Departmental Seminars
For inquiries, you may contact
Selin Sayek Böke, Neil Arnwine, Taner Yiğit, Refet Gürkaynak
 
IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR SPEAKERS

Seminars are held on Fridays at 15:40 in Room FEASS 228 unless otherwise noted. Speakers are kindly requested to send Ms. Meltem Sağtürk the abstract and a copy of the paper to be presented at least one week in advance. The seminar secretariat will provide assistance with travel arrangements and accommodations on campus.

Phone
+90(312)290-1643
+90(312)290-1479
+90(312)290-2498
Fax
 +90(312)266-5140

 


2008 Spring | 2007 Fall | 2007 Spring | 2006 Fall | 2006 Spring | 2005 Fall | 2005 Spring | 2004 Fall | 2004 Spring
 

*Please note the different seminar days

Date Presenter Topic
September 19 Hans Dewachter (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Imperfect Information, Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Yield Curve: An Encompassing Macro-Finance Model
*October 7 (Tuesday) Frank Smets (European Central Bank)

TBA
October 17 Cuong Le Van (Paris School of Economics)

TBA
October 31 Erdem Basci (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)

On Roots of Housing Bubbles
November 7 Paulo Maio (Bilkent University)

TBA
November 14 TBA

TBA
November 21 Mahmood Ayub (UNDP)

TBA
November 28 Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies)

TBA
December 5 Remzi Kaygusuz (Sabanci University)

TBA
December 19 Inci Gumus (Sabanci University)

TBA

2008 Spring 

Date Presenter Topic
March 14 Ulf Soderstrom (Bocconi University)

Monetary policy under uncertainty in an estimated model with labor market frictions
March 21 Otilia Boldea (Tilburg University)

Estimation and Inference in Unstable Nonlinear Least Squares Models
*April 2 (Wednesday) Michael Ehrmann (European Central Bank)

Stocks, Bonds, Money Markets and Exchange Rates: Measuring International Financial Transmission
April 11 Kosuke Aoki (LSE)

Uncertainty about Perceived Inflation Target and Monetary Policy
April 18 Refet Gurkaynak (Bilkent University)

The Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in The Euro Area
April 25 Selin Sayek-Boke (Bilkent University)

Sectoral Analysis of the Decision-making of Foreign Investors
*May 6 (Tuesday) Mustafa Kilinc (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)

Sectoral Asymmetries, Currency Mismatch and Sudden Stops
May 16 Selva Demiralp (Koc University)

Money and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
May 23 Taner Yigit (Bilkent University)

Unit Root or Structural Break: Making a Sense of It All
June 6 Bilin Neyapti (Bilkent University)

Modeling the Economic Effects of Bank Regulation and Supervision
*June 23 (Monday) Maria del Carmen Camacho Pérez (Universite Catholique de Louvain)

TBA

2007 Fall

Date Presenter Topic
*September 25 Vladimir Veliov (Vienna University of Technology)

Continuous Heterogeneous Systems: (i) Motivations and Basic Theory; (ii) An Application: Investment in Human Capital in Changing Demographic Conditions
October 5 Neil Arnwine (Bilkent University)

Admissible Functional Forms in Monetary Economics
*October 25 Giancarlo Corsetti (European University Institute)

The simple geometry of transmission and stabilization in closed and open economies

November 2 Sebastien Blais (Bilkent University)

The inference of bounded, weakly identified state-space models: A Bayesian analysis of the affine term structure model
November 9 Thijs van Rens (Pompeu Fabra University)

Wage Rigidity and Job Creation
November 23 Umit Ozlale (Bilkent University)

Current Account Risk and Monetary Policy
November 30 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston and Bilkent University)

AIDS, Reversal of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa
December 7 Sylvain Champonnois (UC San Diego and London Business School)

Comparing Financial Systems: A Structural Analysis
December 28 Mehmet Caner (North Carolina State University) Capital Inflows to Developed Countries

 

2007 Spring

Date Presenter Topic
January 19 Dominique Haughton (Bentley College)

Bayesian Analysis of Living Standards
March 22 S. Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston)

Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?
March 23 S.M.S. Honkapohja (University of Cambridge)

Liquidity traps, learning and stagnation
April 5 Evi Pappa (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

New Keynesian or RBC transmission? The effects of fiscal policy in labor markets
April 6 Fabio Canova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

The Structural Dynamics of US Output and Inflation: What Explains the Changes?

