Yilmaz Kilicaslan
Position
Visiting Research Fellow
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2005)
- M.A. in Economics, Northeastern University, Boston, USA. (1997)
- B.S. in Economics, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey. (1993)
Background/Career
Yilmaz has come to WLRI from Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey where he’s been working as an Assistant Professor of Economics since 2005 and teaching econometrics and economics courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. After getting his B.S. in Economics from Anadolu University in 1993, he moved to Boston, US to continue his graduate study at Northeastern University with the scholarship from Turkish Government. He returned to Turkey in 1997 and started to work as a research assistant at the department of economics of Afyon Kocatepe University in Afyon Turkey. He, then, was accepted to the Ph.D. program in Economics at the Middle East Technical University in 1998. From 1999 to 2005, he worked as a research assistant at the department of Economics while he was doing his Ph.D.
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Research Interests
In his works, Yilmaz, as an economist, usually employs statistical tools to explore the issues of economic development such as productivity, technology, manufacturing industry and labour markets. Yilmaz’s current research interest includes “Privatisation productivity and labour markets, productivity and efficiency in manufacturing, industrial structure and economic development, labour markets and economic performance.
Publications
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2007, “Impact of Relative Population Change On Regional Income Convergence: Evidence From Turkey”, Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 19 (3), 210–223. (with G. Ozatagan)
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2007 , “Concentration, Profitability and (In)Efficiency in Large Scale Firms” in J.D. Lee and A. Heshmati (eds.) Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia- Pacific, Korea: Springer-Verlag (in press) (with H.Dudu)
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2006, "Industrial Structure, Structural Change and Productivity", İktisat İşletme ve Finans, 247 (October): 5-23. (with E. Taymaz)
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2005, “Determinants of Subcontracting and Regional Development: An Empirical Study on Turkish Textile and Engineering Industries”,
Regional Studies, 39 (5), 633–645. (with E. Taymaz)
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2005 , Structural Change, Productivity and Competitiveness in MENA Countries, in M. Mahmoud (eds.), Post Conflict Reconstruction: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Annual Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, Egypt: Economic Research Forum. . (with E. Taymaz)
Recent Conference Presentations
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2006, "Labour market institutions and industrial performance: An evolutionary study", Conference on Innovating Labour Market Policies: Transitional Labour Markets and Flexicurity, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 30 Nov. - 1 Dec. (with E. Taymaz)
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2006, “Concentration, Profitability and (In)Efficiency in Large Scale Firms”, The Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference (APPC), Seoul, Korea, August 17-19. (with H. Dudu)
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2006, “The Structure of Structural Change”, DRUID Summer Conference, Copenhagen, June 18-20. (with E. Taymaz)
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2005, “Labour Market Regulation, Industrial Structure and Economic Performance”, ERF 12 th Annual Conference, Cairo, Egypt, December 18-21. (with E. Taymaz)
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2005, “Locating Population Dynamics in Explaining Regional Income Differentials”, Conference on the Middle East and North African Economies: Past Perspectives and Future Challenges, Brussels, June 2-4, 2005. (with G. Saral)
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2004, "Structural Change, Productivity and Competitiveness in MENA Countries", ERF 11th Annual Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, December 14-16. (with E. Taymaz)
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2004, "Productivity Growth and Structural Change", Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 14-16. (with E. Taymaz)
Contact details
y.kilicaslan@londonmet.ac.uk
Yilmaz Kilicaslan
Working Lives Research Institute
London Metropolitan University
31 Jewry Street
London EC3N 2EY
Tel. 020 7320 1324
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