Thesis Advisor: Dr. Szilvia Pápai
Equivalent to a Canadian master’s degree, assessed by the IQAS, Canada
Industrial Economics Introduction to Statistics
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics
History of Economic Thought.
Courses:
ECON 203: Introduction to Macroeconomics, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020
Fall 2022, Winter 2023
ECON 222: Statistical Methods II, Winter 2023
ECON 221: Statistical Methods I, Fall 2022
ECON 201: Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Fall 2020.
Workshop on University Teaching, offered by Concordia University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, Montreal, Canada, 2024
Completed the 35-hour Graduate Seminar in University Teaching, focusing on effective teaching strategies, curriculum design,
and student engagement in higher education.
Selected Publications (published before starting my PhD studies):
1. Islam, M.S. (2019). Multiple borrowing and living standard: a study in Bangladesh. International Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, 7(1), 19-27.
2. Islam, M. S., and Hossain, M. E. (2017). The Long-run and causal relationship among financial development, openness, and
economic growth in Bangladesh: an ARDL Bound Testing and Granger Causality approach. Journal of Economics and Sustainable
Development, 8(18), 152-159.
3. Islam, M.S. (2017). Irrational use of drugs, health care expenditure, and health care level in Bangladesh. International Journal of
Health Economics and Policy, 2(4), 152-158.
4. Husain, S., and Islam, M. S. (2016). A Test for the Cobb-Douglas production function in the manufacturing sector: the case of
Bangladesh. International Journal of Business and Economics Research, 5(5), 149-154.
5. Husain, S., Yasmin, S., and Islam, M. S. (2015). Assessment of the socioeconomic aspects of street vendors in Dhaka city:
evidence from Bangladesh. Asian Social Science, 11(26), 1-10.
Conference and Exposition Award to participate in the 17th SSCW international conference held at the Paris School of Economics in July 2024, funded by the School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Canada, 2024
Conference Travel funding to participate in the 17th SSCW international conference held at the Paris School of Economics in July 2024, funded by CIREQ, Canada, 2024
Fund for attending a workshop on Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design, held at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, funded by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), 2023
Conference and Exposition Award to participate in the 13th Conference on Economic Design, Girona, Spain, funded by the School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University, Canada, 2023
Fund for Conference Travel to participate in the 13th Conference on Economic Design, Girona, Spain, funded by the Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, Canada, 2023
Conference Travel funding to participate in the 13th Conference on Economic Design, Girona, Spain, funded by CIREQ, Canada, 2023
Presented my research paper titled ‘Overlapping Dynamic Matching with Dichotomous Preferences’ at the 14th Conference on Economic Design, University of Essex, United Kingdom, June 2025
Presented my research paper titled ‘Overlapping Dynamic Matching with Dichotomous Preferences’ at the 17th SSCW international conference, Paris School of Economics, France, July 2024
Presented my research paper titled ‘Strategyproof Maximum Matching under Dichotomous Agent Preferences’ at the 13th Conference on Economic Design, University of Girona, Spain, June 2023
Presented my research paper titled 'The Role of MSMEs in Economic Development of Bangladesh' in an International Conference on Development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Bangladesh: Sharing Asian Experiences, Southeast University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2016.
Attended online the 16th Conference of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (SSCW), Mexico City, Mexico, June 2022
Referee, Journal of Rural and Community Development, Brandon, Canada
Language Skills
French: Basic
Bengali: Native.
Member of the Econometric Society
Member of the Society for Economic Design
Member of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare.