RESEARCH INTERESTS
Applied Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism, Firm Financing and Productivity, Remittances and Exchange Rate Movement
PUBLISHED & FORTHCOMING
(2023) The Cross-industry Effects of Monetary Policy: New Evidence from Bangladesh Economic Modelling Vol. 127: 106479 (with Prasad Bhattacharya and Omar Bashar)
(2016) Workers’ Remittances and the Dutch Disease in South Asian Countries Applied Economics Letters Vol. 23(6): 407-410 (with Robert Dixon)
WORKING / POLICY PAPERS
(2025) Remittance Inflows and Dutch Disease: The Case of Bangladesh Available at SSRN
(2025) Time-varying Causality between Money Supply Growth and Inflation in Bangladesh: New Evidence from Quantity Theory of Money Bangladesh Bank Policy Note 2501
(2024) The Speed of Contract Enforcement and Firms’ Cost of Credit in India Available at SSRN
(2024) Bank Lending and Firm Productivity in India Available at SSRN
(2014) An Empirical Analysis of Remittance - Inflation Relationship in Bangladesh: Post-Floating Exchange Rate Scenario Bangladesh Bank Working Paper 1403
WORK IN PROGRESS
(2025) Do Remittances Affect Output: An IV-SVAR Approach
FUNDED PROJECTS
(2022) International Education Resilience Fund - Cost of Electrical Compliance in Australia
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(2025) Effects of International Geopolitical Risk Shocks on the Bangladeshi Economy SAARCFINANCE Database Seminar – 2025 The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka
(2022) Does Judicial Efficiency Reduce Firms' Cost of Credit 17th Australasian Development Economics Workshop The University of Sydney, Sydney & Australasia Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESAM '22) The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
(2021) Bank Lending and Firm Productivity in India 16th Australasian Development Economics Workshop Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
(2015) Trade-offs between Real Economic Activity and Bank Profitability for Implementing New Regulatory Standards: South Asian Perspective 2nd International Conference on Economics and Finance Nepal Rastra Bank (The Central Bank of Nepal), Kathmandu, Nepal