About me

I am a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK. I hold a PhD in economics from Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, UK. I hold an Erasmus Mundus joint master's degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, University of Staffordshire, UK, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain and Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil. Formerly, I was a senior economist at the Department of Macroeconomics, near the Albanian Ministry of Finance and Economy. My teaching is mainly in macroeconomics.

I am an Associate Fellow of The Higher Education AcademyLink opens in a new window

_{Supervision: I can only supervise a limited amount of students. If you are interested in my supervision for your dissertation, feel free to contact me and we can discuss your research interests and potential topics for your dissertation.}

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics
• Fiscal and Monetary Policy
• Business Cycles
• Macroeconomics of Climate Change

Working Papers

• Li, Q and Sabaj, E, (2023). The effects of Oil prices on the US housing market. Submitted. DrLink opens in a new windowaftLink opens in a new window available.Link opens in a new window
• Sabaj, E, (2023). Sectoral shocks, labour mobility and heterogeneity in price/wage stickiness. Draft available.Link opens in a new window
• Sabaj, E, (2023). How do sectoral elasticities affect the transmission of monetary shocks? Old versionLink opens in a new window.
• Sabaj, E, (2023). The effects of government spending under trend inflation: theory and empirics. Reject & Resubmit EER, Old versionLink opens in a new window.

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Publications

• Troug, H and Sabaj, E, (2024). Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy with Non-Separable Government Spending. Journal of Economic StudiesLink opens in a new window
• Sabaj, E, Troug, H and Sbia, R, (2023). Does it matter where and how governments spend? Economics Letters

  [SUERF Policy Brief, Jun 2023, No 606]

Recent Training/Courses attended

• Difference-in-Differences and Event Study Estimators with Panel Data by Jeffrey Wooldridge, (May 2024, EABCN training school).

• Data Science Workshop in R and Python, (April-May 2024, University of Warwick).

Recent/forthcoming conferences/presentations

2024

• The 6th Baltic Economic ConferenceLink opens in a new window, scheduled, June, Tallinn, Estonia.

• Warwick Macro and International WorkshopLink opens in a new window, scheduled, June, Coventry, UK.

• XXV Conference on International Economics and XII Meeting on International EconomicsLink opens in a new window, scheduled by coauthor, June, Alicante, Spain.

• Bank of Albania Friday SeminarsLink opens in a new window, scheduled, May, Tirana, Albania.

• The 2024 RCEA International Conference in Economics, Econometrics, and FinanceLink opens in a new window, scheduled, May, London, UK.

• 24th Scottish Economic Society Annual ConferenceLink opens in a new window, April, Glasgow, UK.

2023

• 17th South-Eastern European Economic Research Workshop of the Bank of AlbaniaLink opens in a new window, presented by coauthor, December, Tirana, Albania.
• 54th Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance SocietyLink opens in a new window, September, Portsmouth, UK.
• 16th Annual Meeting of The Portuguese Economic Journal,Link opens in a new window July, Braga, Portugal.
• Society for Computational Economics 29th International Conference on Computing in Economics and FinanceLink opens in a new window, July, Nice, France.
• EcoMod2023 International Conference on Economic Modeling and Data ScienceLink opens in a new window, July, Prague, Czech Republic.
• 19th Euroframe Conference on Economic Policy Issues in EuropeLink opens in a new window, June, Sciences Po, Paris, France.
• 27th International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International FinanceLink opens in a new window, May, Crete, Greece.