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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
‒ Economist, Macroeconomic Policy Division, Policy Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD, January 2021– present
‒ Economist, United States/Australia Desk, Country Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD, August 2020– January 2021
‒ Economist, Costa Rica/Mexico Desk, Country Studies Branch, Economics Department, OECD, August 2019 – August 2020
‒ Economic Consultant, Sunel & Sunel Law Firm, August 2016 – August 2019
‒ Economist, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, October 2014 – July 2016
‒ Economic Counselor, Turkish Embassy in Washington D.C., October 2012 – September 2014
‒ Economist, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, August 2011 – September 2012
‒ Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, July 2008 – January 2011
‒ Graduate Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2007 - July 2011
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2011.
Dissertation Title: Essays on the Distributional and Welfare Consequences of Disinflation in Emerging Economies.
Advisors: Professor Enrique G. Mendoza, Professor Pablo N. D’Erasmo.
M.A. in Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2008.
B.A. in Economics (High Honors), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Primary: International Finance, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
Secondary: Macroeconomics, Computational Economics
PUBLICATIONS
Inflation-Default Trade-off Without a Nominal Anchor: The Case of Greece (with Yasin Kürşat Önder) - Review of Economic Dynamics (Vol. 39, January 2021, 55-78)
The Role of Risk Aversion in a Sovereign Default Model of Polarization and Political Instability (with Yasin Kürşat Önder) - Review of Economic Dynamics (Vol. 35, January 2020, 123-132)
External Shocks, Banks and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Recipe for Emerging Market Central Banks (with Yasin Mimir) - International Journal of Central Banking (Vol. 15(2), June 2019, 235-299)
Welfare Consequences of Gradual Disinflation in Emerging Economies - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (Vol. 50(4), June 2018, 705-755)
Unemployment and Vacancies in Turkey: The Beveridge Curve and Matching Function (with Birol Kanık, and Temel Taşkın) – Central Bank Review (Vol. 14(3), September 2014, 35-62)
Required Reserves as a Credit Policy Tool (with Temel Taşkın and Yasin Mimir) B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Volume 13(1), June 2013, 823-880)
End-Point Bias in Trend-Cycle Decompositions: An Application to the Real Exchange Rates of Turkey (with M. Fatih Ekinci and Gazi Kabaş) Central Bank Review (Vol. 13, September 2013 61-71)
POLICY REPORTS
OECD Economic Surveys: Costa Rica 2020 (with Alberto González Pandiella under the supervision of Patrick Lenain) OECD Economic Surveys
The Beveridge Curve and Matching Function: Case of Turkey (with Birol Kanik, and Temel Taşkın) (in Turkish) CBT Research Notes in Economics (No. 12/24, September 2012)
Regional and Sectoral Export Diversification: The Case of Turkey (with Altan Aldan, M.Faruk Aydın, Olcay Yücel Çulha, and Temel Taşkın) (in Turkish) CBT Research Notes in Economics (No. 12/18, July 2012)
WORKING PAPERS
Fear (no more) of Floating: Asset purchases and Exchange Rate Dynamics (with Yasin Mimir) under review
Default or Depreciate (with Yasin Kürşat Önder) under review
Boosting access to credit and ensuring financial inclusion for all in Costa Rica, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1623, OECD Publishing, Paris
WORK IN PROGRESS
Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Small Open Economies: The Role of Finance Channel (with Alperen Evrin and Yasin Mimir)
Strategic Debt Accumulation in a Sovereign Default Model of Political Uncertainty (with Yasin Kürşat Önder)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Best student papers award, 15th Annual LACEA Meetings, 2010.
Travel Grants: Jacob K. Goldhaber Award, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2009.
Graduate Assistantship, University of Maryland, 2007-2011.
Graduate Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2006-2007.
High Honor List, Bilkent University, 2002-2006.
Full Scholarship: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002-2006.
48th out of 1.5 million in the National University Examination of Turkey, 2002.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor; Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis, University of Maryland, Summer 2008, Winter 2009, Summer 2009, Winter 2010.
Teaching Assistant; University of Maryland: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and Policy, Fall 2007, Spring 2010; Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009.
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Fear (no more) of Floating: Asset purchases and Exchange Rate Dynamics
OECD(2021), Bank of England (2021), European Central Bank (2021), World Bank (2021), Bank of Canada (2021), 2nd BoE-BdF-OECD-IMF-BdI Joint Workshop on Capital Flows (2021), 24th Central Bank Macroeconomic Modelling Workshop (2021).
Default or Depreciate
OECD(2020), Canadian Economics Association Annual Conference (2021), Public Debt Management Conference (2022).
Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Small Open Economies: The Role of Finance Channel
A Conference in Honor of Ramazan Gençay, Bilgi University (2019).
External Shocks, Banks, and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Recipe for Emerging Market Central Banks
National University of Singapore, Risk Management Institute (2017), IMF Institute for Capacity Development (2015), 11th World Congress of the Econometric Society (2015), Society for Computational Economics 21th CEF Conference (2015), Istanbul School of Central Banking (2015), Bilkent University (2015), ITU (2014).
Inflation Credibility and Sovereign Default
70th European Meeting of the Econometric Society (2017: Accepted), Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (2017: Accepted). China Meeting of the Econometric Society (2017: Accepted), ASSA Annual Meeting (2017: Accepted), Society for Computational Economics 21th CEF Conference (2016), CBRT (2016), METU (2016).
Strategic Debt Accumulation in a Sovereign Default Model of Political Uncertainty
Society for Computational Economics 23th CEF Conference (2017: Accepted)
Required Reserves as a Capital Flow Management Tool
Marmara University-Understanding Capital Flows Workshop (2016), Istanbul School of Central Banking (2015), Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (2013).
Required Reserves as a Credit Policy Tool
Biennial-Georgetown Center for Economic Research Conference (2013), Third Carlo Giannini Conference at the Bank of Italy (2012), Internal Conference of the CBRT (2011), Annual Conference of the Center for Economics and Econometrics at Boğaziçi University (2011).
Welfare Consequences of Gradual Disinflation in Emerging Economies
Boğaziçi University (2011), METU (2011), Özyeğin University (2011), TOBB-ETU (2011), University of Maryland (2010), Society for the Study of Emerging Markets- Euro Conference (2010), Society for Computational Economics 16th CEF Conference (2010), Canadian Economic Association 2010 Annual Conference (2010), Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings (2010), 15th LACEA Meetings (2010), CBRT (2009)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member: European Economic Association; Canadian Economic Association; OECD Advisory Board on Debt Transparency; Recruitment Committee, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, 2013-2014.
Referee: Review of Economic Dynamics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Applied Economics Letters, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.
Dissertation internship supervisor: Hasan Sadık Arık, CBRT, August 2015.
LANGUAGE AND COMPUTING SKILLS
Computing skills: R, E-views, MATLAB, Gretl, Stata, MS Office, LaTex, Fortran.
Languages: Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), French (Beginner).
Certifications: Kartal 23rd Notary Sworn (English-Turkish) Translator, Istanbul, Turkey