MEHMET FUAT SENER
	Address:	Department of Economics Social Sciences Building Union College Schenectady, NY 12308
	Telephone:  Email:	(518) 388-7093 senerm@union.edu

With Union College Since 1999

Education

B.S. 1993, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey; M.S. 1995, London School of Economics, London, U.K.; Ph.D. 1999, University of Florida at Gainesville

Areas of Expertise

International Economics, Economic Growth, Labor Economics

Honors

Ranked among the top 20 US liberal arts college assistant professors  (#10 based on impact-adjusted page methodology of Piette and Laband)

Research

• "A Schumpeterian Model of Equilibrium Unemployment and Labor Turnover", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 10 (5), 2000, 557-583.

• "Schumpeterian Unemployment, Trade, and Wages", Journal of International Economics, 54 (1), 2001, 119-148.

• "Labor Market Rigidities and R&D-Based Growth in the Global Economy", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 20 (5), 2006: 769-805.  Appendices, Forthcoming Paper.

• "Outsourcing and Wage Inequality in a Dynamic Product Cycle Model", with Selin Sayek, Review of Development Economics, 10(1), 2006: 1-19. Appendices, Forthcoming Paper.

• “Intellectual Property Rights and Rent Protection in a North-South Product Cycle Model”, July 2006, Appendices.

• "New Directions in Schumpeterian Growth Theory", with Elias Dinopoulos, in Horst Hanusch and Andreas Pyka (eds.), Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2007.

• "R&D Policies, Endogenous Growth and Scale Effects", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 32 (12), 2008: 3895-3916, Appendices, Forthcoming Paper.

  •  Working Paper Version 2007. Appendices for Working Paper 2007.

• "Globalization, R&D and the iPod Cycle", with Laixun Zhao, Journal of International Economics, 77 (1) 2009,  Appendices, Forthcoming Paper,

• "Globalization, Rent Protection Institutions and Going Alone in Freeing Trade", with Heimo Grieben, forthcoming European Economic Review, 2009, Appendices, Forthcoming Paper, 

• "Dynamic Effects of Outsourcing on Wage Inequality and Skill Formation, 2001", with Selin Sayek, working paper.

Papers presented

"Intellectual Property Rights and Rent Protection in a North-South Product Cycle Model"

• American Economics Association Meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7-9, 2005.

• Southern Economics Association Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, November 21-23, 2003

• Midwest International Economics Meetings, Chicago, Illinois, May 5-8, 2002.

• Union College, Economics Department Seminar Series, May 14, 2004.

"Schumpeterian Unemployment Dynamics"

• International Schumpeter Society Meetings, Gainesville, Florida, March 27-29, 2002 (presented by Elias Dinopoulos in a plenary session).

"Dynamic Effects of Outsourcing on Wage Inequality and Skill Formation"

• International Schumpeter Society Meetings, Gainesville, Florida, March 27-29, 2002.

• Midwest International Economics Meetings, College Park, Pennsylvania, October 19-21, 2001.

• Eastern Economic Association Meetings, New York, New York, March 23-25, 2001.

• Southeast Economic Theory and International Economics Meetings, Houston, Texas, October 27-29, 2000.

• METU International Conference in Economics, Ankara, Turkey, September 13-16, 2000 (presented by co-author Selin Sayek).

"Labor Market Rigidities, and R&D-Based Growth in the Global Economy"

• Colgate University, Economics Department Seminar Series, November 30, 2001. 

• Midwest International Economics Meetings, Lexington, Kentucky, May 19-21, 2000.

"Schumpeterian Unemployment, Trade, and Wages"

• North American Economics and Finance Association Meetings (under ASSA), New York, New York, January 3-5, 1999.

• Midwest International Economics Meetings, Bloomington, Indiana, October 24-26, 1997.

"A Schumpeterian Model of Equilibrium Unemployment and Labor Turnover"

•  Midwest Economic Theory Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 30 - June1, 1997.

Refereeing

Contemporary Economic Policy
European Economic Review
Journal of Development Economics
Journal of Economics (2)
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of Evolutionary Economics (3)
Journal of Economic Growth
Journal of International Economics
National Science Foundation (grant review)
Review of Development Economics (2)
Review of International Economics
Routledge Publishing (book proposal review)
Southern Economic Journal

Service, Union College

Academic Affairs Council (Division II Rep. since 2006)

Internal Education Fund Committee (member since Fall 2003)
Economics Department Seminar Series (co-organizer since 2000)
Academic Computing Steering Committee (member since 2000)
Admission Committee (member, Fall 2000-Spring 2002)
UNITAS (member, August, 2001-January 2002)
Faculty Advisor on a Student Team Project (January 2001-May 2001)
Library Liaison of Economics Department (August 2000-February 2001)