Dr. Osama Khan is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. His interests are in political economy, particularly the determinants of electoral outcomes, as well as social choice and decision theory. Prior to joining LUMS, he served as a post doctoral associate at the Wallis Institute of Political economy at the University of Rochester. He completed his PhD in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.
Compositional Analysis and Dirichlet Regression in Encyclopedia of Political Science Research Methods ed. Cees Van Der Eijk and Johnathan Rose, Edward Elgin (forthcom.)
"Election outcomes in U.S and Pakistan: A compositional analysis" Pathways to Dev,Lahore Dec 2024
"Supply Responses of Major Crops of Punjab, Pakistan: A Translog Approach" 37th Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society for Development Economics
Wallis working group seminar, University of Rochester, March 2021
"Theories of Rationality" at Epistemic Utility theory Conference, Bristol, UK August 2013
"Campaign contributions, Advertising & Electoral Success" at North American Summer meeting of the Econometric Society, June 2019.
"The impact of advertising on voting and abstention: Analysis using Dirichlet Regression" Wallis working group seminar, University of Rochester, March 2021