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Publications (in peer-reviewed Journals):

1. Inflation Dynamics of Turkey: A Structural Estimation (with Ege Yazgan), Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, March 2005, Vol.9, No.1.  replication files (.zip)
    

2. Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Evidence from Turkey and Israel (with Ege Yazgan), Applied Financial Economics, January 2007, 17(1): 1-8.  replication files (.zip)
    

3. Inflation Targeting Supported by Managed Exchange Rate, Applied Economics, September 2007, 39(16): 2011-2026. replication files (.zip)
    

4. Twin Crises in Turkey: A Comparison of Currency Crisis Models, The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 5(1): 107-124.
    

5. An Analysis of Regime Shifts in the Turkish Economy, (with Koray Akay), Economic Modelling, 2008, 25(5): 885-898.
    

6. The Effects of Credit and Debit Cards on the Currency Demand, (with Ege Yazgan), forthcoming in Applied Economics.
    

7. Money Shocks and Output: A Contemporary Money Demand Approach, forthcoming in The Empirical Economics Letters.
    

8. The Effects of Currency Crises on the Long-Run Growth, forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.
    

9. The Effects of Currency Crises On the Business Cycles: An Alternative Regime-Shifting Approach, forthcoming in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.
   
    

Book Chapters

1. Why are Trade Agreements Mostly Regional? A Welfare Analysis by Transportation Costs, (with Demet Ulker), forthcoming in Paul E. Weston and Robert N. Townsend ed. Welfare Economics, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Working Papers:

1. Is there a Role for Trade Costs in Explaining the Central Bank Behavior? submitted to International Journal of Central Banking
    
2. Understanding Interstate Trade Patterns submitted to
   Economic Inquiry
    
3. How Important is Technology? A Counterfactual Analysis submitted to Journal of International Economics.
    
4. Inflation, Finance and Growth: A Trilateral Analysis
   (with Peter L. Rousseau) revised and resubmitted to
   Journal of Financial Stability
    
5. Distribution of Consumption, Production and Trade within the U.S. submitted to Southern Economic Journal
    
6. Okun's Convergence within the U.S. (with Ege Yazgan) submitted to Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences
    
7. Productivity Cycles in Public and Private Manufacturing Sectors: Evidence from Turkey submitted to Eastern European Economics
    
8. Inflation Targeting and Convergence Within Turkey submitted to Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
    
9. What is the Optimal Rate of Inflation for Long-Run Growth?
   A Cross-Country Analysis submitted to International Economic Journal
    
10. The IS Puzzle and Relative Risk Aversion in Turkey (with Ege Yazgan) submitted to Economics Bulletin
     
11. Is the Armington Elasticity Really Constant across Importers?
     
12. A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates (with Mario J. Crucini)

Conferences:

1. Monetary Policy Rules in Practice: Evidence from Turkey and Israel, presented in MENA Economies, Past Perspectives and Future Challenges, Brussels, June 2-4, 2005. 
    

2. A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates, presented in Midwest Economics Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, March 14-16, 2008.
    

3. Is there a Role for Trade Costs in Explaining the Central Bank Behavior?, presented in Midwest Economics Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, March 14-16, 2008.
    

4. Understanding Interstate Trade Patterns, presented in
   Southern Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Arlington,
   VA-Washington, DC, March 26-30, 2008.
    

5. How Important is Technology? A Counterfactual Analysis, presented in Southern Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA-Washington, DC, March 26-30, 2008.
    

6. Is there a Role for Trade Costs in Explaining the Central Bank Behavior?, presented in Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 16th Annual Symposium, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, California, April 3-4, 2008.
    

7. Understanding Interstate Trade Patterns, presented in
   Spring 2008 Midwest International Economics Meetings, Champaign-Urbana, IL, May 2-4, 2008.
    

8. Is the Armington Elasticity Really Constant across Importers?
   (will be) presented in Fall 2008 Midwest International Economics Meetings, Ohio State University, OH, October 3-5, 2008.
    

9. Is there a Role for Trade Costs in Explaining the Central Bank Behavior?, (will be) presented in Southern Economics Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, November 20-23, 2008.