Publications B. Yörük, O. Zaim “ International Regulations and Environmental Performance”, Forthcoming in Applied Economics.

S. Self, S. Grosskopf, O. Zaim,  “Estimating the Efficiency of the System of Healthcare Financing in Achieving Better Health” Applied Economics, vol. 38, 1477–1488, 2006

B.K. Yoruk, O. Zaim, "Productivity growth in OECD countries: A comparison with Malmquist productivity indexes," Journal of Comparative Economics, vol 33, pp.401-420, 2005

E. Ball, R. Fare, S. Grosskopf, O. Zaim, "Accounting for externalities in the measurement of productivity growth: The Malmquist cost productivity measure," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 16, pp.374-394, 2005

B. Yörük, O. Zaim “The Kuznets curve and the effect of international regulations on environmental efficiency” Economics Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 1 pp. 1-7, 2006

O. Zaim, "Measuring environmental performance of state manufacturing through changes in pollution intensities: a DEA Framework," Ecological Economics, vol. 48, pp. 37-47,  2004

B. Yörük, O. Zaim, "Measuring the Quality of Life in European Union: The Case of  Turkey as a Candidate Country", International Journal of Social Economics, 2003, v. 30, iss. 11-12,   pp. 1162-76

Fare, -Rolf; Grosskopf, -Shawna and Zaim, -Osman, "Hyperbolic efficiency and Return to the Dollar". European Journal of Operational Research, 136 (3), pp. 671-679, 2002.

Zaim, -Osman; Fare, -Rolf and Grosskopf, -Shawna, "An economic approach to achievement and improvement indexes" Social Indicators Research, ,56, pp.91-118, October 2001.

Taskin,-Fatma; Zaim,-Osman, "The Role of International Trade on Environmental Efficiency", Economic Modelling, 18, pp. 1-17, 2001.

S. Mahmud, -Syed; Zaim, -Osman, "The Sources of Productivity Growth in the Agricultural Sector of Pakistan", Journal of Quantitative Economics, 16, pp.37-44, July 2001

Taskin, Fatma; Zaim, Osman, "Development Strategy and Bias in Technological Change", Global Economy Quarterly, April-June 2000, v. 1, iss. 2, pp. 191-204

Zaim,-Osman; Taskin,-Fatma, "A Kuznets Curve in Environmental Efficiency: An Application on OECD Countries", Environmental and Resource Economics, 7, pp. 21-36, 2000.

Zaim,-Osman; Taskin,-Fatma, "Environmental Efficiency in Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the OECD: A Non-parametric Approach" Journal of Environmental Management, 58, pp. 95-107, 2000.

Taskin,-Fatma; Zaim,-Osman, "Searching for a Kuznets Curve in Environmental Efficiency Using Kernel Estimation", Economic Letters, 68, pp. 217-223, 2000.

Ertugrul, -Ahmet; Zaim, -Osman, "Economic crises and efficiency in Turkish banking industry", METU Studies in Development, 26(1-2), 1999, pp 99-116.

Zaim,-Osman; Taskin,-Fatma, "The Comparative Performance of the Public Enterprise Sector in Turkey: A Malmquist Productivity Index Approach", Journal of Comparative Economics, 25(2), 1997.

Taskin,-Fatma; Zaim,-Osman, "Catching-up and Innovation in High and Low Income Countries", Economics Letters, January 1997, 54(1), pp 93-99.

Cakmak,-Erol; Yeldan,-Erinc; Zaim,-Osman, "The Rural Economy Under Structural Adjustment and Financial Liberalization: Results of a Macro-Integrated Agricultural Sector Model for Turkey", Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 17(3), 1996, pp 427-447.

Zaim,-Osman, "The Effect of Financial Liberalization on the Efficiency of Turkish Commercial Banks", Applied Financial Economics, 1995, 5, pp 257-264.

Cakmak,-Erol; Zaim,-Osman, "Privatization and Comparative Effifiency of Public and Private Enterprises in Turkey: The Cement Industry," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 63(2), 271-284,1992.

Zaim,-Osman; Mahmud, -Syed, "Cost Structure of Turkish Private Banking Industry: A GL Restricted Cost Function Approach", METU Studies in Development, 25(3), (Forthcoming), 1998.

Cakmak,-Erol; Zaim,-Osman, "Technical Efficiency of Turkish Agriculture," METU Studies in Development, 19(3) 305-316, (in Turkish), 1992.

Cakmak,-Erol; Zaim,-Osman, "Comparative Efficiency of Public and Private Enterprises: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis on Turkish Cement Industry," METU Studies in Development, 18(4), 441-451 (in Turkish) 1991.
 
 

Chapters in Books

          O. Zaim, “A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Indicators to the Measurement of Human Well-Being” in Inequality,
          Poverty and Well-being, (Edited by Mark McGillivray), Chapter 10, pp. 194-207, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

          Zaim,-Osman, "The Effect of Financial Liberalization on the Efficiency of Turkish Commercial Banks", Applied Financial
          Economics, 1995, 5,    pp 257-264. Repirented in The Regulation and Supervision of Banks, M. J. B. Hall (eds.,) Edward Elgar
          Publishing, 2001.

 
Sayan, -Serdar; Zaim,-Osman, "The Black Sea Economic Cooperation Project" (with S. Sayan) in The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era: Going West and Looking East? L. Rittenberg (eds.), Greenwood Publishing, 1998.

Zaim, -Osman, "The Effect of Financial Liberalization on the Efficiency of Turkish Commercial Banks" in The Regulation and Supervision of Banks, (Editted by Maximilian J. B. Ball), Edward Elgar, UK, 2001 (in print).

Zaim,-Osman; Taskin,-Fatma, "The Relative Efficiency of the Public Manufacturing Industry in Turkey: An intertemporal analysis using Parametric and Nonparametric production frontiers" in State Owned Enterprises in the Middle East and North Africa, (Eddited by M. Celasun ), Routledge, London, 2001.

Ulugbay, -Hikmet; Zaim, -Osman, "Fiscal Policy in Turkey and Transition Economies of Europe" in Turkey, Central and Eastern European Countries and European Union, (eddited by S. Togan and V. N. Balasubramanyam), Macmillan Press, 2001.

Zaim,-Osman; Taskin,-Fatma, "The Relative Efficiency of the Public Manufacturing Industry in Turkey: An intertemporal analysis using Parametric and Nonparametric production frontiers" in State Owned Enterprises in the MENA Region, M. Celasun (eds.), Routledge, London (Forthcoming).

Zaim,-Osman, "The Effect of Financial Liberalization on the Efficency of Turkish Commercial Banks" in Development of Financial Markets in the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (Edited by Heba Handoussa), ERF Publication Services, Egypt, pp 63-79, 1995.