VITA

 

Erol Hasan ÇAKMAK

 

Office (mailing) Address:           Department of Economics

                                                Middle East Technical University

                                                METU, 06531, Ankara,  Turkey

                                                Phone: 90-(312) 210 3088

                                                Fax:     90-(312) 210 1244

                                                E-mail: cakmake@metu.edu.tr

 

Home Address:                         Çigdem mah. Park sitesi No: 4/32

                                                Karakusunlar, 06520

                                                Ankara, Turkey

                                                Phone: 90-(312) 285 4401

 

Date of Birth:                            April 18, 1955

Citizenship:                                Turkey

Marital Status:                           Married, two children

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D.  September 1987, Applied Economics, Food Research Institute, Stanford University, California, USA.

 

M.S.  February 1981, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

B.S.  December 1979, Department of Economics and Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

 

Diploma  July 1974, Galatasaray High School, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 

Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002 to present.

 

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1997-2002.

 

Member, Faculty Board, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1998 to present.

 

Visiting Professor, on "La Modelisation des Politiques Agricoles," covers one week of the course on "Economie Agricole et Environment: Methods de Modelisation", CHIEAM-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France, every year since 1994.

 

Vice-chair, 8th. Five Year Development Plan, Committee on Agricultural Policies, State Planning Organization, Ankara, 2000.

 

Principal Researcher, “Marketing Orders and State Trading in Turkish Agriculture,” Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Ankara, 1998-1999.

 

Vice-chair, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1997 to 1999.

 

Researcher, for the project “Employment in Turkish Agriculture”, State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, UNDP, 1997.

 

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1993-1997.

 

Consultant, for the project “Agricultural Reform in Turkey relating to GATT and EU Agreements”, FAO, 1996.

 

Member of the Task Force, to establish “Agricultural Economics Research Institute” in Turkey, Lincoln International Ltd., World Bank, 1994.

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, 1987-1993.

 

Consultant, for the project “Livestock Development Strategy for Turkey”, GTZ, Germany, FAO and UNDP, 1996.

 

Consultant, for the project “Crop Pattern and Marketing in the Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) Region”, AFC, Germany and TIPAS, Turkey, 1991-92.

 

Researcher, in the project “Food and Agricultural Policies in Turkey”, Ford Foundation, Cairo, 1989-91.

 

Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1980-82.

 

Research Associate, in the project “Support Policies in Turkish Agriculture”, Rockefeller Foundation in cooperation with IIASA and the World Bank, 1981-82.

 

Research Associate, in the project “Economics of Maize in Turkey”, International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat (CIMMYT), Turkey 1979-81.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

1) Tarım Sektöründe Türkiye ve Avrupa Birliği Etkileşimi: Türkiye’nin AB’ye Üyeliğinin Analizi (Interactions between EU and Turkey in Agriculture: A Sector Model Analysis),  with H. Kasnakoglu, Agricultural Economics Research Institute-Turkey Publication No: 2001-18, 2001.

 

2) Ulusal ve Uluslararası Gelişmeler Işığında Etkin Tarım Politikaları (Efficient Agricultural Policy Alternatives for Turkey), with H. Kasnakoglu, Turkish Exporters’ Assembly, 2001.

 

3) “Tobacco in Turkey,” with H. Kasnakoglu, Paper presented in International Meeting on Economic, Social and Health Issues in Tobacco Control, December 3-4, 2001, Kobe, Japan, http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?tld=136.

 

4) “Türkiye Tarımında Büyümenin Kaynakları” (Sources of Growth in Turkish Agriculture), with H. Akder and H. Kasnakoglu, METU Studies in Development, Vol. 26, No. 3-4, 1999, printed in 2001, pp. 227-251.

 

5) “Şeker Yasası, Kimi, Nasıl Etkileyecek?” (Sugar Law: Who Will be Affected and How?), Ekonomik Forum, Year 8, No. 6, June 2001, pp. 24-26.

