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EDUCATION
Ph.D in Economics, Univ. of
Maryland, Dept. of Economics, College Park, Maryland, 1997.
M.A. in Economics, University of Maryland, Dept. of
Economics, College Park, Maryland.
B.S. in Economics, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Macroeconomics,
Institutions and Economic Development.
PUBLICATIONS
• “Fiscal
Decentralization and Deficits: International Evidence”,
European Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 26, issue 2, pp.
155-166 (2010)
• “Legal
Quality of Bank Regulation and Supervision and Its Determinants:
a mixed sample”, with N. Dinçer, Contemporary
Economic Policy, Vol, 26: 4,. pp.
607-622 (2008)
• “The Roles of Fiscal and
Financial Discipline on Budgetary Outcomes: The case of Europe"
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2007-04, vol. 25(2), pp.
146-155.
• “Has Customs Union Agreement
Really Benefited Turkey’s Trade?”, joint with F.
Taskin and M. Ungor, Applied Economics, Vol 39: 16, September
2007, pp. 2121-2132.
• “Determinants of
Workers’ Remittances: Turkish Evidence from High Frequency
Data”, joint with Alper, A. M., Eastern European Economics,
Vol. 44, No.5, Sept-Oct. 2006, pp.91-100.
• “
Revenue Decentralization and Income Distribution”,
Economics Letters, No. 92, September 2006, pp. 409-416.
•
“Determinants of Workers Remittances: The Case of Turkey”,
with O. T. Aydas and K. Metin-Ozcan. Emerging Markets Finance and
Trade, May2005, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p53, 17p.
• "Measuring
the Quality Of Bank Regulation And Supervision, with an
Application to Transition Economies", with Nergiz Dincer,
Economic Inquiry 43, January 2005: 79-99.
• “
Fiscal Decentralization, Central Bank Independence and Inflation”
Economics Letters 82, 2004: 227-30.
• “Trends in
Workers Remittances: A World-Wide Overview”, Emerging
Markets Finance and Trade, 40: 83-90, March-April 2004.
•
“ Budget Deficits and Inflation: the Roles of Central Bank
Independence and Financial Market Development”,
Contemporary Economic Policy 21, October 2003, pp. 458-475.
(listed in the SSRN’s top-ten downloaded papers).
•
" Central Bank Reform, Liberalization and Inflation in
Transition Economies: An International Perspective", joint
with A. Cukierman and G. Miller, Journal of Monetary Economics
49, March 2002, 237-264. (listed in the SSRN’s top-ten
downloaded papers).
• " Turkey's Full Membership to
the European Union: An Analysis in View of Business Cycles",
joint with H. Berument and K. Malatyali. Russian and East
Euroepan Finance and Trade, 37, no.4, pp 50-60, July-August
2001.
• "The Measurement of Central Bank
Independence and Its Affect on Policy Outcomes", joint with
A. Cukierman and S. Webb, World Bank Economic Review, September
1992, pp. 353-397 (Reprinted by The Center for International
Studies, 1995).
• Fiscal Decentralization and
Socio-Economic Outcomes in Turkey: An Empirical Investigation”,
METU Studies in Development, 32 (December), 2005 (listed by
JEL)
• “Dynamics of Inflation and Inflation Inertia
in Turkey, with K. Metin-Özcan and H. Berument”,
Journal of Economic Cooperation 25, 3 (2004), pp. 63-86.
•
" Central Bank Independence and Economic Performance in
Eastern Europe", Economic Systems 25, December 2001,
381-399.
• "Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in
Turkey", joint with Neslihan Kaya, Yapi Kredi Economic
Review, December 2001.
• "1999 Bankalar Kanunu'nun
Bir Deðerlendirmesi" (An Assessment of the 1999 Baking Law
of the Turkish Republic), joint with Nergiz Dincer, Ýþletme ve
Finans, April 2000, pp. 40-47.
• "How Independent is
the Central Bank of the Turkish Republic? ", joint with
Hakan Berument, Ýþletme ve Finans, 1999 pp. 11-18.
•
"Can Net Domestic Assets Be A Policy Target ? The Case of
Turkey ", Yapi Kredi Economic Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.
25-34, December 1998.
• Conflict and Growth in Africa,
Volume 2: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 116 pages, Development
Centre Studies, OECD Development Centre, 1999. (with Jeni Klugman
and Frances Steward)
• Conflict and Growth in Africa,
Volume 3: Southern Africa, 188 pages, Development Centre Studies,
OECD Development Centre, 1999. (withAndrew Goudie)
•
Equalization via Fiscal Decentralization, (2005), in Fiscal
Decentralization: A New Approach to Alleviate Poverty and
Regional Disparities, by F.Emil B.Kerimoglu, B. Neyapti, and
H.Yilmaz, UNDP, Tesev Publications.
• Neyapti, B.,
“Turksko Gospodarstvo: Retrospectivna Ocena in Razvoj v
Zadnjih Retih” (“Turkish Economy: A Retrospective
Assessment and Recent Developments) inGlobalno Gospodarstvo in
Kulturna Razlcnost, ed. J. Prasnikar and A. Cirman, Casnik
Finance, Ljubjani, Nov. 2005, p. 183-197.
• Neyapti, B.,
F.Taskin and M. Ungor. “The Effects of Customs Union on
Turkey’s Regional Trade”, in E. Uygur, I. Civcir
(eds), Foreign Trade and Agriculture in the South-East Anatolia
Project Region, Turkish Economics Association, Ankara, 2004.
•
Cukierman, A., S. Webb and B. Neyapti, “Measuring the
Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes”,
in Independent Central Banks and Economic Performance, 1997, pp.
213-58, Elgar Reference Collection. International Library of
Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 82. Cheltenham, U.K. and
Lyme, N.H.: Elgar; distributed by American International
Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor, Bilkent University,
Department of Economics. 2007-
Assistant Professor, Bilkent
University, Department of Economics. 1997 - 2007
External
Consultant, OECD, Development Centre. 1995- 1997.
Consultant,
The World Bank 1989-1995.
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