Hamza Zahid

Economist

World Bank

Welcome!

I am an economist at the World Bank, Prospects Group. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Houston.

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Interests

International Economics
Macroeconomics
Energy and Environmental Economics
Applied Econometrics

Working Papers

Global Footprints of U.S. Energy Innovations: Energy Efficiency and the Shale Revolution

I study empirically and theoretically the global economic consequences of U.S. energy market shocks. Using a set of factor-augmented …

Commodity Price Cycles: Commonalities, Heterogeneities, and Drivers

This paper examines commodity price cycles and their underlying drivers using a dynamic factor model from a sample of 39 monthly …

Hamza Zahid, Alain Kabundi

Financial Cycles, U.S. Monetary Policy, and Media Sentiment

In this paper, I assess the impact of changes in international media tone on synchronized fluctuations in financial aggregates (also …

Works in Progress

Identification of Green Technology Shocks with External Instrument SVAR

Narrative Restrictions for Structural Dynamic Factor Models

Extreme Weather Events and Mortgage Default Risk: A Machine Learning Approach

Policy Publications

The Nature and Drivers of Commodity Price Cycles (with A. Kabundi and G. Vasishtha)

Teaching

Instructor

University of Houston

Aug 2016 – Jul 2021 Houston

Principles of Macroeconomics (Fall 2018 and Spring 2020)
PhD Math Camp - Linear Algebra (Summer 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021)

Teaching Fellow (PhD courses)

University of Houston

Aug 2016 – Jul 2021 Houston

Macroeconomics I (Fall 2017)
Macroeconomics II (Spring 2018)

Teaching Assistant

University of Houston

Aug 2016 – Jul 2021 Houston

Time Series Econometrics (Fall and Spring 2020)
Introduction to Economic Data Analysis (Fall 2019)
Economic Growth (Spring 2019)
Labor Economics (Spring 2017)
Urban Economics (Fall 2016)