Md. Shahadath Hossain

Binghamton University | SUNY Binghamton · Department of Economics

Stock Markets of Bangladesh crashed in FY 2010–2011 after a boom. High daily turnover before crash brought out hundreds of billions BDT from the capital market, but neither money supply outside the banks nor money deposit in the banks changed accordingly. Overall post-crash scenario created a suspicion that the money which was withdrawn from the ca...

The Hedonic pricing model requires that a good, per se does not provide utility; it is the characteristics of the good that gives rise to utility. The total amount of utility a consumer receives from the consumption of a good is subject to the total amount of the characteristics contained in a good purchased. The marginal monetary value of the good...

In Bangladesh, primary and secondary mutual fund markets behave in a completely different way, where initial public offering (IPO) investors of mutual funds earn more than 250 percent rerun, whereas secondary market investors cannot even manage to cover the opportunity cost of their investment. There are few other abnormalities present in this mark...

The impact of remittances on households left behind by migration is ambiguous a priori due to competing income and substitution effects. We offer new evidence on the effect of remittances on household investment decisions. We enrich our analysis using microdata from five sub-Saharan African countries, different investment alternatives, and differen...

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance policy change, the Hindu Succession Act (HSA), which conferred enhanced inh...

Background: In spite of high prevalence rates, little is known about health seeking and related expenditure for chronic non-communicable diseases in low-income countries. We assessed relevant patterns of health seeking and related out-of-pocket expenditure in Bangladesh. Methods: We used data from a household survey of 2500 households conducted...

Increasing the feasibility of easy loan repayment is one of the objectives of providing microcredits for income generating activities requiring relatively small loans in the developing countries. However, evidence in the developing countries suggests that microcredits are often used by households for non-income generating expenditures needed to dea...

The reliance on heavy out–of-pocket expenditure for medical care leads to households getting trapped into a vicious cycle of poverty. In Bangladesh, private health care expenditure accounts for almost 64% of total health expenditure being financed from out-of-pocket (OOP). These escalating medical costs cause financial hardship for a majority of ho...