Information about Researcher Khalid Ahmed
Researcher: Khalid Ahmed
Information
| Role | Researcher |
|---|---|
| First name | Khalid |
| Last name | Ahmed |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Academic title | Associate Professor |
| Organisation | IBA Sukkur University |
| Thematic area/field | HS – Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / HS4 Individuals, institutions, markets |
| Key words | Environment and Resource Economics; Energy Economics; Applied Development Economics |
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| Short summary of activities and expertise | Dr. Khalid Ahmed is currently serving as an Associate Professor of Economics at the department of Business administration, Sukkur IBA University. His area of interest falls within Applied Economics with focus on sustainable development. He has also served as the Director, Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) prior to his departure for Post-doctorate at the university of Cambridge and university of Gottingen, which was jointly funded by Charles Wallace Foundation U.K and Erasmus Mundus European commission in 2015. Dr. Khalid received his PhD in Economics from the Wuhan University of Technology P.R China in 2013 and has been Visiting Fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), South Korea in 2014. He has been a research fellow at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Judge Business School, University and Cambridge; and visiting fellow at the Department of Economics, Monash University in 2018. In addition, Dr. Khalid has managed two thematic research grants funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan as principal investigator and one as the co-principal investigator. He is also the founder of Behavioral Lab at Sukkur IBA University. |
| Relevant publications and/or research/innovation products | Ahmed, K., Apergis, N., Bhattacharya, M., & Paramati, S. R. (2021). Electricity consumption in Australia: the role of clean energy in reducing CO2 emissions. Applied Economics, 1-14. Ahmed, K., Bhattacharya, M., Qazi, A. Q., & Ghumro, N. A. (2021). Transport infrastructure and industrial output in Pakistan: An empirical investigation. Research in Transportation Economics, 101040. Ahmed, K. & Jahanzeb, A., (2021). Does financial development spur environmental and energy-related innovation in Brazil? International Journal of Finance and Economics. 26(2), 1706-1723. Ahmed, K. (2020). Environmental policy stringency, related technological change and emissions inventory in 20 OECD countries. Journal of Environmental Management, 274, 111209. Ahmed, K., Bhutto, N. A., & Kalhoro, M. R. (2019). Decomposing the links between oil price shocks and macroeconomic indicators: Evidence from SAARC region. Resources Policy, 61, 423-432. Ahmed, K. (2017). Revisiting the role of financial development for energy-growth-trade nexus in BRICS economies. Energy. 128, 487-495. Ahmed, K., Bhattacharya, M., Shaikh, Z., Ramzan, M., & Ozturk, I. (2017). Emission intensive growth and trade in the era of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) integration: An empirical investigation from ASEAN-8. Journal of Cleaner Production. 154, 530-540. Ahmed, K., Ur Rehman, M., & Ozturk, I. (2017). What drives carbon dioxide emissions in the long-run? Evidence from selected South Asian Countries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 70, 1142-1153. Shahbaz, M., Nasreen, S., Ahmed, K., & Hammoudeh, S. (2016). Trade openness–carbon emissions nexus: The importance of turning points of trade openness for country panels. Energy Economics. 61, 221-232. Shahbaz, M.., Bhattacharya, M., Ahmed, K. (2016). CO2 emissions in Australia: Economic and non-economic drivers in the long-run. Applied Economics, 49 (13), 1273-1286. |
| Other relevant achievements | Awards/Achievements • Distinguished Belt and Road Young Scholar, China Higher Education, 2013, 2017 and 2019. • Charles Wallace Fellow Award, University of Cambridge, 2015. • Post-Doctorate Fellowship award, Erasmus Mundus European Commission, 2015-2016. • Selected Young Scientist at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Mettings, 2014. • Reserarch Fellowship Award, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), 2014. • HEC-CSC joint PhD Scholarship Award, 2009-2013. • Silver Medalist, Undergraduate, 2005. Project funding • “Political Economy of SAARC and Regional Trade Integration: Recent ontogeny and Future Prospects”(Supportrd by Korea Institute for Internation Economic Policy (KIEP), Korean Government think tank) • “Gender Inequality in Pakistan and its Repercussions on growth: A Regression Analysis”.(Funded by KIEP) • “Testing Linkage between Growth, Trade and Deforestation for Environmental degradation in Pakistan: A cointegration and granger causality approach”. (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget. 0.5m PKR) • “Assessing Public Environmental Awareness in Tharparker - Pakistan: A Survey Study on Thar Coal Project”. (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget 3.5 m PKR) • “Analysisng and strategizing the basic Public-health facility in Tharparker district of Sindh”. (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget 4.0 m PKR) • “Measuring the impact of interest free microfinance on socio-economic empowerment of rural woman” (Funded by HEC, Est. Budget 4.0 m PKR) • “Economic Growth and Energy Crisis: Policy Issues and Institutional Reform in Pakistan”.m(Australian Award DFAT, Project ID: R161029) Invited speaker • Khalid Ahmed, “China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): A Shared Prosperity”. Held on 20~22 December 2016, Silk Road international Forum, 2016 – Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, P.R China |
| Preferred Host Institution type | Public, Academic, Research centre |
| Additional information | Courses / Training • EcoMod School of modelling-Asia, ‘Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS’ in Bangkok Thailand. (January 20-24, 2020) Econometric software / statistical packages proficiency • E-views, STATA, GAMS, GTAP, SPSS and R |
Contact | |
| khalid.ahmed@iba-suk.edu.pk | |
| Phone number | 03312733953 |
| Website | https://www.iba-suk.edu.pk/faculty/details/INS-0226 |
