Qualifications
BAcc (Hons) IIUM; MEcon (Fin. Econ.); PhD (Econ.), Univ. of Melbourne

Professional experience

Abdullahi Ahmed came to CSES as Research Econometrician, to work on a variety of data intensive projects. He provides data assembly and data analysis and interpretation of large datasets support for the Chief Investigators of these projects. His primary research interests include financial reform and its economic impact and development. Other interests are sources of economic growth, macroeconomics and development. His PhD thesis from The University of Melbourne is titled Financial Liberalization and Economic Development: The Case of Sub-Saharan African Countries and has both theoretical and empirical contents. He has a Masters in Economics and a Bachelor of Accounting from International Islamic University Malaysia(IIUM).

He was previously: Tutor (2002-2005) at The University of Melbourne (Quantitative Methods II, Intermediate Undergraduate; Development Economics, Intermediate Undergraduate; Quantitative Methods 1, Undergraduate; Intermediate Macroeconomics, Intermediate Undergraduate); Teaching Assistant (2000-2001) at International Islamic University Malaysia (Financial Accounting I, Undergraduate; Financial Accounting II, Undergraduate; Financial Accounting 6, Honours undergraduate; Principal of Macroeconomics, Undergraduate; Statistics, Undergraduate); Accountant (1999-2000) at Gulf Auto Parts, Nairobi, Kenya; and Accounts and Audit Trainee (1999) at Delloitte Touche and Tohmatsu (Kassim Chan and Co.) (2.5 months), Kuala Lumpur.

Ahmed’s main interest lies in innovations R&D and productivity, human capital’s contribution to growth, and issues of income convergence. His recent work covered areas of financial liberalization, savings, sources of economics growth, and reforms and corruption. He currently supervises a number of PhD students who are writing their theses on topics such as International Economic Policy and Macroeconomics, Financial Market Modelling, and Econometric Analysis of Time Series. Ahmed has conducted various econometric workshops and advanced statistical training while providing support to students and staff members applying econometric and statistical analyses in their work.

Publications

Book

Ahmed, A. and Islam, S.M.N. forthcoming 2010, Financial Liberalisation in Developing Countries: Issues, Theories, Time Series Econometric Analyses and Policy Making, Springer, Heidelberg.

Journal articles

Ahmed, A.D. forthcoming 2010, ‘Financial liberalization, financial development and growth linkages in Sub-Saharan African countries: An empirical investigation’, Studies in Economics and Finance.

AlSaqri, S. and Ahmed, A.D. forthcoming 2010, ‘Mineral and non-mineral sector interdependency: Empirical evidence from Oman’, ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics.

Grewal, B.S. and Ahmed, A.D. forthcoming 2010, ‘Is China’s Western Regional Development Strategy on track?’, Journal of Contemporary China.

Grewal, B.S. and Ahmed, A.D. forthcoming 2010, ‘China’s Western Region Development Strategy: Impact and stocktaking assessment, International Advances in Economic Research.

Syurkani, I. and Ahmed, A.D. forthcoming 2010, ‘Inflation expectations and monetary policy rules: Findings from the Indonesian economy’, ICFAI Journal of Monetary Economics.

Syurkani, I. and Ahmed, A.D. forthcoming 2010, ‘Inflation expectations formation and financial stability: Evidence from Indonesia’, Empirical Economic Letters.

Ahmed, A. and Suardi, S. 2009, ‘Macroeconomic volatility, trade and financial liberalisation in Africa’, World Development, vol. 10. ISSN: 0305-750X.

Ahmed, A.D. and Tran Van Hoa 2008, ‘Australia-South Africa trade: Substantive evidenced and implication for Growth, trade and economic relation policy’, Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 64-84. ISSN:1326-8481. Published July 2009.

Cheng, E. and Ahmed, A.D. 2008, ‘Demand for credit: A determinant factor for low coverage of microfinance', China Economic Quarterly, vol. 7, pp. 1391-1414.

Ahmed, A.D. and Suardi, Sandy 2007, ‘Sources of economic growth and technology transfer in Sub-Saharan Africa’, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 159-178.

Ahmed, A.D. 2007, ‘Potential impact of financial reforms on savings in Botswana: an Empirical Analysis using VECM Approach’. Journal of Developing Areas, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 203-220.

Ahmed, A.D. 2006, ‘The impact of financial liberalization policies: The case of Botswana’, Journal of African Development (formerly Journal of African Finance and Economic Development), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 13-38.

Working papers

Ahmed, A. D. and Suardi, S. 2009, ‘Do financial and trade liberalisation cause macroeconomic volatility in Sub-Saharan Africa?’, CSES Working Paper No. 44, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Messinis, G. and Ahmed, A.D. 2009, ‘Human capital, innovation and technology diffusion’, CSES Working Paper No. 43, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Ahmed, A.D., Cheng, E. and Messinis, G. 2008, ‘The role of exports, FDI and imports in development: New evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries’, CSES Working Paper No. 39, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Messinis, G. and Ahmed, A.D. 2008, ‘Valuable skills, human capital and technology diffusion’, CSES Working Paper No, 38, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Ahmed, A.D., Enjiang C. and Messinis, G. 2007, ‘Causal links between export, FDI and output: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries’, CSES Working Paper No.35, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne.

Refereed conference publications

Ahmed, A. and Wahid, A.N.M. 2009, ‘Financial Structure, Capital Markets and Economic Growth Link in African Countries: A Panel Co-integration Analysis’, refereed paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Global Research in Business and Economics, Kuala Lumpur, 28-30 December.

Grewal, B. and Ahmed, A. 2009, ‘The Western Region Development Strategy of China: An Assessment’ paper to be presented at the 68th International Atlantic Economic Conference, International Atlantic Economic Society, Boston, 8-11 October.

Tran Van Hoa and Ahmed, A. D. (2009), ‘Oil, Global Crises, Regional Trade Agreements and Economic Growth in the Gulf’ at the International Conference on Energy Security & Development in Yemen, Sheba Centre for Strategic studies, Sana'a, Yemen, on 2-3 June.

Messinis, G. and Ahmed, A.D. 2008, ‘On Human Capital’, refereed paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Educational Economics (ICEE 2008), National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Athens, 27-30 August.

Ahmed, A.D. 2008, ‘Financial liberalization, financial development and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic reform: An empirical investigation’, in Proceedings of The 16th Annual Conference on Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2-4 July.

Ahmed, A. 2004, ‘Financial liberalization and economic development: Evidence from three Sub-Saharan African countries’, in Proceedings of the 2004 PhD Conference in Economics and Business, Australian National University, Canberra, 10-12 November.

Ahmed, A. with Ab. Rashid, H.M. and Abdul Rahman, A.R. 2001, ‘Disclosure quality and firm-specific characteristics: A preliminary analysis of the financial institutions listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange’, paper presented to IIUM Asian-Pacific Accounting Conference 1, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia, 10-12 October.