ONUR ÖZDEMİR Department of Economics Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 (212) , Ext: 1648

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1 ONUR ÖZDEMİR Department of Economics Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey Phone: +90 (212) , Ext: 1648 PERSONAL INFORMATION Citizenship: Turkish Date and Place of Birth: June 12, 1987, Bakırköy. EMPLOYMENT Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey: Research Assistant, Department of Economics, September 2011 Present: Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Economics of Growth, Monetary Economics, Mathematics I, Mathematics II EC 121 Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2012 EC 122 Introduction to Macroeconomics, Spring 2015 EC 224 Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2012 EC 331 Monetary Economics, Fall 2013 EC 431 Economics of Growth, Fall 2012, Fall 2014 MA 121 Mathematics I, Fall 2011 MA 122 Mathematics II, Spring 2012 Işık University, Istanbul, Turkey: Student Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, September 2009 June 2011 Introduction to Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Research Methods, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics ECO 101 Introduction to Microeconomics, Fall 2009, Fall 2010 ECO 102 Introduction to Macroeconomics, Spring 2010, Spring 2011 MAN 362 Research Methods, Spring 2011 ECO 202 Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2011 ECO 312 Monetary Economics, Spring 2011 DEGREES Ph.D. Economics, Kadir Has University (Expected to graduate in 2017) M.A. Economics, Kadir Has University, June 2013 B.A. Economics, Işık University, June 2011

2 AWARDS %50 Scholarship at the Economics Department of Işık University as a result of 3rd rank in an undergraduate students, %100 Scholarship at the Economics Department of Işık University as a result of 1st rank in an undergraduate students, rd rank in the Graduating Senior Class of the Department of Economics, 2011 Honor student in the Graduating Year of Graduate Scholarship at the Economics Department of Kadir Has University for Master Degree Kadir Has University Scholarship at the Economics Department of Kadir Has University for Ph.D Best Paper Award in International Student's of Economic Conference in Ege University entitled ''Finansallaşma, Tekeller ve Ekonomik Krizler Arasındaki İlişkinin Ekonomi Politiği'', 2012 RESEARCH Fields of Interest Primary: Macroeconomics, Financialization, Political Economy, Heterodox Economics Secondary: Economic Growth and Development, Monetary Economics, Labor Economics, International Economics PUBLICATIONS Refereed Conference Proceedings - The Relationship Between Current Account Deficit and Growth In a Recent Economic Crises, 7th International Student Conference, (April 14-15, 2011) Abstract: The paper analyzes the relationship between the current account deficit and economic growth. It has been widely controversial that the current account deficit and the growth has a parallelism in their own concept. In other words, the common sense presents a knowledge that the process of growth causes mainly a big gap in current account with using the development tools of the mainstream economics. On the one hand, some economic actors and authorities presume that this positive relationship provides a valid concern to look at the countries' data and show their mechanisms of economies such as USA, Spain, Greece and also Turkey. On the other hand, some others reject this parallelism and oppose to the increase in growth in terms of redounding of current account deficit to indicate China, Singapore or India. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, it explains the meaning of current account in the balance of payments and presents evidence by showing that the importance of current account has increased in the history with the process of globalization. Moreover, it examines growth strategies for different countries by

