Publications 

Skill and Foreign Firm Premium: The Role of Technology Gap and Labor Cost, with Bahar Bayraktar Saglam. , Book chapter in "Industrial dynamics, innovation policy, and economic growth through technological advancements", edited by Hakan Yetkiner, Teoman Pamuku and Erkan Erdil, (2013)

MNEs and Wages: the Role of Productivity Spillovers and Imperfect Labor Markets, with Bahar Bayraktar Saglam, Economic Modelling, 2011.

Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?  Exploring the Role of Financial Markets on Linkages, with Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91, pp 242–256.

Foreign Direct Investment and Inflation: Theory and Evidence, Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76(2), pp 419-43.  

Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Financial Development: An Empirical Analysis of Complementarities and Channels, with Laura Alfaro and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, The World Economy, 2009, vol.32, issue 1, pp 111-135.  

FDI in Turkey: The Investment Climate and EU Effects,  Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy,  2007, 1(2), pp 105-138.  

The Role of the Sectoral Composition of FDI on Growth, with Dilek Aykut, in Do Multinationals Feed Local Development and Growth? edited by Lucia Piscitello and Grazia D. Santangelo, chapter 3, pp 35-59, Elsevier, 2007. (Turkish translation published: Doğrudan Yabancı Yatırımların Sektörel Kompozisyonun Büyümeye Etkisi, with Dilek Aykut, Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Dış Ticaret Politikaları, 2007, 2(3), pp 33-64.)  

Measuring the International Digital Divide: An Application of Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps, with Joel Deichmann, Abdi Eshghi, Dominique Haughton, Sam Woolford, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2007, 3(6), pp 552-575.  

Exploring Break-points and Interaction Effects Among Predictors of the International Digital Divide, with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton, and Heikki Topi, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 2006, 9(4), pp 47-71.  

Cartoon Transition: Kohonen Mappings of Transition Economies, with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton, and Heikki Topi, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 2006, 5(1), pp 99-120.  

İktisadi Merkez-Çevre Paradigması: Sonlandı mı süregeliyor mu?(The economic core-periphery paradigm: is it over or ongoing?) Toplum ve Bilim, 2006: 105, pp 178-200.  

Outsourcing and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Product Cycle Model, with Fuat M. Sener, Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10(1), pp 1-19.  

FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets, with Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Journal of International Economics, 2004, 64(1), pp 89-112.  

Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey: Regional Determinants, with Joel Deichmann and Socrates Karidis, Applied Economics, 2003, vol. 35, no.16/10, 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, 2003, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 290-309(20).

Geography Matters: Kohonen Classification and the Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in the Transitional Economies of Eurasia, with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton and Nick Teebagy, Journal of Business Strategies, 2003,  20(1) pp 23-44.

Foreign Direct Investment in the Eurasian Transition States, with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton and Nick Teebagy, Eastern European Economics, 2003, Vol. 41, Iss. 1; pp. 5-34 .

Application of Multiple Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) in direct response modeling,  with Abdi Eshghi, Joel Deichmann, Dominique Haughton and Nick Teebagy, Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2002, 16, 15-27.

International Interdependence and Business Cycle Transmission Between Turkey and the European Union, with David Selover, Southern Economic Journal, 2002, Vol. 69, Iss. 2; pp. 206-39.

Work-in-Progress

Is it vertical or is it horizontal? The type of FDI across Sectors, with Banu Demir.

Labor Market Effects of Multinational Enterprises: the Role of Alternative Costs, with Bahar Bayraktar-Saglam.

Financial Markets, IPR and Growth: A cross-country study, with Banu Demir and Fuat Sener.

FDI, IPR and Wage Contracts, with Bahar Bayraktar-Sağlam.

Linkages and Wages, with Bahar Bayraktar-Saglam.

Informality and Openness, with Yasin Dalgıç.

 Under review

The Role of Human Capital In Productivity Spillovers from FDI: An Empirical Analysis on Turkish Manufacturing Firms, with Seda Köymen.

 Labor Market Effects of Knowledge Spillovers, with Bahar Bayraktar-Saglam.

 A note on MNEs and Wages: the Role of Productivity Spillovers and Imperfect Labor Markets, with Bahar Bayraktar-Saglam.

Working Papers

How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages. with Laura Alfaro (HBS), Areendam Chanda (LSU), and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Univ of Houston). Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-013, 2006. 

Does foreign direct investment follow aid flows?, with Bilin Neyapti and M. Ugur Karakaplan (Bilkent University). (Bilkent University and Turkish Economic Association Discussion Paper Series). 

FDI Spillovers, Financial Markets, and Economic Development, with Laura Alfaro (HBS), Areendam Chanda (LSU), and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Univ of Houston), International Monetary Fund, Working Paper 03/186, September 2003.

Multinational Affiliates and Local Financial Markets, with Alexander Lehmann (IMF) and Hyoung Goo Kang (Duke University), International Monetary Fund Working Paper, 04/107.  

Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship, with Mwanza Nkusu (IMF), International Monetary Fund Working Paper, 04/238 .