Sumru G. Altu
ğ

Professor

College of Administrative Sciences & Economics
Koç University
Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sarıyer 34450
Istanbul, Turkey

saltug@ku.edu.tr
Phone: +90 212 338 1673

Facsimile: +90 212 338 1653

  New! Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies

by Sumru Altuğ and Pamela Labadie

  Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium

by Sumru Altuğ (Editor), Jagjit S. Chadha (Editor) and Charles Nolan (Editor)

Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis - Click to enlarge!
  The Turkish Economy: The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform

Sumru Altuğ (Editor) and  Alpay Filiztekin (Editor)

The Turkish Economy - Click to enlarge!

Recent Professional Activities

          Associate Editor, e-conomics, The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, published by the  Kiel Institute, 2007-

         Danisma Kurulu, T.C. Dis Ticaret Mustesarligi yayini Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Dış Ticaret Politikaları, (Advisory Board,    Ministry of Foreign Trade publication), 2006 --

          Advisory Board, METU Studies in Development, published by Middle East Technical University

International Advisory Board, International Journal of Business, Management, and Economics

Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum (ERF), Cairo, Egypt, March 2004 -

Member, European Area Business Cycles Network (EACBN)

Advisory Board Member, Center for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis, University of St. Andrew's, U.K., October 2003 --

Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), August 1997-

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Recent Publications and Working Papers

"The Role of Lender Behavior in International Project Finance,'' (2002), with Şule Özler and Murat Usman,  Economic Theory 3, 571-598.

"Scale Effects, Time-varying Markups, and the Cyclical Behavior of Primal and Dual Productivity,'' (2002), with Alpay Filiztekin, Applied Economics  34(13), 1687-1702

"Investment Dynamics," (2003), with Fanny S. Demers and Michel Demers, In Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium, S. Altuğ, J. Chadha and C. Nolan (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Ch. 2.

"Productivity and Growth, 1923-2003," (2006), with Alpay Filiztekin, In The Turkish Economy: The Real Economy, Corporate Governance and Reform, Sumru Altuğ and Alpay Filiztekin, (eds.) S Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Economics, Routledge Press, Ch. 1.

"Türkiyede Bölgesel Farklılıklar ve Yatırımların Seyri: Yoksul ve Zengin Bölgeler Arasındaki Fark Azalmakta mı?" (2006) Uğur Namık Küçük ile yazılmış. Ekonomik Büyümenin Dinamikleri ve İstihdam,  Ankara: Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu Yayınları.

Bank Lending with Imperfect Competition and Spillover Effects,(2006), with Murat Usman, B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics Vol, 6, Issue 1, July

"Türkiyede Büyüme, Yapısal Dönüşüm ve Dış Ekonomik Gelişmeler" (2006). Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Dış Ticaret Politikaları 1 (1) T.C. Başbakanlık Dış Ticaret Müsteşarlığı

          "Political Risk and Irreversible Investment," (2007) with Fanny S. Demers and Michel Demers,

           CES-ifo Economic Studies 53(3), pp. 430-465.

 

           "Learning about Tax Policy," (2007), with Fanny S. Demers and Michel Demers, Finance 

           Letters 5(1), 1-11. 

 

           "The Sources of Long-term Economic Growth for Turkey, 1880-2005," (2008) with Alpay Filiztekin

            and Şevket Pamuk, European Review of Economic History 12(3), 393-430.

 

            "The Investment Tax Credit and Irreversible Investment," (2009), with Fanny S. Demers and Michel Demers,

            Journal of Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

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Recent Presentations and Conferences

"Bank Lending and Growth," European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 18, 2005

"Bank Lending and Growth," Cambridge University, May 30, 2005

Conference on European Economic Integration: Financial Development, Integration, and Stability in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe, 14-15 November 2005, Vienna - Discussion

Conference on Productivity and the Business Cycle: Evidence for Europe and the US (EABCN), Bank of Finland , 28-29 November 2005, Helsinki - Discussant

Murat Sertel Lecture: ``Complete and Incomplete Market Models in Macroeconomics
and Finance,'' III. Murat Sertel Studentfest, Bo
ğaziçi University, December 23, 2005.

Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), Conference on Estimation and Empirical Validation of Structural Models for BusinessCycle Analysis, Zurich, August 29-30, 2006 - Discussant

"Sources of Long-term Economic Growth for Turkey, 1880-2005," with Alpay Filiztekin and Şevket Pamuk, European Growth and Integration since the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Second Conference on 'Unifying the European Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European Development' , October 11-13, 2006, Lund, Sweden

"Complete and Incomplete Market Models", Cardiff Business School, October 25, 2006

"Complete and Incomplete Market Models", University of St. Andrews, October 26, 2006

Bölgesel Kalkınma Politikalarında Dönüşüm ve Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi, Atatürk Üniversitesi, Erzurum, Turkey, December 8, 2006

Advances in Theory-based Estimation: Conference in Honor of Lars Hansen and Ken Singleton, sponsored by the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon University, September 28-29, 2007

Türkiye'de Büyüme ve Demokratik Sermaye,'' Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Nazilli IIBF ve Avrupa Araştırmalar Merkezi, Güncel Ekonomik Soru(n)lar Kongresi, 26-28 Ekim, 2007

European Monetary Forum, Cardiff Business School, November 17-18, 2007

Turkey, USA and the European Union towards 2010: Emerging Turkish political and economic issues in the XX1 century, Rome, November 19, 2007

AB ile Müzakere Sürecinde Türkiye’de Bölgesel Farklılıklar ve Çözüm Arayışları ,A.Ü. Avrupa Toplulukları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi, 25 Aralık 2007

Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), Conference on Business Cycle Developments, Financial Fragility, Housing and Commodity Prices, Barcelona, November 21-23, 2008 - Discussant 

Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu "Küresel Bunalım ve Türkiye Ekonomisi", Ankara, 27-28 Aralık, 2008 = Tartışmacı

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                                                               Recent Events in Turkey

Koç-Sabanci Conference in Macro Policy, August 18-19, 2003, Istanbul

ICE-TEA International Conference on Economics, Turkish Economic Association September 11-13, 2006, Ankara, Turkey

International Economic Association 15. World Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008

 


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