Ayþe Yasemin Yalta, Ph.D.

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Economic Policy

 

CONTACT : 

Office: 

Phone : 297 86 50 – ext 34

Email:   yyalta@hacettepe.edu.tr

URL:

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: 

Undergraduate : Middle East Technical University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, 1999

Graduate/Masters’ Degree : Fordham University, Department of Economics, 2002

Graduate/ PH.D: Fordham University, Department of Economics, 2007

Foreign Languages:  English

ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST: 
  • Macroeconomics
  • International Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Applied Econometrics

CURRENT TEACHING ASSIGNMENT / COURSES THOUGHT:
  • Business Statistics
  • Managerial Economics
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Microeconomic Theory
  • Introduction to Economics 

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE: 
  • 2007-current: Instructor, Department of Economics, Hacettepe University
  • 2007 Summer-Fall: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Economics, Bilkent University
  • 2007 Fall: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Economics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology
  • 2004-2007 Instructor, Department of Economics, Fordham University, New York, USA
  • 2002-2004 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Fordham University, New York, USA
  • 2004 Intern, United Nations Develpment Programme, New York, USA

 

ACADEMÝC RESEARCH/ PUBLICATIONS : 

 

Conferences:

1) “An Analysis of Capital Flight in Turkey,” Eastern Economic Association Annual

Conference, New York, February 24, 2007

 

2)  “An Analysis of Capital Flight, Financial Liberalization and Investment: The Case

of Turkey”, Middle East Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 5–7, 2007

 

3) “Capital Flight, Financial Liberalization and Economic Performance”, Eastern Economic

Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 24, 2006

 

4) “Effects of Capital Flows on Macroeconomic Variables in Turkey”, Eastern Economic

Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., February 20, 2004

 

Journals: 

"GRETL 1.6.0 and Its Numerical Accuracy," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22 (4), 849-54, 2007 (with A.T. Yalta)

AWARDS:
  • The Fulbright Grant for graduate study in the United States, 2001-2002
  • Fordham University Presidental Fellowship, 2002-2004

MEMBERSHÝPS:

American Economic Association

Eastern Economic Association

Middle East Economic Association