Department of Economics

Department of Economics Seminar Series

2023-2024 Spring Semester Department of Economics Seminar and Workshop Calendar

Seminars
*Date*	*Place*	*Presenter*	*Subject*
Friday, May 10, 2024 14:30	D 002	Prof. Dr. Seyit Mümin CILASUN (TED University)	Turkish Economy and Productivity (in Turkish)
Friday, May 17, 2024 14:30	D 002	Şakir TURAN (Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası)	Career Journey and Banking Sector Experiences (in Turkish)
Monday, 27 May 2024 14:00	TBA	Ali Cem SUCA Anadolu ÜPAK	Capital and Agricultural Market

Workshops
*Date*	*Place*	*Presenter*	*Subject*
TBA	TBA	Suna Ercan (BP, Social Investment Manager)	Social Responsibility, Circular Economy, and Sustainability: The Transformation of the Corporate World with Suna Ercan

Previous Semesters

Spring 2014 - 2015
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
10.04.2015	Seminar	Bülent Anıl, Bahçeşehir University	Mismatch between Material Deprivation and Income Poverty: The case of Turkey
24.04.2015	Seminar	Ayşe Kabukçuoğlu, Koç University	The Redistributional Consequences of Tax Reform Under Financial Integration
22.05.2015	Seminar	Mustafa Sönmez, Hurriyet Daily News	The World Economy and Turkey's Economy: Risks and Opportunities (in Turkish)

Fall 2014 - 2015
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
20.11.2014	Seminar	İnci Gümüş, Sabancı University	Credit Decomposition and Business Cycles in Emerging Market Economies
04.12.2014	Seminar	Mehmet Ali Soytaş, Özyeğin University	Estimation of Dynastic Life-Cycle Discrete Choice Models
11.12.2014	Seminar	Banu Demir Pakel, Bilkent University	Domestic Road Infrastructure and International Trade: Evidence from Turkey
08.01.2015	Seminar	Seven Ağır, Middle East Technical University	Evolution of Property Rights in Istanbul, 1750-1850


Spring 2013 - 2014
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
06.06.2014	Seminar	Perihan Özge Saygın, Mannheim University	Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
21.05.2014	Seminar	Slawomir Bukowski, Kazimierz Pulaski Teknoloji ve Beşeri Bilimler Üniversitesi	Economic Crisis Or the Crisis Of Economics
18.04.2014	Seminar	Meltem Dayıoğlu Tayfur, Middle East Technical University	Dynamics of Child Poverty in Turkey
19.03.2014	Seminar	Özgür Orhangazi, Kadir Has University	Capital Inflows and Domestic Credit Expansion in Turkey

Spring 2012 - 2013
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
17.06.2013	Seminar	Onur Sapçı, Wyoming University	Environment, Human Capital and Growth
24.05.2013	Panel	Halit Soydan, İzmir University of Economics; Prof. Dr. Ahmet Faruk Aysan Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası, Monetary Policy Committee; Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk Çolak, Gazi University; Prof. Dr. Oğuz Esen, Izmir University of Economics	Para Politikası, Finansal Piyasalar ve Sermaye Hareketleri
09.05.2013	Seminar	Edoardo Gallo, Cambridge University	Social Learning by Chit-Chat
07.05.2013	Seminar	Prof. Thomas Crossley, Koç University	Parental Socialization Effort and the Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Preferences
03.05.2013	Panel	Prof.Dr.Korkut Boratav, Ankara University; Prof.Dr. Ertuğrul Ahmet Tonak, İstanbul Bilgi University	Türkiye'de Bölüşüm
5-6 Nisan 2013	Workshop	Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche; Lorenzo Burlon, Central Bank of Italy; Rahmi İlkılıç, Bilkent University; Efe Postalcı, İzmir University of Economics; Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche; Kamil Yilmaz, Koç University; İlker Arslan, İzmir University of Economics; Alper Duman & Efe Postalcı, İzmir University of Economics	Network Workshop
28.03.2013	Seminar	Mehmet Ali Soytas, Özyeğin University	What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital?

