Publications

• Estimation of Dynastic Life-cycle Discrete Choice Models with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan,  Quantitative Economics, 9(3), 1195–1241 (2018).

• Intergenerational Mobility and the Effects of Parental Education, Time Investment, and Income on Children’s Educational Attainment with George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 100(3), 281-295 (2018).

• Addressing Endogeneity in the Casual Relationship between Sustainability and Financial Performance with Meltem Denizel and Damla Durak-Usar, International Journal of Production Economics 210, 56-71 (2019) .

• Corporate Sustainability Interactions: A Game Theoretical Approach to Sustainability Decisions with Meltem Denizel and Damla Durak-Usar, International Journal of Production Economics, 218, 196-211 (2019) .

• The asymmetric impact of oil prices, interest rates and oil price uncertainty on unemployment: New evidence from the US with Baris Kocaarslan and Ugur Soytas, (2019) (Accepted for publication at the Energy Economics)

• Sustainable Development: From Millennium 2015 to Sustainable Development Goals 2030 with Ergul Haliscelik, Sustainable Development 2019, 1-28 (2019).

• Does Being International Make Companies More Sustainable? Evidence based on Corporate Sustainability Indices, with Asya Atik, Central Bank Review, 18(2) December, 61–68 (2018).

• Role of Strategic Interactions in Corporate Sustainability Decisions: An Empirical Investigation with Damla Durak-Usar, Journal of Turkish Economic Association 6(1), 17–46 (2017).

• A New Estimation Technique for Sovereign Default Risk with Engin Volkan, Central Bank Review, 16(4) December, 119–125 (2016). (supported by TUBITAK 1001 Grant No: 113K754).

Working Papers (R&R and under review)

• What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital? with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan, (2016) (revision requested from the Journal of Political Economy) (Supplementary Appendix).

• Estimation of Static Corporate Sustainability Interactions with Meltem Denizel and Damla Durak-Usar, (2018) (revision requested from the International Journal of Production Research).

• Intergenerational Income Mobility and Income Taxation, with Musab Kurnaz (2019) (Under Review)

• What is the source of the intergenerational correlation in earnings? with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan, St. Louis FED Working Paper 2015-019A, (2018) (Under Review)

• Optimistic Entrepreneurs and Strategic Change in High-Tech New Ventures: An Examination Based On the Behavioral Theory of the Firm with Isil Yavuz and Dev Dutta (2019) (Under Review)

Articles in Refereed Proceedings

• Optimistic Entrepreneurs and New Product Introductions in High Technology Industries with R. Isil Yavuz and Dev K. Dutta,  Academy of Management Proceedings Vol. 2018, No.1 (2018).

• Optimistic Entrepreneurs and New Product Introductions in High-tech New Ventures: An Examination Based on the Behavioural Theory of the Firm with R. Isil Yavuz and Dev K. Dutta, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 35(9), Article 8 (2015).

Articles in National Refereed Journals and other Int. Journals

• Self-Reported Health Status: A Microeconometric Analysis for Turkey with Gulsah Sedefoglu, Quantitative Methods in Economics, 19(4), 440-451 (2018)

• Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization under Inflation Targeting through the Lens of New Zealand’s Experience with Ayse Kabukcuoglu and Enrique Martinez-Garcia, Current Approaches in Education and Economics, SRA Academic Publishing, USA., (2017). (Dallas FED Globalization Institute Working Paper No 308)

• Can Heterogeneity in Reporting Behaviour Explain the Gender Gap in Self-Assessed Health Status?, Economics Discussion Papers, No 2018-25, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. (2018) .

• Short-term Price Prediction in Electricity Market Using Nonlinear Excess Demand Specification with H. Murat Ertugrul, and Talat Ulussever, (2018) (Under Review)

• Effect of Time Investment in Children on the Labor Market Gender Gap in Earnings, Hacettepe University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal, 35(2), 121-151 (2017). (supported by TUBITAK 3501 Grant No: 113K748)

• Modelling Price Dynamics in Turkish Electricity Market: Lessons from GARCH Estimates with H. Murat Ertugrul, and Talat Ulussever, Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal, 39(2), 621-638 (2017).

• Corporate Sustainability Investments and Financial Performance Relationship in Turkey with Meltem Denizel, Damla Durak-Usar and Iris Ersoy, Journal of Management and Economics Research, 15(2), 140-162 (2017) (supported by TUBITAK 1001 Grant No: 113K598)

• Examining Health Status of Females in Urban and Rural Areas in Turkey: A Bayesian Approach with Gulsah Sedefoglu, Current Debates in Economics & Econometrics, IJOPEC Publishing, USA.,  (2017).

• A Semi-Reduced Form Characterization of Sovereign Default Risk Models with Engin Volkan, Finans Politik ve Ekonomik Yorumlar Dergisi, 621(12) November, 9–18, (2016). (supported by TUBITAK 1001 Grant No: 113K754)

• Early Childhood Human Capital Investment in Children, Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Journal, 38(1), 295-317 (2016).

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Research in Progress

• Family structure and Intergenerational Income Mobility, with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan, 2016.
• The Complementarity and Substitution in Early and Late Investment in Children, 2017.
• Parental Time and Divorce Law, with George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan and Juan Pantano, 2016.
• Intergenerational Persistence of Labor Market Earnings versus Wealth: The Role of Human Capital Transmission and Entrepreneurial Opportunity, with George-Levi Gayle, Limor Golan, and Andres Hincapie, 2017
• Public pre-school provision and mothers’ labor supply: Case of Turkey, with Gonul Sengul, 2017.
• Optimal Taxation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital, with Musab Kurnaz, 2018.
• Early Childhood Investment and Income Taxation, with Musab Kurnaz, 2018.
• CCP Estimator in a Dynastic Setting, (2019).

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Essays on Life Cycle Dynastic Discrete Choice Models, Printed PhD Thesis, 2011.

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International Book Chapters

1. “Exploring the Nexus between Inflation and Globalization under Inflation Targeting through the Lens of New Zealand’s Experience”, Current Approaches in Education and Economics, SRA Academic Publishing, USA., Kabukcuoglu, A., Martinez-Garcia, E., and Soytas, M.A. (2017).
2. “Examining Health Status of Females in Urban and Rural Areas in Turkey: A Bayesian Approach”, Current Debates in Economics & Econometrics, IJOPEC Publishing, USA., Sedefoglu G., and Soytas, M.A. (2017).

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Grants and Contracts

1. Principal Investigator, Turkish Science Foundation 3501 National Young Researchers Career Development Program (CAREER) Grant, Project Title: “Time investment to the children: A possible explanation for the gender gap in the labor market, policy recommendations.”, Duration: March 2014 – May 2016, Amount: ~31,000 EUR.
2. Co-Investigator, Turkish Science Foundation 1001, The Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects Grant, Project Title: “A new estimation technique for sovereign default risk.”, with E. Volkan, Duration: March 2014 – May 2016, Amount: ~46,000 EUR.
3. Co-Investigator, Turkish Science Foundation 1001, The Support Program for Scientific and Technological Research Projects Grant, Project Title: “Sustainability in business: Constructing a merged dataset and economic theory based approach for modelling.”, with M. Denizel, Duration: March 2014 – May 2016, Amount: ~75,000 EUR.

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