Education:

Ph.D. (2001), Texas Tech University, Economics.

M. B. A. (1996), Texas Tech University, Business School

B. Sc.(1994). Middle East Technical University, Business Administration.

Areas of specialization: Energy economics, pollution and growth, financial development,  macroeconomics, time series analysis, industrial organization, entry-exit

Contact information:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ugur Soytas                   Dep. of Business Administration            Middle East Technical University        06531 Ankara, TURKIYE                   Ph:+90 312 2102048                                Fax:+903122107962                               E-mail: soytas@metu.edu.tr

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL LINKS

MARC

• “Dynamics of Oil Price, Precious Metal Prices, and Exchange Rate” forthcoming in Energy Economics* (with Ramazan Sari and Shawkat Hammoudeh)
• “World Oil Prices, Precious Metal Prices and Macroeconomy in Turkey” Energy Policy*  37, pp. 5557-5566, 2009. (with Ramazan Sari, Shawkat Hammoudeh and Erk Hacihasanoglu)  
• “Modeling the Firm Population Dynamics: An Application to the Turkish Manufacturing Industry for the 1950-2000 Period” forthcoming in International Journal of Business and Economics**
• “The Relationship between Energy Consumption, Output and Employment in OPEC Countries” Applied Energy* 86, pp. 1887-1893, 2009. (with Ramazan Sari) 
• “Energy Consumption, Income, and Carbon Emissions: Challenges Faced by an EU Candidate Member” Ecological Economics* 68: 1667-1675, 2009 (with Ramazan Sari)
•  "The Relationship Between Disaggregate Energy Consumption and Industrial Production in the United States: An ARDL Approach." Energy Economics  30: 2302-2313, 2008. (with Ramazan Sari and Bradley T. Ewing)

* (SSCI or SCI), ** EconLit

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Spring 2009 Courses

BA 6505 Applied Regression Analysis

BAS 152 Business Statistics