CURRICULUM VITAE: BILIN NEYAPTI
Associate Professor
Bilkent University, Department of Economics
06800, Bilkent, Ankara, TURKEY
Tel: (0 312) 290 2030 e-mail: [email protected]
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2007 - present:
2007:
2003 (Jan.):
2002 (summer):
1997 – 2006:
1995 - 1997:
1989- 1995:
Associate Professor, Bilkent University, Department of Economics.
Visiting Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC.
Visiting Scholar, The World Bank, Washington DC.
Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Department of Economics.
External Consultant, OECD Development Centre, Paris.
Consultant, The World Bank, Washington DC.
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Asso. Prof. (2000):
Dr. (Ph.D) (1997):
M.A.:
B.S. :
Awarded by the Turkish Higher Education Committee.
University of Maryland, Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland.
University of Maryland, Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland.
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
BOOK:
Macroeconomic Institutions and Development, Edward Elgar Publ., 2010.
PUBLICATIONS IN SSCI JOURNALS:
 “Bank Regulation and Supervision and Its Welfare Implications”, Economic
Modelling, forthcoming.
 “Fiscal Decentralization and Deficits: International Evidence”, European Journal of Political
Economy, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2010, pp. 155-166.
 “Legal Quality of Bank Regulation and Supervision and Its Determinants: a mixed sample”,
with N. Dincer, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol, 26: 4, October 2008. pp. 607-622.
 “The Roles of Fiscal and Financial Discipline on Budgetary Outcomes: The case of Europe",
with s. Ozgur, Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International,
2007-04, vol. 25(2), pp. 146-155.
 “Has Customs Union Agreement Really Benefited Turkey’s Trade?”, with F. Taskin and M.
Ungor, Applied Economics, Vol 39: 16, September 2007, pp. 2121-2132.
 “Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Turkish Evidence from High Frequency Data”, with
A.M. Alper, Eastern European Economics, Vol. 44, No.5, Sept-Oct. 2006, pp.91-100.
 “ Revenue Decentralization and Income Distribution”, Economics Letters, September 2006,
No. 92:3, pp. 409-416.
 “Determinants of Workers Remittances: The Case of Turkey”, with O. T. Aydas and K. MetinOzcan. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, May2005, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p53, 17p.
 "Measuring the Quality Of Bank Regulation And Supervision, with an Application to Transition
Economies", with Nergiz Dincer, Economic Inquiry 43, January 2005: 79-99.
 “Fiscal Decentralization, Central Bank Independence and Inflation: A Panel Investigation”
Economics Letters 82, 2004: 227-30.
 “Trends in Workers Remittances: A World-Wide Overview”, Emerging Markets Finance and
Trade, 40: 83-90, March-April 2004.
 “Budget Deficits and Inflation: the Roles of Central Bank Independence and Financial Market
Development”, Contemporary Economic Policy 21, October 2003, pp. 458-475. (listed in the
SSRN’s top-ten downloaded papers).
 " Central Bank Reform, Liberalization and Inflation in Transition Economies An International
Perspective", with A. Cukierman and G. Miller, Journal of Monetary Economics 49, March 2002,
237-264. (listed in the SSRN’s top-ten downloaded papers).
 " Turkey's Full Membership to the European Union: An Analysis in View of Business Cycles",
with H. Berument and K. Malatyali. Russian and East Euroepan Finance and Trade, 37, no.4,
pp 50-60, July-August 2001.
 " Central Bank Independence and Economic Performance in Eastern Europe", Economic
Systems 25, December 2001, 381-399.
 " Measuring the Indepedence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes", with A.
Cukierman and S. Webb, World Bank Economic Review, September 1992, pp. 353-397
(Reprinted by The Center for International Studies, 1995).
WORKING PAPERS:
 Institutions and Business Cyles (http://ideas.repec.org/p/koc/wpaper/1109.html )
 Does Fiscal Decentralization Promote Fiscal Discipline?
( http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~economics/papers/11-01_DP_BilinNeyapti.pdf )
 Performance of monetary institutions: comparative evidence
( http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~economics/papers/09-02%20DP_BilinNeyapti.pdf )
ARTICLES IN Non-SSCI REFEREED JOURNALS:
 Fiscal Decentralization and Socio-Economic Outcomes in Turkey: An Empirical Investigation”,
METU Studies in Development, 32:2 (December), 2005.
 “Dynamics of Inflation and Inflation Inertia in Turkey, with K. Metin-Özcan and H. Berument”,
Journal of Economic Cooperation 25, 3 (2004), pp. 63-86.
 "Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in Turkey", with Neslihan Kaya, Yapi Kredi Economic
Review, December 2001.
 "1999 Bankalar Kanunu'nun Bir Değerlendirmesi" (An ssessment of the 1999 Baking Law of
the Turkish Republic), with Nergiz Dincer, İşletme ve Finans, April 2000, pp. 40-47.
