Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

Name: Sbidey Togan

 

Address: Office: Department of Economics, Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey (Phone: (90-312)-290 1794), (Fax: (90-312)-290 1794); (E-Mail: togan@bilkent.edu.tr)

 

Home: Bilkent University Housing 17/5, 06800 Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey (Phone: (90-312)-266 4483); mobile (90-535) 299 1582

 

Present Employment: Professor of Economics, Bilkent University.

 

Personel Data: Date of Birth : December 21, 1943; Family: Inci Zehra Togan (spouse) and two children

 

Languages: Turkish - Excellent; English - Excellent; German - Good

 

Education and Degrees Held: 1978: Degree of "Doentlik" (Associate Professorship). Dissertation Title "Resource Allocation Mechanisms, Public Sector and Electricity Economics".

 

1972:   Ph.D. in Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA. Dissertation Title: "Trade, Growth and International Investment: A Study in Comparative Dynamics".

 

1967: B.Sc. in Economics and Statistics, Middle East Technical University , Ankara, Turkey

 

Employment Record: 1987 - Present: Professor of Economics, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

 

1987 - 1996     : Dean, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Professor of Economics, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

 

1986 - 1987:    Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Ankara University, Cebeci, Ankara, Turkey

 

1986 (8 Months): Dean, Faculty of Engineering at Gaziantep, Middle East Technical University, Gaziantep, Turkey

 

1982 - 1986: Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

1981 - 1982 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, Germany.

 

1980 - 1981: Visiting Professor of Economics, School of Management, Clarkson College of Technology, Postdam, N.Y. 13676,   USA

 

1978 - 1980: Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

1972 - 1978: Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

1970 - 1971: Visiting Professor of Economics, Department of Economics,   Texas A&M University, College Station,Texas, USA

 

Research Experience: 1981 - 1982 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, Germany.

 

Academic Awards and Honors: 1984: First Prize offered by the ENKA Foundation. Topic of the Competition: Integration of the Turkish Economy into the World Economy.

 

1981 - 1982: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Kiel Institute of World Economies, Kiel, Germany

 

1969 - 1970: Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA

 

1967 - 1968: Fulbright Scholorship, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA

 

Publications

 

Books:

 

Economic Liberalization and Turkey, Routledge, London and New York, 2010

 

Foreign Trade Regime and Trade Liberalization in Turkey during 1980's, Avebury Press, Aldershot, 1994

 

Edited Books

 

Macroeconomic Policies for EU Accession, ed. by E. Baş, S. Togan and J. von Hagen, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2007

 

Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union, ed. by S. Togan and B. Hoekman, World Bank and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2005

 

Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003

 

Turkey and Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition:
Towards Membership of the EU,
ed. by S. Togan and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Houndmills, 2001

 

The Economy of Turkey since Liberalization, ed. by S. Togan and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Macmillan Press, 1996

 

Articles:

 

1.     On the European Union – Turkey Customs Union, CASE Network Studies & Analysis No. 426/2011, 2011, Warshaw: CASE

 

2.     "World Trade and the Doha Round: Final Report of the High Level Trade Experts Group (Bhagwati-Sutherland Commission), with Jagdish Bhagwati, Peter Sutherland, K.Y. Amoako, Richard Baldwin, Muhammad Chatib Basri, Eckart Guth, Jaime Serra, and Jrgen von Hagen, May 2011. Available at http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/international-trade-investment-and-development/docs/w/11-964-world-trade-and-the-doha-round.pdf

 

3.     Services Trade and DOHA, VoxEU.org, April 1, 2011

 

4.     Pre-Accession Turkish Trade Policy Issues, commentary in the VoxEU Debate on The Future of the EU Trade Policy, October 1, 2010

 

5.     Turkey — Trade Policy Review 2007, The World Economy, 33, 2010, 1339-1389.

 

6.     Global Financial Crisis and Turkey, TISK Akademi 4, special issue, 2009, 7-25 (in Turkish).

 

7.     La Eliminacin de Obstculos Tchnicos al Comercio en el Contexto de la Unin Aduanera Entre Turquia y la Unin Europea, Revista de Economia Informatin Comercial Espaňola, No. 846, Enero-Febrero 2009 (in Spanish)

 

8.     The Turkish Current Account, Real Exchange Rate and Sustainability: A Methodological Framework, The Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy 1, 2007, 155-192.

