Jamel Gatfaoui and Eric Girardin, ”Comovement of Chinese provincial business cycles”.

• Published in Economic modelling- Jan. 2015 (rank 2 based on the journal rankings of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)).
• presented at the 7th International Conference on the Chinese Economy, Thirty years of reforms : What about Capitalism in China?-October 2009, CERDI Clermont Ferrand, France.

Jamel Gatfaoui and Eric Girardin, ”Modeling Chinese provincial business cycles: An unobserved component model approach”.
• Submit.

Jamel Gatfaoui and Eric Girardin, ”Seasonal/Business cycle interaction in the Chinese industrial production”.

Submit.

Souhir Slimi, Jamel Gatfaoui and Abdelwahed Trabelsi, ” Financial Leading Indicators through quantitative and qualitative Hidden Markov Chain: An application to the Tunisian Business Cycle ”.
• presented at the French Association of economics meeting (AFSE) 2007.

Jamel Gatfaoui and Meriem Hassad, ” Analyse des cycles réels et du crédit en Tunisie, au Maroc et dans la zone euro, convergence ou divergence ”.
• Accepted at the international conference ”Economic, Social and Environmental Consequences of the Liberalization of Trade in North Africa and the Middle East” organized by United nation, Economic commission for Africa and Gate lab oratory, University of Lyon2- Morocco 2007.

Work in progress
• Economic regions in the U.S: A new definition.
• The geography of regional recessions in China.
• Modelling seasonality in the Chinese industrial production.