Research Interests
Applied Macroeconometrics; Applied Nonparametric Econometrics; Development Macroeconomics
PhD Thesis: Essays on Trade, Growth, and Inequality
This thesis explores the role of openness to international trade on economic development, characterised by economic growth and income inequality, across countries. The existing empirical literature has shown that the effect of trade on economic development may not be well captured by
models that impose a a completely linear functional form. Thus, the majority of existing literature has ignored the possibility that the effect of trade on economic development may be subject to model mis-specification or be contingent on other factors. This thesis therefore re-examines the effects of openness to international trade on economic development across countries by addressing these gaps in the literature (click here for a link to the thesis).
Journal Articles
Jia P, Lim KY, Raza A. 2020. Crime, different taxation, police spending and embodied human capital. The Manchester School. 88(5), pp. 664-698
Lim KY, Raza A. 2020. Domestic industrial learning externalities of innovation and imitation: Informing industrial policy with Cross-country evidence. Economic Issues. 25, pp. 61-85
Internet Publications
Rodriguez Gil A, Raza A. 2023. Using Excel conditional formulae to provide individual exam feedback in large groups. Economics Network
Work in Progress
Tajudeen I, Raza A. Do natural resources really affect growth? A nonparametric approach