Samir Elsadek Mahmoudi

Samir Elsadek Mahmoudi is a doctoral candidate in economics at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. He  specializes in consumer finance, mortgage markets and public economics. His research focuses on the transmission of shocks through banks' internal networks and the response of the banking system to natural disasters. He is also a National Bureau of Economic Research pre-doctoral fellow on the economics of an aging workforce. His research on the economics of aging estimates the effect of late-career unemployment shocks on pension savings. Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Mahmoudi was a diplomat representing the government of Egypt in trade and finance negotiations.