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CURRICULUM VITAE APRIL 12, 2006
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Syed M. Ahmed
Telephone numbers: (580) 581-2430 (Office)
E-MAIL syeda@cameron.edu
Teaching areas Principles of Micro and macro, Intermediate Micro and Macro (online), Money and Banking, International Trade & Finance, Development Economics, Statistics (online), and International Business (online).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., 1988
Dissertation: "The Effects of Reserve Requirements as an Implicit Tax on Banking ‑ Theory and Empirical Evidence."
Supervisors: Herbert Grubel, Ph.D.(Yale); James Dean, Ph.D.(Harvard); Dennis Maki, Ph.D.(Iowa); Debra Glassman, Ph.D. (Wisconsin), external supervisor.
M.A. in Economics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1979
Thesis: "Estimation of Income Elasticity of Demand and Equivalence Scales for the Housing Sector in Manitoba"
M.A. in Economics, University of Dhaka, 1975.
B.A. (Honours) in Economics, University of Dhaka, 1973.
Subsidiary (Minor) subjects: Mathematics and Statistics
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
August 2005 – present, Professor of Economics, School of Business, Cameron University.
Aug 2001- July 2005. Associate Professor of Economics and Director, Business Research Center, School of
Business, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma.
Duties: Teach principles of Micro and Macro economics, Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics; Business Statistics, International Business. Organize business forums and edit a journal titled, Southwest Business and Economics Journal.
Aug. 2000- June 30, 2001. Associate Professor of Economics – Department of Economics and Business, Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
Duties: Teach principles of Micro and Macro economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, International Trade, Development Economics.
Aug. 1988 – June, 2000. Red Deer College, Department of Humanities and Social sciences, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Duties: Teach principles of Micro and Macro economics, Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics, Money and Banking and (develop) International Trade.
1983 – 1984. University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Victoria, B.C., Canada
Duties: Teach principles of Micro and Macro economics, Intermediate Micro, and Intermediate micro (a mathematical approach).
1976 – 1978. University of Dhaka, Department of Economics, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Duties: Teach Mathematical Economics, Statistics, Public Finance and Economic History
1979- 1983 and 1984-87, Departments of Economics, Business Administration and Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, B.C. Canada
Duties: Teaching assistant in various first year and second year economics and business courses; Teaching assistant in the Mathematics and Statistics department
BUSINESS RESEARCH CENTER PROJECTS
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Ahmed, S., A. H. Sukar and S. Hassan, “Providing Sustainable financial Services to the Poor: The Experiences of Bangladesh and Ethiopia” – Journal of Business and public Affairs, Volume 32, Number 1, Fall 2005
S. Hassan A. H. Sukar and S. Ahmed, “The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Economic Growth In Sub-Saharan Africa”, The Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, Volume 25, number 1, 2006 (Coauthored with Seid Hassan and A.H. Sukar) – 2005 KEA Best Faculty Paper.
Bhuyan, R., D. Willams, S. Ahmed and M. Rabbani, “Intertemporal Causality between S&P 500 Spot and Futures Prices: Evidence from Cointegration and Error Correction Models.” ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, January, 2006.
Ansari, M. and S. Ahmed. “Does Money Matter? Evidence from Vector Error Correction for Mexico” , Journal of Developing Areas (forthcoming).
Ahmed, S. , A.H. Sukar and S. Hassan. "Financial sector reform and economic growth: The Case of Ethiopia” , Global Review of Business and Economic Research, Vol. 1, No 1, January-June 2005.
Saleheen, M., F. Islam and S. Ahmed. “The Asian Crisis: An Economic Analysis of Causes”, Journal of Developing Areas, Volume 39, Number 1, Fall 2005.
Khan, M. and S. Ahmed, “Does Gold Price Foretell Inflation? A Long-Run Cointegration Analysis” (coauthored with Moosa Khan, Prairie View A & M University) –forthcoming in Journal of Financial and Economic Practice.
Saleheen, M., F. Islam and S. Ahmed, “Is Microsoft a Monopoly?” American Business Review (coauthored with Saleheen Khan and Faridul Islam) June 2004 No. 2, Vol. 22, 130-34.
Ahmed, S. and A. Islam and F. Islam, “A Time Series Analysis of Coffee Price” forthcoming in Indian Development Review Volume 2 no 1, 2004, 33-48.
Ahmed, S. , A.H. Sukar and S. Hassan “Financial Development and Economic Growth: Cross-Country Evidence from Selected Sub-Saharan Countries”, International Journal of Economic Research, Volume 1, Number 1, 2004, 59-72.
Ahmed, S., Golam Mohammad and Hassan Mohammadi " The Asian Currency Crisis - A study of Contagion" International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics. (coauthored with), Vol. 11, No2, 2003, 195-215.
Ahmed, S., A. Islam and F. Islam. "The Behavior of jute prices: A time series analysis" forthcoming in Malaysian Journal of Agricultural Economics (coauthored with), Volume 17, 2003.
Ansari, M. and S. Ahmed “Time Series Analysis of Tea Prices: An Application of ARIMA Modelling and Cointegration Analysis,” Indian Economic Journal, January-March, 2001 (co-authored with M. Ansari), 49-54.
Ahmed, S. “The Asian Economic Crisis – An Empirical Analysis”, Asian Profile, June 2000, 249-256.
Islam, A. and S. Ahmed, “The Purchasing Power Parity Relationship: Causality and Cointegration Tests Using Korea-U.S. Exchange Rates and Prices,” Journal of Economic Development, vol. 24, no. 2, Dec. 1999, 95-111.
