Academic / Professional Positions

• Assistant Professor, Chair of Public Finance and Debt Management at Goethe University, Frankfurt
• 05/2017-08/2018 Research Assistant, Institute of Economic and Social Research at Université catholique de Louvain
• 04/2014-04/2017 Research Assistant, Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management at Bielefeld University
• 07/2013-09/2013 Research Economist, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics
• 12/2007-6/2012 Staff Economist, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

 
Education

• 09/20115-04/2018 PhD Candidate,  Institute of Economic and Social Research at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• 09/2013-08/2015  PhD Candidate, Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management at Bielefeld University, Germany
• 2012 Mphil in Economics (M.Sc. equivalent), Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan

                          
Research Interests

• International Migration
• Labour Economics
• Family Economics
• Development and Growth

Published Articles

• Iftikhar, Z. and Zaharieva, A. (2016) “General Equilibrium Effects of Immigration in Germany: Search and Matching Approach”, Review of Economic Dynamics, Forthcoming.
• Iftikhar, Z. and Faraz, N. “The Regional Asymmetric Responses to Central Bank's Monetary Policy in Pakistan”, Singapore Economic Review, (2017), Online Ready: pp. 1-14.
• Iftikhar, Z. and Ali, A. (2012) “Impact of Income Inequality and Defence Burden on Economic Growth”, Singapore Economics review, vol. 57 (3).
• Ahsan, H., Iftikhar, Z. and Kemmal, M.A. (2012) “Determinants of Food Prices in Pakistan”, Lahore Journal of Economics, vol. 17(1).

Work in Progress

• Brain Drain, Informality and Inequality: A Search-and-Matching Equilibrium Model for Sub-Saharan Africa
• with Frédéric Doquier
• The Effect of Norms on Quantity-Quality Trade-off and Childlessness in Pakistan