May 8 Oscar Jorda (University of California, Davis)

Joint Inference and Counterfactual Experimentation for Impulse Responses by Local Projections
May 18 Mehmet Ulubasoglu (Deakin University)

Institutions and Economic Growth: A Systems Approach
May 25 Pietro Peretto (Duke University)

Energy taxes and endogenous technological change
May 28-30-
June 1		 Laurens de Haan (Erasmus School of Economics)

Workshop on Extreme Value Theory
June 5 John Seater (North Carolina State University)

Factor-Eliminating Technical Change
     

2006 Fall

Date Presenter Topic
September 9 Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)

Consumption Externalities: A Representative Consumer Model when Agents are Heterogeneous
September 22 Taner Yigit (Bilkent University)

Inflation Targeting: An Indirect Approach to Assess the Direct Impact
September 29 Selin Sayek-Boke (Bilkent University)

How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages
October 6 Refet Gurkaynak (Bilkent University)

A Lecture on Yield Curve Estimation
October 13 Cagri Saglam (Bilkent University)

The Role of Endogenous Vintage Specific Depreciation on the Optimal Behavior of Firms
October 20 Ramazan Gencay (Simon Fraser University)

Unit Root and Cointegration Tests with Wavelets
November 6 Burcu Duygan (European University Institute)

Household Debt and Arrears: What Role Do Institutions Play?
November 17 Ali Kutan (Southern Illinois University)

The Effects of Transition and Political Instability On Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: Central Europe and the Balkans
November 24 Kaddour Hadri (Durham University)

Panel Stationarity Test with Structural Breaks
November 29 Nezih Guner (University of Carlos III)

Taxation, Aggregates and the Household
December 8 Ozge Senay (Middle East Technical University)

Foreign Money Shocks and the Welfare Performance of Alternative Monetary Policy Regimes
December 15 Aslihan Altay-Salih (Bilkent University)

Is Volatility Risk Priced in Securities Market: An Empirical Analysis
December 22 Ayca Tekin-Koru (Oregon State University)

Foreign Entry Deterrence by a Dominant Local Firm in the Existence of a Rent-Seeking Bureaucracy


2006 Spring

Date Presenter Topic
February 6 Burcu Duygan (European University Institute)

Welfare Cost of Financial Crises When Risk-Sharing is Imperfect: Evidence from Turkey
March 10 Vladimir M. Veliov (Vienna University of Technology)

Age-structured control systems in economics: effects of technological progress on financially constrained investments

April 7 Mesut Saygili (Central Bank of the Rep. of Turkey)

General Equilibrium Model with Scale Economies

April 21 Mehmet Yorukoglu (Sabanci University)

From Model T to Great Depression: Automobilization and Suburbanization of US
May 15 Richard Portes (London Business School)

Optimal currency shares in international reserves
June 5 Gianluca Benigno (London School of Economics)

TBA
June 9 Selin Sayek-Boke (Bilkent University)

TBA


2005 Fall

Date Presenter Topic
September 30 Ashoke K. Sinha (Bilkent University) Estimating the Probability of a Rare Event
October 7 Taner Yigit (Bilkent University) European Integration, Productivity Growth, and Real Convergence
October 14 Cagri Saglam (Bilkent University) Optimal Control in Infinite Horizon Problems: A Sobolev Space Approach  
October 28 Refet Gurkaynak (Bilkent University) Does Inflation Targeting Anchor Long-Run Inflation Expectations?
November 7 B.B. Bhattacharya (Jawaharlal Nehru University) India as an Emerging Economic Power: Constraints and Potentials
November 11 Mehmet Yorukoglu (Sabanci University) Information and Industry Dynamics
November 18 Abuzer Pinar (Ankara University) The Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policy in Turkey: Evidence from Micro-Data
December 2 Mustafa Ismihan (Atilim University) Sources of Growth in The Turkish Economy:1960-2004
December 9 Alan Sutherland (University of St. Andrews) International Monetary Policy Coordination and Financial Market Integration
December 15 Yacine Ait-Sahalia (Princeton University) Ultra High Frequency Volatility Estimation with Market Microstructure Noise
   
