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Mehmet Ulubasoglu

Associate Professor Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu

Associate Professor in Economics

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

Tel: +61 3 9244 6592

Email: mehmet.ulubasoglu@deakin.edu.au
Office location: Melbourne Campus at Burwood
Commenced at Deakin: 2002
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Teaching Interests/
units taught at Deakin		 MAE413 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
MAE406 Business and Financial Econometrics
MAE403 International Economics
MAE305 Business and Financial Forecasting
MAE303 International Economics
MAF202 National Economic Policy
MAE201 Competition and Industry
MAE102 The Global Economy
MAE704 International Trade and Policy
Research interests

International Trade
Economic Development
Political Economy
Public Choice
Link to Research Output
Publication Highlights
  • Leviathan Resists: The Endogenous Relationship between Privatization and Firm Performance, Public Choice, 2009, v. 140, n. 1-2, pp. 185-204 (with P. Arin).
  • 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
  • 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)
  • “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, Political Ideology and a Redistribution Mechanism, (with C. Karayalcin and V. Avsar).
  • Economic Freedom, Political Rights, Civil Liberties and Efficiency, (with C. Doucouliagos).
  • Rural Migrations, Productivity, and Inequality in Cities, (with Jean-Pierre Laffargue).

Professional Affiliations
(Past and Present)

  • American Economic Association
  • The Econometric Society
  • Royal Economic Society
  • Economic Society of Australia