 

9.     Telecommunications Policy Reform in Turkey, co-author, The World Economy 30, 2007, 1114-1138.

 

10.  Turkey: Trade Policy Review, The World Economy 28, 2005, 1229-1262.

 

11.  Economic Aspects of the Accession of Turkey to the EU, Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy 39, 2004, 300-303.

 

12.  "Turkey: Towards EU Accession", The World Economy 27, 2004, 1013-1045.

 

13.  Effects of Turkey-EU Customs Union and Prospects for the Future, Russian & East European Finance and Trade 36, 2000, 5-25.

 

14.  Domestic Implications of the Trade Agreements EU has concluded with Mediterranean Countries, Cuadernos del Centro Espanol de Relationes Internacionales, No. 5-6, 1999, 60-79.

 

15.  "Opening up the Turkish Economy in the Context of the Customs Union with EU", Journal of Economic Integration 12, 1997, 157-179.

 

16.  "Trade Policy Review of the Republic of Turkey", The World Economy Global Trade Policy, 1995, 107-120.

 

17.  "Tariff Equilibrium with Customs Union", The Pakistan Development Review 33, 1995, 1217-1228.

 

18.  "How to Assess the Significance of Export Incentives: An Application to Turkey", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 129, 1993, 777-800.

 

19.  "Trade Liberalization during 1980's", Iktisat, Işletme ve Finans 7, 1992 (in Turkish)

 

20.  "Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Protection in Turkey during the 1980's: A Quantitative Analysis", co-author, Weltwirtchaftliches Archiv 127, 1991, 152-170.

 

21.  "The Liberalization of International Trade in Turkey during the 1980's", The Pakistan Development Review 28, 1989, 949-958.

 

22.  "Comment on "Lessons to be Learned from the European Unemployment of the 1980's" by E. Malinvaud", The Pakistan Development Review 28, 1989, 329-330.

 

23.  "Price and Income Effects in Turkish Foreign Trade", co-author, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 123, 1987, 521-534.

 

24.  "The Influence of Money and the Rate of Interest on the Rate of Inflation in a Financially Repressed Economy: The Case of Turkey", Applied Economics 19, 1987, 1585-1601.

 

25.  "Who Benefits from the Adjustment Process in Developing Countries? A Test on India, Kenya and Turkey", co-author, Journal of Policy Modelling 6, 1984, 95-139.

 

26.  "A Macroeconometric Model of the Turkish Economy : Comment", Studies in Development 10, 1984, 323-328.

 

27.  "Effects of Alternative Policy Regimes to Foreign Payments Imbalances", Pakistan Development Review, 1983, 239-260.

 

28.  "The Welfare Costs of the CAP for Developing Countries under Alternative Policy Regimes: The Case of Turkey", European Review of Agricultural Economics 10, 1983, 123-139.

 

29.  "On the Welfare Costs of Monopolistic Pricing", Schweitzerische Zeitschrift fr Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, 1982, pp. 69-80.

 

30.  "Welfare Economics and the State : Theory, Implementation in Turkey and Policy Alternatives", Studies in Development 6, 1979, 3-30 (in Turkish).

 

31.  "On Gains from International Investment in a Context of Growth", Studies in Development 5, 107-119.

 

32.  "On Welfare Costs of Monopolistic and Average Cost Pricing", European Economic Review 9, 1977, 323-331.

 

33.  "The Gains from International Trade in the Context of a Growing Economy", Journal of International Economics 5, 1975, 229-38.

