LECTURER'S BRIEF CV

 
     

Mohamed AZHAR Abdul Karim
Email: akmazhar@putra.upm.edu.my
Contact Number: Tel: +60 3 8946 7435, Fax: +603 8943 4019
Office: GSM UPM
Web: http://gsm.upm.edu.my/staff/AKM/Azhar.htm
 
  EDUCATION  

PhD (Econs) University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Post Graduate Diploma (Education) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
B.A. (Math) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47401 U.S.A.
 
  ACADEMIC CAREER  

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management, UPM 5/2003
Lecturer, Graduate School of Management UPM 9/2001 – 4/2003
Lecturer, Department of Economics UPM 2/1997 – 8/2001
Tutor, Department of Economics UPM, 10/1993 – 1/1997
Mathematics Teacher, MARA Junior Science College, 6/1987 – 10/1992
 
  GENERAL RESEARCH FIELD  


International Trade, and Finance
 

  SOME OTHER INTERESTS  


Complexity in economics and social systems
 

  TEACHING  

GSM5000 Managerial Economics, GSM5123 International Trade
 
  RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS  
 
  • Azhar, A.K.M. and Robert J.R. Elliott (2008), “On the Measurement of Changes in Product Quality in Marginal Intra industry Trade”: Review of World Economics, 144(2), 225-247.
     

  • Azhar, A.K.M. Robert J.R. Elliott and Junting Liu (2008), “On the Measurement of Product Quality in Intra Industry Trade: An Empirical Test for China”. China Economic Review 19(2), 336-344.

    Azhar, A.K.M. and Robert J.R. Elliott (2007), “Trade and Specialisation in Pollution-intensive Industries: North-South Evidence”. International Economic Journal. 21(3), 361-380.
     

  • Azhar, A.K.M. and Robert J.R. Elliott (2006), “On the Measurement of Product Quality in Intra Industry Trade”. Review of World Economics 142(3), 476-495.

    W.A.T. Wan Abdullah and Azhar, A.K.M. (2005), “Mutual Support in Agent Networks”. eprint arXiv.physics.8205. Cornell University (also published in special issue of Jurnal Fizik Malaysia).

    W.A.T. Wan Abdullah and A.K.M. Azhar (2004),"Deviants Dilemma - The Simulation". eprint arXiv.cond-mat.12107. Cornell University.

    Azhar, A.K.M. and Robert J.R. Elliott (2004), “Economic Integration and the Evolution of Trade: A Geometric Interpretation of Trade Measures”. Journal of Economic Integration 19(4), 651-666.

    A.K.M. Azhar, W.A.T. Wan Abdullah, Z.A. Kidam, and A. Salleh (2003), "The Deviants Dilemma: A Simple Game in the Run-up to Seniority”. eprint arXiv.cond-mat.10340. Cornell University.
     

  • Azhar, A.K.M. and Robert J.R. Elliott (2003), “On the Measurement of Trade-induced Adjustment”. Review of World Economics, 139(3), 419-439.
     

  • Azhar, A.K.M., Robert J. R. Elliott, and Chris R. Milner (1998), Static and Dynamic Measurement of Intra-industry Trade and Adjustment: A Geometric Reappraisal”. Review of World Economics, 134 (3), 404-422.

 
 
 
  • indicate journal is listed in the ISI social science citation index
 
  PAPERS UNDER REVIEW  

"A Quality Adjusted Measure of Matched Changes in Trade" ( with RJR Elliottt)

"Trade, Product Quality and Adjustment: The China-Asean Experience" (with RJR Elliott and Junting Liu)
 

  SOME ON-GOING RESEARCH  
 
 

"On the measurement of credit-risk: a geometric approach" (with A. Bahiraie and R.W. Bailey)

"On stock valuation, capital market ratios and firms' performance" (with SIW Osman and A Salleh)

"On entrepreneurs' utility, profit-loss sharing and investment financing" (with A.J. Aishanuddin and W.A.T. Wan Abdullah) 

"Advances in the measurement of intra-industry trade" (with R.J.R. Elliott)

"Measure for measure: a geometric interpretation of  RCA" (with R.J.R. Elliott) (preliminary version presented at the ETE Research Group workshop, University of Birmingham April 30, 2008).

"Deviants dilemma part two: endogenous emergence of institutional policies in a dynamic adaptive game" (with I Ray and WAT Wan Abdullah)
 

 
  Selected Conference Presentations  
 

A.K.M. Azhar, Robert JR Elliott and Junting Liu (2007), “Changes in Product Quality in Marginal Intra industry Trade and Adjustment: The China-ASEAN Experience”. Contributed Session: Singapore Economic Review Conference, 2-4 August, Singapore.

A.K.M. Azhar, WAT Wan-Abdullah, and M. Ruzlan (2005), “Dynamic Phase Structures in the Evolution of Conventions”. Contributed Session: International Advanced Technology Congress (IATC 2005), 6-8 December, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur.

WAT Wan Abdullah and A.K.M. Azhar (2005), “Mutual Support in Agent Networks” Invited Presentation: International Meeting on Frontiers of Physics, (IMFP), 25-29 July, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A.K.M. Azhar, and Robert JR Elliott (2004), “On the Measurement of Vertical and Horizontal Intra Industry Trade: A Geometric Exposition” Contributed Session: European Trade Study Group 6th Annual Conference, ETSG 2004, 9-11 September, University of Nottingham, UK.

A.K.M. Azhar and WAT Wan-Abdullah, (2004), “A Simulated Deviants Dilemma Game”. 2nd World Congress Game Theory Society, Marseille, France (poster).

A.K.M. Azhar and Robert JR Elliott (2003), “On the Measurement of Trade-Induced Adjustment”. Contributed Session: 18th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, EEA 2003, 20-24 August, Stockholm, Sweden.

 
  PHD SUPERVISON  
  Passed Proposal Defense  
 


Suzana Idayu Wati Osman, (Finance), “Essays on Stock Valuation, Capital Market Ratios, and Firms Performance” (main supervisor)

Darwis Abdul Razak, (Islamic Finance), “Essays on the Measurement of Islamic Finance” (main supervisor)

AliReza Bahiraie, “Genetic Algorithms with Financial Applications” (co-supervisor). (Dept. of Mathematics, Faculty of Science)
 

 
  Ongoing  
 


Ahmad Apandi Samsudin, “Efficiency and productivity of national seaports” (main supervisor)

 

 
  Some Takings on ACADEMIA  
 


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