Curriculum Vitae (pdf)                                                                              Last updated: June 5, 2013

Current Position

     Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Houston-Victoria

Personal: Turkish Citizen, US Permanent Resident, Married. 

Education

     Ph.D., Applied Economics, Auburn University, 2011
     M.S., Economics, Auburn University, 2009
     M.S., International Marketing, Saint Joseph's University, 2003
     B.S., Business Administration, Celal Bayar University, 1999

Research Interests

     International Economics and Trade,
     Open Economy Macroeconomics, 
     Time Series Econometrics, Forecasting,
     Real Estate Economics,
     Agricultural and Resource Economics

Refereed Publications

     Durmaz, Nazif and Henry Thompson (Forthcoming), “US Cotton Exports and Bilateral Exchange Rates,” Accepted for publication, Agricultural Economics Review.
     Soylu, Ali and Nazif Durmaz (2013), “Profitability of Interest-free vs. Interest-based Banks in Turkey,” Australian Economic Review 46-2, 176-188.
     Kim, Hyeongwoo and Nazif Durmaz (2012), “Bias Correction and Out of Sample Forecast Accuracy,” International Journal of Forecasting 28, 575-586.
     Cheng, Ka Ming, Nazif Durmaz, Hyeongwoo Kim, and Michael Stern (2012),“Hysteresis vs. Natural Rate of US Unemployment,” Economic Modelling 29-2, 428-434.
     Durmaz, Nazif (2011), “Housing Prices and Fundamentals: Role of Supply Shifter,” Economics Bulletin 31-3, 2468-2479.
        
Working Papers

     “Impact of Climate Change on US Corn Production: Evidence from Panel Study,” June 2013 (with Jaehyuk Lee) Revised and Resubmitted to Economics Bulletin
     “An Empirical Analysis of Import Demand Function for Turkey: An ARDL Bounds Testing Approach,” April 2013 (with Jaehyuk Lee), UHV-SBA Working Paper No. 2013-01 under review
     “The Exchange Rate, US Cotton Exports, and Cotton Inventories of Asian Textile Producers,” March 2013 under review
     “Participation Banking in Turkey,” May 2013 (with Ali Soylu and Muhammad A. Qayyum) under review
     “The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments and Impact of Democracy on Investment and Economic Growth in Turkey,” June 2013 in progress
     “Environmental Kuznets Curve and Implications for Sustainable Development: Carbon Emissions,” June 2013 (with Jaehyuk Lee) in progress
     “The Impact of Banking Sectors on Regional Economic Development in Turkey,” May 2013 (with Jaehyuk Lee and Ali Soylu) in progress 
     “Impact of Climate Change on US Soybean Production: Evidence from Panel Study,” May 2012 (with Jaehyuk Lee) in progress 
     “Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production in Black Belt Region,” April 2012 (with Jaehyuk Lee) in progress
     “Are Components of Democracy Effective in Reducing Crime Rates?,” April 2012 (with Benhua Yang) in progress

Seminar Presentations

    2012 Southern Economic Association Meeting (New Orleans, LA, November)
    2012 European Economics and Finance Society (11th Annual Conference, Koc University, Istanbul, TURKEY, June)
    2012 University of Houston-Victoria (Sugar Land, TX, March)
    2011 Midwest Econometrics Group (21st Annual Meeting, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, October)
    2010 Southern Economic Association Meeting (Atlanta, GA, November)
    2010 Auburn University (Auburn, AL, October)
    2009 Auburn University (Auburn, AL, March)

Reports

     “Cotton Exports and Floating Exchange Rates” with Henry Thompson and Patricia Duffy, AAES Hatch/Multistate Grant, Priority Area 6, Investigator Initiated Innovative Research, Oct. 2009

Academic Experience

     Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Houston-Victoria 2012 – Present
     Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stetson University, 2011 – 2012
     Instructor, Department of Economics, Auburn University, 2010 – 2011
     Adjunct Instructor, Department of Business, Troy University – Montgomery, 2010 – 2011
     Research/Teaching Assistant, Auburn University, Prof. Henry Thompson, 2007 – 2010
     Research Assistant, Saint Joseph's University, Prof. John Lord, Spring 2002

Referee

     Economics Bulletin, The International Trade Journal, Journal of Economics and International Finance

Awards

     Summer Research Grant, School of Business, University of Houston - Victoria (2013)

Affiliations

     Southern Economic Association (2010 - )

Additional Skills

     Languages: Turkish, English 
     Statistical Packages: GAUSS, SAS, Gretl, EViews, Limdep, STATA. 
     Applications: common Windows database, spreadsheet, and presentation software, LATEX.

Other Work Experiences

     Reviewer, Principles of Economics Series, (7th Edition) by N. Gregory Mankiw, June, 2012
     Assistant Manager, Sales Representative, Trimex International Company Philadelphia, PA 
        Feb ’03 – July ’07.

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