Asjad Naqvi

I am a Senior Economist at the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) where I work on topics with a focus on climate change, finance, and trade using tools such as macroeconomic modeling and causal analysis. With a career spanning nearly two decades, I have worked at leading institutions including the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP), and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). I also regularly collaborate with the World Bank where I provide expertise on topics such as climate change, finance, debt, trade, nature, macro models, data management and data science.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research (New York) (2007-2012) and recieved my Habilitation in Economics fFrom the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) in 2020.

selected publications

BinD: A Model of Growth, Climate Change, and Debt Sustainability

Ozlem Onaran, Nepomuk Dunz, and Asjad Naqvi

SSRN, 2023

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Climate change disproportionately impacts capital and output in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Limited fiscal space and high dependence on capital good imports further curtail their ability to make timely climate-resilient investments. In this paper we present a demand-driven model that is supply-side constrained due to insufficient build up of production capacity. Calibrating the model to Fiji, we evaluate growth pathways for three climate futures – 2C, 3C, and 4C global warming by the end of the century. We evaluate the role of a public climate fund to enable partial recovery that is financed through four different schemes - debt-led recovery, higher tax on households, higher taxes on capitalists, and unconditional grants from the rest of the world. Recovery is possible in the 2C scenario, but the 3C and 4C scenarios increasingly face higher investment costs in the face of lower growth and saving rates. In the 4C scenario, even the most generous unconditional grants scheme fails to prevent the downward spiral of hitting capacity constraints despite an initial boost to output. These insights underscore the need for effective and equitable domestic climate policies and affordable finance and compensation to support sustainable development in vulnerable countries.

TRD

The spatial–temporal exposure to traffic-related Particulate Matter emissions

Asjad Naqvi, Stefanie Peer, Johannes Müller, and Markus Straub

Transport Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2023

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@article{simsaev3,
  title = {{The spatial–temporal exposure to traffic-related Particulate Matter emissions}},
  author = {Naqvi, Asjad and Peer, Stefanie and M\"{u}ller, Johannes and Straub, Markus},
  journal = {Transport Research Part D: Transport and Environment},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103899},
  year = {2023}
}

Ecol Econ

Sociodemographic disparities in ambient particulate matter exposure in Austria

Klara Zwickl, Xenia Milkin, and Asjad Naqvi

Ecological Economics, 2024

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@article{autineq,
  author = {Zwickl, Klara and Milkin, Xenia and Naqvi, Asjad},
  title = {Sociodemographic disparities in ambient particulate matter exposure in Austria},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108180},
  journal = {Ecological Economics},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800924000776},
  volume = {224},
  year = {2024}
}