 

6) “Turkey,” with H. Kasnakoglu, in Agricultural Support Policies in Transition Economies, edited by A. Valdes, World Bank, 2000, Chapter 5, pp. 91-119.

 

7) “Turkey: Sources of Growth in Turkish Agriculture,” with H. Akder and H. Kasnakoglu in Turkey: CEM-Structural Reforms for Sustainable Growth, edited by J. Nash, I. Arslan, et al., World Bank, 2000, Vol. 2, Chapter 4.2.

 

8) “The Fiscal Burden and Distribution of Costs and Benefits of Agricultural Support Policies in Turkey,” with H. Kasnakoglu, in Turkey: CEM-Structural Reforms for Sustainable Growth, edited by J. Nash, I. Arslan, et al., World Bank, 2000, Vol. 2, Chapter 4.3.

 

9) “Agriculture and Rural Development,” with J. Nash, H. Akder and H. Kasnakoglu, Turkey: CEM-Structural Reforms for Sustainable Growth, edited by J. Nash, I. Arslan, et al., World Bank, 2000, Vol. 1, Chapter 4, pp. 71-86.

 

10) A Search for New Balances in Agricultural Policies: The Case of Turkey-Executive Summary, with H. Kasnakoglu and H. Akder Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD), T-2000-3/280, March 2000.

 

11) “Search for a New Set of Agricultural Policies in Turkey,” in Proceedings of the 70th. EAAE Seminar: Problems and Prospects of Balkan Agriculture in a Restructuring Environment, edited bt K. Mattas, I. Karagiannis and K. Galanopoulos, Ziti Publishing, Thessaloniki, p. 105-110, June 2000.

 

12) Tarım Politikalarında Yeni Denge Arayışları ve Türkiye (Search for New Balance in Agricultural Policies and Turkey), with H. Kasnakoglu and H. Akder, Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (TÜSİAD) Publication, December 1999.

 

13) “Tarımsal Destekleme: Bugünkü Politikalar Doğrudan Gelir Desteği Sistemiyle Yer Değiştirebilir mi veya Değiştirmel mi?” (Support to Agriculture: Is it Possible to Replace the Existing Support System with Direct Income Support?), Mülkiye, Vol. XXIII, No. 217, Sept. 1999, pp. 142-84.

 

14) “Türkiye’deki Tarım Destekleme Politikalarının Değerlendirilmesi ve Yeni Arayışlar” (Evaluation of Agricultural Support Policies in Turkey) with H. Kasnakoglu,), in Productivity and Modernization in Turkish Agriculture, Turkish Agriculturalists Association, 1999, pp. 78-91.

 

15) “Income Inequality and the Level of Development: A Cross-Sectional Analysis for the Turkish Economy,” with M. Şenses, in ERC/METU International Conference in Economics, Abstracts, September 1999, p. 129.

 

16) “La Modelisation des Politiques Agricoles," Lecture Notes of the course on "Economie Agricole et Environment: Methods de Modelisation", Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CHIEAM)-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier, France, 1999 (updated in 2002).

 

17) “Agricultural Policy Reforms and Rural Development in Turkey,” Proceedings of the World Bank, Mediterranean Development Forum, http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/mdf/mdf2/

papers/econdev/cakmak.pdf, 1998.

 

18) “The Uruguay Round: Implications for Turkish Agriculture,” in World Agricultural Trade: Implications for Turkey, edited by T. Yildirim, A. Schmitz, W.H. Furtan, Westview Press, 1998, pp. 209-24.

 

19) “Efficiency in Turkish and European Agriculture: Trend and Comparative Analysis,” with O. Zaim, in Agricultural Structure and Employment in Turkey, edited by T. Bulutay, SIS Pub. No: 2209, 1998, pp. 355-80.

 

20) “Türk Tarımında Etkinlik: Eğilim ve Karşılaştırmalı Analiz” with O. Zaim, in Agricultural Structure and Employment in Turkey, edited by T. Bulutay, SIS Pub. No: 2210, 1998, pp. 351-78 [Turkish version of the precedent].

