Çağla Ökten
Email: cokten@bilkent.edu.tr
Contact Number: +90 312 290 2225
Office: MA227
Personal Homepage: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~cokten/
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Graduate Studies in Economics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1992-
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1992

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Public Economics, Industrial Organization and Economic Development.

PUBLICATIONS
Ç. Ökten, Partha Deb and Una Osili, “Giving to the Family versus Giving to the Community Within and Across Generations”, with Partha Deb and Una Osili, Journal of Population Economics  (Forthcoming)
• "Determinants of Donations in Private Nonprofit Markets", with Burton Weisbrod,
Journal of Public Economics 75, 2 (2000): 255-272.
• “Determinants of Privatization Prices: Evidence from Turkey”, with Peren Arin, Applied
Economics, 35, 12 (2003): 1393-1404.
• “Social Networks and Credit Access in Indonesia”, with Una Osili World Development,
32, 7, (2004): 1225-1246.
• “Contributions in Heterogeneous Communities: Evidence from Indonesia”, with Una
Osili, Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
“The Effects of Privatization on Efficiency: How Does Privatization Work?”,  with P. Arın, World Development, vol. 34, pp. 1537-1556 (2006)
“Intermediaries and Corruption”, with K. Hasker,  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol.67, no.1, 103-115, (2008)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bilkent University, September 2002—present
Assistant Professor of Economics, Louisiana State University, 1999—2002.
Research Assistant, Northwestern University, 1996-1998.