Nihal Bayraktar, Ph.D.

· Associate Professor of Economics, Business Administration

Biography

Dr. Bayraktar joined Penn State Harrisburg in the fall of 2003 as an assistant professor. Before joining Penn State Harrisburg, she was working at the World Bank as an economist. Her basic research interest is on microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics. She focuses on the fixed investment behavior of manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Germany. She also works on problems related to inflation, poverty, banking sector, and financial markets in developing countries.

Continuing Education Interests

  • Microeconomic analyses
  • Macroeconomic analyses
  • Money and banking
  • Statistics

Professional Affiliations

  • American Economic Association

Research Interests

  • Microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics
  • Applied econometrics
  • Computational economics
  • Open-market macroeconomics
  • Development macroeconomics

Publications and Research

Refereed Journal Articles

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Published)

Bayraktar, N. (2009). "Investment, Alternative Measures of Fundamentals, and Revenue Indicators". International Journal of Revenue Management, 3(2), 148-178. http://www.personal.psu.edu/nxb23/papers/other/Bayraktar-Feb2008.pdf.

Journal Article, Academic Journal (Accepted)

Agenor, P.-R. (50%), Bayraktar, N. (50%) (2010). "Contracting Models of the Phillips Curve: Empirical Estimates for Middle-Income Countries", Journal of Macroeconomics. To appear in Journal is not in list - being petitioned. http://www.personal.psu.edu/nxb23/papers/other/Ag-Bayraktar08.pdf. [Accepted September 2009]