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"How Independent is the Central Bank of the Turkish Republic? ", wth Hakan Berument,
İşletme ve Finans, 1999 pp. 11-18.
 "Can Net Domestic Assets Be A Policy Target ? The Case of Turkey ", Yapi Kredi Economic
Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 25-34, December 1998.
BOOKS:
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Macroeconomic Institutions and Development, Edward Elgar, July 2010.
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Conflict and Growth in Africa, Volume 2: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 116
pages, Development Centre Studies, OECD Development Centre, 1999. (with Jeni
Klugman and Frances Steward)
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Conflict and Growth in Africa, Volume 3: Southern Africa, 188 pages,
Development Centre Studies, OECD Development Centre, 1999. (withAndrew Goudie)
PH. D. THESIS:
"Budget Deficits and Inflation: An analysis in view of the roles of central bank
independence and financial market development". Thesis Advisor: Mancur Olson.
Book Chapters:
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“Gümrük BirliğininTürkiye’nin Bolgesel Ticaretine Etkileri, in Gümrük Birliği ve
Türkiye Sanayisi Üzerine Etkileri (with F. Taskin and M. Ungor), Ali Bilge and Hasan
Ersel, ed.s, January 2007, TEPAV Yayınları, TOBB-ETU, Ankara.
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“Equalization via Fiscal Decentralization”, (2005), in Fiscal Decentralization: A
New Approach to Alleviate Poverty and Regional Disparities, by F.Emil B.Kerimoglu, B.
Neyapti, and H.Yilmaz, UNDP, Tesev Publications.
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“Turkish Economy: A Retrospective Assessment and Recent Developments”
(2005) in New Emerging Economies and Their Culture, J. Prasnikar and A. Cirman (ed.s),
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York. (also in Sloven: “Turksko Gospodarstvo:
Retrospectivna Ocena in Razvoj v Zadnjih Retih” in Globalno Gospodarstvo in Kulturna
Razlcnost, Casnik Finance, Ljubjani, p. 183-197.)
Edited Books:
Economic Growth Dynamics and Employment: Sources and Effects, 2006, Turkish
Economic Association, Ankara.
Monographs:
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.Neyapti, B., F.Taskin and M. Ungor. “The Effects of Customs Union on Turkey’s
Regional Trade”, in E. Uygur, I. Civcir (eds), Foreign Trade and Agriculture in the SouthEast Anatolia Project Region, Turkish Economics Association, Ankara, 2004.
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Cukierman, A., S. Webb and B. Neyapti, “Measuring the Independence of Central
Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes”, in Independent Central Banks and Economic
Performance, 1997, pp. 213-58, Elgar Reference Collection. International Library of
Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 82. Cheltenham, U.K. and Lyme, N.H.: Elgar;
distributed by American International Distribution Corporation, Williston, Vt.
CURRENT RESEARCH:
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COURSES TAUGHT:
Modeling Insittutional Evolution (SSRN Top Ten Download list, Apr.2010)
Bank Regulation and Supervision (SSRN Top Ten Download list, Nov-Dec..2008)
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Institutions and Development (Own design)
Macroeconomics (Principals, Intermediate and Micro-based)
Monetary Theory
Microeconomcis (Intermediate)
Probability and Statistics
Econometrics
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DUTIES:
Member of the Editorial Board:
 European Journal of Political Economy
 Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans
Board Member: Turkish Economic Association:2005-2006
Conference Organizer:
 Fiscal Decentralization in Turkey, TEA, 2004
 13th National Symposium on Economics, TEA, Mersin, September 2005
Organizing Committee Member:,
 International Conference on Economics,Turkish Economic Association (ICE-TEA) – 2006
 ASSET - 2003
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS:
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The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)
Research Award on the Turkish Economy (2003)
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Yavor Prize (Horowitz Institute, Tel-Aviv Univ.) for the WBER Publication (1992)
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Fulbright Scholarship (1986-1988).
REFEREED (SSCI) JOURNALS:
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Applied Economics
Applied Economics Letters
Bulletin of Economic Research
Comparative Economic Studies
Contemporary Economic Policy
The Economic Journal
Economic Systems
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Economics of Governance
Emerging Markets Finance and
Trade
Empirical Economics
Environment and Planning
European Economic Review
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LANGUAGES:
European Journal of Political
Economy
Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans
International Journal of Banking,
Acc. and Finance
International Migration Journal
International Tax and Public
Finance
Journal of Economic Studies
Journal of Financial Stability
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Journal of Governance
Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking
Migration Letters
Public Choice
Review of Economics and Statistics
Southern Economic Journal
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Transition Economies
Urban Studies
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Turkish (native language), English (excellent), Spanish (beginner), French (beginner).