Fall 2012 - 2013
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
09.01.2013	Seminar	Ümit Özlale, TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi	Türkiye'de Tasarruf Açığını Etkileyen Faktörler
03.01.2013	Seminar	Hasan Tekgüç, Mardin Artuklu University	Health Consequences of an Eclectic Social Security Regime: The Case of Turkey
20.12.2012	Seminar	Berke Torunoğlu, Wisconsin-Madison University	The Ottoman Default in 1875
29.11.2012	Seminar	Turan Subaşat, İzmir University of Economics	Rethinking Reproduction Schemes
22.11.2012	Seminar	İlker Arslan, İzmir University of Economics	A Network Approach to the Check Payments among SMEs in Turkey

Spring 2011 - 2012
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
01.06.2012	Seminar	Prof. James Crotty, University of Massachusetts Amherst	Structural Causes of the Financial Crisis
08.05.2012	Seminar	Prof. Elena Frangakis-Syrett, City University of New York	Trading Goods, Trading Money: Banks and Economic Rivalry in Ottoman Izmir, the 1840s
17.04.2012	Seminar	Prof. Dr. Erol Taymaz, Middle East Technical University	Türkiye'de Yapısal Değişim ve Büyüme
10.04.2012	Seminar	Özge Savaşçın, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	The Dynamics of Commodity Prices: A Clustering Approach
03.04.2012	Seminar	Asst. Prof. Dr. Veysel Avşar, Antalya International University	The Anatomy of Trade Deflections
20.03.2012	Seminar	Asst. Prof. Dr. Çağaçan Değer, Ege University	An Overlapping Generations Analysis of Social Security Reform in Turkey
05.03.2012	Seminar	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sencer Ecer, İstanbul Technical University	Optimal Merger Policy with Policy-Variant Non-Price Strategies and Deterred Mergers

Fall 2011 - 2012
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
23.12.2011	Seminar	Assoc. Prof. Dr. İzak Atiyas, Sabancı University	The Economics of Collective Refusal to Supply

Spring 2010 - 2011
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
05.05.2011	Seminar	Asst. Prof. Dr. Ozan Hatipoğlu, Boğaziçi University	Do Bubbles Spill Over? Estimating Financial Bubbles in Emerging Markets: Case of Turkey
28.04.2011	Seminar	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ege Yazgan, Bilgi University	Persistence in Convergence
01.04.2011	Workshop	Asst. Prof. Dr. Seda Ertaç, Koç University, Asst. Prof. Dr. Umut Öneş, Ankara University, Asst. Prof. Dr. Yiğit Gürdal, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Barış Urhan, Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey	Experimental Economics Workshop

Fall 2010 - 2011
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject

Spring 2009 - 2010
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
01.06.2010	Seminar	Burak Dindaroğlu, SUNY Albany	Intra-Industry Knowledge Spillovers and Scientific Labor Mobility
25.05.2010	Seminar	Doruk İris, Universidade Nova de Lisboa	International Environmental Cooperation under Fairness and Reciprocity
14.05.2010	Seminar	Yrd. Doç. Dr. Seda Ertaç, Koç University	Two Field Experiments on Economic Decision-Making Using Tribal Societies in India
30.04.2010	Seminar	Asst. Prof. Dr. Zafer Akın, TOBB University of Economics and Technology	Is Economics Becoming an Experimental Science?
27.04.2010	Seminar	Dr. Hasan Tekgüç, University of Massachusetts Amherst	The Implications of Food Self-Provisioning for Poverty Measurement in Turkey
25.03.2010	Seminar	Basak Altan, University of North Carolina	Durable Goods Monopoly with Vertical Product Differentiation
22.03.2010	Seminar	İpek Gürsel Tapki, Sabancı University	Trade Rules for Uncleared Markets with a Variable Population
19.03.2010	Seminar	İlker Dastan, Rutgers University	Labor Market Effects of Obesity, Smoking, and Alcohol Use
18.03.2010	Seminar	Yasin Akcelik, Ohio State University	International Capital Flows, Political Parties and Elections
26.02.2010	Seminar	Murat Yılmaz, Boston University	Auctioning a Discrete Public Good Under Incomplete Information
22.02.2010	Seminar	Idil Goksel, Bocconi University	Conservatism and Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey
19.02.2010	Seminar	Temel Taşkın, Rochester University	Unemployment Insurance and Home Production

