Nadine Yamout received her PhD in Economics in 2019 from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at the American University of Beirut. Prior to that, Nadine was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney between 2021-2022 and a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sydney between 2019-2020. Her research interests include open economy macroeconomics, applied macroeconometrics, and monetary and fiscal policies, with a focus on understanding the behavior of economies undergoing structural changes. Her current research focuses on the estimation of the output gap for commodity-exporting economies, the implications of a slowdown in growth for fiscal policy, and the role of structural transformation in driving the dynamics of unemployment in open economies.