Education

• Doctoral Degree in Economics, Humboldt University Berlin, School of Economics and Management, Berlin, Germany, Dissertation Title: "Essays on Panel Cointegration Testing", (4th February 2009)
• M.Sc. Degree in Economics & Management, Humboldt University Berlin, School of Economics and Management, Berlin, Germany, (2002)
• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, Istanbul, Turkey, (1999)
• Adnan Menderes Anatolian Highschool, Istanbul, Turkey, (1995)

Conference Presentations

• Population Association of America 2010 Annual Meeting, Dallas TX, April 2010, "The increasing importance of economic conditions on fertility"
• 15th International Conference on Panel Data, Bonn, Juli 2009, "Panel cointegration testing in the presence of a linear time trend"
• ESEM-EEA, Milan, August 2008, "Panel cointegration testing in the presence of a linear time trend"
• Conference on Recent Developments in Econometrics, Florence, September 2006, "Maximum-likelihood-based panel cointegration test in heterogenenous panels with linear time trend"
• 16th (EC)2 Conference, Istanbul, December 2005, Poster session, "Comparison of Panel Cointegration Tests"
• Unit Root & Cointegration Testing Conference, Faro, September 2005, Poster session, "Comparison of Panel Cointegration Tests"

Languages

• Native language: Turkish
• Fluent in English and German

Computer Experience

• Statistical software: Eviews, GAUSS, LIMDEP, JMulti, Stata
• Business software: Microsoft Office, LaTeX