Click here for the 2006 seminars.

Click here for the 2006 seminars.

Departmental Seminars – 2006

Fall 2006

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
Oct 5, 2006	János Kornai	Harvard University, Emeritus	The Great Transformation Of Central Eastern Europe: Success And Disappointment
Oct 9, 2006	János Kornai	Harvard University, Emeritus	System Paradigm
Nov 3, 2006	Koray Çalışkan	Boğaziçi University	What Is In A World Price? The Politics of Cotton Exchange And Production In Egypt, Turkey And The US
Nov 17, 2006	Bilin Neyaptı	Bilkent University	Fiscal Decentralization and Fiscal Discipline
Nov 21, 2006	Annick Laruelle	University of Alicante	Mini Course Part 1: Assessment Of Voting Situations Applications to The European Union
Nov 23, 2006	Annick Laruelle	University of Alicante	Mini Course Part 2: Assessment Of Voting Situations Applications to The European Union
Nov 24, 2006	Gökhan Özertan	Boğaziçi University	Genetically Modified Cotton and Its Possible Contributions to Environmental Sustainability And Rural Development In Turkey (with Philipp Aerni)
Nov 27, 2006	Fatma Doğruel & Suut Doğruel	Marmara University	Knife Edge Growth And Stabilization: Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Mexico and Turkey
Nov 28, 2006	Annick Laruelle	University of Alicante	Mini Course Part 3: Assessment Of Voting Situations Applications to The European Union
Nov 29, 2006	Çağatay Kayı	University of Rochester	Characterizations of Efficient, Fair, and Strategy-Proof Allocation Rules in Queueing Problems (with Eve Ramaekers)
Nov 30, 2006	Annick Laruelle	University of Alicante	Mini Course Part 4: Assessment Of Voting Situations Applications to The European Union
Dec 1, 2006	Jean Lainé	ENSAI	Topics on Representative Democracy
Dec 8, 2006	Görkem Çelik	University of British Columbia	“To Give In or Not To Give In To Bribery? Setting the Optimal Fines for Violations of Rules” (with Serdar Sayan)
Dec 15, 2006	Ebru Voyvoda	Middle East Technical University	A Real-Financial Model for Turkish Economy: Evaluation of the Alternatives to Twin Targeting (with Çağatay Telli and Erinç Yeldan)
Dec 22, 2006	Kamil Yilmaz	Koç University	Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity Spillovers: Identifying Linkages through Product-based Measures (joint with Şule Özler)

Spring 2006

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
Feb 15, 2006	Tanseli Savaşer	Brandeis University	Exchange Rate Response to Macro News: Through the Lens of Microstructure
Feb 17, 2006	Hale Utar	Pennsylvania State University	Import Competition and Employment Dynamics
Feb 24, 2006	İnci Gümüş	UCLA	Debt Denomination and Default Risk in Emerging Markets
Feb 27, 2006	Tolga Çenesizoğlu	UCSD	Risk and Return Reaction of the Stock Market to Public Announcements about Fundamentals: Theory and Evidence
Mar 3, 2006	Kamil Kıvanç Karaman	Stanford University	Intra-state Conflict as a Cause for Undertaxation and Underdevelopment
Mar 10, 2006	Gökçe Uysal	University of Rochester	On the Provision of Public Goods in Dynamic Contracts: Divorced Parents and Their Children
Mar 24, 2006	Serdar Sayan	Bilkent University	Migrant Workers' Remittances and Output Cycles
Apr 7, 2006	Benedikt Herrmann	University of Nottingham	The Elasticity of Trust: Evidence from Kuwait, Oman, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United States
May 12, 2006	Levent Koçkesen	Koç University	Unobservable Contracts as Precommitments