Teaching
Selected student feedback
"His explanation of econometric concepts made it easy to understand. His computer classes were also very well done."
"The videos provided by tutors and lecturers helped in remote learning."
"Atif was an exceptional tutorial leader. He didn't just go through the answers and tell us where we went right or wrong, or how to simply find the correct formula from the lecture slides. Instead Atif taught by explaining the economic intuition behind everything and he taught us to derive more rather than memorise. "
"Atif made an amazing job in computer classes and workshops. He linked very well concepts of the lectures to R studio. Moreover, his workshops were great and summarized the material excellently."
"Atif, you are a good tutor and always well prepared. You know your stuff and make sure that we really understand the material in a detailed way. So, well done."
"His ability to simplify the language of maths so that I could understand it properly"
"He was always willing to help, well prepared and you could always approach with a problem and expect it to be solved and he helped a lot along the way."
"Atif analyses the intuition of every problem set questions, which is useful for understanding exercise questions and course content. Atif is a patient tutor, he explains answers that are difficult to understand over and over again, include after-tutorials. He teaches us how to derive a formula in a simpler way. "
"He provides a very interactive form of teaching where students can ask questions and is also good at explaining the problems."
"...very clear explanations during the practicals/seminars and always structured. If there was something we could not understand, he would put a lot of questions in order to help us find the answer by ourselves, which I found very useful."
"Atif has been a great tutor! He will go through things slowly, ensuring we understand each step, and try to explain things in different ways if we don't understand, without ever over complicating things."
"Both the lectures and TA’s did live classes which made timetabling easier for me. The effort they put into making the full course online with little to no drop in quality was extremely commendable. The quality of lectures and tutorials was exceptional."
"The tutorials being recorded via Blackboard Collaborate enabled a great in-depth understanding of the material in that we students were able to follow the content and exercises in our own pace, making sure we understand each step. The recording also proved to be a big advantage for computer classes as it made it significantly easier to look at the commands carried out by the tutors and understand their meaning."
"Problem set video solutions/explanations at end of week - very good "
Current teaching
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Spring 2022
The unit aims to introduce students to theories and models of modern macroeconomics and monetary theory, with particular attention to the role played by money and prices in an economy. Students will learn to use a unified theoretical framework to address important questions in macroeconomics and will develop a deep understanding of the role of money, banks and financial intermediation in the economy.
The unit aims to: (a) introduce students to theories and models of modern macroeconomies and monetary theory with particular attention to the role played by money and prices in an economy, (b) teach a unified theoretical framework to address important questions in macroeconomics (c) develop a deep understanding of the role of money, banks and financial intermediation in the economy.
The syllabus includes: (1) The role of money: a simple model of money, (2) inflation, the Philips curve and the Lucas Critique, (3) banking, liquidity and financial intermediation, (4) money stock fluctuations and output, (5) bank risk, (6) liquidity risk and bank panics, (7) deficits and national debt, (8) the temptation of inflation
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Spring 2022
The unit aims to: (a) introduce students to macroeconomic theory and policy analysis at an intermediate level , (b) Develop critical analysis and lay the foundation for macroeconomic courses in the second and third years , (c) proProvide the employability skills of describing macroeconomic events and key global issues to non-economists with confidence .
The syllabus includes: (1) nominal/real exchange rates, balance of payments, UIP and Marshall-Lerner condition and IS-LM model in an open economy , (2) fiscal and monetary policy in the open economy IS-LM model and exchange rate regimes, (3) medium run adjustment under fixed exchange rates, exchange rate crises under fixed exchange rates, exchange rate volatility, (4) PPP, facts on growth across countries, introduction to Solow growth model, (5) Solow growth model with technological progress and population growth, (6) present discounted values, bond prices, yield curves, short-term and long-term interest rates, arbitrage, stock prices, (7) two-period consumption model, investment, volatility of consumption and investment, (8) expectations-augmented IS-LM model, liquidity traps, quantitative easing, budget deficits
Past teaching
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Spring 2021
The unit aims to: (a) introduce students to macroeconomic theory and policy analysis at an intermediate level , (b) Develop critical analysis and lay the foundation for macroeconomic courses in the second and third years , (c) proProvide the employability skills of describing macroeconomic events and key global issues to non-economists with confidence .
The syllabus includes: (1) nominal/real exchange rates, balance of payments, UIP and Marshall-Lerner condition and IS-LM model in an open economy , (2) fiscal and monetary policy in the open economy IS-LM model and exchange rate regimes, (3) medium run adjustment under fixed exchange rates, exchange rate crises under fixed exchange rates, exchange rate volatility, (4) PPP, facts on growth across countries, introduction to Solow growth model, (5) Solow growth model with technological progress and population growth, (6) present discounted values, bond prices, yield curves, short-term and long-term interest rates, arbitrage, stock prices, (7) two-period consumption model, investment, volatility of consumption and investment, (8) expectations-augmented IS-LM model, liquidity traps, quantitative easing, budget deficits
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Autumn 2020
The unit aims to: (a) provide an introduction to macroeconomics, (b) cover the preparatory material for more specialist courses in economics in the second and third years, (c) provide key employability skills, such as the ability to describe recent key macroeconomic events and global issues to a non-economist.
The syllabus includes: (1) Introduction to GDP, unemployment, inflation, (2) the goods market, (3) financial markets, (4) the IS-LM model, (5) the labour market, (6) the AS-AD model, (7) the Phillips curve, (8) inflation, money growth and real rate of interest
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Spring 2020
ECON20110 Econometrics (Dr Robert O'Neill)
This course provides students with an understanding of the quantitative methods that economists use and how they can be appropriately applied and interpreted. The course aims to equip students with: (a) an awareness of the main empirical approach to economics, (b) experience in the analysis and use of data and software packages as tools of statistical analysis to answer topical economic questions, (c) an understanding of the nature of uncertainty and methods of making inference in the presence of uncertainty.
The syllabus includes: (1) time-series data and time-series modelling, (2) heteroscedasticity, (3) autocorrelation, (4) structural breaks, (5) binary dependent variable models, (6) maximum likelihood estimation and (7) Bayesian inference
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Autumn 2019
This course provides students with an understanding of the quantitative methods that economists use and how they can be appropriately applied and interpreted. The course aims to equip students with: (a) an awareness of the main empirical approach to economics, (b) experience in the analysis and use of data and software packages as tools of statistical analysis to answer topical economic questions, (c) an understanding of the nature of uncertainty and methods of making inference in the presence of uncertainty.
The syllabus includes: (1) simple and multiple linear regression models, (2) inference, (3) functional form and dummy variables, (3) parameter properties, (4) asymptotic inference, (5) omitted variable bias, (6) instrumental variables and (7) panel data models
Teaching Assistant
(Undergraduate)
Autumn 2018
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the main mathematical tools used in economics and the social sciences. At the end of the course students should be able to: (1) differentiate mathematical functions, (2) use differential calculus to solve optimisation problems; (3) partially differentiate functions, (4) integrate mathematical functions, and (5) use the definite integral to find the area under a graph.