3 answering following questions: Which techniques of growth they utilize? How these techniques reverberate their economic movements and what are those effects? After all these explanations and informations; we then analyze the significance of relationship between current account deficit and the growth for countries' economies by separating countries into two spheres: center and periphery. Secondly, the paper analyzes the impacts of certain macroeconomic variables such as the exchange rate interventions and the interest rate adjustments on the balance of payments, especially on the current account. Finally, the paper offers an understanding of manners that the current account deficit and the growth rate fluctuations before and during the recent economic crisis. We explore the behaviours of center and periphery countries, since they have moved in an unusual way for their economic targets. For example, the periphery countries have become more attractive for investors and economic authorities owing to a valued exchange rate and high interest rates. Accordingly, their current accounts and growth rates have taken a shape around those economic policies. To sum up, this paper explores the answers to those questions and situations, more specifically an accurate relationship between the current account and the growth. - The Impacts of the Recent Economic Crisis on Labor M arkets and Its Interaction with Poverty and Inequality, 14th International Students' Conference on Economis (May 11-13, 2011) Abstract: The paper aims to analyze one of the most important issues in economic field, the global crisis within the content of its effects on labor market and its interaction with poverty and inequality. It has been argued and prevalented that the effects of the economic crisis have moderated mostly from the adjustment of the labor force. In other words, the burden of the negative process of crisis have damped from the labor force. In the lights of these arguments, on the one hand, some economic actors and authorities presume that the labor market policies of neoclassical economics are the optimum condition to heal the downturn of the recession in production. On the other hand, some others reject the theories and process of labor markets in neoclassical concept, however, they support the intervention of government in that markets by abolishing the drastic neoliberal policies such as flexibility, deregulation and informal activities. We first examine how the recent economic crisis has worsened the inner dynamics of the labor force via increasing the unemployment rate, enlarging the income distribution gap, decreasing the overall wage levels and destroying the transparency in World economy. Furthermore, we also question how the concept of poverty and inequality shaping as presenting them an aggreagte economical welfare and how they have changed in the pre and post periods of the recent global crisis. Secondly, we will ascertain how the labor market implementations have deteriorated with a particular focus on the effects of globalization. Moreover, the paper will examine two different countries which are Brazil and Turkey. These are developing countries and have some similar characteristics upon the concept of economical dynamics. In addition to analysis of the structure of these countries, we also emphasize the growth techniques and interconnection with both labor force and welfare economics. We use our observations on labor markets between the years. Of course, the paper assert mostly the analysis within the economic turbulences, however the years before that shows how these variables have been affected and the development of the destruction of economical welfare and labor force. To sum up, this paper explores the answers to those questions and situations, more specifically an accurate relationship of financial crisis within the labor force and welfare economics.

4 - Finansallaşma, Tekeller ve Ekonomik Krizler Arasındaki İlişkinin Ekonomi Politiği, 15th International Students' Conference on Economics (May 11-13, 2012) Özet: 2008 yılında başlayan Üçüncü Büyük Depresyon başlangıcından günümüze kadar geçen süre içerisinde yaşanan sorunların halen çözümlenememiş olması, mevcut ana akım ekonomi politikalarının sorgulanmasını beraberinde getirmiştir. Aslına bakılacak olursa, kapitalizm, iç dinamikleri bakımından 1980'lerden itibaren ciddi değişimler yaşamaktadır. Ekonomi ve sosyal yaşama damgasını vuran bu değişimlerin temelinde ise üç önemli gelişme yatmaktadır: Finansallaşma, Neoliberalizm ve Tekelleşen Sermaye. Günümüz üretim süreci bu üç temel dinamik etrafında şekillenmekle birlikte, çağımıza damgasını vuran bir diğer önemli olay ise yaşanan ekonomik krizlerdir. Toplumsal yaşam üzerinde çok büyük etkileri olan bu krizlerin sonuçlarından birkaçı şunlardır: Resmi işsizlik oranlarında artış, büyüme oranlarında azalış, hanehalkı ve finansal olmayan şirketlerin borçlanma oranlarındaki tırmanış, reel ücretlerin azalması ve gelir dağılımında yaşanan bozukluklar sonucunda artan yoksulluk ve eşitsizlikler. Makale içerisinde, yapısal sorunlarına odaklanarak bir bütün olarak olarak ele alınacak olan kapitalizm, bu sayede bizlere günümüz ve geleceğin sosyo-ekonomik durumu hakkında önemli ipuçları verecektir. - Heterodoks Ekonomi Politikaları Çerçevesinde Neoliberalizmin Türkiye İncelemesi: Keynesgil ve Marksist Bir Bakış Açısı (with Ömer Tuğsal Doruk), 6th International Conference on Political Economy, ICOPEC 2014 (September 23-25, 2014) Özet: 2000'li yıllar neoliberal ekonomi politikalarının, özellikle gelişmekte olan ülkelerde, etkisini tüm ağırlığıyla gösterdiği yıllardır. Bu süreci sosyo-ekonomik, kültürel ve siyasi düzeylerde tüm şiddetiyle yaşayan Türkiye önemli bir araştırma alanı olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Ancak bu araştırma alanı çok çeşitli ve farklı bakış açıları tarafından incelenmeye ve yorumlanmaya çalışılmaktadır. Çalışmamız, Türkiye'nin yaşamakta olduğu bu neoliberal dönüşüm ve dünya ile bütünleşme sürecini James Crotty'nin farklı heterodoks yaklaşımları bütünleştirdiği analizleri etrafında geliştirilecektir. Bu analizlerin temelinde Keynesgil ve Marksist ekonomi okullarının bir arada değerlendirilmeye çalışıldığı görüşler bulunmaktadır. İlk olarak, her iki farklı okulun sınıf kavramı etrafındaki bakış açıları ele alınacaktır. Ayrıca, buradan yola çıkarak neoliberal süreçte makroekonomik temellerdeki değişimlerin sınıfsal bir analizi yapılmaya çalışılacaktır. İkinci olarak, efektif talep kavramının neoliberal süreçteki rolü ve geçerliliği, incelenecek olan sınıfsal temellerde yorumlamaya çalışılacak ve gelir bölüşümü üzerindeki etkileri araştırılacaktır. Son olarak, çalışmamızda her iki okulun fiyatlama ve kar oranlarının belirlenmesi çerçevesinde krizler ile olan bağlantısı açıklanarak, Türkiye'nin yaşadığı ekonomik ve toplumsal değişimleri ile teorik uyumu incelenecektir. Bulmayı umduğumuz sonuçlar büyük oranda Crotty'nin Amerika Birleşik Devletleri temelli oluşturduğu ampirik çerçeveden farklı olacaktır. Bu farklılığın en önemli nedeni gelişmiş ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerin sahip olduğu farklı toplumsal dinamikler ve bu dinamikler etrafında uygulamaya konulan neoliberal politikalarıdır. İkinci neden ise Türkiye'nin hem gelişmiş ülkelere hem de gelişmekte olan ülkelere kıyasla göreli daha kırılgan ekonomik yapısıdır. Published Papers Neo-Liberalizmin Emekçi Kesimler Üzerindeki Baskısı, Panorama Khas, Vol. 14, 2014,

