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Dr Nadia Zakir

Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics

School/Department: Business, School of

Telephone: +44 (0)116 229 7473

Email: nz42@leicester.ac.uk

Address: Room 0.07 Mary Seacole Brookfield Campus, University of Leicester LE2 1RQ

Profile

I hold a PhD in Economics and I joined the University of Leicester in Sep 2018. I am an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). My research interests are primarily in Applied Microeconomics and Political Economy.

Research

Publications:

  1. Rockey, J & Zakir, N 2020, 'When two tribes go to work: Board political diversity and firm performance', European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 63, pp. 101883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101883
  2. James Rockey & Nadia Zakir, 2021. "Power and the money, money and the power: A network analysis of donations from American corporate to political leaders," Discussion Papers 21-03, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham.
  3. Zakir, N & Malik, W.S. 2013, “Are the effects of monetary policy on output asymmetric in Pakistan”, Economic Modelling, 32 (1), 1-9, 2013

Supervision

I have been supervising UG and PG dissertations over the past five years on various modules including;

Dissertation (EC7110)  PG 

Dissertation (MN3206) UG

 

Teaching

Current Teaching:

EC7030 Business Microeconomics

EC7090 Macroeconomic Environment

EC3057 Management Science

Past Teaching: 

EC1011 Probability and Probability Distributions, Econometrics III (EC3062), EC7121 Professional Skills in Finance.

Qualifications

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since January 2023 and a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE) since Nov 2023.

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