Dr. Syed M Hasan is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, LUMS. His primary research interest and teaching field is urban and regional economics and public economics. Dr. Hasan obtained his PhD in Economics from Ohio State University in 2014. His doctoral research focused on spatial policy instruments and firm’s productivity. Under the broad theme of sustainable development, Dr. Hasan also has interest in research on resilient cities. In this context his research focuses on areas related to water conservation, economic cost of congestion and energy choices by households and related carbon emissions in large urban centers of Pakistan. Dr. Hasan has several publications in international peer-reviewed journals. In 2007 he did he master’s in public finance from GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining the academia, Dr. Hasan has worked in the civil service of Pakistan. His email contact is syed.hasan@lums.edu.pk
Hasan, S. M., Ali, H., Azmat, F., & Raza, S. (2020). Economic Assessment of CPEC: The Case of a Power Project. In China s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context (pp. 41-73). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Hasan, S. M. (2020). Female Entrepreneurship: Do Urban Centers Ease out the Challenge? An Analysis for Pakistan In N. Iftikhar, J. Justice & D. Audretsch (Ed.), Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship. (pp. 163-179). Springer, Cham
Hasan, S. M., M. Javaid, and H. Majid. 2019. A Review of Urbanization in Pakistan: Practices, Policies and Challenges. Background study prepared for the Asian Development Bank
Hasan, S. M. (forthcoming). A Review of Urbanization in Pakistan. Country Diagnostic Study by the Asian Development Bank.
Hasan, S. M., & Sheldon, I. M. (2016). Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports: A Firm Level Study Latin American Countries. Review of Development Economics, volume 20 (issue 2), 547-560. doi: 10.1111/rode.12248
Klaiber, A., Goplakrishnan, S.,& Hasan, S. M.,. (2017). Missing the forest for the trees:balancing shale exploration and conservation goals through policy Conservation Letters,, 10(1), 153-159. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12238
Hasan, S. M., Faggian, A., Klaiber, A., & Sheldon, I. M. (2018). Agglomeration economies or selection: An analysis of Taiwanese Science Parks: International Regional Science Review,volume 41(issue 3) https://doi.org/10.1177/0160017616642822.
Haseeb, S., Iftikhar, M., & Hasan, S. (Accepted). Reimagining Pakistan s Cities: Making Cities More Competitive. Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis, National Defence University
Hasan, S.M., Klaiber, H. A., & Sheldon, I. (2018). The impact of science parks on small-and medium-sized enterprises productivity distributions: the case of Taiwan and South Korea. Small Business Economics, 1-19.
Hasan, S. M. (2018). Great Engines Turn on Small Pivots: A Productivity Analysis of Small-Scale Manufacturing in Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 23(03), 1850014.
Aamir, M., Ahmad, H., Javaid, Q., & Hasan, S. M. (2018). Waste Not, Want Not: A Case Study on Food Waste in Restaurants of Lahore, Pakistan. Journal of Food Products Marketing, 24(5), 591-610.
Tackling traffic congestion Business Recorder Research (https://www.brecorder.com/2018/03/05/402834/tackling-traffic-congestion/)
How to make Gwadar a vibrant economic and port city? Express Tribune (https://tribune.com.pk/story/1833208/6-make-gwadar-vibrant-economic-port-city/)
A Tale of Lahore s Water Crisis (https://mgshss.lums.edu.pk/blog/stale-lahore%E2%80%99s-water-crisis)
"The Greenness of Pakistani Cities: Urban Growth and Household Carbon Emissions presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Chicago, 2017.
"The Greenness of Pakistani Cities: Urban Growth and Household Carbon Emissions presented at the Sustainability and Development Conference , Michigan, 2018.
"Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports: A Firm Level Study Latin American Countries." Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Washington DC on August 6th, 2013. .
"Does Water Metering Incentivize Pro Conservation Preferences: A Study from Urban Consumers in Lahore, Pakistan presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Chicago, 2017
"Transit Oriented Development" International Workshop on Sustainable Cities COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad January 28-29, 2020
"Do Conservation Messages Save Water in Unmetered Settings? Results from an Experimental Study in Islamabad". Accepted for JHU-SAIS/LUMS Conference in Washington DC, 2020
"Significance of Credit Access for SMEs in Latin America" presented at International Agricultural Trade Consortium meeting in December, 2014 at Florida, USA.
Hasan, S., & Zhang, W. The Greenness of Rural and Urban Pakistan Over Time: Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions. In preparation for submission to World Bank Economic Review in December 2019.
Hasan, S. M., Mahmood, K., & Rehman, A. Affordable Housing: Urban Premium and Congestion Costs in Pakistani Cities. In preparation, for submission to Journal of Housing Economics, in February 2020.
Azhar, A. & Hasan, S. Does Water Metering Incentivize Pro-conservation Preferences?
Hasan, S. M., & Khan, N.A. Economic Cost of Urban Traffic Congestion in Lahore, Pakistan
Hasan, S. M. , Akram, A. A., & Jeuland, M. Increasing Willingness to Pay for Urban Drinking Water Service. Submitted to Water Resources and Economics, in January 2020.
Akram, A. A., Hasan, S. M, & Nasim, S. Do Conservation Messages Save Water in Unmetered Settings? Results from an Experimental Study in Islamabad.
