Professor Nurhan Davutyan Tel: 0 216 330 37 34/213     Office: MA222 e-mail: ndavutyan@marmara.edu.tr dnurhan@hotmail.com

Education:

Degree	Field	Institution	Year
BA	Economics	Bogazici University	1976
M.Sc.	Computer Science	Bogazici University.	1978
Ph.D.	Economics	University of California, Santa Barbara	1983

Areas of Interest: Data Envelopment Analysis, Finance , Applied Econometrics

Honors & Awards: Fellow, Economic Research Forum (ERF), December 2004. http://www.erf.org.eg/

Publications:

"Hospital Efficiency with Mortality as Undesirable Output: the Turkish Case," with Murat Bilsel, (forthcoming) Annals of Operations Research. SCI
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0951-y

“Social Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Approach”, with Ozan Bakis, Haluk Levent and Sezgin Polat,in Daniel S. Beckett (Ed.) Secondary Education in the 21st Century,

pp: 101-119, Nova Publishers, (2011).

“Sectoral Human Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Turkey”, with Ozan Bakis, Haluk Levent and Sezgin Polat, Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans, 26(1):9-20, (Jan 2011). SSCI

“Transporting Turkish Examtakers: A New Use for an Old Model” with Mert C. Demir; in Alan T. Molnar (Ed.) Economic Forecasting, pp: 249-262, Nova Publishers, (2010) .

“Assessing The Efficiency of Turkish Secondary Education: Heterogeneity, Centralization, And Scale Diseconomies” with Mert C. Demir and Sezgin Polat, 
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 44(1): 35-44, (Jan 2010). 

“Estimating the Size of Turkey’s Informal Sector: An Expenditure Based Approach”, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 11(4): 261-271, (December 2008). SSCI

“Assessing the Accuracy of Official Hotel Ratings at Antalya “, Int’l Journal of Tourism Research 9(1): 51-57. (Jan-Feb. 2007).

“A Study on the Debt- Default Behavior of Turkish Micro and Small Enterprises” in Selected Papers from the ERF 13’ th Annual Conference in Kuwait, ERF Publications,

pp335-358. (December 2006).

“Measuring Audit Risk by Data Envelopment Analysis”, with L. Kavut, ISE Review 9(33): 85-106. (July 2006).

“An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to the Evaluation of Audit Risk”, with L. Kavut, Abacus 41(3): 290-306 (October 2005). SSCI

“Probability Theory and the Age of Enlightenment” in Turkish, with A. Ozluk, Toplumsal Tarih, Issue 142: 94:99 (October 2005).

“Efficiency Enhancement in the Tourism Sector: A Turkish Example”, Empirical Economics Letters, 2(2): 99-102 (March 2003).

“A Note on Using the Hypergeometric Distribution for Population Census” in Turkish, MU IIBF Journal, 14(2): 99-101 (August 1998). 

“A Note on the Bid-Ask Spread for Dollars in Kuwait:1984-1988”, Applied Economics Letters, 4 (11): 715-718 (November 1997). SSCI

"The Operations of the Bank of England 1890‑1908: A Dynamic Probit Approach", with W. Parke; Journal of Money Credit and Banking; 27(4): 105-113 (November 1995). SSCI

"Bank Failures as Poisson Variates: A Reappraisal" in A.F. Cottrell, M.S. Lawlor and J.H Wood eds. Bank Failures: Causes, Consequences and Cures; Kluwer Academic Publishers.

pp: 199-211 (October 1995).

"Long Waves Prior to 1790: A Modest Contribution to the Study of Long Waves"; With Dassbach, Dong and Fay; Review; 18 (2) :305- 325. (Spring 1995). SSCI

"Risk Sensitive Stabilization Policies in Commodity Markets", with J.K. Sengupta; Economic Modeling; 11: 375-384 (Fall 1994).

"A Novel Way of Modeling Official Intervention: The Case of Japan"; Journal of Economics; 20(1): 1-6 (Spring 1994).

"A Call to Arms or a Fox Cries Wolf", with T. Merz and P. Joyce; Journal of Economic Perspectives; 8(1): 200-201 (Winter 1994). SSCI

"Cyclicality in Metal Prices" with M. Roberts; Resources Policy; 20(1): 49-57 (1994). SSCI

"Excess Returns and Official Intervention: Some Cross Country Evidence"; Applied Economics, 26(1): 35-40 (January 1994). SSCI

"Testing Purchasing Power Parity: Some Evidence of the Effects of Transaction Costs", with J. Pippenger; Econometric Reviews, 9(2): 211-240 (1990). SSCI

"Explaining Innovations: A Technical Note"; De Economist, 137(4): 493-498 (December 1989).

"Bank Failures as Poisson Variates"; Economics Letters, 29: 333-338 (July 1989). SSCI

"Excess Returns and Official Intervention: Canada 1950‑1958"; with J. Pippenger; Economic Inquiry, 27(3): 489-500 (July 1989). SSCI

"Central Bank Intervention with Sample Selection: Japan 1977‑79" , Economics Letters 29: 167-171 ( March 1989). SSCI

"The Impact of Price Stabilization on Producers' Revenue"; in O. Güvenen (ed.), International Commodity Market Models and Policy Analysis; Kluwer Academic Publishers,

pp: 53-61 (December 1988).

"PPP Did Not Collapse During the 70's", with J. Pippenger; American Economic Review, 75(5): 1151-1158 ( December 1985). SSCI

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate	Graduate
Introductory Economics	Data Envelopment Analysis
Engineering Economics	Managerial Economics
International Economics	Management Science
	Quantitative Methods
	Financial Analysis

Thesis Supervision:

Ph. D.

Abbas Dündar: “Determining Policy Premiums in Automobile Insurance by Use of Count Data Models”, April 2011

M. Sc.

Cem Sentin; “Developing A Forecasting Model for Turkish External Trade in Glass and Glassware”, June 06.

Orçun Köse; “Individual Pension Systems: Analysis of the Turkish System and Profit Model of a Pension Company”, May 06.

Eray Kıranoglu; “Measuring Secondary School Education Efficiencies of Turkish Provinces:

An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis”, August 05.

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