Research
Research Areas
Industrial Organization, Regulation, Political Economy
Recent Research and Publications
“Recent Privatization Experience of Turkey - A Reappraisal”, forthcoming in Ziya Öniş and Fikret Şenses (Eds.) Turkey and the Global Economy: Neo-Liberal Restructuring and Integration in the Post-Crisis Era, Routledge, 2009.
“The Law and Economics of Privatization in Turkey” (in Turkish). Published by the Economic Policy Research Institute - TEPAV, Ankara, May 2008.
“Telecommunications” in Sinan Ulgen (ed.) Second Generation Structural Reforms: The Evolution of the Turkish Telecommmunications, Energy and Transport Sectors in Light of EU Harmonization, Edam-CEPS, 2007 (with Andrea Renda).
“Energy”, in Sinan Ulgen (ed.) Second Generation Structural Reforms: The Evolution of the Turkish Telecommmunications, Energy and Transport Sectors in Light of EU Harmonization, Edam-CEPS, 2007 (with Jorge Nunez).
“When Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Sequential Entry and Competition in the Turkish Mobile Industry”, with Pinar Dogan, Telecommunications Policy 31 (2007) pp. 502-523.
“Presumption of Concerted Practice: A Legal and Economic Analysis” with Gönenç Gürkaynak. Paper presented at the “4th Symposium on Recent Developments in Competition Law”, Erciyes University, 7 April 2006; revised May 2006. An evaluation of the presumption provision in Art. 4 of the Turkish Law on Protection of Competition. Published in Symposium volume (in Turkish) by Erciyes University and the Competition Authority.
Liberalization and Regulatory Reform in the Electricity Industry, January 2006 (in Turkish). Published by the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation.
Competition and Regulation in the Turkish Telecommunications Industry, November 2005. Published by the Economic Policy Research Institute - TEPAV, Ankara, 2005.
“Competition and Regulatory Reform in the Turkish Electricity Industry” with Mark Dutz, September 2004. Final version published in B.M Hoekman and S. Togan (eds.) Turkey: Economic Reforms and Accession to the European Union, Washington, DC: The World Bank and the CEPR, 2005
“Political Economy of Governance Failures, Crises and Opportunities for Reform” (with Ferhat Emil), September 2005; published as Chapter 4 of Turkey Country Profile, Cairo:Economic Research Forum, 2005.
Short Notes
Vertical Unbundling of Distribution in the Electricity Industry, April 2006 (in Turkish). Published in Rekabet Forumu No. 22, April 2006. On the pros and cons of unbundling of distribution in the Turkish context.
Recent Presentations
Rekabet Kurumu’nun 10 Yılı Üzerine bir Değerlendirme (An evaluation of 10 Years of the Competition Authority)”, Competition Authority 10th Anniversary Symposium, April 13, 2007.
