Dr. Syed M Hasan is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, LUMS. His primary research interest and teaching field is urban and regional economics and public economics. Dr. Hasan obtained his PhD in Economics from Ohio State University in 2014. His doctoral research focused on spatial policy instruments and firm’s productivity. Under the broad theme of sustainable development, Dr. Hasan also has interest in research on resilient cities. In this context his research focuses on areas related to water conservation, economic cost of congestion and energy choices by households and related carbon emissions in large urban centers of Pakistan. Dr. Hasan has several publications in international peer-reviewed journals. In 2007 he did he master’s in public finance from GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining the academia, Dr. Hasan has worked in the civil service of Pakistan. His email contact is syed.hasan@lums.edu.pk
Hasan, S. M., Ali, H., Azmat, F., & Raza, S. (2020). Economic Assessment of CPEC: The Case of a Power Project. In China s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context (pp. 41-73). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Hasan, S. M. (2020). Female Entrepreneurship: Do Urban Centers Ease out the Challenge? An Analysis for Pakistan In N. Iftikhar, J. Justice & D. Audretsch (Ed.), Urban Studies and Entrepreneurship. (pp. 163-179). Springer, Cham
Hasan, S. M., M. Javaid, and H. Majid. 2019. A Review of Urbanization in Pakistan: Practices, Policies and Challenges. Background study prepared for the Asian Development Bank
Hasan, S. M. (forthcoming). A Review of Urbanization in Pakistan. Country Diagnostic Study by the Asian Development Bank.
Hasan, S. M., & Sheldon, I. M. (2016). Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports: A Firm Level Study Latin American Countries. Review of Development Economics, volume 20 (issue 2), 547-560. doi: 10.1111/rode.12248
Klaiber, A., Goplakrishnan, S.,& Hasan, S. M.,. (2017). Missing the forest for the trees:balancing shale exploration and conservation goals through policy Conservation Letters,, 10(1), 153-159. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12238
Hasan, S. M., Faggian, A., Klaiber, A., & Sheldon, I. M. (2018). Agglomeration economies or selection: An analysis of Taiwanese Science Parks: International Regional Science Review,volume 41(issue 3) https://doi.org/10.1177/0160017616642822.
Aamir, M., Ahmad, H., Javaid, Q., & Hasan, S. M. (2018). Waste Not, Want Not: A Case Study on Food Waste in Restaurants of Lahore, Pakistan. Journal of Food Products Marketing, 24(5), 591-610.
Hasan, S.M., Klaiber, H. A., & Sheldon, I. (2018). The impact of science parks on small-and medium-sized enterprises productivity distributions: the case of Taiwan and South Korea. Small Business Economics, 1-19.
Hasan, S. M., Akram, A. A., & Jeuland, M. (2021). Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan. Utilities Policy, 71, 101246
Haseeb, S., Iftikhar, M., & Hasan, S. (Accepted). Reimagining Pakistan s Cities: Making Cities More Competitive. Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis, National Defence University
Hasan, S. M., Mustafa Khan, M. R., & Arif, V. (2022). Willingness of women-led businesses in Pakistan to join formal e-commerce platforms. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 9(3), 246-267.
Hasan, S. M., Tariq, Adeel., Saeed, Rabia., Memon, Abubakar. (2025). Inclusive Growth or Displacement? Examining Upzoning and Gentrification in Lahore, Pakistan. Journal of Housing Economics (In press).
Hasan, S. M.,co-PI-"Punjab Small Industries Corporation Rural Enterprise Study". International Growth Centre, London School of Economics. (?18687.5, Total Award). 2016
Hasan, S. M., Rehman, A., & Zhang, W. (2020). Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018-19 nationwide household survey. World Development, 138, 105197.
Hasan, S. M. (2018). Great Engines Turn on Small Pivots: A Productivity Analysis of Small-Scale Manufacturing in Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 23(03), 1850014.
