Brampton & Sault Ste. Marie campus

cathy.denomme@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4343
Office: NW 304E

Credentials: BBA Hons (Algoma University), MBA (University of Windsor)

Areas of Expertise: Human resources, health and safety, managed systems, ISO registration and ISO internal auditing.

Sault Ste. Marie campus

pelham.matthews@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4329
Office: NW 304

Credentials: BSc (McGill University), MBA (Concordia University)

Areas of Expertise: Marketing, small business and entrepreneurship.

Sault Ste. Marie campus

nusrate.aziz@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4236
Office: SH 501

View Nusrate Aziz’s website

Credentials:

• PhD (International Economics & Financial Economics), University of Birmingham
• MSc (Development Economics), University of Birmingham
• BSS (Honours) & MSS (Economics), University of Chittagong

Area of Expertise: 
International Economics and Financial Economics, Migration Economics, Institutional Quality and Economic Development

Teaching:

• ECON 2107 Intermediate Macroeconomics I
• ECON 3107 Intermediate Macroeconomics II
• ECON 3446 International Trade
• ECON 3447 International Finance

• ADMN 3116 Financial Management
• ADMN 3117 Corporate Finance

Selected Publications

• Nusrate Aziz, Murshed Chowdhury, and Arusha Cooray (2021), “Why do people of wealthy countries migrate?” European Journal of Political Economy (Elsevier) – forthcoming.
• Nusrate Aziz, Belayet Hossain and Laura Lamb (2021), “Does Green Policy Pay Dividends?”, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (Springer).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10018-021-00317-7
• Nusrate Aziz, Arusha Cooray and Wing Leong Teo (2021), “Do Immigrants’ Funds Affect the Exchange Rate?”, The World Economy (Wiley), Vol. 44 (2): 560-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13003
• Armed Conflict, Military Expenditure and International Tourism”, Tourism Economics (SAGE) Vol. 26 (4): 555-577 (2020). (with Usman Khalid, and Luke Okafor). https://doi.org/10.1177/1354816619851404.
• “Armed Conflict, Military Expenses and FDI Inflow to Developing Countries”, Defence and Peace Economics (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 30 (2): 238-251 (2019). (with U. Khalid). https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2017.1388066
• “Does the Quality of Political Institutions Affect Intra-Industry Trade within Trade Blocs? The ASEAN Perspective”, Applied Economics (Taylor & Francis), Vol 50, No. 33, 3560 – 3574 (2018). (with B. Hossain and I. Mowlah). https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1430336 
• “Exchange rate hysteresis in the UK imports from the South Asian Countries”, International Review of Economics and Finance (Elsevier), Vol. 58, No. Nov 2018, Page 159-178. (with AH Ahmad). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2018.03.007 
• “The Role of Income in Intergenerational Co-residence: Evidence from Developing Countries”, Australasian Journal on Ageing (Wiley), Vol. 37 (2), E55–E60 (2018). (with B. Hossain and M. Emran). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajag.12511 
• “Military Spending, Armed Conflict and Economic Growth in Developing Countries in the Post-Cold War Era”, Journal of Economic Studies (Emerald), 44 (1): 47-68 (2017). (with MN Asadullah). https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-01-2015-0021   
• “The Impact of Political Regime and Governance on ASEAN Economic Growth”, Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (Project MUSE), Vol. 32 (3): 375-389 (2015) (with Sheela D. Sundarasen). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/603884/pdf
• “The first and second stage pass-through of exchange rates: A developing country perspective”, Review of Development Economics (Wiley-Blackwell), Vol. 18(3), 595–609 (2014) (with N. Horsewood and S. Sen). https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12105
• “Service Quality and Behavioural Intentions in Broadband Services Selection”, Marketing Intelligence and Planning (Emerald), Vol. 32 (4): 455-474 (2014) (with M.S. Rahman). http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/MIP-06-2013-0093
• “Interest Rate Pass-Through in the UK: Has the Transmission Mechanism Changed During the Financial Crisis?” Economic Issues, Vol. 18 (1): 17-37 (2013) (with H. Ahmad and S. Rummun). http://www.economicissues.org.uk/Files/2013/113Ahmad.pdf
• “Does a real devaluation improve the balance of trade? Empirics from Bangladesh economy”, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 46 (2): 19-41 (2012). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/470997
• “Growth of Government Expenditure in Bangladesh: An Empirical Enquiry into the Validity of Wagner’s Law”, Global Economy Journal, Vol. 9 (2): Article 5 (2010) (with M. A. Kalam). https://doi.org/10.2202/1524-5861.1451

