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Merih Uctum
Professor and Executive Officer
Ph.D. Program in Economic
Graduate Center, CUNY
Ph.D., Queens University

E-mail:muctum@gc.cuny.edu
http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/economics/muctum


 
  • Research Interest 
    Intertemporal economic models;
    International capital flows;
    Exchange rates;
    Economic and financial integration;
  • Recent research
    "Public Debt, Stationarity Tests, and Structural Breaks: a Multi-Country Analysis", with T. Thurston.

    "Do Governments React to Debt Accumulation? Evidence From Feedback Effects," with T. Thurston.

    "A Nonlinear Approach to Public Debt Stationarity in Latin American Countries" with G. Chortareas and G. Kapetaneous.
  • Publications
    "Pricing-to-Market: The Japanese Experience with a Falling Yen and the Asian Crisis", The Review of International Economics, forthcoming.

    "Debt and Deficit Ceilings and Sustainability of Fiscal Deficits: an Intertemporal Analysis", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2000), 62(2) with M.R. Wickens

    "European Integration and Asymmetry in the European Monetary System", Journal of International Money and Finance (1999), vol.18, No.5, 769-98.

    "Secular Decline in teh US Profit Rate: A Sectoral Analysis", Applied Economics (1999), 31, 1641-52, with S. Viana.

    "Why Have Corporate Profits Declined? An International Comparison," The Review of International Economics (1998), 6(2), 234-51.

    "Europe and The Maastricht Challenge", The World Economy (1996) vol .19, 6, with M. Aglietta.

    "The sustainability of Current Account Deficits: a Test of the Intertemporal Budget Constraint," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (1993), vol.17, 3, 423-41, with M.R. Wickens.

    "A Critical Evaluation of Exchange Rate Policy in Turkey," World Development (1992), vol20, n0.10, 1501-14, with Y. Asikoglu.

    "Foreign Interest Rate Disturbance, Financial Flows, and Phsical Capital Accumulation in a Small Open Economy," Scandinavian Journal of Economics (1991), 93, 3, 377-90.

    "Strategic Aspects of Exchange rate Policy in a Developing Country," Ecnomics Letters (1990), 33, 153-7, with Y. Asikoglu.
 
 
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