I am Mehdi Bartal, Assistant Professor of Economics at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Rabat, Morocco. I hold a PhD from Paris School of Economics.
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Email: mehdi.bartal@um6p.ma
Fields: macroeconomics, labor economics
1. Consumption Tax Cuts vs Stimulus Payments, with Yvan Becard, Journal of Public Economics, 2024
Temporary consumption tax reductions activate both income and substitution effects, making them substantially more expansionary than transfers.
2. Demand-Driven Formalization, with Yvan Becard, American Economic Review: Insights, conditionally accepted, May 2026
As economies develop, consumer demand shifts toward formal-intensive goods and services, pushing workers into formal employment.
3. The U-Shaped Cost of Job Loss, with Yvan Becard and Antoine Bertheau, July 2026
Young displaced workers face persistent job instability and deeper long-term losses than previously recognized.
4. Welfare Multipliers, with Yvan Becard, 2024
5. Regressive Government Spending, with Yvan Becard [Coming soon!]
6. Marital Sorting and Wealth Inequality, with Normann Rion
The more the merrier? Macroprudential instrument interactions and effective policy implementation, ECB Occasional Paper No. 2023/310, with Marco Lo Duca et al., 2023
Report of the Expert Group on Macroprudential Stance – Phase II (implementation), European Systemic Risk Board, with Stephan Fahr et al., 2021