5 Projects January 2013-January 2014: Research Assistant, Kadir Has Scientific Research Project (BAP) entitled Capital Inflows and Economic Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination with project number 2012-BAP-01, Coordinator/Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Orhangazi. December : Research Assistant, Kadir Has Scientific Research Project (BAP) entitled The Effects of Trade Liberalization on the Labour Share of Income: An Investigation for OECD Countries with project number 2014-BAP-14, Coordinator/Researcher: Asst. Prof. Dr. S. Arhan Ertan. Others Master s Thesis: Financial Liberalization and the Direction of International Capital Flows, June (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Orhangazi) Ph.D Thesis: The Effects of Financialization on the Labour Share of Income: An Investigation for OECD Countries, December 2014 Present (Expected to finish in 2017) (Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Orhangazi; Co-Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. S. Arhan Ertan) Languages Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), German (Intermediate) Computer Skills E-views, STATA, R (Beginner), Microsoft Office Tools PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Conferences and Workshops 2014: 6th International Conference on Political Economy (ICOPEC 2014), Kocaeli University September Heterodoks Ekonomi Politikaları Çerçevesinde Neoliberalizmin Türkiye İncelemesi: Keynesgil ve Marksist Bir Bakış Açısı (with Ömer Tuğsal Doruk) 2012: Ege University, 15th International Student s Conference on Economics, May Finansallaşma, Tekeller ve Ekonomik Krizler Arasındaki İlişkinin Ekonomi Politiği. 2011: Ege University, 14th International Student s Conference on Economics, May The Impacts of the Recent Economic Crisis on Labor Markets and Its Interaction with Poverty and Inequality (with Ali Alper Alemdar). 2011: İzmir Economy University, 7th International Student Conference, April The Relationship Between Current Account Deficit and Growth in a Recent Economic Crisis.

6 Others Assistant, Zor Zamanlarda İktisat IV Sempozyumu, Kadir Has University, April Member of Kadir Has Alumni Association, 2013-Present Member of Işık University Alumni Association, 2011-Present Economic Affiliations World Economic Association (WEA) The International Initiative of Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) Group