Mohammed Ait Lahcen

Mohammed Ait Lahcen is an Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s African Department. Previously, he held an academic position as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Qatar University's Department of Finance and Economics and served as a Research Fellow at the University of Basel's Economic Theory Group. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Basel in 2019 and conducted postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Education: PhD in Economics (University of Basel, 2019)
• Postdoctoral Research: Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

His research focuses on macroeconomics and monetary economics, particularly exploring topics like inflation tax effects, financial inclusion, labor market frictions, and the implications of informality and dollarization. He has published work in journals such as the European Economic Review and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Key awards include the Young Researchers’ prize at the 2020 Economics of Informality conference. His research also involves computational methods, including Python-based numerical simulations of economic models like the neoclassical growth model.