Refet Gürkaynak
Email: refet@bilkent.edu.tr
Contact Number: +90 312 290 1891
Office: MA222
Personal Homepage: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~refet
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2004.
M.A., Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2001.
B.A., Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1996.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, International Finance

PUBLICATIONS
• “Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty, and Risk” (with Justin Wolfers), NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005, forthcoming.
• “Inflation Targeting and the Anchoring of Inflation Expectations in the Western Hemisphere” (with Andrew Levin, Andrew Marder, and Eric Swanson) In: Monetary Policy under Inflation Targeting, F. Mishkin and K. Schmidt-Hebbel eds. Santiago: Central Bank of Chile, forthcoming.
• “Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Response of Asset Prices to Monetary Policy Actions and Statements” (with Brian Sack and Eric Swanson) International Journal of Central Banking 1(1), May 2005, 55-93.
• “The Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates to Economic News: Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models” (with Brian Sack and Eric Swanson) American Economic Review 95(1), March 2005, 425-36.
• “Is Growth Exogenous? Taking Mankiw, Romer and Weil Seriously” (with Ben Bernanke) NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2001.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Department of Economics, 2005-present.
Economist, Federal Reserve Board, Division of Monetary Affairs, 2001–2005.
Lecturer of Economics, and Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2000-2001.
Assistant Instructor, Princeton University, Department of Economics, 1998-1999.