 
  2005 Spring
Date Presenter Topic
January 14 Sibel Sırakaya (University of Washington) Economic Growth, Trade, and Environmental  Quality in a Two-region World Economy
February 11 Karim Abadir (University of York) The Memory of Financial and Macro Markets
February 25 Pierre-Richard Agénor (University of Manchester) Roads Out of Poverty? Assessing the Links between Aid, Public Investment, Growth, and Poverty Reduction
March 18 Erinç Yeldan (Bilkent University) Disinflation, Financial Sustainability and Labor Market Adjustment in Turkey
April 6 Jesus Gonzalo (Carlos III Madrid) LARGE versus small Shocks (Does Size Matter? Maybe So)
April 22 (13:40) Selin Sayek Böke  (Bilkent University) Why does Maharashtra get more investment than Bihar? The growing inequality of investment in Indian States
April 29 (A-130) Hashem Pesaran (Cambridge University) Exploring the International Linkages of the Euro Area: A Global VAR Analysis
May 5 Evzen Kocenda (Charles University) Divestures, Privatization, and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets
May 17 Rajeev Goel (Illinois State University) Economic Freedom versus Political Freedom: Cross-Country Influences on Corruption
             
 
  2004 Fall
Date Presenter Topic
October 8 Michel Juillard (CEPREMAP) Structural Change and Dynamic, Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Model
October 15 Ferhan Salman (Central Bank of Turkey) Risk Aversion, Sovereign Bonds and Risk Premium
October 19 Henk van Gemert (Tilburg University) Financial Development and Economic Growth in Emerging Markets
October 22 Neslihan Kaya (Central Bank of Turkey) Measuring Realized Risk Premium from Domestic Fundamentals
November 5 Michael Binder (U. of Goethe-Frankfurt) A Re-Examination of Determinants of Economic Growth Using Simultaneous Equation Dynamic Panel Data Models
December 1 Neil Arnwine (Bilkent University) Fisher Equation and Economics Growth
December 3 Pinar Ozbay (Central Bank of Turkey) A Dynamic Model of Central Bank Intervention
December 6 Kamil Yilmaz (Koc University) Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity  Spillovers: Identifying Linkages Through Product-Based Measures
December 17 Cihan Yalcin (Central Bank of Turkey) Access to External Finance: Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Firm-Specific Characteristics
December 22 Ayça Tekin Koru (Oregon State University) North American Integration and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment
       
 
  2004 Spring
Date Presenter Topic
June 30 Selahattin Imrohoroglu( University of Southern California) Japanese Saving Rate
June 4 Neil Arnwine (Bilkent University) Endogeneous Currency Substitution
May 20 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (University of Houston) Why doesn’t Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation
May 14 Jesus Gonzalo (University of Carlos III, Madrid) POSTPONED TBA
May 07 Antonio Marasco (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and University College London, UK) An Open Economy Model with Quality Ladders and Consumers’ Heterogeneity
April 30 Volker Wieland (European Central Bank) Exchange Rate Policy and the Zero Bound on
Nominal Interest Rates
April 02 Mehtap Kesriyeli (Central Bank of Turkey) Nonlinearity in the Interest Rate Reaction Functions for the US, UK and Germany
March 17 Ebru Voyvoda (University of Utah) Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Effects: The Turkish Case
March 11 Jurgen von Hagen (University of Bonn and ZEI) Money Market Pressure and the Determinants of Banking Crises