Can Erbil
At a Glance
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Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Boston College
Specializations
Development Economics, Economic Modeling, International Trade, Political Economy |
Contact Information
Sachar International Center, 215
(781) 736 - 2238 [Tel]
(781) 736 - 2269 [Fax]
cerbil@brandeis.edu
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Profile
Can Erbil specializes in international trade and development economics with a focus on trade liberization, tax reforms, and macroeconomic policy recommendations in an open economy framework. In his research he employs advanced economic modeling tools such as CGE models and integrated modeling platforms, as well as intuitive and simple innovations such as the "debt burden index" (see recent paper with Ferhan Salman titled "Revealing Turkey's Public Debt Burden - A Transparent Payments Approach," forthcoming in JPM).
For the last four years, Can Erbil has been working as a full-time faculty at IBS and the Department of Economics at Brandeis University. Erbil teaches courses in international trade and globalization (graduate level), development economics (graduate and undergraduate), econometrics (graduate and undergraduate - at Brandeis and Harvard), microeconomics, macroeconomics, quantitative analysis (graduate level), economic modeling with general equilibrium: theory and practice (Ph.D. level), political economy (graduate level) and international monetary economics and finance (at Harvard University).
Can Erbil is also a Research Fellow at EcoMod, Global Economic Modeling Network, where he is involved in research and teaching on economic modeling. EcoMod is based in Brussels.
Erbil has also worked as a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He worked on a project for the New Hampshire Tax Comission estimating the economic impacts of changes in income, sales and property taxes.
On two different occasions, Erbil has worked at the International Trade Division of the World Bank, as a consultant and data manager. He has conducted intensive empirical research using international data sources, and delivered policy recommendations to client countries on issues such as market openness.
Professional Affiliations
American Economic Association, since 1998;
European Economic Society, since 1999;
Turkish American Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Maritime Trade (TACCINM), since 2003;
Turkish-American Scientists and Scholars Association (TASSA), since 2004;
Turkiye Ekonomi Kurumu (TEK) - Turkish Economic Association, since 2005;
Recent Publications
"The Effects of Instability on Turkey's Bilateral Trade with Iraq," with Ayla Ogus, published in Turkish Policy Quarterly, Winter 2005, Volume 4, No.4, pp. 169-177.
"The Consequences of Trade Liberalization in the Textile and Clothing Sector in Mediterranean Countries," January 2006, published in the Mediterranean Yearbook 2006, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and the Fundació CIDOB.
"Revealing Turkey's Public Debt Burden - A Transparent Payments Approach," Can Erbil with Ferhan Salman (Boston University and Central Bank of Turkey) Turkish Central Bank Working Paper - presented at the International Conference on Policy Modeling - EcoMod 2004-Univeristy of Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris, June 30 - July 2, 2004, forthcoming in the Journal of Policy Modeling, 2006.
Recent Working Papers and Ongoing Projects
"Turkey's Foreign Capital Inflows in the Prospect of EU Membership: Cure or Curse?," with Ferhan Salman (Research Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)
"Does Financial Liberalization Cause a Long run Economic Growth in Turkey?," with Durmus Ozdemir (Department of Economics, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey)
"Agricultural Trade Policy in the Shadow of the Cancun Walkouts and EU Expansion," Can Erbil, Perlmutter project, work in progress, 2006.
"The Surge of Foreign Banks to Turkey," work in progress with Ahmet Cimenoglu (Chief Economist of Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi, Istanbul, Turkey), 2006.
Recent Presentations
Lecture on "Economic Development, Globalization and the Washington Consensus," Yildiz Technical Univerisity, Istanbul, Turkey, March 23rd, 2006.
"Trade Taxes Are Expensive," Research Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey, March 16th, 2006.
Lecture on "Sustainable Development: Sustainability Discourse and Its Applications in the World," Bosphorus Youth Association, European Union Information Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, January 30th, 2006.
Lecture on Current Issues in Economic Development," Department of Economics, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 5th and 12th, 2005.
"Trade Taxes Are Expensive," Izmir University of Economics, Seminars in Economic Series, Izmir, Turkey, November 16th, 2005.
"Furture of Economic Modeling," EcoMod Workshop, Brussels, Belgium, October 7th, 2005, invited.
"Revealing Turkey's Public Debt Burden - A Transparent Payments Approach," with Ferhan Salman (Central Bank of Turkey), International Conference on Business, Management and Economics in a Changing World, Yasar University, Cesme, Turkey, June 16th-19th, 2005. Member of Advisory Committee, invited.
Middle East and North African Economies: Past Perspectives and Future Challenges, Brussels, Belgium, June 2nd-4th, 2005, member of the Program Committee, invited.
"Trade Policy Modeling with GAMS," EcoMod Winter School, Washington DC, USA, January 10th-15th, 2005, Intensive course at the advanced level with a focus on dynamic trade policy modeling in a multinational and multisectoral framework with imperfect competition and recursive dynamics.
Publications
See list of publications by Can Erbil appearing in IBS's faculty publications database.