 

Chapters in Edited Books

 

1.     Completing the Doha Round and Developing Countries, in Why World Leaders Must Resist the False Promise of Another Doha Delay, ed. by R. Baldwin and S. Evenett, Centre for Economic Policy Research, a VOXEU.org Book, 2011, London: CEPR

 

2.     Turkey Report: Sustainable Governance Indicators 2011, Bertelsmann Stiftung, co-author, Available at http://www.sgi-network.org/pdf/SGI11_Turkey.pdf

 

3.     Turkey Country Report in Managing the Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Governance in 14 Countries, ed. by Bertelsmann Stiftung, Verlag Bertalsman Stiftung, Gtersloh, 2010. Available at http://www.sgi-network.org/mtc/Managing%20the%20Crisis_Country%20Reports.pdf

 

4.     Turkeys Economy: Is Accession Necessary? in Perceptions and Misperceptions in the EU and Turkey: Stumbling Blocks on the Road to Accession, ed. by Peter M.E. Voltan, Harmonie Paper 23, Centre for European Security Studies, Groningen, 2009

 

5.     Sustainable Governance Indicators 2009: Turkey Expert Report, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Available at http://www.sgi-network.org/pdf/SGI09_Turkey_Togan.pdf

 

6.     Trade Policy Review Mechanism: An Evaluation from the Perspective of Turkey, in World Trade Organization, DOHA Development Agenda Negotiations and Turkey, ed. by M. S. Akman and Ş. Yaman, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, Ankara, 2008, 319-338 (in Turkish)

 

7.     Policy Reform in Maritime Transport Sector: The Case of Turkey, in Economic Development Through World Trade: A Developing World Perspective, ed. by Yong-Shik Lee, Kluwer Law International, 2008, 303-341.

 

8.     Introduction, co-authors E. Baş, and J. von Hagen, in Macroeconomic Policies for EU Accession, ed. by E. Baş, S. Togan and J. von Hagen, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2007, 1-7.

 

9.     Current Account Sustainability: The Case of Turkey, co-author H. Ersel, in Macroeconomic Policies for EU Accession, ed. by E. Baş, S. Togan and J. von Hagen, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2007, 268-293.

 

10.  Overview, co-author B. Hoekman, in Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union, ed. by S. Togan and B. Hoekman, World Bank and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2005, xvii-xxxvii.

 

11.  Macroeconomic Policies for EU Accession, co-author H. Ersel, in Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union, ed. by S. Togan and B. Hoekman, World Bank and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2005, 3-35.

 

12.  Analysis of the Impact on Agricultural Markets and Incomes of EU Enlargement to Turkey, co-authors A. Bayaner and J. Nash, in Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union, ed. by S. Togan and B. Hoekman, World Bank and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2005, 39-85.

 

13.  Integration and Manufacturing Industry, co-authors H. Nebioğlu and S. Doğan, in Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union, ed. by S. Togan and B. Hoekman, World Bank and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2005, 87-121.

 

14.  Economic Implications of EU Accession in Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union, ed. by S. Togan and B. Hoekman, World Bank and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2005, 311-330.

 

15.  "Turkey after Helsinki: Economic Challenges" in Trade Policy and Economic Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: Economic Boundaries in Flux ed. by H. Hakimian and J. B. Nugent, Curzon-Routledge, London, 2004, 254-270.

 

16.  Quantifying the Impact of EU Accession, in Towards Accession Negotiations: Turkeys Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges Ahead, ed. by N. Tocci and A. Evin, European University Institute, 2004.

 

17.  "Changing Pattern of Competitiveness in MENA Countries", in Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003, 3-29.

 

18.  "Trade and Foreign Exchange Regime in Turkey", in Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003, 73-130.

 

19.  "Labour Market Flexibility in Turkey", in Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003, 207-248.

 

20.  "Investment Incentives and Conditions of Competition in Turkey", in Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003, 309-333.

 

21.  "Productivity of Labour", in Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003, 385-422

 

22.  "Epilogue", in Competitiveness in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries, ed. by S. Togan and H. Kheir-El-Din, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey Research Report Series, Cairo: ERF, 2003, 425-446.

 

23.  "Introduction co-author, in Turkey, Central and Eastern European Countries and European Union, ed. by S. Togan and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Houndmills, 2001, 1-6

 

24.  "The Turkish Economy and European Economies in Transition" in Turkey, Central and Eastern European Countries and European Union, ed. by S. Togan and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Houndmills, 2001, 7-50.

