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I completed my undergraduate degree at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan, and went to the University of Southern California, USA, to do my PhD in Economics. After completing my PhD in 2013, I taught undergraduate Economics at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University as a sessional lecturer.
My current research and expertise are in the fields of international economics and macroeconomics. I have extensively worked with disaggregated firm-level data, including for my PhD dissertation that investigated the link between trade liberalization and firm efficiency, particularly in the textile and clothing industries. My future research goals involve continuing to develop my work on global firm-to-firm trade networks, household finance, as well as conducting policy-oriented research in other areas of the broadly defined discipline of development economics.
Some of my ongoing research projects include:
- “Gossiping Macroeconomic Expectations in Pakistan,” with Samreen Malik and Jordan Norris.
- “Costly Imports: Exchange Rate Shocks and Trade Misreporting by Firms,” with Karrar Hussain.
- “News Shocks, Consumer Confidence, and Business Cycles,” with Syed M. Hussain.
- “Keeping the enemies closer: Exporting behavior of firms under conflict,” with Karrar Hussain.
- “Firm-to-firm networks and sourcing strategy of importers,” with Bilal M. Khan and Karrar Hussain.
- “Trade Misreporting: Evidence from Pakistani Importers,” with Bilal M. Khan and Karrar Hussain, The World Economy, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13398
- “Asymmetric Effects of Private Debt on Income Growth,” with Muhammad Farid Ahmed, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2022-0004
- “On-the-match price renegotiation: Evidence from Pakistan’s import data,” with Bilal M. Khan and Karrar Hussain, Economics Letters, 2021, Vol. 202.
- “En route to the world: understanding firms that solely export,” with Karrar Hussain, Economics Bulletin, 2020, Vol. 40(4).
- “The long-term consequences of external debt: Revisiting the evidence and inspecting the mechanism using panel VARs,” with Irfan Qureshi, Journal of Macroeconomics, March 2020, Vol. 63.
- “Providing a Safe Working Environment: Do Firm Ownership and Exporting Status Matter?” Asian Development Review, 2019.
- “Does government debt crowd out capital formation? A dynamic approach using panel VAR,” Economics Letters, 2019, Vol. 178.
- “Understanding Canada’s International Trade under the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Lessons from Gravity Redux,” Canadian Public Policy, 2017, Vol. 43 No.3, pp. 284-297.
- “When Do Firms Choose to Train? The Roles of Labor Regulations, Their Enforcement, and Firm and Industry Characteristics,” with Jeffrey B. Nugent, The Journal of Development Studies, 2016, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 224-241.
- “Under-provision of Private Training by MENA Firms: What to do about it?” with Jeffrey B. Nugent, IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, Vol. 4 No. 12.
- “The End of Multi-Fibre Arrangement and Firm Performance in the Textile Industry: New Evidence,” The Pakistan Development Review, 2014, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 97-126.
Other Articles
- Crafting a Competitive Advantage for Pakistani Exporters, MHRC Pakistan Dialogues, 2024.
- Why COVID-19 is an inequality virus, Policy Options, April 30, 2021.
- Learning from the 2017 softwood lumber dispute, Policy Options, February 13, 2018.
- TPP 2.0 a complex solution for challenging times, Policy Options, August 7, 2017.