Irem Batool

Dr. Irem Batool has recently joined as cheif of Research at Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad. Her scholarly research work is published in world recognised impact factor journals like Public Choice, Economies, Telecommunication Policy, Research in Transportation Economics, Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour Journal of Air Transport Management, Lahore Journal of Economics, Cogent Economics and Finance etc. She has completed her postdoc research at Economics Department, Purdue University United States in Year 2020. Previously she worked with State Bank of Pakistan at Karachi, COMSATS University Islamabad and University of Management and Technology, Lahore. She has estalished very active research Collaboration with Institute of Transport Economics (ivm), university of Muenser Germany, and completed DAAD funded joint research projects. During her stay at SBP, she had worked on various important assignemnts like “Development of Macroeconometric Model of Pakistan Economy”, Quarterly Gross Fixed Capital Formation Series” and Various Inflation Forecasting Models etc. Besides she has also worked on IMF framework Forecasting method based upon the Financial Programming and Policies. She has also served about 4 years as the chairperson of Department of Economics and Quantitiave Methods, at University of Mangement and Technology Lahore.

Primary Research Area:
Transport Economy, Macroeconometric Modelling and Forecasting, Economic Voting, Monetary Economics and International Trade

Secondary Research Area:
Transport Economy and Logistics, Macroeconomic Policies, Political Economy

Education:
POst Doc Researcher, Economics Department, Purdue University, United States