Mohammad Razib Hossain

Mohammad Razib Hossain

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

School of Economics and Public Policy

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Razib is a PhD student at the School of Economics and Public Policy. He completed his BSc. Degree in Agricultural Economics from Bangladesh Agricultural University and his MSc. Degree in Theoretical Economics from the University of Leeds, in the United Kingdom. Razib has been actively involved in applied research, and his primary focus has been on environmental economics and energy. Razib has published in the SSCI, ABDC, and ABS-ranked journals, and his work focuses on bringing environmental justice by moderating the roles of different agents in our society, allowing a win-win situation for both the environment and its components.

Razib has been named as the world's top 2% highly cited researcher by Stanford University and Elsevier. On top of that, Razib has been named one of the top 100 young economists by Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) (based on the citations in the last five years) in 2024. For his academic excellence, Razib has received the Prime Minister Gold Medal and other recognitions. 

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2025 Radulescu, M., Hossain, M. R., Alofaysan, H., & Si Mohammed, K. (2025). Do Emission Trading Systems, Green Technology, and Environmental Governance Matter for Environmental Quality? Evidence from the European Union. International Journal of Environmental Research, 19(1).
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    2024 Rao, A., Hossain, M. R., Gupta, M., Parihar, J. S., & Sharma, G. D. (2024). Carbon conundrums: Geopolitical clashes and market mayhem in the race for sustainability. Journal of Environmental Management, 350, 20 pages.
    DOI Scopus2
    2024 Deng, S., Tiwari, S., Khan, S., Razib Hossain, M., & Chen, R. (2024). Investigating the load capacity curve (LCC) hypothesis in leading emitter economies: Role of clean energy and energy security for sustainable development. Gondwana Research, 128, 283-297.
    DOI Scopus10
    2024 Hossain, M. R. (2024). Evaluating household's risk management strategies considering heterogeneities in the livelihood diversification: Evidence from farm households of Bangladesh. Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 9, 100785.
    DOI Scopus1
    2024 Jahanger, A., Hossain, M. R., & Awan, A. (2024). Exploring the critical nexus among energy mineral, globalization, and CO<inf>2</inf> emissions in NAFTA: What's the forum's response amid asymmetries?. Resources Policy, 90, 14 pages.
    DOI Scopus5
    2024 Ramzan, M., Hossain, M. R., Abbasi, K. R., Adebayo, T. S., & Alvarado, R. (2024). Unveiling time-varying asymmetries in the stock market returns through energy prices, green innovation, and market risk factors: wavelet-based evidence from China. Economic Change and Restructuring, 57(3), 36 pages.
    DOI Scopus4
    2024 Hossain, M. R., Dash, D. P., Das, N., Ullah, E., & Hossain, M. E. (2024). Green energy transition in OECD region through the lens of economic complexity and environmental technology: A method of moments quantile regression perspective. Applied Energy, 365, 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus4
    2024 Jahanger, A., Hossain, M. R., Awan, A., & Adebayo, T. S. (2024). Uplifting India from severe energy poverty accounting for strong asymmetries: Do inclusive financial development, digitization and human capital help reduce the asymmetry?. Energy Economics, 134, 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus7
    2024 Tiwari, A. K., Sharma, G. D., Rao, A., Hossain, M. R., & Dev, D. (2024). Unraveling the crystal ball: Machine learning models for crude oil and natural gas volatility forecasting. Energy Economics, 134, 28 pages.
    DOI Scopus2
    2024 Tillaguango, B., Hossain, M. R., Cuesta, L., Ahmad, M., Alvarado, R., Murshed, M., . . . Işık, C. (2024). Impact of oil price, economic globalization, and inflation on economic output: Evidence from Latin American oil-producing countries using the quantile-on-quantile approach. Energy, 302, 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus1
    2024 Abdullah, M., Tiwari, A. K., Hossain, M. R., & Abakah, E. J. A. (2024). Geopolitical risk and firm-level environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Journal of Environmental Management, 363, 18 pages.
    DOI Scopus8
    2024 Hossain, M. R., Rao, A., Sharma, G. D., Dev, D., & Kharbanda, A. (2024). Empowering energy transition: Green innovation, digital finance, and the path to sustainable prosperity through green finance initiatives. Energy Economics, 136, 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus5
    2024 Huang, Y., Hossain, M. R., & Haseeb, M. (2024). Energy transition at the crossroads of energy depletion and environmental policy stringency: Energy policy framework for energy giants in the indo-pacific belt. Energy Policy, 194, 14 pages.
    DOI Scopus1
