Research — Muhebullah Karimzada

Research Areas

Primary fields of scholarly inquiry

Business cycle dynamics, aggregate fluctuations, and the structural forces driving economic expansions and recessions.

Housing investment over the business cycle, the macroeconomic consequences of housing booms and busts, and pandemic-era housing dynamics.

International monetary economics, open-economy macroeconomics, and monetary policy in the Euro Area and other currency unions.

Employment and wage dynamics in the construction sector, and the relationship between housing cycles and labour market outcomes.

Bayesian estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, learning efficiency shocks, and knowledge capital in business cycle models.

MATLAB, DYNARE, and Bayesian methods for structural macroeconomic estimation and simulation.

Research under review or in preparation for submission

Euro Area Business Cycles: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model Working Paper

Muhebullah Karimzada

Housing Investment During Pandemic In Progress

Muhebullah Karimzada, Shahed Khan, and Terry Yip

Labour Market Dynamics of Construction Workers in the Canadian Housing Cycle: A Microdata Analysis In Progress

Muhebullah Karimzada and Terry Yip

Paper drafts are available upon request. Please contact me directly.

Selected presentations at academic conferences

Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference Montreal — May 2025
Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference Ottawa — June 2022
Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference Banff — May 2019
RCEA Macro–Money–Finance Workshop “Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Next Recession” — Waterloo, June 2017
Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference Nova Scotia — June 2017
MidWest Macro Conference Rochester — November 2015
Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference Toronto — May 2015