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LECTURER'S BRIEF CV |
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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
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EDUCATION |
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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.
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ACADEMIC CAREER |
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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
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GENERAL RESEARCH FIELD |
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International Trade,
and Finance
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SOME OTHER INTERESTS |
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Complexity in economics
and social systems
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TEACHING |
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GSM5000 Managerial Economics, GSM5123 International Trade |
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RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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indicate journal is listed in the ISI social science citation
index
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PAPERS
UNDER REVIEW |
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"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) |
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SOME ON-GOING
RESEARCH |
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"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)
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Selected Conference Presentations |
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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,
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PHD SUPERVISON |
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Passed Proposal Defense |
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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)
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Ongoing |
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Ahmad Apandi Samsudin,
“Efficiency and productivity of national seaports” (main supervisor)
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Some Takings on
ACADEMIA |
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