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Ibrahim Ozkan, Ph.D.

Prof. of Economics at Hacettepe University Dept. of Economics

I am teaching at the Department of Economics, Hacettepe University. My research spans Decision Theory, Finance and Quantitative models. My research interest includes, Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance, Risk Management, Decision Sciences, Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy System Modelling, Time Series Analysis, Pattern Recognition.

Education

Middle East Technical University Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ankara, Turkey

Hacettepe University Department of Economics

M.S. in Economics

Ankara, Turkey

Hacettepe University Department of Economics

Ph.D. in Economics

Ankara, Turkey

Academic Experience

Professor

Hacettepe University Department of Economics

Ankara, Turkey

2014 -

Senior Research Fellow

University College Cork Department of Computer Science

Cork, Ireland

2015 - 2015

Forecasting, Time Series analysis, Decision Analysis, Rostering

Associate Professor

Hacettepe University Department of Economics

Ankara, Turkey

2009 - 2014

Assistant Professor

Hacettepe University Department of Economics

Ankara, Turkey

2007 - 2009

Senior Research Fellow

University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Knowledge/Intelligence Systems Laboratory

Toronto, Canada

2008 - 2008

Lecturer

Hacettepe University Department of Economics

Ankara, Turkey

2005 - 2007

Research Fellow

University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Knowledge/Intelligence Systems Laboratory

Toronto, Canada

2006 - 2006

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Knowledge/Intelligence Systems Laboratory

Toronto, Canada

2003 - 2005

Research Assistant

University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Knowledge/Intelligence Systems Laboratory

Toronto, Canada

2000 - 2003

Research Assistant

Middle East Technical University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Ankara, Turkey

1988 - 1990

Industial Experience

IIC Fuzzy Corp

Senior Researcher

Toronto, Canada

2001 - 2003

Ericsson Research

Design Engineer

Montreal, Canada

1999 - 2000

Siemens

Design Engineer

Ankara, Turkey and Buenos Aires, Argentina

1991 - 1998

Turk Telecom

Telecom Engineer

Ankara, Turkey

1987 - 1988

Turk Telecom

Telecom Engineer

Ankara, Turkey

1990 - 1991

Journal Papers

Detecting Capital Flow Surges in Developing Countries

International Journal of Finance & Economics, Early View (Online Version of Record), DOI:10.1002/ijfe.2335

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2020

Kaya, A. I., Erden, L., Ozkan, I.

Transmission mechanisms of financial stress into economic activity in Turkey

Journal of Policy Modeling, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp 395–415, DOI:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.02.010

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2019

Polat O., Ozkan, I.

A new causal discovery heuristic

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 82, Issue 4, pp 245–259, DOI:10.1007/s10472-018-9575-0

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2018

Prestwich S.D., Tarim S.A., Ozkan, I.

Recent Developments in Fuzzy Systems (in Turkish)

Yeni Türkiye Bilim ve Teknoloji Ozel Say. 90, 641-657

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2016

Ozkan, I., Turksen I. B.

Time-varying nature and macroeconomic determinants of exchange rate pass-through

International Review of Economics & Finance, 38, 56-66, DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2015.01.007

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2015

Ozkan, I., Erden, L.

An empirical analysis of currency volatilities during the recent global financial crisis

Economic Modelling, 43, December 2014, 394-406, DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.09.008

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2014

Ozer-Imer I., Ozkan, I.

Determinants of international transmission of business cycles to Turkish economy

Economic Modelling, 36, January 2014, 383-390. DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.10.010

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2014

Erden, L., Ozkan, I.

MiniMax epsilon-stable cluster validity index for Type-2 fuzziness

Information Sciences, 184(1), 64-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.07.036

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2012

Ozkan, I., I. B. Turksen

International transmission of business cycles to Turkey

Iktisat Isletme Ve Finans, 27(320), 9-34, DOI: 10.3848/iif.2012.320.3507

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2012

Ozkan, I., L. Erden

An Empirical Investigation on the Determinants of the Saving-Investment Interaction

Panoeconomicus, 58(3), 343-353. DOI: 10.2298/PAN1103343

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2011

Gur, T. H., L. Erden, Ozkan, I.

What Do Productivity Shocks Tell Us About the Saving-Investment Relationship?

Prague Economic Papers, 18(3), 195-208.

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2009

Erden L., Ozkan, I., Gunalp B.

A fuzzy analysis of country-size argument for the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle

Information Sciences, 179(16), 2754-2761, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.03.006

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2009

Ozkan, I., Erden L., Turksen I. B.

An Empirical Assessment of the Optimum Currency Areas Theory: Turkey and the Emu Countries

Fuzzy Economic Review, Vol. 13, Iss. 1, (May 2008), 3-18

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2008

Ozer I., Ozkan, I.

Practical Insights from OCA Variable Combinations

Economic Annals, Year LIII, No. 176, (March 2008), 38-61, DOI: 10.2298/EKA0876038O

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2008

Ozer I., Ozkan, I.

A Currency Crisis and Its Perception With Fuzzy C-means

Information Sciences, 178, Issue 8, 1923-1934, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.12.007

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2008

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B., Canpolat N.

Upper and Lower Values for the level of Fuzziness in FCM

Information Sciences, 177, Issue 23, 5143-5152, DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.06.028

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2007

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

Optimum Currency Areas Theory: An Empirical Application to Turkey

South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 2, No. 2, 75-88, DOI: 10.2478/v10033-007-0008-y

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2007

Ozer, I., Ozkan, I., Aktan H.O.

Optimum filtering for optimum currency areas criteria

Economics Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 44, 1-18

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2007

Ozer, I., Ozkan, I.

Country-size Argument as a Potential Explanation for the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle

The Empirical Economics Letters, 6(6), 501-507

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2007

Erden, L., Ozkan, I.