 

21) “Labor and Land Productivity in Turkish Agriculture,” with O. Zaim, in Agricultural Structure and Employment in Turkey, edited by T. Bulutay, SIS Pub. No: 2209, 1998, pp. 323-54.

 

22) “Türkiye Tarımında Toprak ve Emek Verimliliği,” with O. Zaim, in Agricultural Structure and Employment in Turkey, edited by T. Bulutay, SIS Pub. No: 2210, 1998, pp. 321-52 [Turkish version of the precedent].

 

23) “Implications of International Agreements and GAP for Labor in Agriculture,” with H. Akder, in Agricultural Structure and Employment in Turkey, edited by T. Bulutay, SIS Pub. No: 2209, 1998, pp. 295-318.

 

24) “Tarımla İlgili Uluslararası Anlaşmalar-Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi ve İşgücü,” with H. Akder, in Agricultural Structure and Employment in Turkey, edited by T. Bulutay, SIS Pub. No: 2210, 1998, pp. 291-312 [Turkish version of the precedent].

 

25) “Agricultural Policy Reform and Rural Development in Turkey” (in Turkish), in ERC/METU International Conference in Economics, Abstracts, September 1998, p. 234.

 

26) “Rent Seeking in Turkish Agriculture” with A. Schmitz and T. Yıldırım, in ERC/METU International Conference in Economics, Abstracts, September 1998, p. 214.

 

27) “Water Resources in Turkey: Availability, Use and Management,” in Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resources Management, edited by D. D. Parker and Y. Tsur, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 33-44.

 

28) “Economic Value and Pricing of Water,” with H. Kasnakoglu, in Cahiers Options Méditerranéennes, Série A, No. 31, CHIEAM, 1997, pp. 137-145.

 

29) “The Rural Economy Under Structural Adjustment and Financial Liberalization: Results of a Macro-Integrated Agricultural Sector Model for Turkey,” with E. Yeldan and O. Zaim, Revue Canadienne d’Etudes du Development (Canadian Journal of Development Studies), Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1996, pp. 427-47.

 

30) “Türkiye Bölgesel Tarım Sektörü Modeli: Hayvancılık Sektörünün Gelişimi Üzerine Deneyler” (Regional Agricultural Sector Model for Turkey: Experiments on the Development of Livestock Sector), in First Agricultural Economics Congress of Turkey, Aegean Univ. Press, İzmir, 1996.

 

31) “GATT Tarım Anlaşması ve Türkiye Tarımı” (GATT-Agreement on Agriculture and Turkish Agriculture), with C. N. Aycicegi, in New International Order and Agriculture in Turkey, Chamber of Agricultural Engineers, Agricultural Bank Pub. No: 30, Ankara, 1996, pp. 52-64.

 

32) “Türkiyede Hayvancılık” (Livestock Production in Turkey), in Encyclopedia of Turkish Republic Towards the End of the Century, İletişim, Vol. 15, 1996, pp. 1346-1347.

 

33) “Türkiye’de Gelir Dağılımı” (Income Distribution in Turkey), with S. M. Kot, Economics, Management and Finance, No. 102, April 1995, pp. 42-55.

 

34) “Turkish Agriculture under Structural Adjustment: A General Equilibrium Analysis,” with E. Yeldan, in Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, No.33, 1994, pp. 34-53.

 

35) “The Role of Agriculture in the Structural Experience of Turkey: A General Equilibrium Analysis,” with E. Yeldan, in Cahiers Options Méditerranéennes, Vol.7, CHIEAM, 1994, pp. 221-67.

 

36) “Ekonomik ve Sosyal Göstergelerle Tarımsal Yapı” (Economic and Social Indicators of Agricultural Structure), with O. Zaim, in Agricultural Structure, Transformation and Search for Strategies, Agricultural Bank Pub. No.25, Ankara, 1994, pp. 68-84.

