Associate Professor of Economics
King Fahd University Of Petroleum & Minerals
Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months
Dr. Mehmet Ali Soytas is an Associate Professor in the Accounting and Finance Department at KBS. His research covers topics in labor economics, family economics, income inequality, intergenerational mobility, firm sustainability and strategic behavior. Dr. Soytas’s work has been published in the Quantitative Economics, Energy Economics, International Journal of Production Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, among others. He has previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank and Energy Exchange Istanbul, as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Ozyegin University and as a researcher at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC).
Dr. Soytas has taught courses on microeconomics, econometrics, statistics, and labor economics at the University of Pittsburgh and at Ozyegin University; supervised Ph.D. dissertations, and presented at major economic conferences. He has organized workshops and seminar series, and acted as a referee for many international journals, and European and Turkish science foundation grants. He has had several research projects funded by the Turkish National Science Foundation. He has also been a visiting scholar at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, University of Pittsburgh and Australian National University. Dr. Soytas holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Job responsibilities include 80% research and 20% teaching. During my appointment, I had several research projects funded by the Turkish national science foundation, authored many articles in the fields of labor economics, economic policy, econometrics and corporate sustainability, supervised Ph.D. dissertations, presented in many major economic conferences. On the teaching side, I taught courses on microeconomics, econometrics, statistics, and labor economics. Also I organized several workshops and seminar series, and refereed for many national/international journals, European and Turkish science foundation grants. I also have been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, University of Pittsburgh and Australian National University during the time period.
https://faculty.ozyegin.edu.tr/mehmetas/
Worked as a Researcher at KAPSARC’s Policy and Decision Science program. My research agenda at KAPSARC is to develop and conduct research on labor markets and energy demand connection. As an economist, I model economic decision making of individuals and households and bring models to data by applying structural econometric estimation techniques. Designing counterfactual policy experiments and scenario analysis to support smart policy making is the ultimate goal of this research agenda.
https://www.kapsarc.org/researchers/soytas-mehmet-ali/
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Promoted (Tenured) to Associate Professor of Economics by the Turkish Inter-Universities Council.
I served as the director of The Sustainable Development Forum (SDF) at Ozyegin University. SDF was established on April 6, 2017 as a scientific research platform in order to enable both Ozyegin University and TÜSİAD to take their share of responsibility in Turkey’s advancement based on the 17 sustainable development goals set forth by the United Nations and adopted by Turkey. Ozyegin University’s mission is to create, share, and apply knowledge in the service of society. The University aims to bring solution-oriented and high value-added applications to life. We aimed to understand first hand the realities of both the public and private sectors, on both a global and local level, through its world-class education and research. The forum established seminar series, initiated research collaborations and created a platform at the university for further multidisciplinary research initiatives to be undertaken within my directorship.
http://surdurulebilirlik.ozyegin.edu.tr/en/sdf/our-team/mehmet-ali-soytas
I visited Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey to collaborate on research projects and initiate new research projects on Turkish labor market, develop policies to enhance female labor market participation and quantify measures for monitoring and evaluating enhancement of human capital in Turkey. I spent 2 to 3 days a week at my Central Bank office to work with the Bank's research team.
I taught courses on Engineering Economics, Tourism Economics and Microeconomics for students majoring in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering and Hotel Management.
I worked in the jobs/human capital team as a short term consultant for the preparation of a background report on the assessment of available jobs and their economic prospects in Turkey.
As a graduate research assistant, I contributed to the center's projects on scrap steel global pricing and its demand estimation using economic theory to construct econometric estimation frameworks.
I worked as research and teaching assistant for various projects and courses during my Ph.D. studies at University of Pittsburgh. The courses that I worked as a TA includes, mathematical economics, game theory, econometrics, and microeconomics. I also taught applied econometrics as an instructor for two semesters.I worked as a RA for projects on contract theory, econometrics, labor economics and experimental economics.
I worked as a TA for grad and undergrad econometrics courses and worked as a RA for projects on micro-structure of Turkish banking crises in 2001, and estimation of aggregate indicators for macroeconomic research.
Labor Economics Major and Econometrics Minor. Dissertation: “Essays on Life-cycle Dynastic Discrete Choice Models” http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/8891/
Economics (MA) Thesis: “A High Frequency Investigation During a Financial Crash”
Bogazici University Construction Club Executive Board (1999-2001)
