Vita

Dr. Bayraktar joined Penn State Harrisburg in the fall of 2003 as an assistant professor. Before joining Penn State Harrisburg, she was working at the World Bank as an economist. Her basic research interest is on microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics. She focuses on the fixed investment behavior of manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Germany. She also works on problems related to inflation, poverty, banking sector, and financial markets in developing countries.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park
• B.A., Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Research Areas

• Microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics
• Applied econometrics
• Computational economics
• Open-market macroeconomics
• Development macroeconomics

Continuing Education Interests

• Microeconomic analyses
• Macroeconomic analyses
• Money and banking
• Statistics

Professional Affiliations

• American Economic Association