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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
2024-2025 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
2022-2024 TUBITAK Project Grant (Project Number: 121G176) (TRY 450,000; Role: PI)
2022-2024 TUBITAK Project Grant (Project Number: 122R003) (TRY 211,605; 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. forthcoming in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
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, 13, 1, 150-171.
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.
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 – with Seyit Mümin Cilasun, ERF Working Paper Series.
– Firm-level Effects of Minimum Wages – with Yusuf Emre Akgündüz & Seyit Mümin Cilasun
– Firm Level Effects of Custom Union with Erol Taymaz & Kamil Yılmaz
– Firm-level Gravity with Fixed Effects with Julian Hinz, Cem Özgüzel & Joschka Wanner
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