Dr Sheikh Selim

Dubai Campus
Head of Education
Programme Director of BSc Economics and BSc Money, Banking and Finance
Senior Lecturer in Economics

Contact details

Email: s.t.selim@bham.ac.uk

Address: University 麻豆精选 Dubai
Dubai International Academic City
PO Box 341799
Dubai, UAE

Sheikh Selim is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and Programme Director for BSc Economics and BSc Money Banking Finance.

He previously led the BSc Business Economics programme in the University of Westminster where he held the position of Senior Lecturer of Economics. He served as a visiting professor of Political Economy in the New College of Humanities, and as a Lecturer of Economics in Cardiff University. He has published scholarly articles in high impact journals such as Economic Modelling, Agricultural Economics, Journal of Business and Policy Research, Applied Economics and Economics Bulletin.

Sheikh served as a consultant in the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, and wrote invited articles for the Conversation. He has served as a referee for the Journal of Behavioural Finance, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Macroeconomics, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Singapore Economic Review, ESRC, Qatar Foundation, University of Wales Press, Cambridge University Press, among others.

Qualifications

PhD in Economics 2005, University of Southampton
MSc in Economics of Development 2001, The Australian National University
MSS in Economics 1998, University of Dhaka
BA (Hons) in Economics 1996, Aligarh Muslim University

Biography

Sheikh Selim joined the University 麻豆精选 as Programme Director (Economics) - Dubai in 2018, having previously been a Senior Lecturer of Economics and course leader of Business Economics at Westminster Business School (2012-2018), and a lecturer of Economics at Cardiff Business School (2005-2012).

He was awarded a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton for his research on Optimal Taxation in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models.

Sheikh's main research areas are Macroeconomics, Economic Growth & Development and Public Economics. He has published papers on Optimal Tax Theory, Sectoral Productivity and Agricultural Productivity & Growth in renowned journals such as Economic Modelling, Agricultural Economics, Journal of Business and Policy Research, Applied Economics, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Social Sciences and Economics Bulletin. His current research include the growth and welfare effects of optimal tax policy and banking development & productivity.

Teaching

BSc Economics

BSc Money Banking Finance

Postgraduate supervision

Completed 2 PhD supervisions.

PhD examination: University of York, Cardiff University, Glyndawr University.

Research

Research interests

Macroeconomics, Economic Growth & Development, Public Economics.

Current projects

Growth and welfare effects of optimal tax policy, optimal taxation with tax evasion, banking development & productivity in developing countries.

Other activities

External Examiner at the University of Buckingham and University of Brighton.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Selim, S, Luintel, K & Bajracharya, P 2016, '', Economic Modelling, vol. 61, pp. 102-112.

Selim, S 2015, '', Agricultural Economics, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 595-601. ,

Patel, V & Selim, S 2014, '', Journal of Business and Policy Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 81-105. ,

Selim, S 2012, '', Applied Economics, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 641-652.

Selim, S 2011, '', Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 37-48.

Selim, S 2010, '', Economics Bulletin, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 534-542. <>

Selim, S & Parvin, N 2010, '', Economics Bulletin, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 461-471. <>

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Selim, S 2009, . in D Duffy & E Shinnick (eds), Public Goods, Public Policy and Taxation: A European Perspective. New Developments in Economic Research, LIT Verlag, Berlin, pp. 179-198.

Commissioned report

Ercolani, M, Bromfield, J & Selim, S 2024, . Transport appraisal and strategic modelling (TASM) research reports, Department for Transport. <>