Recent Conferences/Research Papers

• “Recent Vs Historical Migrants: A study on the Canadian Provincial Trade-Migration Nexus”. The 55th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association (online) 3-5 June 2021. Presenter: Nusrate Aziz, Algoma University.
• “Does Green Policy Pay Dividends?”, 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Environmental and Resource Economics Association, Oct 4-6, 2019, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. 
• “Good Governance, Quality of Institutions and International Migration”, The 2019 Canadian Economics Association Conference, May 31 – June 2, 2019, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
• “Labour Migration, Sectoral Shifts and Interprovincial Trade”, The 2018 Canadian Economics Association Conference, June 1-3, 2018, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 
• “Labour Mobility and Interprovincial Trade in Canada”, GLO Discussion Paper, No. 341, Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen (2019). http://hdl.handle.net/10419/195101. 
• “Armed Conflict, Military Expenditure and International Tourism”, The 2018 Canadian Economics Association Conference, June 1-3, 2018, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• “Exchange rate hysteresis in UK imports from South Asian countries”, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, CREDIT 18/3, (2018) University of Nottingham, UK. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/credit/news/papers/1803.aspx
• “Institutions and Economic Growth: Does Income Level Matter?” MPRA Paper No. 83684 (2018).
• “Armed Conflict, Military expenses and FDI inflow”, The 51st Annual Conference of Canadian Economic Association (CEA), Nova Scotia’s St Francis Xavier University (June 2-4, 2017).
• “Do Immigrants’ Funds Affect the Exchange Rate?”. Research Paper 2017/13.  Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP). University of Nottingham (October 2017). http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/news-events/news/papers/1713.aspx. Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University, https://crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publication/cama_crawford_anu_edu_au/2017-10/64_2017_aziz_cooray_teo.pdf. Presented in the 50th Annual Conference of the CEA, University of Ottawa, Ontario (June 3-June 5, 2016).
• “The Effect of Immigration on Bilateral Exchange Rates: Canadian Perspective”, 9th Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP) International Conference, (February17-18, 2016).
• “Migrant Workers’ Remittance and Economic Growth: The Role of Financial Development”, MPRA Working paper no. 66992. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66992/1/MPRA_paper_66992.pdf. Presented in the 8th Globalization and Economic Policy (GEP) International Conference (11-12 February 2015).

Research in Progress

• Labour Retention and Assimilation of Migrants in the Northern Ontario Labour Market
• Northern Ontario Tourism Development & Recovery Strategy in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Immigration and sectoral shift in trade
• Canadian provincial environment control policy and CO2 emission
• Interest rate pass-through during the crises
• Capital Control, globalization, and Investment
• Risk and Returns of Cryptofinance

Sault Ste. Marie campus

hari.luitel@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4757
Office: SH 512

Credentials: BA (Tribhuvan University), MA (Tribhuvan University), PhD (West Virginia University)

Areas of Expertise: Public finance, environmental and natural resource economics, fiscal policy, applied tax incidence, international tax system, monetary policy, macroeconomics, and time series econometric analysis.

Sault Ste. Marie campus

ahmed.aziz@algomau.ca
705-949-2301, ext. 4229

Credentials:

• MA (Economics), Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
• BSS (Honours) & MSS (Economics), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Area of Expertise: Labour Economics, International Economics

Ahmed Aziz is currently a Assistant Professor in the School of Business and Economics at Algoma University. He has a Ph.D. in Economics at Iowa State University and received his M.A. from Rutgers University. Prior to joining the Algoma faculty, he was an NOHFC Fellow at Algoma University and has also served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. His current research projects focus on the impact of Canadian interprovincial migration on interprovincial trade. His areas of expertise include labour, international, and development economics and the intersection between these fields. Mr. Aziz has coauthored a number of journal publications, conference articles in the aforementioned topics, and has received several national and international academic awards.