Ali Ahmed

Professor, Head of Division

I am an economist who primarily studies the living conditions, opportunities, and economic outcomes of vulnerable groups across markets and society at large. My research is interdisciplinary and engages sociology, social psychology, and social work.

Publications

2026

Mohammad Rakib Uddin Bhuiyan, Anupam Dutta, Ali Ahmed, Gazi Salah Uddin (2026) Impact of climate risk on clean water investments: Does crude oil act as a hedge? Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, Vol. 12, Article 100708 (Article in journal)

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Chowdhury Abdullah-Al-Baki, Ali Ahmed (2026) The long shadow of natural disasters: educational impacts of the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh World Development, Vol. 200, Article 107286 (Article in journal)

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2025

Mohammad Rakib Bhuiyan, Anupam Dutta, Gazi Salah Uddin, Ali Ahmed (2025) Readiness, riskiness and renewables: Country-level readiness and innovation in renewable energy under macroeconomic uncertainty Sustainable Futures, Vol. 10, Article 101158 (Article in journal)

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Ali Ahmed, Mats Hammarstedt (2025) Type 1 diabetes and youth sports in Sweden: a field experiment on discrimination Economics Bulletin, Vol. 45, p. 1083-1087 (Article in journal)

Philip Igeland, Mona El Yadini, Gazi Salah Uddin, Muhammad Yahya, Ali Ahmed, Axel Hedström (2025) The Relationship Between Energy Metal Price Volatility and Clean Energy Assets International journal of finance and economics (Article in journal)

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News

22 November 2023

Research at IEI holds a high standard

Stanford University has recently released an updated list of the top two percent most cited researchers globally, and it is gratifying to note that once again, several distinguished researchers from IEI are represented on the list.

04 November 2022

IEI researchers among the world´s most cited

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the two percent most cited scientists in the world. And again several researchers at IEI are on the list.

24 February 2021

Men obstructed from entering female-dominated occupations

Job applications from men are disfavoured when they apply for work in female-dominated occupations. Reaching the interview stage was most difficult for men applying for jobs as cleaners.

Organisation

Economics (NEK)

The Division of Economics belongs to the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out education and research in the field of Economics. Economics covers a wide range of different financial aspects.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

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