Associate Professor Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu

Present position Associate Professor in Economics

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood
Tel: +61 3 9244 6592
Email: mehmet.ulubasoglu@deakin.edu.au

Academic Qualifications

BSc. Middle East Technical U Ankara, Turkey; MA Ph.D Florida International U

Commenced at Deakin: 2002

Publications: Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interests: International Trade, Economic Development, Political Economy

Publication Highlights

Democracy and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis, American Journal of Political Science, 2008, Vol 52, No 1, pp. 61-83 with C. Doucouliagos)
International Comparisons of Rural-Urban Educational Attainment: Data and Determinants, European Economic Review, October 2007, v. 51, n.7, pp. 1828-1857 (with B. Cardak).
Can we Obtain Realistic Parameter Estimates for the ‘Protection for Sale’ Model?, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2006, vol. 39, n. 1, pp. 187-210, (with D. Mitra and D. Thomakos).
Zipf’s Law Strikes Again: The Case of Tourism, Journal of Economic Geography, August 2004, vol. 4, n.4. pp. 459-472 (with B. Hazari).
'Protection for Sale' In a Developing Country: Democracy vs. Dictatorship, Review of Economics and Statistics, 84(3), pp. 497-508 (with D. Mitra and D. Thomakos).

Current research projects

Intersectoral Size Differences and Migration: Kuznets Revisited’ (with N. Anbarci).
Leviathan Resists: The Endogenous Relationship Between Privatisation and Firm Performance’ (with P. Arin).
Endogenous Liberalization and Within-Country Inequality, (with N. Anbarci).
Why is the Support for Extreme Right Higher in More Open Societies? (with N. Anbarci and H. Kirmanoglu)
International Evidence on Legal Systems and Obesity (with P. Carlin and M. Kidd)
Internationalization and Alliance Formation: Evidence from Turkish SMEs (with M. Akdis and S.Bayrak)
“Romes Without Empires”: Urban Concentration, Political Competition, and Economic Growth’ (with C. Karayalcin)
Institutions and Economic Growth: A Systems Approach, (with C. Doucouliagos).
Institutions and Economic Growth: How the Middle East Differs from the Rest of the World, (with C. Doucouliagos)
State-Owned Enterprises as a Redistributive Mechanism, (with C. Karayalcin).
Economic Freedom, Political Rights, Civil Liberties and Efficiency, (with C. Doucouliagos).
Rural Migrations, Productivity, and Inequality in Cities, (with Jean-Pierre Laffargue).

Affiliations: Professional/Academic

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin