CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Title, Name, Last Name: Dr. Hakan Berument

 

 

PERSONAL DATA

1.1

Date Place of Birth

June 17, 1965 & Istanbul, Turkey

1.2

Address

Department of Economics

Bilkent University

06800 Ankara, Turkey

1.3

Phone

++ 90 312 290 2342

1.4

Mobile

++ 90 532 307 7716

1.5

Fax

++ 90 312 266 5140

1.6

& E-mail

berument@bilkent.edu.tr

1.7

Homepage

http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~berument/

 

 

 

ACADEMIC DEGREES

2.1

Ph.D.

Economics-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1994

2.2

M.S

Economics-University of Kentucky

1989

2.3

B.S.

Economics-Middle East Technical University 

1987

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

3.1

7/07 - Present  

Professor

Bilkent University, Department of Economics

3.2

3/03 - 7/07  

Associate Professor

Bilkent University, Department of Economics

3.3

9/02 - 6/03

Visiting Scholar

University of North Carolina, Department of  Economics

3.4

9/99 - 3/03  

Assistant Professor

Bilkent University, Department of Economics

3.5

1/99 - 9/99

Director General, Research Department (Chief Economist)

Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

3.6

9/95 - 1/99

Assistant Professor

Bilkent University, Department of Economics

3.7

8/94 - 9/95

Visiting Assistant Professor

Wake Forest University, Department of Economics

3.8

8/91 - 9/94

Instructor

University of North Carolina, Department of Economics

 

 

PROFESSIONAL AWARD

·         Ranked number 4 among the academic economist in Turkey based on number of publications in international journals between 1999-2003 (See Çokgezen, Murat “Publication Performance of Economists and Economics Departments in Turkey (1999 - 2003)” Bulletin of Economic Research 58(3), 2006, 253-265.)

·         Parlar Foundation   Young Investigator Award for 2003.

·         The Turkish Social Sciences Association (TUBA) Young Social Scientist Promotion Award for 2002.

 

HONORS, SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

·         Research Fellow to Economic Research Forum (ERF) 2005 - Present.

·         Vice-president, Econometric Research Association 2005 - Present.

·         Member of a pool that CBRT conduct its surveys for the state of the economy (Pool includes around 100 Businessmen, Academic and non-academic economist) 2005 - Present.

·         Member of Editorial Board of Iktisat Islem ve Finans, 2000 - Present.

·         Member of Editorial Board of The Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy, 2005 - Present.

·         Member of Editorial Board of International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, 2006 - Present.

·         Member of Center for Economics and Econometrics, 2000 - Present.

 

INVITED LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS

·         The US Monetary Policy Surprises and Foreign Interest Rates: Evidence from a Set of MENA Countries”, Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy, organized by Central Bank of Egypt and Bank of England, Cairo, Egypt, June 2008.

·         "A Bird's Eye View of Our Environment: Guidelines for Policy Design" Second Annual Conference on Current Issues in Economic Governance, April 2008, Ankara, Turkey

·         “The Turkish Current Account, Real Exchange Rate and Sustainability”, Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade, November, 2006, Ankara, Turkey.

·         “Monetary Policy and U.S. Long-term Interest Rates: Is there an Excess Sensitivity Puzzle? “, Koc University, October 2005, Istanbul.

·         “Inflation and Growth: Positive or Negative Relationship?”, Baskent University,  January 2005, Ankara.

·         “Foreign Exchange, Current Account and Policies”, Turkish Economic Association, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, May 2004, Ankara.

·         “Treasury Auction Maturity-Interest Rate Relationship”, Management Department, Bilkent University, November 2003, Ankara.

·         “Treasury Auction Interest Rates and Economic Performance in Turkey”,

·         University of Maryland at Baltimore County, April 2003, MD.

·         “Treasury Auction Interest Rates and Economic Performance in Turkey”, Wake Forest University, April 2003, NC.

·         “Fiscal Policy and Decentralization: Effects on Economic Performance “, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 2002, NC.

·         “New Economy and Monetary Policy”, The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, June 2001, Ankara.

·         “Measuring Monetary Policy for a Small Open Economy”, Bogazici University, April 2001.

·         “Identification of Monetary Policy for a Small Open Economy”, METU, April 2001.

·         “Central Bank Independence, and Financing Government Spending”, METU January 1996.

·         “Central Bank Independence, and Financing Government Spending”, Bogazici University, February 1996.

·         “Monetary Policy Risk, Output, and Output Risk for Germany”, The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, May 1996.

·         “Political Business Cycles and Endogenous Elections”, METU, September 1996.

·         “Determinants of Interest Rates in Turkey”, Turkish Treasury, October 1998.

·         “Political Business Cycles and Endogenous Elections”, METU, October 1996.

·         “Political Business Cycles and Endogenous Elections” Bilkent, October 1996.

·         “Central Bank Independence and Financing Government Spending” METU, February 1996.

·         “Central Bank Independence and Financing Government Spending”, Bogazici University, February 1996.

·         “Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Economic Performance for Germany”, Bilkent University, April 1996.

 

TEACHING

Graduate Courses:

 

ECON 512 

Econometrics II

ECON 511 

Econometrics I 

ECON 510 

Statistics II  

ECON 506    

Macroeconomic Theory II

Undergraduate Courses:

 

ECON 422   

Time Series

ECON 322 

Monetary Economics

ECON 321 

Financial Institutions

ECON 302  

Econometrics II                 

ECON 301  

Econometrics I

ECON 221  

Introduction to Probability and Statistics I

ECON 202  

Economic Theory II

ECON 201  

Economic Theory I

ECON 101   

Introduction to Economics I             

ECON 251  

International Trade (Wake Forest University)

 

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

·         Mine Ergun, M.S., “Electoral Political-Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Turkey",  9/96 - 9/98.

·         Mehdi Jelassi, M.S., “Inflation Risk - Inflation Relationship: Does Fisher Equation Help?", 9/98 - 9/99.

·         Hakan Tasci , M.S., “Two Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics”, 9/00-9/01.

·         Asli Gunay, MS., “Exchange Rate Risk and Interest Rate: A Case Study for Turkey", 9/99-9/01.

·         Burak Dogan, M.S., “Openness and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy”, 9/01-05/03.

·         Mehmet Pasaogullari, M.S., “Exchange Rate and the Economic Performance”, 10/01-05/03.

·         Nergiz Dincer, Ph.D. “Capital Inflow and Economic Performance for Turkey", 01/02-11/04.

·         Eray Yucel, Ph.D., “Three Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics”, 9/03-10/05.

 

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

 

Ph.D. Dissertation

 

“The Effects of Government Structure on Expenditure Financing", 8/1994, Richard T. Froyen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

 

Chapters in Books

 

·         “The Impact of a Disinflation Program on the Structure of the Turkish Banking Sector: Evidence from 1988-99”, in  Inflation and Disinflation in Turkey  eds. Aykut Kibritcioglu, Libby Rittenberg and Faruk Selcuk, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002 (with Alper, Emre, Hakan Berument and Kamuran Malatyali).

·         “Exchange Rate and the Dynamics of Turkish Inflation”, in Crises and IMF Policies eds. Omer Faruk Colak, Alkim Yayinevei, 2002 (in Turkish).

 

Articles in Refereed Journals (Journals Listed in SSCI or SCI are Marked with *; Names of Graduate Students are Underlined)

 

Selected Publications

·         *Measuring Monetary Policy for A Small Open Economy: TurkeyJournal of Macroeconomics, 29, 411-30, 2007.

·         *Return and Maturity Relationship for Treasury Auctions: Theory and Evidence from TurkeyFiscal Studies 26(3), 385-419, 2005 with Eray Yucel.

·         *Long Live Fenerbahçe: The Production Boosting Effects of Football in Turkey   Journal of Economic Psychology.  26, 842-861,