The Macroeconomics Study Group meets every Tuesday 12:40 p.m. to 13:30 p.m. at A228. Presenting graduate students introduce their own research and receive feedback. Papers are emailed to the group in advance.
All attendees are expected to contribute.
| Date | Presenter | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2013 | Gülserim Özcan (Bilkent University) | “On the Importance of Prior Selection: Do BVARs Outperform DSGE model's Out-of-Sample Forecasts” (with Yıldız Akkaya, Burak Eroğlu) |
| October 30, 2013 | Gökçe Karasoy (Bilkent University) | "Stock price responses to monetary policy shocks" |
| November 5, 2013 | Hamide Karahan Turan (Bilkent University) | “Time to Build and Cyclical Fluctuations with Non-convexities" |
| November 12, 2013 | Burak Alparslan Eroglu (Bilkent University) | “Cointegration with Bounded Time Series" (with Mirza Trokic) |
| November 14, 2013 | Seda Köymen (Bilkent University) | “The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Heterogeneous Labor Market" |
| November 14, 2013 | Zeynep Kantur (Bilkent University) | "A New Keynesian Model with Unemployment: The Effect of On-the-job (with Kerim Keskin)Search" |
| February 10, 2014 | Banu Demir Pakel (Bilkent University) | “Grin and Bear It: Producer-Financed Exports from an Emerging Market” |
| February 19, 2014 | Bilin Neyaptı (Bilkent University) | "Optimal Fiscal Decentralization" (with Giray Aslım) |
| March 05, 2014 | Refet Gürkaynak (Bilkent University) | "Identifying Effects of Partially-Measured News Surprises" (with Burçin Kısacıkoğlu and Jonathan Wright) |
| March 19, 2014 | Ahmet Usta (Bilkent University) | "External Financial Shocks & Turkish Economic Performance" |
| April 02, 2014 | Anıl Taş (Bilkent University) | “Measuring the Output Gap” |
| May 27, 2014 | Yıldız Akkaya and Gülserim Özcan | ''On The Importance of Prior Selection: Do The BVARs Outperform the DSGE Models’ Out-of-Sample Forecasts?'' |