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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.
• “,” 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.
• “,” with Bilal M. Khan and Karrar Hussain.

• “,” with Bilal M. Khan and Karrar Hussain, The World Economy, 2023.
• “,” with Muhammad Farid Ahmed, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, March 2022.
• “,” with Bilal M. Khan and Karrar Hussain, Economics Letters, 2021, Vol. 202.
• “,” with Karrar Hussain, Economics Bulletin, 2020, Vol. 40(4).
• “,” with Irfan Qureshi, Journal of Macroeconomics, March 2020, Vol. 63.
• “” Asian Development Review, 2019.
• “,” Economics Letters, 2019, Vol. 178.
• Canadian Public Policy, 2017, Vol. 43 No.3, pp. 284-297.
• with Jeffrey B. Nugent, The Journal of Development Studies, 2016, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 224-241.
• with Jeffrey B. Nugent, IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, Vol. 4 No. 12.
• The Pakistan Development Review, 2014, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 97-126.

• , MHRC Pakistan Dialogues, 2024.
• , Policy Options, April 30, 2021.
• , Policy Options, February 13, 2018.
• , Policy Options, August 7, 2017.