Dr Zakir receives Oman university Research Award

Dr Mohammad Zakir Hossain, an assistant professor of Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, has been awarded the 'Distinguished Research Award' by the university recently, says a press release.

He has been working at this university since January 2002.

Dr Hossain has published about 30 research papers in the field of econometrics, financial econometrics and business statistics in prestigious international journals.

His research work mainly focuses on the estimation of true relationships and growth pattern of the parameters of econometric, financial and many other quantitative models. He also authored a book on financial econometrics published in the UK.