Research

Publications

Macroeconomic Effects of Discretionary Tax Changes in Canada: Evidence from a new narrative measure of tax shocks (with Lin Liu), Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming

Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks: New Narrative Evidence from Canada (with Lin Liu), Journal of Macroeconomics (2023), Vol 75.

A historical dataset of federal government spending changes for Canada (with Lin Liu), Data in Brief (2023), Vol 46

Comparing the effects of discretionary tax changes between the US and the UK (with Lin Liu), B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol 18, No 1.

 A note on the Cogley-Sims-Nason approach (with Lin Liu), Economics Letters (2016) 146: 77-81

 Asymmetric Effects of Exogenous Tax Changes (with Samreen Malik), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2016) 50: 268-300

 Reversing the Brain Drain: Is it Beneficial?, World Development (2015) 67: 310-322

 The contractionary effects of tax shocks on productivity: An empirical and theoretical analysis, Journal of Macroeconomics (2015) 43: 93-107

Working Papers:

Government Spending Multiplier for the UK: Evidence form a narrative measure of Government Spending Changes (with Samreen Malik and Ayesha Umar) Latest draft coming soon

Revisiting Aggregate Technological Shocks While Controlling for Varying Utilizations of Different Skill Levels (with Ruoxi Cao and Lin Liu)

Determinants of Commodity Level Exports from Developing Countries (with Zara Liaqat and Lin Liu)

What should be targeted first: Industrial Development or Education? (with Zara Liaqat and Lin Liu). 

Empowering Women with Microcredit: Mixed Methods Evidence from Pakistan (with Abid Burki, Rashid Memon, and Ayaz Qureshi)

Works in Progress:

News Shocks, Consumer Sentiment, and Business Cycles. Latest draft coming soon.

Cross country comparison of Utilization-adjusted-TFP (with Ruoxi Cao and Lin Liu)