empirical models to quantify the importance of these shocks and to
inform policy design.
I am on the job market during the 2025-2026 academic year. Here is my Job Market Paper. Feel free to reach out
to me at: Email: samsonmboueke[at]gmail.com; Phone: +1 (574) 339-3694.
Short Abstract: This paper examines the role of commodity import and export price shocks in driving business cycles in 28 emerging and developing economies, showing that an SVAR attributes roughly 26–30 percent of aggregate fluctuations to these shocks, whereas a new calibrated RBC model predicts only 2–3 percent.
Short Abstract: This paper attempts to develop an R package that generalizes and extends the strategy in Berg, Curtis, and Mark (2023) for shrinking impulse‐response standard errors in local projections. By doing so, it avoids the strong homogeneity restrictions imposed by traditional panel regressions.
Short Abstract: Using a global VAR, this paper analyzes how war-driven spikes in food, oil, and fertilizer prices affect commodity terms of trade, inflation, output, and real exchange rates in 44 African countries, predicting prolonged adverse impacts and highlighting Africa’s vulnerability to global shocks and its need for greater self-sufficiency.
Short Abstract: This project examines optimal monetary policy responses to commodity terms‐of‐trade shocks in commodity‐dependent low‐income countries within monetary unions (e.g., WAEMU and CEMAC) that do not have freely floating exchange rates.