Welcome!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at University of Michigan. My research interests lie in international economics, environmental economics and labor economics.
I am on the 2025-26 Economics job market. You can find my CV here.
Email: iqbalr@umich.edu
"Sectoral and spatial reallocation via multi-establishment firms" (Job market paper)
"Adaptation to climate risk: Evidence from cyclones and flooding in Bangladesh"
Revise & Resubmit at AEJ: Macroeconomics
(Outstanding third year paper award 2023, Sole winner, University of Michigan)
"How critical are critical minerals? Firm-level evidence from China’s 2010 Rare Earth Export quota reduction" slides
(with Jaedo Choi)
"Will Trump tariffs reduce Carbon emissions?"
(with Germano Wallerstein)
Notes from first year of the PhD. Useful for students preparing for year-end Economics preliminary examinations at University of Michigan.
Notes from second year of the PhD. Useful for students preparing for field exams in International economics, Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics at University of Michigan.
(Incomplete) Solutions for Bruce Hansen's Econometrics textbooks:
- Probability and Statistics for Economists