    2024 Hossain, M. R., Ben Jabeur, S., Si Mohammed, K., & Shahzad, U. (2024). Time-varying relatedness and structural changes among green growth, clean energy innovation, and carbon market amid exogenous shocks: A quantile VAR approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 208, 16 pages.
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    2024 Shu, Y., Hossain, M. R., Tillaguango, B., Alvarado, R., Işık, C., Murshed, M., & Chen, Z. (2024). Geo-political risks, uncertainty, financial development, renewable energy, and carbon intensity: Empirical evidence from countries at high geo-political risks. Applied Energy, 376, 124321.
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    2024 Hossain, M. R., Dash, D. P., Das, N., Hossain, M. E., Haseeb, M., & Cifuentes-Faura, J. (2024). Do Trade-Adjusted Emissions Perform Better in Capturing Environmental Mishandling among the Most Complex Economies of the World?. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 19 pages.
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    2024 Hossain, M. R. (2024). Killing billions to save millions? Analyzing the double jeopardy of fossil-fuel-led economic development in Bangladesh. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 26(8), 20679-20710.
    DOI Scopus4
    2024 Jahanger, A., Ozturk, I., Onwe, J. C., Ogwu, S. O., Hossain, M. R., & Awoad Abdallah, A. (2024). Do pro-environmental interventions matter in restoring environmental sustainability? Unveiling the role of environmental tax, green innovation and air transport in G-7 nations. Gondwana Research, 127, 165-181.
    DOI Scopus16 WoS8
    2024 Akif Destek, M., Hossain, M. R., & Khan, Z. (2024). Premature deindustrialization and environmental degradation. Gondwana Research, 127, 199-210.
    DOI Scopus15 WoS5
    2023 Wang, J., Usman, M., Saqib, N., Shahbaz, M., & Razib Hossain, M. (2023). Asymmetric environmental performance under economic complexity, globalization and energy consumption: Evidence from the World's largest economically complex economy. Energy, 279, 1-16.
    DOI Scopus29 WoS5
    2023 Hossain, M. R., Rana, M. J., Saha, S. M., Haseeb, M., Islam, M. S., Amin, M. R., & Hossain, M. E. (2023). Role of energy mix and eco-innovation in achieving environmental sustainability in the USA using the dynamic ARDL approach: Accounting the supply side of the ecosystem. Renewable Energy, 215, 1-14.
    DOI Scopus21 WoS9
    2023 Alvarado, R., Murshed, M., Cifuentes-Faura, J., Işık, C., Razib Hossain, M., & Tillaguango, B. (2023). Nexuses between rent of natural resources, economic complexity, and technological innovation: The roles of GDP, human capital and civil liberties. Resources Policy, 85, 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus27 WoS1
    2023 Khan, Z., Hossain, M. R., Badeeb, R. A., & Zhang, C. (2023). Aggregate and disaggregate impact of natural resources on economic performance: Role of green growth and human capital. Resources Policy, 80, 19 pages.
    DOI Scopus169 WoS45
    2023 Hossain, M. R., Rej, S., Awan, A., Bandyopadhyay, A., Islam, M. S., Das, N., & Hossain, M. E. (2023). Natural resource dependency and environmental sustainability under N-shaped EKC: The curious case of India. Resources Policy, 80, 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus85 WoS52
    2023 Jahanger, A., Hossain, M. R., Onwe, J. C., Ogwu, S. O., Awan, A., & Balsalobre-Lorente, D. (2023). Analyzing the N-shaped EKC among top nuclear energy generating nations: A novel dynamic common correlated effects approach. Gondwana Research, 116, 73-88.
    DOI Scopus81 WoS34
    2023 Yang, S., Jahanger, A., & Hossain, M. R. (2023). How effective has the low-carbon city pilot policy been as an environmental intervention in curbing pollution? Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises. Energy Economics, 118, 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus150 WoS38
    2023 Hossain, M. R., Singh, S., Sharma, G. D., Apostu, S. A., & Bansal, P. (2023). Overcoming the shock of energy depletion for energy policy? Tracing the missing link between energy depletion, renewable energy development and decarbonization in the USA. Energy Policy, 174, 13 pages.
    DOI Scopus59 WoS15
    2023 Jahanger, A., Ozturk, I., Chukwuma Onwe, J., Joseph, T. E., & Razib Hossain, M. (2023). Do technology and renewable energy contribute to energy efficiency and carbon neutrality? Evidence from top ten manufacturing countries. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 56, 12 pages.
    DOI Scopus133 WoS55
    2023 Jahanger, A., Hossain, M. R., Usman, M., & Chukwuma Onwe, J. (2023). Recent scenario and nexus between natural resource dependence, energy use and pollution cycles in BRICS region: Does the mediating role of human capital exist?. Resources Policy, 81, 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus84 WoS51
    2023 Hossain, M. R., & Khan, M. A. (2023). Impact of Household Interventions on Homestead Biodiversity Management and Household Livelihood Resilience: An Intertemporal Analysis from Bangladesh. Small-scale Forestry, 22(3), 481-510.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS2
