Dr. Sine Kontbay-Busun
Lecturer ('Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin')
Institutional Mailing Address
Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie
Nordamerikastudienprogramm
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 5
53113 Bonn
Office phone & email
Phone: 0228-73-1890
Fax: 0228-73-7948
skontbay[at]uni-bonn.de
Research interests
Empirical Macroeconomics, Growth, Inequality
Education
- May 2013: Ph.D. in Economics, Clemson University/USA; dissertation title: "Growth Beyond the Debt Thresholds"; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michal Jerzmanowski, Clemson University
- May 2008: MA in Economics, Indiana University Bloomington/USA
- June 2005: BA in Economics, Dokuz Eylul University/Turkey
Professional experience
- 05/2013-11/2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
- 07/2014-07/2015: Visiting Researcher, Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim
- 05/2011-08/2011: Research stay at Growth and Business Cycle Research Group, Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim
- 05/2012-07/2012: Short stay at United Nations OHRLLS
Publications
- “A Note on Bank Capital Buffer, Portfolio Risk and Business Cycle” (with Adnan Kasman). Ege Akademik Review 1 (2015)
- “Latin American bank capital buffers and the business cycle: Are they pro-cyclical?” (with Adnan Kasman and Oscar Carvallo). Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money 36 (2015), 148–16.
- “Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone - A Cross country comparison using the HFCS” (with Prof. Andreas Piechl). ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-124 (revise and resubmit)
- “Causality between Government Debt and Growth: Wavelet-based Nonparametric Granger Causality Analysis” (with Dr. Erdost Torun) (revise and resubmit)
- "Multidimensional Affluence: Evidence from Turkey" (with Dr. Gonca Darik) (in Turkish, submitted)
Conference presentations and summer schools
- “Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone - A Cross country comparison using the HFCS”, ECINEQ2015 (Luxembourg, July 13-15, 2015)
- “Multidimensional Affluence in Income and Wealth in the Eurozone - A Cross country comparison using the HFCS”, ZEW Brown Bag Seminar, (Mannheim, January 22, 2015)
- “Causality between Government Debt and Growth: Wavelet-based Nonparametric Granger Causality Analysis”, 4th SEEK Conference “Public Finance and Income Distribution in Europe" (Mannheim, May 15-16, 2014)
- 13th Summer Workshop on "International Business Cycles" for Young Economists, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) (Mannheim, June 2011) (attendant, not participant)
- Summer School, Istituto di Studi Economici e per l'Occupazione (ISEO), (Brescia, Italy, June 2008)
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