Books
Modern Makroekonomiye Giris,
6th ed., Ankara: Adres Yayinlari, 2024
Modern Mikroekonomiye Giris,
7th ed., Ankara: Adres Yayinlari, 2024
Scientific articles
Computational econometrics with gretl
[Editorial][Special issue], Computational Statistics, forthcoming
Capital Flight and the Real Exchange Rate: Evidence from Resource Scarce MENA Countries
Middle East Development Journal, 16 (1), 55–73, 2024
The Determinants of Defense Spending in the Gulf Region
Defence and Peace Economics, 33 (8), 980–992, 2022
Time Varying Determinants of US Demand for Defense Spending in the post-Cold War Era
Defence and Peace Economics, 32 (7), 829–846, 2021
Are Credit Rating Agencies Regionally Biased?
Economic Systems, 42 (4), 682-694, 2018
Dependency on Imported Oil and Its Effects on Current Account
Energy Sources Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 12 (10), 859–867, 2017
Bootstrap Inference of Level Relationships in the Presence of Serially Correlated Errors: A Large Scale Simulation Study and an Application in Energy Demand
Computational Economics, 48 (2), 339–366, 2016
Estimating the Evolution of Elasticities of Natural Gas Demand: The Case of Istanbul, Turkey
Empirical Economics, 51 (1), 201–220, 2016
Down Payment Saving in the United States: Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Real Estate Economics, 44 (2), 355–377, 2016
The Dynamics of Fuel Demand and Illegal Fuel Activity in Turkey
Energy Economics, 54, 144–158, 2016
Spreadsheets in the Cloud - Not Ready Yet
Journal of Statistical Software, 52 (7), 1–14, 2013
Random Number Generation in gretl
Journal of Statistical Software, 50 (C1), 1–13, 2012
Does Financial Liberalization Decrease Capital Flight? A Panel Causality Analysis
International Review of Economics & Finance, 22 (1), 92–100, 2012
Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in China: A Reconciliation
Energy Policy, 41, 666–675, 2012
Analyzing Energy Consumption and GDP Nexus Using Maximum Entropy Bootstrap: The Case of Turkey
Energy Economics, 33 (3), 453–460, 2011
Should Economists Use Open Source Software for Doing Research?
Computational Economics, 35 (4), 371–394, 2010
On the Importance of Verifying Forecasting Results
International Journal of Forecasting, 25 (1), 62–73, 2009
The Accuracy of Statistical Distributions in Microsoft © Excel 2007
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52 (10), 4579–4586, 2008
The GNU/Linux Platform and Freedom Respecting Software for Economists
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 23 (3), 279–286, 2008
The Numerical Reliability of GAUSS 8.0
The American Statistician, 61 (3), 262–268, 2007
GRETL 1.6.0 and Its Numerical Accuracy
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22 (4), 849–854, 2007
Lecture notes
Below, you can find my Econometrics Lecture Notes (in Turkish) that have been published as opencourseware by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). The notes follow the subject list of Gujarati and Porter's Basic Econometrics text book. You can freely use, duplicate, and modify all these course materials under the Creative Commons CC-by-SA-3.0 licence terms.
PREFACE FOR THE LECTURE NOTESGretl in Turkish
Gretl in Turkish main window
Gretl estimation window
What is gretl?
Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics, and Time-series Library) is a comprehensive econometrics package, developed with the C programming language. It is free and open-source software. It can be freely redistributed or modified under the terms of the GPL3 licence published by the Free Software Foundation. Being free makes gretl an ideal tool for the classroom environment; while being open-source makes the program a transparent, reliable and universal choice for scientific studies.
Since its initial version in 2000, gretl has shown significant progress and today it has reached more than 700,000 lines of programming code. The latest versions of the software offer, in addition to an easy and intuitive graphic interface, a wide selection of tests and estimators, an integrated scripting language, high quality plots, and many other advanced features. According to the Open Hub website, which compiles statistics regarding open source software, gretl currently has 24 active developers and contains approximately 180 human years worth of effort based on its lines count. Accordingly, the cost of developing the software from scratch with a 60,000 dollars annual sallary per programmer would be calculated as nearly 10 million US dollars.
My contributions to gretl
I started using gretl for the first time during my economics doctoral studies in the US and, in time, I became one of its developers. Aside from hundreds of improvements and error corrections, I have played role in the empirical testing and documentation of many computations in gretl. In addition, I have also published various gretl related articles and reviews in highly respected international scientific journals and conferences.
In 2008, I meticulously translated gretl's user interface and its website into Turkish. Thereby, gretl has become the first econometrics software that supports the Turkish language. I continue to update and improve the Turkish translation of gretl to this day. I hope that my efforts will be helful for many Turkish scientists in their research, and also contribute to the development of Turkish as a language of science.
Photo album
Yours truly, a two-time Fulbrighter.
With my dear friend and dissertation mentor H.D. Vinod. October 2023.
My daughter Merve Naz, seven years old. July 2020.
My son Berkay, fourteen years old here. May 2020.
Giving a talk in 2010.
Gretl Conference 2009, Bilbao. In the middle with the red t-shirt is Allin Cottrell, gretl's chief developer.
Circa 2009, assistant professor at TOBB ETU.
May 19, 2007. With my wife Yasemin Yalta, receiving the economics doctoral degree at Fordham University.
Berkay, aged 6 months. Asleep after a long read of macroeconomics.
My first students. Fordham University 2003 fall semester Basic Macroeconomics class. I am the one in the back with the red sweater.
Contact
- TOBB University of Economics and Technology,
- Department of Economics,
- Sogutozu Caddesi No:43 Sogutozu,
- 06510 Cankaya / Ankara, TURKEY