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
• “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 Değerlendirmesi" (An Assessment of the 1999 Baking Law of the Turkish Republic), joint with Nergiz Dincer, İşletme ve Finans, April 2000, pp. 40-47.
• "How Independent is the Central Bank of the Turkish Republic? ", joint with Hakan Berument, İşletme 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.