EDUCATION
Ph.D in Economics, Boston College, June 2001. (Thesis: “Essays on Central Banking”)
M.A. in Economics, Boston College, June 1998.
B.A. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, June 1996.
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Monetary Economics, Applied
Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics
PUBLICATIONS
• “Analyzing Time-Varying Effects of Potential Output Growth
Shocks”, with Levent Özbek, forthcoming in Economics Letters, 2007.
• “An Alternative Method to Measure the Likelihood of a
Financial Crisis in an Emerging Market, with Kıvılcım Metin Özcan,
forthcoming in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its
Applications, 2007.
• “Assessing Selectivity and Market Timing Performance
of Mutual Funds For An Emerging Market: The Case of Turkey”, with
Serkan İmişiker, forthcoming in Emerging
Markets, Finance and Trade, 2007.
• “Sources of Growth and The Output Gap
For The Turkish Economy”, with K.M. Özcan and Ç. Sarıkaya, in Explaining
Growth in the Middle East, edited
by Jeff Nugent and Hashem Pesaran, pages: 237-266, North-Holland
Publishing, 2007.
• “Exchange Rate Regimes and Pass-Through: Evidence From The
Turkish Economy”, with Hakan Kara, Burç Tuger, Hande Tuger and Eray
Yücel, forthcoming in Contemporary
Economic Policy, 25:2, pages 206-225, 2007.
• “Estimating Output Gap In A Changing Economy”, with Hakan
Kara, Fethi Öğünç and Çağrı Sarıkaya, forthcoming in Southern
Economic Journal, 74:1, pages 269-289, 2007.
• “The Effectiveness of Foreign
Exchange Interventions Under Floating Exchange Rate Regime for the
Turkish Economy: A Post-Crisis Period Analysis”, with Ö. Akıncı, O. Y. Emir and G. Şahinbeyoğlu,
Applied Economics, 38:12, pages 1371-1388,
2006.
• “Employing Extended
Kalman Filter In Measuring Output Gap and Potential Output for the
Turkish Economy”, with Levent Özbek, Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control ,29,
pages 1611-1622, 2005.
• “The
Missing Link Between Inflation Uncertainty and Interest Rates”,
with Hakan Berument and Zübeyir Kılınç, Scottish Journal of
Political Economy, 52:2, pages 222-241, 2005.
• “Is There A Flight
To Quality Due To Inflation Uncertainty?”, with Bülent Güler,
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications,
345, pages 603-607, 2005.
• “Measuring Exchange Rate
Misalignment in Turkey”, with Erinç Yeldan , Applied
Economics, 36:16, pages 1839-1849, 2004.
• “The Effects of
Different Inflation Risk Premiums on Interest Rate Spreads”,
with Hakan Berument and Zubeyir Kilinc, Physica A: Statistical
Mechanics and Its Applications, 333, pages 317-324, 2003.
• “Price Stability vs.
Output Stability: Tales of Federal Reserve Administrations”, Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control, 27:9, pages 1595-1610, 20
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor: Bilkent University, Department of Economics,
September 2007-present.
Associate Professor and Chair:
TOBB
University
of Economics and Technology, Department of Economics, June 2006-
August 2007.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, September 2001 -
present.
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, Boston College, 1998-2000. |