Fall 2009 - 2010
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
28.12.2009	Seminar	Bilge Erten, University of Massachusetts-Amherst	North-South Terms of Trade Trends from 1960 to 2006
25.12.2009	Seminar	Prof. Dr. Arne Heise, İzmir University of Economics	Industrial Relations and Firm Performance: German and US Affilities in the UK
17.12.2009	Seminar	Dr. Mümtaz Keklik, United Nations Development Programme	Africa's Trade Performance and Development Oriented Trade Policy
11.11.2009	Seminar	Asst. Prof. Dr. Esra Durceylan Kaygusuz, Bilkent University	Managerial Effort, Agency and Industrial Dynamics

Spring 2008 - 2009
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
07 Agustos 2009	Seminar	Dr. Mustafa Hattapoglu, Houston University	The Dependency of Rent to Price Ratio on Appreciation Expectations:Theory and Evidence
11.06.2009	Seminar	Dr. Armağan Gezici, Keene State University	Financial Liberalization and Financing Constraints
16.04.2009	Seminar	Dr. C. Coşkun Küçüközmen, Middle East Technical University	Conditional and Unconditional Distribution of Asset Returns with Special Reference to Skewness
19.03.2009	Seminar	Değer Eryar, University of Massachusetts Amherst	The impact of capital inflows on private investment in the presence of real exchange rate uncertainty in financially liberalized Turkey

Fall 2008 - 2009
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
01.12.2008	Seminar	Dr. Mesut Saygılı, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası	Financial and Real Sectors' Inflation Expectations in Turkey: Evidence From Panel Data
12.11.2008		Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gökçer Özgür, Hacettepe University	Capitalism, Globalization and Particularism: The Real Subsumption of Capital
11.09.2008		Müge KARACAL, Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi	Dollarization in Turkey

Spring 2007 - 2008
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
16.06.2008		Niloufer Sohrabji, Simmons College	An intertemporal solvency approach to analyzing the sustainability of Turkey`s current account
12.06.2008		Serdar Sayan, The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey	Yolsuzluk ve Ekonomik Buyume Iliskisi: Turkiye Bolge Ulkelerine Gore Nerede?
14.02.2008		Gül Ünal, University of Massachusetts Amherst	A Case Againts Market Friendly Reforms: Evidence of Inverse Size Yield Relationship in Turkish Agriculture

Fall 2007 - 2008
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
10.12.2007		Prof. German Zarate-Hoyos, SUNY-Cortland	Migration and Remittances in Mexico and Central America
07.12.2007		Doç. Dr. Ümit Özlale, Bilkent University	Time-Varying Preferences of the FED

Spring 2006 - 2007
Date	Type	Presenter	Subject
14.05.2007		Prof. Dr. William C. Gartner, University of Minnesota; Egon Smeral, WIFO - Austrian Institute Of Economic Research; Haiyan Song, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Stephen Witt, Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Evaluating Forecasting Performance of Tourism Demand Models
30.04.2007		Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebru Voyvoda, Middle East Technical University	Economics of Environmental Policy in Turkey
16.04.2007		Prof. Dr. Fikret Adaman, Boğaziçi University	Network Effects in Risk Sharing and Credit Market Access: Evidence from Istanbul
11.04.2007		Dr. Turan Subaşat, University of Bath	Does Simultaneous Implementation of Import-Substitution and Export Promotion Neutralize Each Other?

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