 

37) “Medium-Term Growth Prospects for Turkish Agriculture: A Sector Model Approach,” The Developing Economies, 30(2), June 1992, pp. 132-53.

 

38) “Privatization and Comparative Efficiency of Public and Private Enterprise in Turkey: The Cement Industry,” with O. Zaim, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2/1992, pp. 271-84.

 

39) “Tarım Kesiminde Politika Analizine Yönelik Matematiksel Programlama Modelleri ve Onaylama Yöntemleri” (Use and Validation of Mathematical Programming Models for Policy Analysis in the Agricultural Sector), METU Studies in Development, 19(3), 1992, pp. 267-87.

 

40) “GAP ve Türkiye Tarımının Gelişim Doğrultusu” (Development Trends of Agriculture in Turkey and GAP Region), with H. Ocakli, in Agricultural Support Policies: Problems, Solutions, Chamber of Agricultural Engineers, Ankara, 1993, pp. 236-263.

 

41) “Türkiye’de Tarım Kesiminde Etkinlik” (Efficiency in Turkish Agriculture: 1967-87), with O. Zaim, METU Studies in Development, 19(3), 1992, pp. 305-16.

 

42) “Türkiye Çimento Sanayii ve Tarım Kesiminde Etkinlik” (Efficiency in Cement Industry and Agricultural Sector in Turkey), with O. Zaim, in Proceedings, Third Izmir Economics Congress, Vol. 3, 1992, pp. 197-88.

 

43) “Kamu ve Özel Teşebbüslerde Etkinlik Karşılaştırması: Veri Zarflama Yöntemi ile Çimento Sanayii Üzerine Bir Uygulama” (Comparative Efficiency of Public and Private Enterprises: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis on Turkish Cement Industry), with O. Zaim, METU Studies in Development, 18(4), 1991, pp. 441-51.

 

44) “Kamu ve Özel Teşebbüslerde Etkinlik Karşılaştırması: Türkiye Çimento Sanayii” (Efficiency Comparisons of Public and Private Enterprises: Cement Industry in Turkey), with O. Zaim, First Productivity Congress, Proceedings, National Productivity Center Pub. No: 454, 1991, pp. 136-47.

 

45) “Türkiye’de Kesimlerarası İlişkiler, Genel Ekonomi ve Tarım Politikaları” (Inter-sectoral Relationships, Economy-wide and Agricultural Policies in Turkey), in Productivity Problems of Agriculture in the Mediterranean Region, National Productivity Center Pub. No. 433, Ankara, 1990, pp. 14-23.

 

 

TECHNICAL REPORTS AND DISCUSSION PAPERS:

 

46) “Economics of Tobacco in Turkey,” with H. Kasnakoglu, FAO-ESCR, Dec. 2000.

 

47) “Pricing Irrigation Water in Turkey,” World Bank-Rural Development Dept., Feb. 2000.

 

48) “Dünya Ticaret Örgütü-Tarım Anlaşmasının Yeni Görüşme Dönemi ve Türkiye: Olanaklar, Kısıtlar ve Stratejiler” (Forthcoming Negotiations on WTO-Agreement on Agriculture and Turkey: Opportunities, Constraints and Strategies), with H. Akder, Agricultural Economics Research Institute-Turkey, 1999.

 

49) “Policy, State Trading, and Cooperatives in Turkish Agriculture,” with A. Schmitz, T. Schmitz, R. Gray, Agricultural Economics Research Institute-Turkey, 1999.

 

50) “Türk Tarımında Ekonomik Politika, Devlet Ticareti ve Kooperatifler,” with A. Schmitz, T. Schmitz, R. Gray, Agricultural Economics Research Institute-Turkey, 1999 [Turkish version of the precedent].

 

51) “Impact of Support Purchases and Improved Market Access on Turkish Agriculture: An Agricultural Sector Model Analysis,” with H. Kasnakoglu and H. Akder, Agricultural Economics Research Institute-Turkey, 1999.

