Publications 80's

Econometrics

“Estimators Without Moments: The Case of the Reciprocal of a Normal Mean.” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 289-298, February 1981.

“A Complete Class Theorem for the Control Problem, and Further Results on Admissibility and Inadmissibility.” Annals of Statistics, Vol. 9, No. 4. pp. 812-821, July 1981.

“General Admissibility and Inadmissibility Results of Estimation in a Control Problem.” (With J. O. Berger and L. M. Berliner) Annals of Statistics, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 838-856, 1982.

“Avoiding Model Selection by the Use of Shrinkage Techniques.” Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 25, pp. 239-246, 1984.

“Admissibility of the Maximum Likelihood Estimate of the Reciprocal of a Normal Mean with a Class of Zero-One Loss Functions.” Sankhya, Volume 47, Series A, Part 2, pp. 239-246, 1985.

“Best Invariant Estimation of a Direction Parameter with Application to Linear Functional Relationships and Factor Analysis.” (with T. W. Anderson and Charles Stein). Annals of Statistics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 525-533, 1985.

“A Type 2 Inequality for Function of Bounded Variation.” Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 53-55, 1988.

“Consistency Via Type 2 Inequalities: A Generalization of Wu's Theorem,” Econometric Theory, Vol. 5, pp. 272-286, 1989.

Applied Econometrics

“Forecasting Without Theory: The Case of Pakistan's Exports of Rice and Cotton.” (With Abdul-Hafeez Sheikh) Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 65-83, 1983.

“Short-term Forecasting: An Application of Box-Jenkins Methods--A Reply.” (with A. H. Shaikh), Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 125-129, 1987.

Economics

“Microfoundations for the Basic Needs Approach To Development: The Lexico-graphic Utility Function.” Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 1986.

Islamic Economics

“Investment and Income distribution pattern under Musharka Finance: the certainty case,” (with Shameem Siddiqui) Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer 1989.

“Investment and Income distribution pattern under Musharka Finance: the uncertainty case,” (with Shameem Siddiqui) Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer 1989.

General: Social Science and Philosophy

“On the Impossibility of Events of Zero Probability.” Theory and Decision, Vol. 23, pp. 157-159, 1987.

90's

“Asymptotic Suprema of Averaged Random Functions.” Annals of Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 2145-2159, 1991.

“Towards Foundations for an Islamic Theory of Consumer Behavior,” in Readings in Microeconomics: An Islamic Perspective, edited by Sayyid Tahir, Aidit Ghazali, and Syed Oman Syed Agil, Longman Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 1992.

“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.

“Effects of Skewness and Kurtosis on Model Selection Criteria,” (with Sidika Basci), Economic Letters Vol 59 pages 17-22, 1998.