Ozgur Kayalica

(20.09.1969, Karabuk, Turkey)

 POSITIONS HELD:

• 2002-present, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Assistant Professor.

• 2004, Koc University, Visiting lecturer.

• 2000-02, Sakarya University, Adapazari, Turkey, Assistant Professor.

• 1997-99, University of Essex, Colchester, Teaching Assistant.

• 1997, Summer school in Economics, University of Essex, Colchester, Instructor.

• 1995-00, Sakarya University, Adapazari, Turkey, YLS Research Assistant.

• 1993-95, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Research and Teaching Assistant,

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2000; YOK scholarship (1996-00). Ph.D. thesis on “Public policies in the presence of Foreign Direct Investment”. Supervised by Sajal Lahiri.

• M.A. in Economics, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 1996; YOK scholarship (1995-96). MA thesis on “Investment under Uncertainty”.

• B.A. in Economics, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, (1987-92).

• TED Karabuk College, Karabuk, Turkey, (1980-87).

RESEARCH INTEREST

• General: International Economics and Environmental Economics.

• Specific: Foreign direct investment; international trade with environmental externalities; political economy of trade policy; trade policy reforms; regional studies; game theory, finance and growth.

TEACHING

• Turkish Economy (undergraduate course), Economics (undergraduate course); Environmental Economics (graduate course) and Managerial Economics (MBA course), Istanbul Technical University.

• Principles of Microeconomics (undergraduate course) 2004 Summer, Koç University.

• Environmental Economics and Principles of Macroeconomics, State University of New York and Istanbul Technical University joint degree in Economics.

• Given lectures in international economics (intermediate and advanced levels), international political economy (graduate), mathematical economics, and introduction to economics, 2000-01, Sakarya University,

• Economic theory and policy, 1997-99, University of Essex (instructor, undergraduate course),

• Statistics, 1997 summer, University of Essex (instructor, pre-seasonal graduate course),

• Turkish economy, 1993-94, Hacettepe University (instructor, undergraduate course).

PUBLICATIONS (Journal Articles)

1. “European Union Enlargement and Pollution: Why Caution is Necessary”, The World Economy, November 2000, pp. 1409-1422,  (with S. Lahiri).

2. “Finance and Growth in Turkey: Causality Issue”, (with E. Yilmaz), ISE Review, 2002, vol.6, no.24, 33-49.

3. “Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: FDI versus Imports”, EconoQuantum, 2004, 1: 0, 49-63, (with E. Yilmaz).

4. “Strategic environmental policies in the presence of foreign direct investment”, Environmental and Resource Economics 2005, 30: 1-21, (with S. Lahiri).

5. “Intra-Industry Trade and Consumption-generated Pollution Externalities”, (with E. Yilmaz), forthcoming in; Yapi Kredi Economic Review.

6. “Transboundary Pollution from Consumption in a Reciprocal Dumping Model”, (with O. Kayalica), Global Economy Journal, vol. 5: no. 2, article 1.

PUBLICATIONS (Chapters in Books)

7. “Local content requirements and international market share rivalry”, in; New developments in international trade: theoretical and empirical investigation, eds. Seiichi Katayama and Kaz Miyagiwa, The Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan, 2003, (with S.Lahiri).

8. Strategic environmental policies with foreign direct investment: Implications of European Enlargement”, in; Trade and the Environment: Theory and Policy in the Context of EU Enlargement and Economic Transition, eds. J. W. Maxwell, and R. Reuveny. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., UK (with S. Lahiri), July 2005.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

9. “SCI ve SSCI’de ki Makale Sayilari Uzerine bir Not” (A Note On the Number of Publications in SCI and SSCI-type Journals), in Turkish (with M.Z. Ak), Bilgi 5, 2002/1.

10. “Turkiye’deki Universitelerin Uluslararası Yayin Performanslari” (with M.Z. Ak), Nasil bir Universite, ed. Coskun C. Aktan, Degisim Yayinlari, 2004.

11. “Efficiency of Institutional Reforms and Corruption”, in Prof.Dr.Zeyyat Hatipoglu’na Armagan, ed. Cudi T. Gursoy, Dogus University, Istanbul (with R. E. Ramirez).

12. “Turkiye’de 1980 Sonrası Doviz Kuru Politikalari”, in Turkish (with E.Yilmaz), forthcoming in; “Turkiye Ekonomisi: Sektorel ve Yapısal Analizler”, eds. S.Simsek ve S. Inancli.

13. “Iktisat ve Cevre”, (Economics and the Environment) in Turkish,  forthcoming; Iktisat’ın Dama Taşları IV: Ekoller - Kavramlar – Iz Birakanlar, IU Iktisat Fakultesi Mezunlar Cemiyeti Iktisat Dergisi, Istanbul.

PAPERS SUBMITTED

1. “Domestic lobbying and Foreign Direct Investment: The role of Policy Instruments”, also appearing in COE-RES (Center of Excellence - Research on Economic Systems) Discussion Papers No: 23, 2004, Hitotsubashi University, (with S. Lahiri).

2. Finance-Growth Nexus”, (with E. Yilmaz), mimeo, Istanbul Technical University.

3. Hierarchical Regulatory Control on a Bank’s Capital Rate”, (with E. Yilmaz), mimeo, Istanbul Technical University.

4. “Environmental Policies and Mergers”, (with R. E. Ramirez),

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