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DR. ASAD ZAMAN Vice Chancellor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics email: [email protected] Quaid-e-Azam University Campus, Islamabad ______________________________________________________________________________________ Positions Held: University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium(Visiting Professor & Post-Doctoral Fellow) Sep.1977 to June 1978 Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Sept. 1980 to June 1981 A.E.R.C., University of Karachi (National Visiting Professor 1981 – 1982) University of Pennsylvania (Assistant Professor Sept. 1978 - June 1984) Columbia University (Associate Professor Aug. 1985 - July 1991) Johns Hopkins University (Associate Professor July 1991 - June 1993) Bilkent University, (Professor June 1993 - July 1999) Lahore University of Management Sciences (Professor July 1999 to Dec. 2002) International Islamic University, Islamabad IIIE, DG (Dec 2002 to December 2013) Vice Chancellor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), Islamabad (December, 2013 to present) Degrees: Ph.D. Economics 1978 , MS Statistics 1976, Stanford University, 1978 B.S. (Mathematics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974 Selected Publications: [out of more than eighty] BOOK: Statistical Foundations for Econometrics Techniques, Academic Press, NY, 1996 [Cited by 41] BOOK: Islamic Economics: A Survey of the Literature, IRI Press, IIUI, to appear 2012. [Preprints cited by 12] “Econometric Applications of High Breakdown Regression Estimators,” with Peter J. Rousseeuw & Mehmet Orhan, Economic Letters (71) 2001 pp.1-8 [Cited by 84] “Interindustry Variation in the Costs of Job Displacement,” (with William J. Carrington), Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 12, number 2, pages 243-275, April 1994.[Cited by 57] “Consistency Via Type 2 Inequalities: Generalization of Wu's Theorem,” Econometric Theory, Vol. 5, 1989.[Cited by 9] “Asymptotic Suprema of Averaged Random Functions.” Annals of Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1991. “Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Hildreth-Houck Random Coefficients Model,” Econometrics Journal. Vol 5. No.1, p237-262, 2002 “Tests for Structural Change, Homogeneity, and Aggregation” (joint with Esfandiar Maasoumi & Mumtaz Ahmed). Economic Modelling, vol. 27 (2010) 1382–1391 “Methodological Mistakes and Econometric Consequences,” International Econometric Review, Sep. 2012, Vol. 4, Issue 2, p.99-122 “Empirical Evidence Against Utility Maximization, ”accepted: International Journal of Pluralism in Economic Education “Normative Foundations of Scarcity,” accepted: Real World Economics Review Sunspot Equilibria of Baby-Sitting Cooperatives (August 19, 2014). Available at SSRN:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2482928 Selected Memberships, Posts & Honors: Director, DFID funded Research Program Consortium on “Religion & Development,” 2005-6 Elected to the Council of the Econometrics Society 2004-5 Chairman , 2002 Southeast Asia Region Econometric Society Meetings, held at LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan. Board of Governors, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics Invited as Guest Speaker at International Conferences in Cypress, Turkey, India, England, Netherlands, Malaysia, Iran, Indonesia. Topics of Guest Lectures: Econometric Theory, Econometric Methodology, Islamic Economics, Economic Methodology, Development, Islamic Banking Theses Supervised: Ph.D. Theses: 18 completed, more than 5 under way MS/M.Phil: More than 20. .