Tackling traffic congestion Business Recorder Research (https://www.brecorder.com/2018/03/05/402834/tackling-traffic-congestion/)
How to make Gwadar a vibrant economic and port city? Express Tribune (https://tribune.com.pk/story/1833208/6-make-gwadar-vibrant-economic-port-city/)
A Tale of Lahore s Water Crisis (https://mgshss.lums.edu.pk/blog/stale-lahore%E2%80%99s-water-crisis)
"Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports: A Firm Level Study Latin American Countries." Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Washington DC on August 6th, 2013. .
"The Greenness of Pakistani Cities: Urban Growth and Household Carbon Emissions presented at the Sustainability and Development Conference , Michigan, 2018.
"Credit Constraints, Technology Choice and Exports: A Firm Level Study Latin American Countries." Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Washington DC on August 6th, 2013. .
"Transit Oriented Development" International Workshop on Sustainable Cities COMSTECH Secretariat, Islamabad January 28-29, 2020
"Do Conservation Messages Save Water in Unmetered Settings? Results from an Experimental Study in Islamabad". Accepted for JHU-SAIS/LUMS Conference in Washington DC, 2020
"Does Water Metering Incentivize Pro Conservation Preferences: A Study from Urban Consumers in Lahore, Pakistan presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Chicago, 2017
"The Greenness of Pakistani Cities: Urban Growth and Household Carbon Emissions presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Joint meeting in Chicago, 2017.
"Significance of Credit Access for SMEs in Latin America" presented at International Agricultural Trade Consortium meeting in December, 2014 at Florida, USA.
Hasan, S., & Zhang, W. The Greenness of Rural and Urban Pakistan Over Time: Household Energy Use and Carbon Emissions. In preparation for submission to World Bank Economic Review in December 2019.
Hasan, S. M., Mahmood, K., & Rehman, A. Affordable Housing: Urban Premium and Congestion Costs in Pakistani Cities. In preparation, for submission to Journal of Housing Economics, in February 2020.
Azhar, A. & Hasan, S. Does Water Metering Incentivize Pro-conservation Preferences?
Hasan, S. M., & Khan, N.A. Economic Cost of Urban Traffic Congestion in Lahore, Pakistan
Hasan, S. M. , Akram, A. A., & Jeuland, M. Increasing Willingness to Pay for Urban Drinking Water Service. Submitted to Water Resources and Economics, in January 2020.
Akram, A. A., Hasan, S. M, & Nasim, S. Do Conservation Messages Save Water in Unmetered Settings? Results from an Experimental Study in Islamabad.
Sponsored access to Kaufmann Firm Survey dataset by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, at NORC Data Enclave, The University of Chicago. 2017
Hasan, S. M. (co-PI). "Micro equity for micro-enterprises: Encouraging female entrepreneurship with a transportation asset". Faculty Initiative Fund: LUMS 2019
Hasan, S. M. (PI). "Averting an Emerging Crisis: Corrective pricing and demand management approach for water consumption in Lahore." Centre for Water Informatics and Technology, LUMS. 2016-2017.
Hasan, S.M. (Co-PI) with Momin Uppal. "Creating Technological Foundations of Data Driven Policy Making for Sustainable Urban Development". GCF by HEC, Pakistan Total Award PKR 210,221,860. April 2021
Hasan, S.M. (Co-PI) with Suleman Shahid. "DIVERT for Mahfooz Pakistan". IGNITE National Technology Fund. Total Award PKR 27, 071,747. January 2020
Hasan, S. M. (PI). "Development of an electronic database of Industrial and Commercial Activity and a Spatial Analysis of Small and Cottage Industries in Punjab, Pakistan". International Growth Centre, London School of Economics 2015-2016. Total funding granted: ?45,012.
Hasan, S. M. (PI). "Affordable Housing: Urban Premium and Congestion Costs in Pakistani Cities". International Growth Centre, London School of Economics June 2019. Total funding granted: Total Award ?4500.
Hasan, S. M. (co-PI) with Sabrin Beg, Adrienne Lucas, and Naveed Iftekhar. Public Private Partnerships to Increase Schooling Effectiveness," Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Total Award $10,000. 2019
Hasan, S.M. (PI). "Smart Urbanism in Lahore; Developing Real Time Optimal Solutions and Estimating Economic Cost of Congestion". Faculty Initiative Fund: LUMS 2018