Research Interests

International Macroeconomics, Macroeconomics,

Development Economics, Economic Growth and Technological Change

 

Dissertation Title: Structural Transformation and Globalization

 

Papers

· De-industrialization of the Riches and the Rise of China 

               

                 Online Appendix                    Slides                      

 

 

                 Additional Results:      Chinese Industrialization                   Trade in New Products

 

 

· Productivity Growth and Labor Reallocation: Latin America versus East Asia

                

                 Online Appendix                    Slides

 

 

· A Disaggregated Perspective on Structural Change Models

                                 

 

· Agricultural Productivity and Growth in Turkey

                 with Ayse Imrohoroglu and Selo Imrohoroglu

                

                

 

Publications

· Appendix to Robert Dekle and Kyoji Fukao, “The Japan-U.S. Exchange Rate, Productivity, and the Competitiveness of Japanese Industries”, in Koichi Hamada, Anil K. Kashyap, and David Weinstein (eds.), Japan's Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation, Cambridge: MIT Press, forthcoming.

· “Current Account Deficits and Increasing Foreign Exchange Requirements of the Turkish Economy” Uluslararası Ekonomi ve Dış Ticaret Politikaları (International Economics and Foreign Trade Policies), 3(1-2), 2008, pp. 57-84,  (with Öner Günçavdı and Suat Küçükçifçi)

· “Has Customs Union Agreement Really Benefited Turkey’s Trade?” Applied Economics, Volume 39, Issue 16, September 2007, pp. 2121-2132, (with Bilin Neyaptı and Fatma Taskın)

· “Gümrük Birliği’nin Türkiye’nin Bölgesel Ticaretine Etkileri” in Ali Bilge and Hasan Ersel (eds.), Gümrük Birliği ve Türkiye Sanayisi Üzerine Etkileri, Turkiye Ekonomi Politikaları Arastirma Vakfı (Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey), Ankara, 2007, pp. 89-102, (with Bilin Neyaptı and Fatma Taskın)

· “The Effects of Customs Union on Turkey’s Regional Trade” in Ercan Uygur and Irfan Civcir (eds.), Foreign Trade and Agriculture in the South-East Anatolia Project Region, Turkish Economics Association, Ankara, 2004, (with Bilin Neyaptı and Fatma Taskın)

 

 

 

Research Awards

· Dissertation Research & Writing Award, USC, Summer 2009, 2010

· First Place in the 2008 Center for International Studies Essay Competition, USC, 2008

· “TOBB Research Award on Turkish Economy”, Honorable Mention by The Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Maritime Trade and Commodity Exchanges in Turkey (TOBB) in the Seventh ERC/METU International Conference on Economics, Ankara, 2003, (with Bilin Neyaptı and Fatma Taskın) 

 

 

 

 

Murat Ungor

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Economics
University of Southern California

                 

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