Here is a selection of my works. Please visit Ozan Hatipoglu @ http://www.econ.boun.edu.tr/hatipoglu for a full list.
Political Economy
On the Political Economy of the Informal Sector and Income Redistribution (with Gulenay Ozbek), European Journal of Law and Economics (2011)
In this paper we develop and simulate a political economy model to produce qualitative results...
Innovation, Growth and Inequality
The Relationship between Inequality and Innovative Activity: A Schumpeterian Theory and Evidence from Cross-Country Data, Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2012)
This article examines the effect of inequality on technological progress when innovations are protected by...
Structural Change and Economic Growth: a Calibration Exercise for Turkey (with Emre Alper and Pinar Ardıc), Economics Bulletin (2010)
Using data for the years 1972 -2006, we calibrate the dynamic general equilibrium model of...
Applied Macroeconomics and Finance
Estimating Central Bank Behavior in Small Open Economies (with Emre Alper), Central Banking in Middle East and North Africa (2009)
An inflation targeting regime generally entails abolishing exchange rate targets in favor of monetary targets....
The Conduct of Monetary Policy in Turkey in the Pre- and Post-crisis Period of 2001 in Comparative Perspective: a Case for Central Bank Independence (with Emre Alper), urkey and the Global Economy: Neoliberal Restructuring and Integration in the Post-Crisis Era (2009)
We document the role of independence for Central Bank of Republic of Turkey (CBRT) as...