Kamil Yılmaz

KAMIL YILMAZ

Kamil Yılmaz

Senior Scholar

Kamil Yılmaz is a Senior Scholar at Istanbul Policy Center and a Professor of Economics at Koç University. He received his BA degree in economics from Boğaziçi University in 1987, MA and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1990 and 1992, respectively. After working at the Research Department of the World Bank in Washington D.C. for two years, he joined Koç University in 1994. He was a visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003-2004 and 2010-2011 academic years. 

Professor Yilmaz has published two books and numerous articles in the leading international academic journals and edited books on macroeconomics, financial econometrics, international trade, and the Turkish economy. Yılmaz received the Encouragement Award in the Social Sciences and Humanities from the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2003 and was elected as a member of the Science Academy, Turkey, in 2016. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Science Academy, Turkey.

Professor Yılmaz served as the Director of Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum from 2007 to 2009 and the Associate Director of the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University (2015-2018). He also served as an independent member of the board of directors of İş Girişim Sermayesi (İş Private Equity Investment Trust, 2012-2014), İş Yatırım Ortaklığı (İş Investment Trust, 2012 – 2015) and Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası (Industrial Development Bank of Turkey, 2014 – 2018).

PUBLICATIONS

Pandemic, Climate, Society

As Istanbul Policy Center, from the beginning of 2020, when the COVID-19 epidemic began, we organized numerous panels on the web, where the situation of the world, societies, and individuals under the epidemic conditions was evaluated. We would like to share our book titled 'Pandemic, Climate, Society' prepared from these panels: We discussed the economic and social effects of the epidemic in the world, especially in the European Union and Turkey, starting from the very first days. Most participants think that there is a lot we can learn from this experience and that we need to mobilize this experience towards a just world order to cope with future epidemics and ecological crises. We are publishing this book at a point where we leave the epidemic behind with the discovery and application of the vaccine. For us, the great success of the last two years belongs to science, doctors, health workers, and scientists around the world. We would like to thank our listeners who followed our panels and guided our work with their suggestions and all our speakers who contributed, especially Ayşe Köse Badur and Semih Sökmen, who prepared this work for publication.

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TTIP and EU-Turkish Economic Relations: Deepening the Customs Union

Senior Scholar Kamil Yılmaz's policy brief "TTIP and EU-Turkish Economic Relations: Deepening the Customs Union" was published in Global Turkey in Europe in March 2015.

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Financial and Macroeconomic Connectedness

Francis X. Diebold and Senior Scholar Kamil Yılmaz's book Financial and Macroeconomic Connectedness was published in March 2015 with Oxford University Press.

Innovation, Globalization and Firm Dynamics – Lessons for Enterprise Policy

Senior Scholar Kamil Yılmaz, Anna Maria Ferragina and Erol Taymaz's book Innovation, Globalization and Firm Dynamics – Lessons for Enterprise Policy was published in February 2014 with Routledge.

Better to Give than to Receive: Forecast-Based Measurement of Volatility Spillovers

Senior Scholar Kamil Yılmaz and Francis X. Diebold's article "Better to Give than to Receive: Forecast-Based Measurement of Volatility Spillovers" was published in International Journal of Forecasting in March 2012.

MEDIA

"Salgın ve Toplum" Webinar Series: "Salgınla Mücadelede Küresel Durum: Siyasi Yönetişim, Ekonomi ve Sağlık Politikaları"

13 October 2020

"Nasıl bir Dünya? Nasıl bir Türkiye" with Kamil Yılmaz and Gökçe Uysal

Koronavirüs Salgını Döneminde Ekonomi ve İşgücü

ACTIVITIES

"Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" with Atila Eralp, Eda Acara, Fuat Keyman, Nebi Sümer and Kamil Yılmaz

Atila Eralp, Eda Acara, Fuat Keyman, Nebi Sümer and Kamil Yılmaz were hosted at the final episode of 2023/24 season "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.