I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Graduate Program Director for the MSc Economics Program. I am a research affiliate at the Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA), International Growth Center (IGC) and a Research Fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (MHRC). I am a Fulbright Scholar with a master’s and Ph.D. from Florida State University. My research areas include Applied Economics, Empirical Macroeconomics and Microfinance.
I have been working in the area of Microfinance since 2012. I have won several research grants to explore and empirically test risk-sharing products. I am currently implementing three randomized control trials (RCT) of an equity-based finance product in collaboration with researchers from the University of Oxford and microfinance institutional partners, such as Ahkuwat and NRSP. These projects are funded by J-PAL, IPA and IGC.
I have done research and consulting assignments for international agencies (IGC, DFID, World Bank, Global Fund to End Slavery), MNCs (Coca-Cola, PTC-BAT), Banks (Barclays), and governments (Punjab Government). I have also conducted various quantitative research in multiple areas ranging from Trade and Industry, Health, Education, and public finance to Microfinance. In addition, I have completed several impact evaluations of different government programs.
My academic research has been published in acclaimed journals such as The American Economic Review, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Economics Modelling, and Journal of Economics and Finance.
Hussain, S. T., Malik, K. Z., & Faheem, A., & Khan, U. (2019). An Analysis of the Garment sector of Pakistan within a Global Value Chain Framework. International Journal of Supply Chain Management, 8 (2), 505-522.
Malik, K. Z., & Ali, S. Z. (2019). Is Empirical relationship between productivity and hours affected by corporate profits? Journal of Economics and Finance, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12197-019-09477-5
Malik, K. Z., Ajmal, H., & Zahid, M. U. (2017). Oil Price Shock and its Impact on the Macroeconomic Variables of Pakistan: A Structural Vector Autoregressive Approach. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy (IJEEP), 7 (5), 83-92.
Hussain, S. T., Malik, K. Z., Faheem, A., & Khan, U. (2012). The Constraints to Industry in Punjab, Pakistan. Lahore Journal of Economics, 17, 135-189.
Malik, K., Ali, S. Z., & Khalid, M. A. (2014). Intangible Capital in a Real Business Cycle Model. Economic Modelling, 39, 32-48. https://doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2014.02.018
Malik, K. Z. Meki, M., Morduch J., Ogden,T., Quinn, S.,& Said, F., (2020) "Microfinance and Covid-19:An urgent call to alms". Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_1, 2020, Pages S138-S168, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/graa014
Malik, K. Z., Ali, S. Z., Imtiaz, A., & Aftab, A. (2019). Preference shocks in an RBC model with intangible capital. Cogent Economics & Finance, 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2019.1586621
Akram, U., & Malik, K. Z. (Forthcoming May 2020) Forex and Financial Markets Dynamics: A case of China and ASEAN. Cogent Economics and Finance.
"Intangible Capital in a Real Business Cycle Model ". Annual Meeting of Eastern Economics Association, Boston, Massachusetts. March 2014
"Preference Shocks in a RBC model with Intangible Capital." Southern Economic Association Conference. Washington D.C. November 2016.
"Forex and Financial Markets Dynamics: A case of China and ASEAN." Eastern Economics Association. New York, New York. March 2019.
"Oil Price Shock and its Impact on the Macroeconomic Variables of Pakistan: A Structural Vector Autoregressive Approach." Annual Meetings of Turkish Economic Association. Antalya,Turkey. October 2014
"Productivity, Hours and Corporate Profits: Is empirical relationship between productivity and hours affected by corporate profits." Eastern Economics Association. Washington D.C. February 2016.
Malik, K. Z. & Bari, F. (2017). Socio-Economic assessment of the brick kiln workers in conventional and mechanized units in Punjab.
Malik, K. Z., Ali, S. Z., & Hussain, S. M. (2016). Interest rate and exchange rate policy in the presence of cost channels."
Malik, K. Z. & Ali, S. Z. (2018). Corporate Profits, Productivity Shock, and Hours-Worked
Malik, K. Z. (2019). "Is RBC theory relevant? Empirical investigation of the aggregated and disaggregated data of the US economy."
Hussain,K. Ali, S.Z.,Malik, K.Z.(2019). "Business Cycle Properties Under Monetary and Bond Financing of Fiscal Deficits"