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What is CERP? | Why Should I Join CERP? | CERP for Students | Organization of CERP.
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Mission
CERP (Center for Economic Research, Pakistan) is a non-profit research network which aims to link the academic community to promote economic and social research on Pakistan. Initiated in 2008 by economists at Harvard’s Kennedy School, the University of Chicago, Pomona College, and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), CERP focuses on the study of the Pakistani economy: its firms, households, institutions and communities. It encourages theoretical and empirical (both statistical and field-based) approaches to economic problems, penetrated by constructive and rigorous thinking. Any activity which promises to further such goals lies within the sphere of CERP’s activities.
CERP on the Web
In keeping with its goals to advance research, CERP's website provides a space for economists and academics to share their work with their peers as well as other interested groups like students, public policymakers, professionals, and civil society. Working papers of all CERP Fellows archive some of the latest economic literature on Pakistan. Our online Data Center shares and provides access to key and innovative datasets on Pakistan; The CERP Quarterly, an online newsletter, features articles on current economic events, issues and research taking place in Pakistan. For aspiring academics, the Learning Resources Center provides research tips, lecture notes, links to online courses, advice about applying to grad school, and a dynamic discussion forum. In sum, CERP aims to be a primary interface linking the Pakistan economics academic community.
CERP was established in 2008.
Network and Share.
CERP aims to be the primary research networking resource for academics interested in Pakistan-related economic research. With access to CERP's database and communication with members, you remain up-to-date with the latest research in Pakistan related to your field, along with news and upcoming events. Plus, networking with members enables you to share ideas, contact and collaborate with other academics and generate diversity in research! Most importantly, CERP is interactive - as a member, your can share ideas, write post articles, brainstorm on research, post on the forums, add a dataset, connect with graduate students, and interact real-time and conveniently with the academic community.
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Economics as Extracurriculars!
CERP recognizes that today's students are tomorrow's researchers. CERP provides a fantastic opportunities for students interested in both consuming and producing the economics literature on Pakistan. Its website provides useful links for Economics research, from glossaries to quick facts, research tips to the latest papers written by CERP members. It also offers a plethora of applications advice for prospective grad students from people who have 'been through' the journey, plus a forum with which you can interact with fellow aspirants and current grad students and CERP members. For grad students, CERP aims to build an extensive resource for economics research tools - from handouts to lecture notes, video streams to programming manuals to assist in building necessary research skills. And because CERP is interactive, you can share your tips with others, creating a valuable networking resource.
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People at CERP include Research Fellows, Student Fellows and staff. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors representing various research interests and backgrounds.Meet CERP's founders and Board of Directors:
<<< Dr. Asim Ijaz Khwaja
Asim is Associate Professor of Public Policy, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research interest include economic development, corporate finance, education, political economy, industrial organization, contract theory, mechanism design, and computational economics. He received BS degrees in Economics and in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and a PhD in Economics from Harvard.
Email: asim_ijaz_khwaja@harvard.edu
Web: http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/asim_khwaja
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<<< Dr. Ali Cheema
Ali
is Associate Professor and Head of the Economics Department at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Joining LUMS in 1999 after completing his PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge, Dr Cheema's current research interests include; institutional and development economics, rent seeking theory, small firm growth, productivity analysis and industrial economics. His Ph.D. research examines the effect of state-created rents and rent-seeking on the productivity growth performance of Pakistans spinning sector companies during 1981-94. He has recently co- authored an article titled "Technology, Trade and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries: An Institutional, Political & Technological View", with Dr H. J. Chang of the University of Cambridge, forthcoming in the special issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
Email: cheema@lums.edu.pk
Web: www.lums.edu.pk/econ
<<< Dr. Atif Mian
Atif is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. His research interests include banking, corporate finance, and financial markets in emerging economies. Dr Mian obtained a BS (Mathematics, Computer Science) and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1996 and 2001 respectively.
Email: amian@chicagoGSB.edu
<<< Dr. Tahir Andrabi
Tahir is Associate Professor of Economics at Pomona College. A graduate of Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, he teaches classes in principles, economic development, game theory and international economics. In his current research, Dr. Andrabi analyzes the rise of private and religious schooling and issues of school choice in rural Pakistan and industrial subcontracting in developing countries. He was also a member of the tax and macroeconomic committees of the economic advisory board of the government of Pakistan in 1999-2000. He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, a research associate at LSE and a consultant for the World Bank. He is currently directing a World Bank funded project on quality of primary education in rural Punjab.
Email: tandrabi@pomona.edu
Web: http://www.economics.pomona.edu/Andrabi/