Mehtap Hisarciklilar

April 2005

Address: ITU Faculty of Management
Department of Management Engineering
34367 Macka Istanbul

Phone: 0 212 2931300 - 2007
Fax: 0 212 2407260
e-mail: hisarciklilar&64;itu.edu.tr
Date of Birth: 10.06.1974

Education History

• 1999-2004 University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  Ph.D. in Economics
  Dissertation title: "Gender based discrimination in the Turkish labour market"
  Supervisors: Prof. Andrew McKay, Dr. Peter Wright
  
1996-1999 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
MA in Economics

• 1992-1996 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
  BSc. in Management Engineering
  Employment Record
  
• 2004 - Lecturer,
  Quantitative Methods Division, Department of Management Engineering, ITU
  Courses Thought:
  Statistics I, Econometrics, Management Statistics, Cross Section and Panel Data
  Econometrics
  
• 1997- 2004 Research Assistant,
  Quantitative Methods Division, Department of Management Engineering, ITU
  
• 2003 Research associate in a project on Chronic Poverty,
  University of Nottingham
  
• 2001-2002 Basic IT skills tutor, University of Nottingham
  
• 1999-2001 Teaching Assistant, A-level Microeconomics
  University of Nottingham
  
• 2000 Research associate (for 2 months)
  University of Nottingham
  

Research Interests:

• General: Labour Economics, International Economics, Development Economics
• Specific: Gender, Foreign Direct Investment, Poverty

Academic Studies

Conference Presentations

• "A censored regression model for the educational attainment of boys and girls in Turkey." ERC/METU International Conference in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. 11-14 October 2002.
• "Differences in educational attainment of boys and girls in Turkey." PhD Conference in Business and Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth. 7-9 November 2001.
• "A new definition for money supply: Currency equivalent." (with B. Ulengin). National Econometrics and Statistics Symposium, Bursa, Turkey. May 1997

Working Papers

• "Foreign Direct Investment and Development in MENA Countries." (with A. Divarc., M.O. Kayal.ca, and S.S. Kayam), Discussion Papers in ITU Management Engineering, April 2005.
• "How many chronically poor people are there in the world? Some preliminary estimates." (with A. McKay, B. Baulch, and D. Lawson). Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper, No: 45.
• "Determinants of tourist arrivals in Turkey: Panel data approach." (with B. Ulengin). Discussion Papers in ITU Management Engineering, September 1997.
• Current Research Interests and Papers Under Review: "A censored regression model for the educational attainment of boys and girls in Turkey." (With A. McKay and P. Wright)
• "Family background characteristics and the school enrolment of boys and girls in Turkey". (with A. McKay and P. Wright)
• "Labour force participation and wage discrimination in the Turkish Labour Market" (with A. McKay and P. Wright)
• "Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Development Path for Turkey" (with A. Divarc., M.O. Kayal.ca, and S.S. Kayam).
• "Modelling Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey: Comparison of Gravity and Economic Potential Models" (with G. Ibili, M.O. Kayal.ca, and S.S. Kayam).
• "Foreign Direct Investment and Labour Relationship" (with E. Baykal, M.O. Kayal.ca, and S.S. Kayam).
• "Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in MEDA Countries" (with M.O. Kayal.ca, S.S. Kayam, and L. Ozkale).
• "Foreign Direct Investment and Development in MENA Countries" (with A. Divarc., M.O. Kayal.ca, and S.S. Kayam).

Accepted to be presented in Middle East and North African Economies: Past Perspectives and Future Challenges Conference, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. July 2005.

Projects:

• TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institution) project: National Career Development Programme for Young Researchers: "Turkish Direct Investment Abroad, Motives and Mode of Entry: A Micro Data Analysis" (with S.S. Kayam, and M.O. Kayal.ca). Project length: 41 months.
• Jean Monnet Project: "Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Mediterranean Countries" (with L. Ozkale, M.O. Kayal.ca and S.S. Kayam). This work is a part of a Jean Monnet Project titled "Development of MEDA Countries after the Barcelona Process" and is directed by Prof. E. Prausello.

Grants and Awards

• PhD scholarship, Turkish Higher Education Council, 1999-2003
• Grant covering two thirds of the tuition fee for PhD education, University of Nottingham, 2000-2003
• Bursary to participate in ERC/METU Conference in Economics, University of Nottingham, 2002
• Bursary to participate in PhD Conference in Business and Economics, University of Western Australia and University of Nottingham, 2001.