Prof. Dr. Kamil Yılmaz Koç Üniversitesi Ekonomi Bölümü öğretim üyesi ve Bilim Akademisi üyesidir.
Lisans derecesini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Ekonomi Bölümü’nden, yüksek lisans ve doktora derecelerini Maryland Üniversitesi Ekonomi Bölümü’nden aldı. Dünya Bankası Araştırma Bölümü’nde ekonomist olarak çalıştıktan sonra 1994’te Türkiye’ye döndü ve Koç Üniversitesi’nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalışmaya başladı. Pennsylvania Üniversitesi Ekonomi Bölümü’nde ziyaretçi öğretim üyesi olarak bulundu.
Makroekonomi, finansal ekonometri, uluslararası ticaret ve Türkiye ekonomisi üzerine önde gelen uluslararası dergilerde yayınlanmış çok sayıda makalesi, kitap bölümleri ve iki kitabı bulunmaktadır. Bilimsel çalışmalarıyla Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Sosyal Bilimler Teşvik Ödülü, TÜBİTAK Yurtdışı Araştırma Bursu ve TÜBİTAK Ulusal Lider Araştırmacılar Programı proje desteğine layık görüldü. Çok sayıda atıf alan üç makalesi Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, ve International Journal of Forecasting dergilerinin yayın kurulları tarafından en iyi makale ödüllerine layık görüldü.
Koç Üniversitesi’nde, TÜSİAD ile ortaklaşa kurulan Ekonomik Araştırma Forumu Direktörü ve Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Direktör Yardımcısı olarak görev yaptı. Dünya Bankası, IMF, Endonezya Merkez Bankası, Tayland Merkez Bankası, Malezya SEACEN Merkezi ve Glasgow Üniversitesi Adam Smith İşletme Okulu’nda profesyonel ekonomistlere ders verdi. Ekonomik ve finansal konularda özel sektör şirketlerine danışmanlık yapmakta, yönetim kurulu üyeliği görevlerinde bulunmaktadır.
Kamil Yilmaz is a Professor of Economics at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is a member of the Science Academy, Turkey.
He holds an MA and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA in Economics from Boğaziçi University. He worked as an Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank before joining Koç University in 1994. He visited the Department of Economics of the University of Pennsylvania in the 2003-2004 and 2010-2011 academic years.
He has published numerous articles in leading international academic journals and edited books, as well as two books on macroeconomics, financial econometrics, international trade, and the Turkish economy. He received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Encouragement Award in the Social Sciences, the TUBITAK Overseas Research Scholarship, and the TUBITAK Leading National Researchers Grant. He is the recipient of the best paper awards for his highly-cited articles published in the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, and International Journal of Forecasting.
At Koç University, he served as the Director of Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum and the Associate Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities. He has lectured to professional economists at the IMF, World Bank, Bank of Indonesia, Bank of Thailand, SEACEN Centre in Malaysia, and Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, and served as a consultant and member of the board of directors in the private sector.
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1992
M.A., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1990
B.S. Economics, Bogazici University, 1987
Professor of Economics, Koç University, October 2010 to present
Associate Director, Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Koç University, September 2015 to August 2018.
Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, September 2010 – August 2011
Director, TUSIAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum, July 2007 – July 2009
Associate Professor of Economics, Koç University, October 2003 – September 2010
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, September 2003 – August 2004
Assistant Professor of Economics, Koç University, September 1994 – September 2003
Economist, Policy Research Department, The World Bank, August 1992 – August 1994
Paper reprinted in the 50th Jubilee Issue of Journal of Econometrics, March 2023, containing five papers selected from the journal’s first fifty years (“On the Network Topology of Variance Decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms," Journal of Econometrics, 182, 119-134, 2014).
Richard Stone Prize in Applied Econometrics, April 2020 (the best paper published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018-2019.)
Outstanding Faculty Award, CASE, Koç University, December 2016.
Elected Member, Science Academy, Turkey, November 2016 – present
Dennis J. Aigner Award for Applied Econometrics, Honorable Mention, Journal of Econometrics (second best paper in 2013-14), January 2016
Best Paper Award 2012-2013, International Journal of Forecasting, June 2015
Senior Scholar, Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University, 2010 – present
Research Fellow, Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum, 2010 – present
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Research Abroad Scholarship, 2010-11
Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey, 2006 – present
Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), Encouragement Award in the Social Sciences & Humanities, 2003
Honorable Mention Award, Istanbul Stock Exchange Best Finance Paper Competition, V. METU International Conference in Economics, 2001