    2023 Jiang, Y., Hossain, M. R., Khan, Z., Chen, J., & Badeeb, R. A. (2023). Revisiting Research and Development Expenditures and Trade Adjusted Emissions: Green Innovation and Renewable Energy R&amp;D Role for Developed Countries. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 15(1), 2156-2191.
    DOI Scopus25 WoS10
    2023 Yang, S., Jahanger, A., & Hossain, M. R. (2023). Does China's low-carbon city pilot intervention limit electricity consumption? An analysis of industrial energy efficiency using time-varying DID model. Energy Economics, 121, 15 pages.
    DOI Scopus84 WoS23
    2023 Jahanger, A., Zaman, U., Hossain, M. R., & Awan, A. (2023). Articulating CO<inf>2</inf> emissions limiting roles of nuclear energy and ICT under the EKC hypothesis: An application of non-parametric MMQR approach. Geoscience Frontiers, 14(5), 19 pages.
    DOI Scopus75 WoS16
    2023 Wang, M., Hossain, M. R., Si Mohammed, K., Cifuentes-Faura, J., & Cai, X. (2023). Heterogenous Effects of Circular Economy, Green energy and Globalization on CO2 emissions: Policy based analysis for sustainable development. Renewable Energy, 211, 789-801.
    DOI Scopus33 WoS6
    2023 Guo, Q., Çoban, M. N., Hossain, M. R., Wu, Z., Abbas, S., & Khudoykulov, K. (2023). Unveiling the past, shaping the future: Analyzing three centuries of data to explore China's trajectory towards carbon neutrality. Journal of Cleaner Production, 420, 15 pages.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS2
    2023 Destek, M. A., Hossain, M. R., Aydın, S., Shakib, M., & Destek, G. (2023). Investigating the role of economic complexity in evading the resource curse. Resources Policy, 86, 10 pages.
    DOI Scopus11 WoS2
    2023 Hossain, M. R., Dash, D. P., Das, N., Hossain, M. E., Haseeb, M., & Cifuentes-Faura, J. (2023). Do Trade-adjusted Emissions Perform better in Capturing Environmental Mishandling among the most Complex Economies of the World.
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    2023 Destek, G., Hossain, M. R., Aydın, S., & Destek, M. A. (2023). Can the resource curse be reversed through financialization, human capital, and institutional quality? Evidence from Sustainable Development Index. Resources Policy, 86, 9 pages.
    DOI Scopus14
    2023 Yang, S., Jahanger, A., Hossain, M. R., Wang, Y., & Balsalobre-Lorente, D. (2023). Enhancing export product quality through innovative cities: A firm-level quasi-natural experiment in China. Economic Analysis and Policy, 79, 462-478.
    DOI Scopus18 WoS2
    2023 Guan, Z., Hossain, M. R., Sheikh, M. R., Khan, Z., & Gu, X. (2023). Unveiling the interconnectedness between energy-related GHGs and pro-environmental energy technology: Lessons from G-7 economies with MMQR approach. Energy, 281, 1-16.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS4
    2023 Jahanger, A., Hossain, M. R., Awan, A., Sunday Adebayo, T., & Zubair Chishti, M. (2023). Linking tourist's footprint and environmental tragedy through transportation, globalization and energy choice in BIMSTEC region: Directions for a sustainable solution using novel GMM-PVAR approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 345, 1-16.
    DOI Scopus48 WoS3 Europe PMC4
    2023 Hossain, M. E., Rej, S., Hossain, M. R., Bandyopadhyay, A., Tama, R. A. Z., & Ullah, A. (2023). Energy mix with technological innovation to abate carbon emission: fresh evidence from Mexico applying wavelet tools and spectral causality. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(3), 5825-5846.
    DOI Scopus41 WoS30 Europe PMC4
    2022 Jahanger, A., Yu, Y., Hossain, M. R., Murshed, M., Balsalobre-Lorente, D., & Khan, U. (2022). Going away or going green in NAFTA nations? Linking natural resources, energy utilization, and environmental sustainability through the lens of the EKC hypothesis. Resources Policy, 79, 15 pages.
    DOI Scopus115 WoS32
    2022 Hossain, M. E., Islam, M. S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Awan, A., Hossain, M. R., & Rej, S. (2022). Mexico at the crossroads of natural resource dependence and COP26 pledge: Does technological innovation help?. Resources Policy, 77, 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus105 WoS53
    2022 Morshed, N., & Hossain, M. R. (2022). Causality analysis of the determinants of FDI in Bangladesh: fresh evidence from VAR, VECM and Granger causality approach.. SN business & economics, 2(7), 64.
    DOI Europe PMC2
    2021 Hossain, M. R. (2021). Inward foreign direct investment in Bangladesh: Do we need to rethink about some of the macro-level quantitative determinants?. SN Business &amp; Economics, 1(3).
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    2020 Hossain, M. R. (2020). Can small-scale biogas projects mitigate the energy crisis of rural Bangladesh? A study with economic analysis. International Journal of Sustainable Energy, 39(8), 744-760.
    DOI Scopus29 WoS20

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2023 Rao, A., & Hossain, M. R. (2023). The future of finance: Artificial intelligence's influence on behavioral investment decisions. In D. Sharma, B. Bhardwaj, & M. C. Dhiman (Eds.), Leveraging AI and Emotional Intelligence in Contemporary Business Organizations (pp. 166-186). IGI Global.
    DOI Scopus1
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