Portsmouth Business School

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Professor Shabbar Jaffry PhD, MAS, MSc, BA

Director, Centre for Economic Analysis and Policy/Professor of Economics

Professor Shabbar Jaffry teaches a number of quantitative methods and econometrics courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Professor Shabbar Jaffry has more than 20 years of experience working as an applied economist in the Economics Department. He has participated and taken the lead in many research, knowledge transfer/consultancy projects (local and regional economies, banking efficiency, profitability and productivity etc). These projects have involved the local and regional institutions and focused on the economic development, job creation and new investment issues in the area.

Professor Shabbar's research interests include applied econometrics, manpower issues, duration analysis, choice modelling and technical and economic efficiency. Gained extensive research experience as a research economist for seven years on naval manpower issues and also has wide experience of managing and working on a number of externally funded multidiscplinary research projects. Successfully managed three MOD (Royal Navy Manpower Issues) projects and was the author of the Naval Manpower Econometric Model (known as "Portsmouth Model"). He has also produced tri-service manpower forecasting models for the MoD, also manpower models using primary individual level administrative naval manpower data to predict future skills gaps in the Navy.

He has published in a number of academic journals including the International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Travel Research, Applied Economics, Land Economics, Defence and Peace Economics, Journal of Asian Economics, Marine Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Industry and Development (UNIDO).

My main past time is watching cricket. I support Pakistan and England, especially when they are playing against Australia.

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Friday 11:00 - 13:00, and other times by appointment.

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