Education:
Ph.D., Queen's University (Canada) - 1989 (Economics)
M.A., McMaster University (Canada) - 1981 (Economics)
Diploma, Essex University (United Kingdom) - 1980 (Economics)
Areas of Expertise:
Global economies and markets, their interconnections, empirical analyses of problems and issues related to this context, international indebtedness of countries and governments, financial development.
Books and Publications
Doytch, Nadia and Merih Uctum. "Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: FDI Halo vs Pollution Haven." International Development Research Society Newsletter 1. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
Doytch, Nadia and Merih Uctum. "Sectoral Growth Effects of Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions?" Eastern Economic Journal. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Uctum, Merih and Nadia Doytch. "Does the Worldwide Shift of FDI From Manufacturing to Services Accelerate Economic Growth? A GMM estimation study." Journal of International Money and Finance. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Uctum, Merih and Remzi Uctum. "Crises, Portfolio Flows and Foreign Direct Investment: An Application to Turkey." Economic Systems. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
Uctum, Merih and Isamu Kato. "Choice of Exchange Rate Regime and Currency Zones?" The Review of International Economics and Finance. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Uctum, Merih, George Chortareas and George Kapetanios. "A Nonlinear Approach to Public Debt Stationarity in Latin American Countries?" Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 6.10: 645-63. Queen Mary University of London WP#486. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Are Southern-poor Countries' Governments More Profligate Than Their Northern-rich Counterparts' Fiscal Criteria and Impulse Responses?" The World Economy 29.3: 325-40. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Uctum, Merih, Thom Thurston and Remzi Uctum. "Public Debt, the Unit Root Hypothesis and Structural Breaks: A Multi-country Analysis." Economica 73.289: 129-56. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Uctum, Merih and I. Kato. "Political Risk in the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes." Nonlinear Tools for Analyzing and Forecasting Financial Time Series. Ed. R.S. Uh. New York: Nova Science Publishers. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005
Uctum, Merih, Chortares George and Kapetanios George. "An Investigation of Current Account Solvency in Latin America Using Nonlinear Tests." Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics 8.1. http://www.bepress.com/snde/vol8/iss1/art4. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004
"Pricing-to-Market: The Japanese Experience With a Falling Yen and the Asian Crisis." The Review of International Economics 11.2: 360-78. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Uctum, Merih and Mike Wickens. "Debt and Deficit Ceilings and Sustainability of Fiscal Deficits: An Intertemporal Analysis." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 62.2. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
"European Integration and Asymmetry in the European Monetary System." Journal of International Money and Finance 18.5: 769-98. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
Uctum, Merih and Sandra Viana. "Secular Decline in the U.S. Profit Rate: A Sectoral Analysis." Applied Economics 31: 1641-52. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999
"Why Have Corporate Profits Declined? An International Comparison." The Review of International Economics 6.2: 234-51. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998
Uctum, Merih and Pierre Deusy-Fournier. "The Dollar and the Euro: Is There Room for European Monetary Primacy?" L'Actualite Economique 74.4. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998
Uctum, Merih and Michel Aglietta. "Europe and the Maastricht Challenge." The World Economy 19.6. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996
Uctum, Merih and Michel Aglietta. "Fiscal Consolidation in Europe." Economie Internationale 1.65. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996
Uctum, Merih and Michael Wickens. "The Sustainability of Current Account Deficits: A Test of the U.S. Intertemporal Budget Constraint." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 17.3: 423-41. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993
Uctum, Merih and Yaman Asikoglu. "A Critical Evaluation of Exchange Rate Policy in Turkey." World Development 20.10: 1501-14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1992
"Foreign Interest Rate Disturbance, Financial Flows and Physical Capital Accumulation in a Small Open Economy." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 93.3: 377-90. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1991
"The Effects of Capital Account Liberalization: The Case of Turkey." Liberalization and the Turkish Economy. Eds. T. Nas, and M. Odekon. Associated University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1991
Uctum, Merih and Yaman Asikoglu. "Strategic Aspects of Exchange Rate Policy in a Developing Country." Economics Letters 33: 153-57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1990
Uctum, Merih and Michael Wickens. "Exchange Rate Determination, the Stock Market and Investment Finance." Exchange Rates and Open Economy Macroeconomics. Eds. R. MacDonald and M.P. Taylor. Basil Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1989
Professional Leadership
Executive officer, Ph. D. Program in Economics, CUNYGraduate Center, 2009-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Director of Economics Program, Brooklyn College, 2002-09. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2002
Other Professional Activities
Uctum, Merih and L. Wu. Co-organizers, "What Is the Role of Quantitative Finance After the Financial Crisis Roundtable Discussion. Participants: R. Engle (Nobel Laureate in Economics, NYU), P. Carr (Morgan Stanley and NYU), T. Adrian (Federal Reserve Bank of New York). Moderator: G. Whitney (Museum of Mathematics, New York). 2011
Organizer, Recession and Fiscal Crises: Government Responses in a Federal System Roundtable Discussion. Participants: R. Lowenstein (Independent Budget Office), F. Braconi (NYC Comptroller's Office), J. Parrot (Fiscal Policy Institute), T. Goodspeed (Hunter College). 2010