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2010-2017 Ph.D, Economics, Anadolu University (Advisor: Yılmaz Kılıçaslan)
Thesis title: Competitiveness and Complexity in the Manufacturing Industries:
A Cross-country Analysis (in Turkish)
2004-2008 B.Sc, Economics, Anadolu University
2024-2026 Short-term consultant, World Bank
2024-2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, METU, (Advisor: Erol Taymaz & Kamil Yılmaz)
2020- Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dumlupınar University
2010-17 Department of Economics, Anadolu University
2016-2017 Project Trainee, CEPII
2014 Visiting Researcher, Department of Economics, California State University, San Bernardino
2025 Best Paper Award by Economic Research Forum (ERF)
2022-2024 TUBITAK Project Grant, Robots, Employment and wages (Project Number: 121G176, Role: PI)
2022-2024 TUBITAK Project Grant, Elasticity of Turkish Export Outcomes to the Exchange Rates: Product and Firm Level Analysis (Project Number: 122R003, Role: PI)
2021 Ibn Khaldun Best Paper Award by Middle East Economic Association (MEEA)
2008 High Honor Student at the Anadolu University
2025 Shooting down trade: Firm-level effects of embargoes – with Julian Hinz & Cem Özgüzel, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 231, 108621.
2023 Wage Returns to Field of Study-Occupation Mismatch in Turkish Graduate Labor Market: Quantile Regression Approach – with Oytun Mecik, Ege Academic Review, 23, 4, 653-666.
2021 Global value chain integration and productivity: the case of Turkish manufacturing firms – with Yılmaz Kılıçaslan & Oytun Meçik, Middle East Development Journal, 13, 1, 150-171.
2021 How far the apple falls from the tree: Intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in Indonesia – with Syed Hassan Raza, International Journal of Educational Development, 81, 10234.
2025 Exchange rate elasticity of exports and firm heterogeneity: Evidence from Turkish manufacturing firms – with Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Oytun Meçik & Ünal Töngür. forthcoming in METU Studies in Development.
2018 Industry Level Competitiveness and Adaptation to World Demand: An Analysis on Turkey and Selected Countries – with Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İİBF Dergisi, 13, 1, 143-166.
2018 A Regional Approach to the Premature Deindustrialization in the Turkish Economy – with Oytun Mecik, METU Studies in Development, 45, 1, 59-81.
2026 Even the Announcement Matters? The Effect of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on Exporter Behavior – with Gunhild Berg, Seyit Mümin Cilasun & Etkin Özen, World Bank Policy Research Working Papers.
2026 Worker- and Firm-Level Effects of an Outsourcing Ban with Eren Gürer & Erol Taymaz, CESifo Working Paper Series. Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Development Economics.
2025 Firm-level Effects of Minimum Wages – with Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Seyit Mümin Cılasun & Murat G. Kırdar, ERF Working Paper Series.
2024 The Impact of Minimum Wage Shock on Robot Adaption in Turkey – with Yusuf Emre Akgündüz & Seyit Mümin Cilasun, ERF Working Paper Series.
2023 Robots, Employment and Wages: Evidence from Turkish Labor Markets – with Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Oytun Mecik & Ümit Yapıcı, ERF Working Paper Series.
2023 The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Overeducation of Natives: Evidence from Turkish Labor Markets – ERF Working Paper Series. Conditionally accepted at The Journal of Development Studies.
– Trade Liberalization and Firm-Level Prices with Erol Taymaz & Kamil Yılmaz
– Firm-level Gravity with Fixed Effects with Julian Hinz, Cem Özgüzel & Joschka Wanner
– Environmental taxation and Carbon Leakage – with Sinem Ayhan, Seyit Mümin Cilasun & Johannes Galle
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