Nusrat Jahan

Nusrat Jahan is an Instructor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Carleton University, along with prior degrees from Dhaka University. Her research focuses on Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics. She has taught courses such as ECON 2009 (Managerial Economics) since 2017, including Summer 2020 to present. Her work includes analyzing asset durability’s impact on financing, macroeconomic influences on corporate credit spreads, and monetary policy transmission mechanisms. She has also served as a Teaching Assistant and TA Mentor at Carleton and previously lectured at the Independent University Bangladesh.

Her research explores how asset durability affects firms’ financing capabilities, with findings indicating heterogeneous responses to monetary policy based on asset durability. She has also investigated the limited role of macroeconomic factors in explaining Canadian corporate credit spread variations. Teaching responsibilities span managerial economics, econometrics, and macroeconomics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Contact details include institutional and personal emails, with a CV available online.