Osman Zaim
Email: zaim@bilkent.edu.tr
Contact Number: +90 312 290 1466
Office: A 103
Personal Homepage: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~zaim/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, Washington State University, 1989.
Asst. Prof.,1989-2001 and Assoc. Prof.,2001

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Econometric model building, public finance, applied microeconomics

PUBLICATIONS
• S. Mahmud and O. Zaim, “The Sources of Productivity Growth in the Agricultural Sector of Pakistan,” Journal of Quantitative Economics, vol. 16, pp. 37-44 (2001).
• Syed F. Mahmud and Osman Zaim, “Cost Structure of Turkish Banking Industry: AGL Cost Function Approach”, METU Studies in Development ,Vol. 25, 3, (1998.)
• F. Taşkın and O. Zaim, “The Role of International Trade on Environmental Efficiency,” Economic Modelling, vol. 18, pp. 1-17 (2001).
• F. Taşkın and O. Zaim, “Development Strategy and Bias in Technological Change,” Global Economy Quarterly, vol. 1, pp.191-204 (2000).
• F. Taşkın and O. Zaim, “Searching for a Kuznets Curve in Environmental Efficiency Using Kernel Estimation,” Economics Letters, vol. 68, pp. 217-223 (2000).
• F. Taşkın and O. Zaim, “Catching-up and Innovation in High and Low Income Countries,” Economics Letters, vol. 54, pp. 93-96 (1997).
• E. Çakmak, E. Yeldan and O. Zaim, “The Rural Economy under Structural Adjustment and Financial Liberalization: Results of a Macro-Integrated Agricultural Sector Model for Turkey,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 427-447 (1996)
• O. Zaim, R. Fare, S. Grosskopf and E. Ball ''Accounting for externalities in the measurement of productivity growth: the Malmquist cost productivity measure'', Structural Change and Economics Dynamics (Forthcoming)
• O. Zaim and Baris Yoruk, "Productivity growth in OECD countries:A comparison with Malmquist indices", Journal of Comparative Economics (Forthcoming)
• O. Zaim and Baris Yoruk “Measuring the Quality of Life in European Union: The Case of Turkey as a Candidate Country” International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 30, pp. 1162-1176 (2003).
• R. Fare, S. Grosskopf and O. Zaim, “Hyperbolic Efficiency and Return to the Dollar,” European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 136, pp. 671-679 (2002).
• O. Zaim, “Measuring Environmental Performance of State Manufacturing Through in Pollution Intensities : A DEA Framework”, Ecological Economics, (Forthcoming)
• O. Zaim, R. Fare and S. Grosskopf, “An Economic Approach to Achievement and Improvement Indexes,” Social Indicators Research, vol. 56, pp. 91-118 (2001).
• O. Zaim and F. Taşkın, “Environmental Efficiency in Carbon Dioxide Emission in the OECD: A Non-Parametric Approach,” Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 58, pp. 95-107 (2000).
• O. Zaim and F. Taşkın, “A Kuznets Curve in Environmental Efficiency: An Application on OECD Countries,” Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 17, pp. 21-36 (2000).

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