I am Associate Professor of Economics in the University of Chittagong. As an academic, I also worked in the University of Birmingham, University of Bath and Aston University. My research interests include: Application of Time series, panel study and discrete choice models; New Open Economy Macroeconomics; Interest Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Economics; Asset Price Bubble; Armed conflict, polity, military expenditure, public policy and economic growth.
Fiscal Policy
Growth of Government Expenditure in Bangladesh: An Empirical Enquiry into the Validity of Wagner's Law (with Mohammad Abul Kalam), Global Economy Journal (2010)
The study empirically investigates ‘Wagner's law,' the relationship between ‘social progress' and ‘growth of state...
Economic Development
Bridging the gap between policymakers and academics (with M. A. Majumder), The Financial Express (2011)
Growth of Government Expenditure in Bangladesh: An Empirical Enquiry into the Validity of Wagner's Law (with Mohammad Abul Kalam), Global Economy Journal (2010)
The study empirically investigates ‘Wagner's law,' the relationship between ‘social progress' and ‘growth of state...
Electronic Banking Practices in Bangladesh (with M.S.U. Khan and M.Z. Raihan), Asian Journal of Information Technology (2004)
International Trade
Does A Real Devaluation Improve The Balance Of Trade?: Empirics From Bangladesh Economy, Journal of Developing Areas (2012)
Similar to many other developing countries Bangladesh, which is the country of my concern, has...