Ahmed, S. and M. Ansari, “Financial Sector Development and Economic Growth: The South-Asian Experience,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol 9, No 3, 1998, 503-517
Ahmed, S. and M. Ansari "Modelling Efficiency of Canadian Foreign Exchange Market: A Bivariate Transfer Function Analysis," Applied Economics, Vol. 29, 1997, 63-70(Co-authored with M. Ansari).
Ahmed, S. and M. Ansari "Financial Development in Bangladesh - a Test of the Shaw-McKinnon Model," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 16(2), 1995, 291-302 (Co-authored with M. Ansari).
Ahmed, S. and M. Ansari "A Tale of Twin Deficits:- An Empirical Investigation for Canada," The International Trade Journal, 8(4), 1994, 483-503.
Ahmed, S., N. Hassan and S. Talukdar. "Estimating Export Demand for Bangladesh: An Application of Cointegration and Error-Correction Modelling," Bangladesh Development Studies, 21(4), December, 1993, 89-104
M. Ansari and Ahmed, S. "The Declining Share of the Canadian Manufacturing Sector: An Application of ARIMA Modelling and Cointegration Analysis," Indian Journal of Quantitative Economics, 9(1), 1994, 55-63.
Ahmed, S. "A Critical Survey of the Variance Bounds Test Literature," Canadian Journal of Administrative sciences, 9(1), 1992, 47-57.
Ahmed, S. "The Effects of Costs of Strikes on the Volume of Strike Activity in Canadian Manufacturing Industries," Applied Economics, October, 1989, 1, 1353-67.
Ahmed, S. "International Banking in the United Kingdom ‑ A Regulatory Perspective," Journal of International Economics and Integration, 1986, 1, 71-84.
Book chapters:
Ahmed, S. , A.H. Sukar and S. Khan, “Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment In Asean-4 Countries: Estimation of Panel Data” – manuscript under consideration for publication in a forthcoming book. .
Ahmed, S. , and M. Kabir, "Challenges of Monetary Policy in an Economy with Dual Money Markets: the Experience of Bangladesh," in The Economy of Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects, Boulder, Co: Westview Press, Inc, 1996.
Manual:
Ahmed, S., Instructor’s manual for Money, Banking and the Canadian Financial System by Binhammer, H. N. and Peter Sephton, Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1998.
Proceedings:
"Exchange Market Efficiency for Canada: Evidence from Bivariate Transfer Function and Cointegration Analysis," Academy of International Business Conference Proceedings, London, U.K., 1994.
"International Banking in the United Kingdom ‑ A Regulatory Perspective," Center HEC‑ISA conference on Research in International Finance proceedings , Jouy‑en‑Josas, France, June 1986.
"The Development of an Offshore Market for Dollars - An Empirical Analysis," Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Annual Conference Proceedings, Whistler, B.C., 1986.
Short articles:
"Trade and Budget Deficits: Twins or Distant Cousins? - A Canadian Perspective," Directions, 11 (4), December, 1994.
"Export Growth in Bangladesh, Kathakali, 3(1), 1995
"Doubts on foreign investment," The People, 1975.
CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected)
“A Time Series Analysis of Coffee Price” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Federation of Business disciplines, St. Louis, March, 2002. (Co-authored)
“Is Jute Still the Golden Fiber of Bangladesh” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Federation of Business Disciplines, St. Louis, March, 2002. (Co-authored)
“The Asian Contagion” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, New Orleans, March, 2001. (Co-authored)
“Did the Bubble Burst? A Study of Asian Currency Crisis” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, San Antonio, March, 2000. (Co-authored)
“Does Money Matter? Evidence from Mexico” - Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, St. Louis, March, 2000. (Co-authored)
"Exports and Economic Growth – Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh” - Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, Houston, March, 1999. (Co-authored with A. Islam)
"The Mexican Peso Crisis and the Current Account Behaviour ” - Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, Dallas, March, 1998.
"Financial Reform in a Developing Economy - the Experiences of Bangladesh" - paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, San Antonio, Texas, March, 1996.
"Export Growth in Bangladesh - A Constant Market Share Analysis" - paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, San Antonio, Texas, March, 1996.
“Estimating the Import Demand Function for Bangladesh” - paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Federation of Administrative disciplines, Houston, Texas, March, 1995.
"Assessing the Problems of Financial Liberalization in Bangladesh," presented at the meeting of the Atlantic Economic Association, Fredericton, N.B., October, 1993.
"The Effects of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade in Bangladesh," - presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June, 1991.
"An Empirical Analysis of the Market for Repurchase Agreements in the United States," - presented at the conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, June, 1988.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
· KEA Best Faculty Paper, 2005
· Current research award, School of Business, Cameron University, 2002-2003
· Current research award, Cameron University, 2003-2004
· President's research stipend, Simon Fraser University, 1992.
· First Grade Scholarship in University of Dhaka,
(1969‑1975) on the basis of college final and B.A.(Hons) results.
· Awarded gold medal in All Pakistan Television Quiz competition in October of 1968.
· Second position among approximately 20,000 students in college final exam, 1969. Awarded First Grade Merit scholarship
· First position among approximately 25,000 students in school final exam, 1967. Awarded First Grade Merit scholarship.
COMMITTEES
REFERENCES
Dr. Sylvia Burgess Dean, School of Business
Tel: (580) 581-2946 Cameron University
EMAIL: sylvia@cameron.edu
Dr. John Courington Chair, School of Business
Tel: (580) 581-2267 Cameron University
EMAIL: johnc@cameron.edu
Dr. T. K. Bhattacharya Professor of Finance
Tel: (580) 581-2533 School of Business
EMAIL: topanb@cameron.edu Cameron University