 

52) “Fark Ödeme Sisteminin Ekonomik Analizi” (Evaluation of Deficiency Payment for Selected Crops in Turkish Agriculture), with H. Kasnakoglu and T. Yildirim,  Agricultural Economics Research Institute-Turkey, 1998.

 

53) “The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Production of Tradable Commodities and Related Fertilizer Use,” Report prepared for FAO-LNDG, Rome, 1997.

 

54) “Water Policy Reform in Turkey,” with H. Yavuz, Report prepared for FAO-RNE, Cairo, 1995.

 

55) “The Impact of the Uruguay Round on Macroeconomic and Agricultural Policies in Turkey,” with H. Kasnakoglu, FAO-RNE, Working Paper, Cairo, 1995.

 

56) “The Impacts of Recent Economic Changes on Agricultural Development in the Near East Region,” with H. Kasnakoglu, Report prepared for FAO-RNE, Cairo, 1995.

 

57) “Multi-Regional Agricultural Sector Model for Turkey (TURLIV): Structure and Results,” Report prepared for the Livestock Development Strategy, GTZ, FAO and UNDP, 1994.

 

58) “Agricultural Commodities Marketing Survey, Planning of Crop Pattern and Integration of Marketing and Crop Pattern Studies,” with Experts from Turkey and Germany, Report prepared for the GAP Administration, Six Volumes, TIPAS and AFC, 1992 [available in English and Turkish].

 

59) “A Multifactor Probabilistic Model of Income Distribution in Turkey,” with S. M. Kot, Bilkent University, Departments of Management and Economics, Discussion Paper No. 91-11, 1991.

 

60) “The Comparative Efficiency of Public and Private Enterprise in Turkey: The Cement Industry,” with O. Zaim, Bilkent University, Departments of Management and Economics, Discussion Paper No. 91-3, 1991.

 

61) “The Economics of Maize in Turkey,” with K. Somel, Project Report prepared for CIMMYT, 1981.

 

 

THESIS SUPERVISION:

 

Pirselimoglu Tolga, Paterns of Schooling and Work Outcomes of 7–14 Year Old Children in Turkey, M.S. Thesis, METU, April 2002.

 

Soysal, Talat, An Agricultural Sector Model for the Southern GAP Region, M.S. Thesis, METU, September 1999.

 

Yıldırım, Jülide, The Demand for Meat in Turkey, 1979-1989, M.S. Thesis, Bilkent University, 1990.

 

Co-advisor of two M.S. Thesis completed at Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CHIEAM)-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier.

 

Currently, supervising one M.S. and one Ph.D. theses.

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

 

Microeconomic Theory (all levels: introductory, intermediate, M.S. and Ph.D.)

Macroeconomic Theory (introductory and intermediate)

General Equilibrium Theory (advanced undergraduate and graduate)

Probability and Statistics (undergraduate)

Modeling and Optimization (undergraduate)

Agricultural Economics (advanced undergraduate and graduate)

Industrial Economics (advanced undergraduate and graduate)

Mathematical Economics (advanced undergraduate and graduate)

Modeling for Policy Analysis (graduate)

Research Methods (undergraduate)

 

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:

 

Use of GAMS in Agricultural Sector Modeling: Applications on the Mediterranean Region, with H. Kasnakoğlu, METU, CHIEAM-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France, IRESA, Tunisia, with the support of EU-DG1, May 2001, Ankara.

 

Agricultural Sector Modeling, with G. Flichman, CHIEAM-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France, IRESA, Tunisia, with the support of EU-DG1, September 2000, Tunis.

 

Decision Support Tools and Models for Agricultural Resource Management, with H. Kasnakoglu, METU, CHIEAM-Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen, Montpellier, France, with the support of EU-DG1, October 1999, Ankara

 

 

LANGUAGES:

 

English- fluent in all aspects – speak read and write

French- fluent in reading and speaking, slow in writing.