Department of Economics
Extension Number: 399
Office Number: E – 224

BRIEF PROFILE:

Dr. Abdul Jalil Khan is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Forman Christian College (A Chartered University)’s Department of Economics. He has a wide experience of teaching economics in the field of International Economics, Corporate Finance, Banking and Finance, Statistics at undergraduate level whereas Financial Economics at postgraduate levels. His research interests mainly include financial economics, cryptocurrency, prosperity measures, entropy and economics of information, digital economics, and technological change. Dr Abdul has one conference paper with some research articles published in national and international refereed journals.

EDUCATION:

• PHD (Economics) Government College University, Lahore.
• MPHIL (Economics) Government College University, Lahore.
• Master’s in Applied Sciences (Economics) from AERC, University of Karachi, Karachi.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS:

1. Khan, A.J & Ahmad, H.R (Forthcoming 2023), “The Scope of Cryptocurrencies as a ‘Fiat’ Money: An Evaluation of the ‘Store of Value’ Function” accepted by International Journal of Electronic Finance on Jan 03, 2023.
2. Khan, A.J & Ahmad, H.R (2022), “Do Monetary Models Really Matter to Determine Exchange Rate Behavior: A Case for Pakistan” Forman Journal of Economic Studies. 18(1), pp.23-50. 
3. Butt, Ahsen; Ahmad, H.R & Khan, A.J (2019), “Demographic Change and Economic Growth: A Policy Perspective” Forman Journal of Economic Studies 15, pp. 247-258_Demographic_Change_and_Economic_Growth_A_Policy_Perspective
4. Zahid, Ayesha; Bhatti, M.Ali & Khan, A.J (2018), “Ricardian Equivalence, Twin Deficits and Feldstein-Horioka Hypotheses: Empirical Analysis form Pakistan” Kashmir Economic Review, vol. 27 (2), 2018, pp. 1-30. 
5. Khan, A.J & Ahmad, H.R (2017), “An Evaluation of Effective Prosperity Measure: A Case of Wellbeing Index” MPRA Paper No. 95632, (2017) 01-22, 
6. Ahmad, H.R; Butt, Ahsen & Khan, A.J (2017), “Socio-Economic Consequences of Population Change: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and Japan,” Economy & Business Journal, International Scientific Publications, Bulgaria, vol. 11(1), (Sept. 2017) pages 321-329. 
7. Khan, A.J; Azim, P. & Syed, S.H (2014), “The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Trade: A Panel Study on Pakistan’s Trading Partners”, Lahore Journal of Economics 19(1) (Summer 2014), 31–66.
8. Khan, A.J & Azim, P. (2013), “One step ahead Forecast abilities of GARCH(1,1): A Comparative Analysis of US-Dollar and Pak-Rupee based Exchange Rates Volatilities” Lahore Journal of Economics, 18(1), (Summer 2013), 01-38. 
9. Khan, A.J (2008),“Is there any role of technological inputs in crop sector?” Pakistan Development Review, 47, (2008), 925-946. 

Articles:

1. Khan, A. J., Khan, A. W., & Ahmad, H. R. (2024) “Entropy as a Measure of Risk or a Source of Information to Mitigate Risk: A  Comparison Across Various Financial Assets”. Journal of Asian Development Studies, Vol. 13 (Issue 2), pp. 1919-1947
2. Naveed, F., Khan, A. J., & Ahmad, H. R. (2024) “Competition for ‘Top 25 Companies’ Award’s Criterion of PSX_ An Evaluation of the Financial Aspects”. ”. Journal of Asian Development Studies, Vol. 13 (Issue 3), pp. 1119-1138
3. Mehmood, B., Khan, A. J., & Ahmad, H. R. (2024) “Women Empowerment: A Comparison of Socio-Economic Perspectives with Political Aspects”. Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12 (No. 3), 2535–2549
4. Riaz, R., Khan, A. J., & Ahmad, H. R. (2024) “Is It Feasible for Pakistan to Use Domestic Currency for International Settlements” International Review of Social Sciences, Vol. 12 (Issue 4), pp. 14-33
5. Khan, A. J., Khan, T. N. , & Ahmad, H. R. (2024) “Portfolio Selection and Stock Returns: The Role of Machine Learning Algorithms in Asset Choices” Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences, Vol. 7 (No. 4), pp. 495-511