Spotlight
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Syed Zahid Ali (Professor, Economics) publishes paper titled “Price puzzle in a small open New Keynesian model” in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (Vol. 69, 2018). For details: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062976917300753
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Batool Abid, a 2017 graduate of Political Science at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS), LUMS has won the Queen Elizabeth House Departmental Scholarship, a full scholarship awarded for outstanding academic ability by the Department of International Developmen...
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Syed M. Hasan’s (Assistant Professor, Economics) co-authored paper titled “The impact of science parks on small- and medium-sized enterprises’ productivity distributions: the case of Taiwan and South Korea” has been accepted for publication in Small Business Economics, a Scopus Q1 ranked journal. Th...
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Amen Jaffer (Assistant Professor, HSS) participated in the inaugural two-week summer workshop titled “Summer Program in Social Science” organized by the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), New Jersey, USA (June 18–June 29, 2018). The workshop featured 20 early-caree...
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The MGSHSS, with the support of the Gurmani Foundation, designed and implemented a four-week pilot project in July 2018 by the name of Advanced Summer Learning Initiative (ASLI). As part of this initiative, the MGSHSS offered training to 37 students (completely funded) in the areas of reading/...
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Muhammad Farid Ahmed (Assistant Professor, Economics) publishes article titled “What Proportion of Time is a Particular Market Inefficient? … A Method for analysing the Frequency of Market Efficiency when Equity Prices Follow Threshold Autoregressions” in the Journal of Time Series Econometrics (Jul...
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Date: August 6–10, 2018 Venue: Academic Block, LUMS Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Organised by: The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences The LUMS Young Writers Workshop and Short Story Contest 2018 is a five-day residential creative writing workshop scheduled on August 6-10, 2018. The work...
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For the first time at LUMS, MGSHSS is organizing a four-week summer training program for students who need extra help with academic problems that cannot always be addressed in the class. With the support and encouragement from the Gurmani Foundation, and with assistance from the Dean of Student Aff...
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Faculty at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS), LUMS continue to make their mark in various spheres. Here are two faculty members of MGSHSS who have recently published articles in international journals with their research. Dr. Syed M. Hasan, Assistant Profes...
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Waqar Zaidi (Assistant Professor, HSS) will be visiting the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/ in July 2018, where he will begin a new collaborative interdisciplinary research project on the international governance of Artificial Intelligence...