2024 NEWS
December: Working paper on "Liberalisation Reforms and Misallocation: The Role of Political Institutions."
December: Quoted in news here.
November: Invited to give a talk on "Understanding Debt Sustainability: What makes debt (un)sustainable" at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad.
October: Research cited in IMF's country report on Pakistan.
September: Presentation at the 55th Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society.
August: Invited to review the Department of Economics at the IBA, Karachi - a leading business school in Pakistan.
May: Presentation at the Southwest Workshop on Economics Education, Teaching, and Scholarship (slides)
May: Version of the conference paper from 2023
- paper on "Inflation Surges under Incomplete Markets"
April: Quoted in news here
March: Vlog with GVS Dialogue on Pakistan's Economy
March: Article for PIDE on "Default: Incentivising Cooperation Between Creditors"
March: Presentation at the Royal Economic Society 2024 Annual Conference (slides)
March: Presentation at the Bristol-Surrey Macro Workshop (slides)
March: Article for Economic Observatory on "The phoenix that never rises: what’s holding back Pakistan’s economy?"
February: Webinar at PIDE on the paper with Aadil Nakhoda, Saihan Mohammad, and Sarah Javaid (slides)
January: Quoted in news here
January: Working paper on "Pakistan and the rest: A tale of dismal productivity growth, misallocation, and missing transformation."
January: Book published by Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF)
- STICK-IN-THE-MUD: WHY PAKISTAN IS FAILLING BEHIND?
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2021 NEWS
July: Article for Economic Observatory on "How are developing economies coping with the Covid-19 crisis?"
April: Newspaper article on "Price stability as SBP's primary objective." (Business Recorder)
April: Presentation on the proposed SBP autonomy act, PRIME (Slides)
January: Became a Fellow of Advance Higher Education (FHEA)
January: Became a member of Economic Advisory Group, PRIME
January: Working paper on "Evaluating effectiveness of price level targeting in the presence of increasing uncertainty" (with Engin Kara)
2020 NEWS
December: Presentation on 2018 Crisis & the Monetary Policy, IBA seminar on State of Pakistan's Economy (See the 'Public Outreach' section for video link)
October: Attended EABCN Training School in Continuous-time Methods in Macroeconomics (with applications to heterogeneous agent models); By: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde and Galo Nuno
October: Became a member of Research Advisory Committee, RASTA, PIDE
September: Newspaper article on "Elite Capture in Institutional Capture." (Tribune)
- longer/better version can be found here
August: Presentation to State Bank of Pakistan on "Allocative Inefficiencies and Growth."
June: Award of CREATE Level 1 (equivalent to Associate Fellow of the Advanced Higher Education, UK)
Jan-June: My views on Pakistan's economy cited in national media here and here.
January: Paper published in print:
Engin Kara & Ahmed Pirzada, 2020. "A Possible Explanation Of The Missing Deflation Puzzle," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 58(1), pages 361-373, January.
2019 NEWS
September: Newspaper article on "Pakistan's economy is expected to stabilise. Is growth next?" (DAWN)
September: Paper published in Economic Inquiry: Kara, E. and Pirzada, E. "A Possible Explanation of the Missing Deflation Puzzle." Economic Inquiry, 2019.
August: New position as Lecturer in Economics
July: Awarded "Best Class Teacher 2019" by Department of Economics, University of Bristol.
June: Newspaper article on "What's missing in Pakistan's export promotion policy." (DAWN)
January: Newspaper article on "Revisiting Pricing Regimes." (DAWN)