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Wisdom Takumah
Wisdom Takumah

Wisdom Takumah

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics

Emory University

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at North Carolina A&T State University. I earned my PhD degree in Economics from Emory University. Prior to joining Emory University, I earned double master degree in Data Science and Economics at South Dakota State University. I have worked as a Research Assistant at United Nations University- World Institute for Development and Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) at University of Ghana. My research interests includes Empirical macroeconomics, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Time Series Forecasting and Machine Learning applications to Macroeconomics.

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Interests
  • Empirical Macroeconomics
  • Time Series Econometrics
  • Fiscal and Monetary Policy
  • Big Data Analysis
  • Machine Learning Application in Macroeconomics
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2024

    Emory University

  • M.A in Economics, 2021

    Emory University

  • M.Sc in Economics, 2018

    South Dakota State University

  • M.Sc in Data Science, 2018

    South Dakota State University

  • M.Phil in Economics, 2013

    University of Cape Coast

  • BA (First-Class) in Economics and Economics, 2010

    University of Cape Coast

Skills

Statistics & Econometrics
Overleaf
Stata
Matlab
R
Python
Github
SQL
SAS

Teaching

Courses Taught:

Main Instructor (Emory)

ECON-215: Stocks, Bonds and Financial Markets - Fall 2023 ECON-212: Intermediate Macroeconomics & Econ 411: Money and Banking - Summer 2023 ECON-212: Intermediate Macroeconomics & Econ 411: Money and Banking - Spring 2023 ECON-212: Intermediate Macroeconomics - Spring 2023 ECON-212: Intermediate Macroeconomics - Fall 2022 ECON-212: Intermediate Macroeconomics - Spring 2022 ECON-201: Intermediate Microeconomics - Summer 2021 ECON-212: Intermediate Macroeconomics - Summer 2021

Lab Instructor (Emory)

QTM-100 Lab: Introduction to Statistical Inference - [Spring 2020], [Fall 2020], [Spring 2021], [Fall 2021], [Spring 2022] [Fall 2022], [Spring 2023], [Summer 2022]

Teaching Assistant (Emory)

Econ 212: Intermediate Macroeconomics (Fall 2021) with Jong Kim

Econ 220: Probability & Statistics for Economist (Spring 2021) with Jong Kim

Econ 333 - Financial Economics (Spring 2020), Econ 415 - Behavioral Economics & Finance (Spring 2020), Econ 423 - Financial Econometrics (Spring 2020) with John Kim.

Teaching Assistant (SDSU)

ECON-201: Intermediate Microeconomics - Fall 2016

ECON-202: Intermediate Macroeconomics - Spring 2017

Awards

Best Economics Graduate Student Research Award

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