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Prof. Dr. Erkan Gören
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Institute of Economics
26111 Oldenburg
Telephone: +49-441-798-4292
E-mail: erkan.goeren@uni-oldenburg.de
Personal Information
My name is Erkan Gören, and I am Assistant Professor for Quantitative Methods in Economics in the Department of Economics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. I am also an Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Economics and Business Economics at Aarhus University. I am holding a PhD in economics from the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in April 2015. I have a Master's degree in economics (with distinction) from the University of Osnabrueck.
My research covers topics in macroeconomics, development economics, economic growth, knowledge diffusion, and international migration. I am also interested in the political economy of ethnic diversity. In my research, I combine state-of-the-art quantitative methods and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques to examine the spatial distribution of economic activity.
My work has been published in, among others, the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Industrial and Corporate Change. A complete overview of my research activities can be found in the Research section.
I have recently attracted third-party funding from the German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft") as principal investigator for the project entitled "The Localized Geography of Development Assistance: A Disaggregated Grid Cell Analysis". The project intends to examine the role of World Bank development projects on local conflict incidence at a subnational scale.
Research
Fields
Macroeconomics
Development Economics
Economic Growth
International Migration
Ethnic Diversity
Applied Econometrics
Recent News
My paper "The Impact of Foreign Aid on Local Development: A Grid Cell Analysis" (joint with Jürgen Bitzer) has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Development Studies. It is available here.
My paper "How the wellbeing function varies with age: the importance of income, health and social relations over the lifecycle" (joint with Jürgen Bitzer and Heinz Welsch) has been accepted for publication in Economica. It is available here.
My paper "Statistical Capacity Matters: The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trade on Development Reflected by Nighttime Light Intensity" (joint with Adalbert Winkler) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of African Economies. It is available here.
Ongoing
Projects
DFG Research Project: "The Localized Geography of Development Assistance: A Disaggregated Grid Cell Analysis".
Contact: erkan.goeren@uni-oldenburg.de