 

25.  Recorded and Unrecorded Sectors in the Labor Market in The Unrecorded Economy as related to the Labor Market, ed. by Tuncer Bulutay, State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, 2000

 

26.  Turkey, Tunisia and Israel: A Comparison of Agreements with the European Union in Trade Policy Developments in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. by B. Hoekman and H. Kheir-El-Din, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2000

 

27.  Turkey and the Turkic Republics in Eurasia in Turkey as a Political and Economic Factor in Europe and Central Asia, ed. by W. Gumpel, Sudosteuropa Gesellschaft, Munich, 1999

 

28.  Labour Market Flexibility in Turkey in Main Characteristics and Trends of the Turkish Labor Market, ed. by Tuncer Bulutay, State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, 1998

 

29.  Central, East European, Baltic and Turkish Economies: A View to Future Membership in the EU" in Opening Doors to the World: A New Trade Agenda for the Middle East, ed. by Raed Safadi, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 1998.

 

30.  "Determinants of Economic Growth in Turkey" in Economic Challenges facing Middle Eastern and North Africacan Countries, ed. by Nemat Shafik, Macmillan Press, London, 1997

 

31.  "Assessing the Effects of the Uruguay Round and of the Customs Union with EU on the Turkish Manufacturing Sector" in Industrial Strategies and Policies, Managerial and Entrepreneurial Skills under Conditions of Global and Regional Change, ed. by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Fridrich Ebert Stiftung and Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey, 1996

 

32.  The Customs Union Agreement between Turkey and European Union in Free Trade Agreements and Customs Unions: Experiences, Challenges and Constraints, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, Netherlands, 1997

 

33.  "Introduction", co-author, in The Economy of Turkey since Liberalization, ed. by S. Togan and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Macmillan Press, 1996, 1-4.

 

34.  "Trade Liberalization and Competitive Structure in Turkey during the 1980's", in The Economy of Turkey since Liberalization, ed. by S. Togan and V.N. Balasubramanyam, Macmillan Press, 1996, 5-51.

 

35.  An Inventory of Turkey's International Trade and Investment Agreements", in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by A. Kuyvenhoven et al., Kluwer Publishing Company, 1996.

 

36.  "Turkey and European Union" in Towards a New Medium Term Stabilization Program for Turkey, ed. by H. Ersel, Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association, Publication No. TUSIAD-T/95, 6-180, Istanbul, 1995.

 

37.  "The Turkish Experience in Developing a Market Economy" in Turkish Model and the Turkic Republics in the Former USSR, ed. by Aydn Yaln, Yeni Forum, Ankara, 1992 (in Turkish)

 

38.  "Foreign Trade Policies" in Report of the International Symposium on Turkey's Experience in Developing a Market Economy and its Relevance for the Reforming Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, State Planning Organization, Ankara, 1991

 

39.  "Livestock Production in the Turkish Economy" in Symposium on Livestock Production in Eastern Turkey, University of Euphrates, Elazğ, 1987 (In Turkish).

 

40.  "Economic Policies and Economic Growth", in Economic Policies and Development Perspectives, Alumni of the Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1985 (in Turkish).

 

41.  "On Managing Adjustment to External Shocks in Oil Importing Developing Countries", co-author, in Recent German Research in International Economics, ed. by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinscaft, Federal Republic of Germany, 1984, 66-75.

 

42.  "Savings Gap in the Turkish Economy", co-author, in Savings Gap and Problems of External Finance in the Turkish Economy, ed. by Economic and Social Studies Conference Board, Istanbul, Turkey, 1975, 1-18 (in Turkish).

 

Reports

 

"The Doha Round: Setting a Deadline, Defining a Final Deal, Interim Report of the High Level Trade Experts Group (Bhagwati-Sutherland Commission), with Jagdish Bhagwati, Peter Sutherland, K.Y. Amoako, Richard Baldwin, Muhammad Chatib Basri, Eckart Guth, Jaime Serra, and Jrgen von Hagen, January 2011.

 

Tariff Study for the Turkish Electricity System, Report prepared for the Turkish Electricity Authority, Ankara, Turkey, 1977 (with Y. Arkan, K. Inan, N. zay and A. Treli).