Hâle Utar

Curriculum Vitae

 

Contact Information                                                                     

 

                                                             

Department of Economics       

256 UCB                                                 

Boulder, Colorado 80309-0256

 

Tel:  (303) 492 7869

Fax: (303) 492 8960

Email: utar@colorado.edu

Web:  http://spot.colorado.edu/~utar/

                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                 

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D in  Economics, 2001-2006

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Thesis Title: “Modeling and Quantifying Industry Dynamics under Aggregate Uncertainty”

 

 

Bachelor of Arts, Economics, 1995-1999

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

 

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITION

 

University Colorado, Boulder, Assistant Professor of Department of Economics and International Affairs Program, 2006-

 

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

 

International Trade, Industrial Organization: Productivity, Reallocation Patterns among Heterogeneous Firms, R&D, Market Openness, Technology and Knowledge Transfer Between Firms

 

 

HONORS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS

 

Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Labor Markets Dynamics and Growth Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark, September 21-December 1

 

Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2009

 

Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Research Grant, “Openness, Industrial Evolution and Job Flows”, SES-0617888 (2006-09)

 

Full Scholarship, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Economics, 2001-2006

 

Haci Omer Sabanci Scholarship, 1993-1999

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

          

American Economic Association

Society for Economic Dynamics

Econometric Society

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

ECON 8747, Graduate Industrial Organization, University of Colorado

 

IAFS 4500, Economics of the European Union and Its Enlargement Process, (International Affairs Senior Seminar Course), University of Colorado

 

IAFS 4500, Multinationals in the Global Economy, (International Affairs Senior Seminar Course ), University of Colorado

 

ECON 4697, Industrial Organization and Regulation, University of Colorado

 

ECON 302, Intermediate Microeconomics, Penn State University

 

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE

 

Penn State University, Teaching Assistant, 2001-2006

 

Penn State University, Research Assistant, May-August 2003/4, May-December 2005

 

Bogazici University, Research and Teaching Assistant, 1999-2001

 

 

COMPLETED PAPERS

 

 The Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Maquiladoras: Evidence from Plant-level Panel-Data, 2010, mimeo, University of Colorado

 

Learning by Exporting through Access to Foreign Technical Service Markets, 2009, FREIT Working Paper # 86

 

Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries, 2008, NBER Working Paper  # 14116, with E. Bond and J. Tybout

 

Import Competition and Employment Dynamics, University of Colorado, 2008, mimeo.

 

 

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED SEMINARS/TALKS

 

 

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, 2009

 

University of Aarhus, Denmark, 2009

 

Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meetings, Istanbul, 2009

 

European Cooperation in Science and Technology Workshop: Firm-Level Data Analysis in Transition and Developing Economies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2009

 

American Economic Association Session on Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: Firing Costs and Discrimination, San Francisco 2009

 

Labor Market Dynamics and Growth: The Conference on Labor Market and International Trade, Sanbjerg, Denmark, 2008

 

Egon-Sohmen Symposium: The Economic Consequences of Globalization, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 2008

 

The 2008 World Congress on National Accounts and Economic Performance Measures for Nations, Washington D.C.,2008

 

Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Invited Session on Firms’ Entry, New Orleans, 2007

National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, International Trade and Investment Workshop, Boston, 2007

 

National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Macroeconomics, Trade and Productivity Workshop, Boston, 2007

 

Cornell/Michigan International Labor Market Conference, Ann Arbor, 2007

 

International Industrial Organization Conference , Savannah, 2007

 

Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data, Chicago, 2006

 

Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meetings, Vancouver, 2006

 

University of Texas, Austin, 2006

 

University of Colorado, Boulder, 2006

 

University of Iowa, 2006

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2006

 

Queen’s University, Kingston, 2006

 

Central European University, Budapest, 2006

 

Koc University, Istanbul, 2006

 

Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2006

 

Sabanci University, Istanbul, 2006

 

Cornell-PSU Macroeconomics Workshop, 2005, Ithaca, NY

 

National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Macroeconomics and Productivity, Boston, 2005

 

 

 

STUDENT ADVISING

 

                          Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION

                          Sergey A. Makarevich (in progress)

                          Luis Bernardo Torres Ruiz (in progress)

                          Hakon Skjenstad  (in progress)

 

 

                          Ph.D. THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER

                          Molly Lipscomb, 2009  (completed)

                          Karuna Wiwattanakantang, 2008 (completed)

 

                          UNDERGRADUATE HONOR THESIS

                          Steven Creyer, 2007 (completed with magna cum laude)

 

 

REFEREE EXPERIENCE

 

                          IER, International Economic Review

                          WBER, World Bank Economic Review

                          

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

                         

                          Recruiting Committee in International Trade, CU, 2008/09

                          Executive Committee Member, International Affairs Program, CU, 2008--

Liaison, Computing Resources, Department of Economics, CU, 2007--

Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Economics, CU, 2006-2007

Member, Research Committee, Department of Economics, CU, 2006-2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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