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Dr. Waqar Ahmed Wadho

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics & Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB)
Research Interests

Endogenous Growth Theory, Growth and Development, Economics of Innovation, Political Economy.

Teaching

Advanced Economics Growth (Ph.D), Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy (Ph.D), Advanced Macroeconomics (M.Phil), Macroeconomics (B.Sc).

Publications

  • Innovation and firm Performance in Developing Countries: The case of Pakistani Textiles Manufacturers. Research Policy, Forthcoming, Joint with Azam Chaudhry
  • Identifying and Understanding the High Growth firms in Pakistani Textiles and Apparel sectors. Lahore Journal of Economics. Forthcoming, Joint with Azam Chaudhry
  • Rent-seeking, Government size and Endogenous Economic Growth. Economics & Politics. 2018; Volume 30, Issue 1. Joint with Umair Ayaz.
  • Corruption, Tax-evasion and the Role of Wage Incentives with Endogenous Monitoring Technology. Economic Inquiry, Vol.54 (1), 2016.
  • Innovation in the Textiles Sector of Pakistan: A firm level Analysis of Technological and Non-technological Innovation, Sources of Knowledge Spillover and Economic Returns. The Lahore Journal of Economics. Joint with Azam Chaudhry. 21-Special edition 2016.
  • Education, Rent-seeking and the Curse of Natural Resources. Economics & Politics. Vol. 26 (1), 2014.
  • Control Rights, Bureaucratic Corruption and the Allocation of Resources. European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol: 35 (1), 2013.
  • IMF Stabilization Programs, Policy Conduct and Macroeconomic Outcomes. A Case Study of Pakistan. The Lahore Journal of Economics Vol. 11:1(Summer 2006) Pp. 35-62. Joint with Nawaz A. Hakro.
Working Papers

  • Rent-seeking, Government Size and Economic Growth. GLO Discussion Paper, No. 131. Global Labor Organization
  • The Theory of the Natural Resource Curse: A Political Economy View. CREB Working Paper Series, 01/2017.
Ongoing Research
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

  • Social Mobilization, Poverty Dynamics, and Patronage (2016-2021). Joint with Andreas Landmann (Paris School of Economics)
Empirical Research

  • Do young and innovative firms grow faster? Evidence from the Pakistani textiles sector. Joint with Micheline Goedhuys (UNU, Merit) and Azam Chaudhry
  • Innovation Strategies and Firms' Productivity Growth in Pakistan, (2018). Joint with Azam Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)
  • Innovation and Competition: Evidence from firm level data of Textile sector of Pakistan, (2017). Joint with Azam Chaudhry (Lahore School of Economics)
Theoretical Research

  • Unskilled Migration and Human Capital Accumulation of Left behind Children in the Presence of Parental Absenteeism, (2017). Joint with Yumna Hassan (Lahore School of Economics) Elite's Extraction Powerand the Curse of Natural Resources, (2017). Joint with Sadia Hussain (Lahore School of Economics)
Funding and Research Grants

  • Social Mobilization, Poverty Dynamics, and Patronage (2016-2021). Funded by the European Union/National Rural Support Program Network. Joint with Andreas Landmann (Paris School of Economics).
  • Measuring Innovation in the Textiles Sector of Pakistan (joint with Azam Chadhry). Funded by the International Growth Center (IGC), 2014-15. London School of Economics.
  • Allocation de Recherche (French Doctoral Scholarship). Ministry of Research, Government of France.
  • Overseas Scholarship. Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, Government of Pakistan.
Communications in Conferences and Seminars

  • 14th International Conference on Management of the Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, March 2018.
  • Stimulating Firm Productivity for Growth, State Bank of Pakistan, organized by the International Growth Center (IGC), March 2018.
  • Summer School on Development (attended), Paris School of Economics, Paris France, June 2017.
  • Creating Capabilities for Growth, organized by the International Growth Center (IGC), Islamabad, November 2016.
  • 16th Conference of International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, Montreal Canada, July 2016.
  • Invited speaker on Innovation at Ministry of Science and Technology, Islamabad, April 2016.
  • 12th International Conference on Management of Pakistan Economy, Lahore School of Economics, March 2016.
  • International Curriculum Forum. Organized by the International Economic Association, Lahore, December 2015.
  • 16th Annual Public Economic Theory Conference organized by the Association for Public Economic Theory, Luxembourg, July 2015.
  • 24th Meeting of the Economics of Education Association, Madrid Spain, June 2015.
  • Lahore Economic Development Research Seminar (LEDRS), Lahore 2013.
  • Invited speaker at Policy Seminar, Sustainable Development Policy Institute Islamabad 2011.
  • Guest speaker, Department of Economics, Szabist University Islamabad 2011.
  • Warsaw International Economic Meeting (WIEM), Warsaw Poland, July 2010.
  • ADAM eco-gestion Meeting. Workshop in economics and management, Aix en Provence France, June 2010.
  • 8th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Conference in Public Economics, Marseille France, June 2010.
  • Eco Lunch Seminar. GREQAM, Marseille France, November 2009.European Doctoral Group in Economics Jamboree, Aix en Provence France, Sept 2009.
  • Summer School "The Theory and Empirics of Discrimination", Aix-en-Provence, France, June 2008.
  • Eco Lunch Seminar. GREQAM, Marseille France, March 2008.
  • 6th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Conference in Public Economics, Marseille France, June 2007.
  • Economic Analysis Seminar, GREQAM, Marseille France, 2006-2010.

Degrees :
Ph.D in Economics (2011) from GREQAM,
Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University, France
MS (2007) in Economic Analysis and Econometrics with specialization in Economic Theory from GREQAM,
Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University, France
M.Sc (2004) in Economics from Quaid I Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Email : w.wadho@lahoreschool.edu.pk
Tel : +92 -42 -36561230
Office : CREB

Member of :

  • HEC sub-committee on Economics "Committee for Development of Social Sciences and Humanities in Pakistan" (CDSSHP)
  • HEC Curriculum Revision Committee on Economics 2012-13

Website : https://sites.google.com/
site/waqarahmedwadho/

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