Mahyudin Ahmad, PhD

About: 

 

​​MAHYUDIN AHMAD is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Perlis Branch, and an Associate Fellow at the Accounting Research Institute (ARI), UiTM Shah Alam. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. From 2015 to 2017, he was an academic visitor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in the field of Applied Economics, particularly in the analysis of economic growth, institutional quality, financial development, and income inequality, with a focus on empirical applications using panel data and spatial econometrics analysis. He has published more than 30 empirical papers in highly reputable journals, including the International Journal of Finance & Economics, Economic Change & Restructuring, Journal of Policy Modeling, Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, Economies, Institutions & Economies, International Journal of Social Economics, New Zealand Economic Papers, International Journal of Business & Society, and many others. He has reviewed over 75 pre-publication manuscripts for numerous top-indexed journals, such as Economic Modelling, European Journal of Political Economy, World Development, The Social Science Journal, Journal of Asian Economics, Financial Innovation, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Annals of GIS, Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, International Economic Journal, Journal of Spatial Science, Spatial Economic Analysis, Papers in Applied Geography, Economic Change & Restructuring, and Journal of International Development, among others. During his PhD at Leicester, he attended advanced econometrics courses, including the Advanced Workshop in Macroeconometrics conducted by S. G. Hall (who was also his PhD supervisor), the Advanced Workshop in Microeconometrics by B.H. Baltagi, and the Introduction to BHPS Data and Panel Data Analysis using Stata by S. Longhi and A. Nandi. In 2017, he attended the Cambridge-INET Panel Data Workshop at the University of Cambridge, where speakers included Peter C.B. Phillips (Yale University), Peter Robinson (LSE), Hashem Pesaran (USC), and Whitney Newey (MIT). Since 2012, he has conducted more than 30 workshops on panel data and spatial analysis at UiTM, including at ARI UiTM Shah Alam, as well as at UiTM branches in Pahang, Johor, Perlis, Kedah, and Melaka. He has also conducted workshops at the Centre for Testing, Measurement, and Appraisal (CeTMA), Universiti Utara Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia.

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Research expertises/focuses/interests: 

1. Applied economic analysis (panel data & spatial methods)

2. Economic growth & development

3. Governance & institutions   

4. Income inequality

5. Globalization, FDI, & trade

6. Financial development & financial inclusion

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Recently published papers (See more published papers here): 

1. (2024) Spillover effects in the nexus of finance-institutions-growth: New insights from spatial Durbin analysis on emerging economies. International Journal of Finance & Economics. 2024 WOS Q2. Accessible here.  

2. (2024) Administrative Economies of Scale in the Malaysian States: A Panel Data Analysis. Read here International Journal of Public Administration. 2023 WOS Q3.

3. (2023) Financial development, institutions, and economic growth nexus: A spatial econometrics analysis using geographical and institutional proximities. Read here International Journal of Finance & Economics. 2023 WOS Q2.

4. The growth-effects of economic and political institutions: New evidence from spatial econometrics analysis using historical-based institutional matrix. Economic Change and Restructuring. Full paper accessible here. 2023 WOS Q1.​​

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Current working papers: 

1. (2024) Enhancing ESG Performance Through Board Cultural Diversity: International Evidence. Social Science Research Network. 

2. (2024) Does renewable energy matter in the tourism development-environmental quality nexus in ASEAN: New evidence from panel estimators robust to cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity.

3. (2024) Tourism development and environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in ASEAN countries: New evidence from panel estimators robust to cross-sectional dependence.

4. Does globalization matter for financial development? A new panel evidence from selected Asian countries.​

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​Membership: 

1. Associate member, Majlis Professor Negara (MPN), 2022-now 

2. Member, Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE), 2022-now

3. Basic member, World Economics Association (WEA) - 2022-now

4. Member, Young Scholars Initiative (INET) - 2020-now

5. Early Career Member (No. 10747), Regional Studies Association (RSA) - 2015-2016.

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