Research

Interests:

• Financial Inclusion
• Micro-finance
• Financial intermediaries
• Islamic Finance

Publications:

Espenlaub, S., ul Haq, I., & Khurshed, A. (2017). It's all in the name: Mutual Fund Name Changes after SEC Rule 35d-1. Journal of Banking & Finance, 84, 123-134.

Zakir, H., Awan, H., Hussain, I., Farhan, M. & Ul Haq, I. (2006). Demand for money in Pakistan. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 5, 209-218.

Zakir, H., Awan, H., Hussain, I., Farhan, M. & Ul Haq, I. (2006). Economics of Cotton Production in Indus Basin: A Price Risk Analysis. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 6, 24-30.

Works in Progress:

1. Mobile money and risk resilience against aggregate shocks
2. Inclusion amongst the ‘almost unbanked’: A field experiment
3. Performance-chasing behavior in Venture Capital Investments (with A. Khurshed, University of Manchester)
4. Measuring consumer preferences in Islamic financial products (with S. Banuri, University of East Anglia)
5. The role of certification, religion and reference points in philanthropy (with H.F. Ahmad, Sewanee)
6. Beneficiary effect’ in solicitation (with H.F. Ahmad, Sewanee)
7. Investor Behaviour across the business cycle
8. Where did the Smart Money go? Evidence of fund-selection ability amongst U.K. mutual fund investors

If you would like further information, or a copy of my working papers, please feel free to contact me via email at: imtiaz_ulhaq [at] fas.harvard.edu