Professional Activities:

   CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

The effectiveness of dynamic hedging: evidence from selected European stock futures”, with Jahangir Sultan.  The paper was presented in the thirteenth international conference on the ‘Forecasting Financial Markets: Advances for Exchange Rates, Interest Rates and Asset Management’, held at the Aix-en-Provence, France, 31 May – 2 June, 2006. 

“The monetary approach to the determination of the dollar-yen exchange rates: a cointegration analysis”, paper presented at the annual conference of the Eastern Economic Association held on February 20-22, 2004, Washington DC.

“The long run relationship between population growth and per capita income in mainland China”, presented in a seminar at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 27^th of August, 2003.

“Dynamic adjustment of equilibrium income in error correction model”, paper presented at the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Cincinnati, March 30 - April 1, 1990.

“Autoregressive modelling of the St. Louis equation”, paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Baltimore, March 3-5, 1989.

   REFEREE

Acted as referee in Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Forecasting, International Review of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Bangladesh Studies.

   PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Member, American Economic Association

Member, Royal Economic Society

Fellow, The Higher Education Academy