Selin Sayek Böke
Email: sayek@bilkent.edu.tr
Contact Number: +90 312 290 1406
Office: MA224
Personal Homepage: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~sayek/
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Economics, Duke University, 1999
M.A.  Department of Economics, Duke University, 1996
B.Sc. Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, 1993

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Macroeconomic effects of capital flows, specifically the growth effects of foreign direct investment.  Regional and macroeconomic determinants of foreign direct investment.

PUBLICATIONS
• Dynamic Effects of Outsourcing on Wage Inequality and Skill Formation, with Fuat M. Sener, Review of Development Economics, Feb2006, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p1-19.
• FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets, with Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Journal of International Economics, Volume 64, Issue 1, Pages 89-112.
• Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey: Regional Determinants, with Joel Deichmann and Socrates Karidis, Applied Economics, vol. 35, no.16/10, November 2003, pp. 1767-78.
• A Review of Software Packages for Data Mining, with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton, Nick Teebagy, and Heikki Topi, The American Statistician, 1 November 2003, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 290-309(20).
• Kohonen Classification and the Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in the Transitional Economies of Eurasia, (2003) with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton and Nick Teebagy, Journal of Business Strategies, 20(1).
• Foreign Direct Investment in the Eurasian Transition States, (2003) with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton and Nick Teebagy, Eastern European Economics, Vol. 41, Iss. 1; pp. 5-34 .
• International Interdependence and Business Cycle Transmission Between Turkey and the European Union, (2002) with David Selover, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 69, Iss. 2; pp. 206-39.
• Cartoon Transition: Kohonen Mappings of Transition Economies, with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton, and Heikki Topi. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, forthcoming.
• Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship, with Mwanza Nkusu, work in progress. International Monetary Fund, Working Paper, 2004.
• Multinational Affiliates and Local Financial Markets, with Alexander Lehmann and Hyoung Goo Kang, International Monetary Fund, Working Paper, 2004.
• FDI Spillovers, Financial Markets, and Economic Development, with Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, International Monetary Fund, Working Paper 2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bilkent University, Department of Economics, 2003- present
Economist, International Monetary Fund, 2001 - 2003
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, Public Policy Institute, Fall 2003
Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley College, Department of Economics, 1999 – 2001
Short-term consultant, World Bank, Eastern and Central Asia Department, 1999
Instructor, Duke University, Department of Economics and Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 1998 – 1999
Visiting Instructor, Bilkent University, Department of Economics, Summer 1998