EMPLOYMENT:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Boğaziçi University Dec 2018 - Present
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Virginia 2018
Dissertation: “Risk and Uncertainty in Labor Markets”
M.A. in Economics, Koç University 2009
B.S. in Business Administration (High Honors), Bilkent University 2007
İstanbul Atatürk Fen Lisesi 2003
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Uncertainty, Labor Economics, Computational Economics
PROJECTS:
“Uncertainty, Unemployment and Business Cycles”, BAP Startup project 2020-2022
PUBLICATIONS:
Demirci, M. and Poyraz, M. (2024), "Post-compulsory schooling of youth in Turkey: a case of pro-cyclical enrollment", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 45 No. 7, pp. 1450-1473. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-09-2023-0527
Demirci, M. and Poyraz, M. (2021), "A Practitioner’s Guide to Handling Irregularities Resulting from the 2014 Revisions to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey" Boğaziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 1-25, https://doi.org/10.21773/boun.35.1.1
WORKING PAPERS:
“The Price Elasticity of Demand for New Automobiles in Turkey: A Case with High Rates of Special Consumption Taxes” (with Murat Demirci and Berna Tuncay Alpanda)
“Uncertainty, Unemployment and Business Cycles”
“Disaster Risk and Heterogeneous Firms”
BOOK CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES:
“Regional Unemployment Rates in Turkey during the 2004-2019 Period” (with Murat Demirci)
Published in Scientific Perspectives of Economics and Finance, (pp. 67-78) (Ed. S. Karabulut) by Ekin Yayınevi, July 2023. ISBN: 978-625-6460-54-6.
“The Sensitivity of Empirical Applications to the 2014 Revisions to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey” (with Murat Demirci)
Published in Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Economic and Financial Issues (pp. 145-159) (Ed. S. Karabulut) by Gazi Kitabevi, August 2021. ISBN: 978-625-7530-05-7.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Departmental Service:
Economics Minor Program Co-coordinator 2019-present
Graduate Programs Admissions Committee Member 2019-present
Research Assistantship:
Research Assistant, Prof. Sophie Osotimehin and Prof. Toshihiko Mukoyama, UVA 2016-2018
Research Assistant, Koç University 2009-2010
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS:
30th Annual Meeting Economics of Education Association, Porto, Portugal - July 2022, University of Alabama, Dept. of Economics-Mar 2018, Federal Reserve Board Washington D.C. , Research and Statistics Division, MQS Section-Feb 2018, Boğaziçi University, Dept. of Economics -Feb 2018, Kadir Has University, Dept. of Economics -Feb 2018, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Research and Monetary Policy Division-Jan 2018, University of Virginia, Dept. of Economics, Macroeconomics Research Group-July 2017, University of Virginia, Dept. of Economics, Economics Research Colloquium-May 2014
SELECTED AWARDS:
Bankard Fund for Political Economy Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia 2015-2016
Graduate Scholarships, Koç University and TUBITAK 2007-2009
Erasmus Exchange Program Scholarship Spring 2006
Undergraduate Full Scholarship, Bilkent University 2003-2007
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Languages: Turkish (native), English (fluent), French (beginner)
Computing: Fortran, MATLAB, MPI, OpenMP, EViews, Stata