Türkiye Ekonomisinde Is Çevrimlerinin Tarih ve Süre Araliklarinin Tespiti

Akdeniz Universitesi, Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Akdeniz IIBF Dergisi, Cilt 7, Sayi 14, 1-19

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2007

Erden, L., Ozkan, I.

Currency Crises Analyzed by Type-1 Fuzzy Logic System

Fuzzy Economic Review, Vol IX, No. 1, 35-59

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2004

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B., Aktan H.O.

Uncertainty Around Currency Crisis: Type-2 Fuzzy System Modelling

Hacettepe Universitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt 20, Sayi 2, 27-41

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2002

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

Book Chapters

Recent advancement in fuzzy system: Full type 2 fuzziness

Research Methods: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, pp. 437-447. Chapter 20, IGI Global, Information Resources Management Association ISBN:9781466674561 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1ch020

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2015

Turksen I.B., Ozkan, I.

Recent Advancement in Fuzzy System: Full Type 2 Fuzziness

Chaos and Complexity Theory in World Politics, S. Erçetin, & S. Banerjee (Eds.) (pp. 158-168). IGI Global Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. ISBN:978-14-666-6070-0. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6070-0.ch010

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2014

Turksen I.B., Ozkan, I.

Uncertainty and Fuzzy Decisions

Chaos Theory in Politics, Understanding Complex Systems, S. Banerjee, S. S. Erçetin & A. Tekin (Eds.), (pp. 17-27): Springer Netherlands ISBN:978-94-017-8690-4. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-8691-1_2

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2014

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

Uncertainty, Complexity and Fuzzy Logic

Chaos, Complexity and Leadership, S. Banerjee & S. S. Erçetin (Eds.), (pp. 79-94): Springer Netherlands ISBN:978-94-007-7361-5. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7362-2_12

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2014

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

A Review of Cluster Validation with an Example of Type-2 Fuzzy Application in R

Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets and Systems (pp. 219-236). Springer New York ISBN:978-1-4614-6665-9. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6666-6_14

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2013

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

On The Co-Movements Of Exchange Rates

Financial Aspects of Recent Trends in the Global Economy Volume II, (Ed: Mirdala, R). (pp. 11-37), Asers Publishing Craiova, Romania. ISBN:978-606-93129-5-7

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2013

Itir, Ozer-Imer, Ozkan, I.

Upper and Lower Values for the level of Fuzziness in FCM

A Spectrum of Theoretical & Practical Issues, P.P. Wang, Da Ruan and E.E. Kerre (Eds), Vol. 215, 99-113, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-71257-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71258-9_6

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2007

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

Conferences

Ismail Burhan Turksen’s 40 Years of Contributions to Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy System Modelling

Invited Lecture: The 5th International Fuzzy Systems Symposium, FUZZYSS’17, TOBB ETU, Ankara, 14 - 15 October, 2017

Ankara

2017

Ozkan, I.

Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (CISS) for Turkey

Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting, New York Sheraton Hotel at Times Square, NYC, NY 23 - 26 February, 2017

NYC

2017

Polat, O., Ozkan, I.

Measuring the Financial Contagion: Evidence from Dynamic Betas and Similarity Based Network Structure

2nd International Conference on Applied Economics and Finance, ICOAEF 2016, Girne American University, North Cyprus 5 - 6 December, 2016

North Cyprus

2016

Atasoy, B. S., Polat, O., Ozkan, I.

Causal Discovery by Randomness Test

International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, FL. January 4–6, 2016

Fort Lauderdale

2016

Prestwich, S., Tarim, S. A., Ozkan, I.

Uncertainty, Complexity and Fuzzy Theory

Chaos Complexity and Leadership International Symposium 2012, December, 20-23, 2012 Hacettepe, Ankara

Ankara

2012

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

Uncertainty and Fuzziness in Economics

Zor Zamanlarda Iktisat II: Quo Vadis Economia?, May 12-13, 2011 Hacettepe, Ankara

Ankara

2011

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

MiniMax e-stable cluster validity index for type-2 fuzziness

Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), 2010 Annual Meeting of the North American (pp. 1-5). IEEE. (2010, July)

Toronto

2010

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

An Empirical Assessment of the Optimum Currency Areas Theory: Turkey and the EMU Countries

2nd Int. Symp. on Public Finance: Recent Fiscal Problems in Transitional Economies, in Kyrgyzstan on 24-27 October 2007

N/A

2007

Ozer, I., Ozkan, I.

Optimum Currency Areas Theory: An Empirical Application to Turkey

2nd Int. Symp. on Public Finance: Recent Fiscal Problems in Transitional Economies, in Kyrgyzstan on 24-27 October 2007

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2007

Ozer, I., Ozkan, I.

Entropy Assessment of Type-2 Fuzziness

Fuzzy Systems, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Conference on (Vol. 2, pp. 1111-1115). IEEE

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2004

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B.

Currency Crises: Can They be Analyzed Under Perception Based Decision Theory Framework

METU International Conference in Economics VII, Ankara, Turkey, September 2003

Ankara

2003

Ozkan, I., Turksen I.B., Canpolat N.

Patents

Mobile terminal handover from a second generation network to a third generation ip-based network

Ericsson WO2001031963A1

Montreal, Canada

2000

Hasan S., Ozkan, I., Sugirtharaj D., Tran H.

Academic Projects

International Transfers of Business Cycles. Business Cycle Transmission to Turkish Economy?

Tubitak 1001 Project No: 110K451

Ankara

2012-2013

Erden L., Ozkan, I.

Exchange Rate Pass Through. Time varying nature and its determinants

Tubitak 1001 Project No: 113K389

Ankara

2013-2014

Ozkan, I., Erden L.

Data Science - Data Mining Projects