Osman Furkan Abbaso˘ glu Contact Information
3620 S. Vermont Ave. Kaprielian Hall 300 Los Angeles, CA 90089
Qualifying Fields
Macroeconomics, International Economics
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Computational Economics, Health Economics
Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone: (310) 384-3933 E-mail:
[email protected] Web: www.oabbasoglu.com
Ph.D., Economics, 2007-Present (expected graduation date: May 2013) Dissertation Title: “Essays on macroeconomics of health” ˙ Advisor: Professor Ay¸se Imrohoro˘ glu M.A., Economics, 2009 ˙ Bo˘ gazi¸ ci University, Istanbul, Turkey B.A., Economics, 2007 Honors and Awards
College Graduate Merit Award, USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2007-2012
Academic and Teaching Experience
University of Southern California, Department of Economics, Los Angeles, CA, USA
3rd place in 8th National Olympiads in Informatics in Marmara Region of Turkey, Scientific and ¨ ITAK), ˙ Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUB 2000
Graduate Student, August 2007 - present Teaching Assistant, ECON 205, Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2008,2009, Spring 2009,2010 Teaching Assistant, ECON 348, Current Problems of the American Economy, Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant, ECON 501, Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy, Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant, ECON 414, Introduction to Econometrics, Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, BUAD 350, Macroeconomic Analysis for Business Decisions, Spring 2011,2012 Teaching Assistant, FBE 391, Real Estate Finance and Investment, Fall 2010,2011,2012 Teaching Assistant, FBE 591, Real Estate Finance and Investment, Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, FBE 462, International Trade and Commercial Policy, Spring 2012 Central Bank of Republic of Turkey, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Ankara, Turkey Summer Intern as Researcher, June-July 2011
Publications
“Concentration, competition, efficiency and profitability of the Turkish banking sector in the postcrisis period”, Banks and Bank Systems, 2007/3, pp. 106-115 (With Ahmet Faruk Aysan and Ali G¨ une¸s)
Conferences and USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, Presentations Los Angeles, CA, USA (June 2012) Western Economics Association International, 87th Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA (July 2012)
University of Southern California, Dynamic Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, USA (September 2012) Language Skills
Computer Skills
Job Market Paper
Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (elementary)
• Statistical Packages: Stata, E-Views • Languages: Matlab, C/C++ , Gauss, Fortran • Applications: LATEX, Microsoft Office applications “Risky Health Behaviors and Medical Expenditures: The Role of Policy” Abstract: In this paper I develop an overlapping generations model that incorporates bad behaviors (such as smoking and unhealthy eating habits that lead to obesity) to investigate the equilibrium effects of different cost sharing mechanisms and excise taxation on bad behaviors and medical expenditures. I show that while higher cost sharing induces individuals to refrain from bad behaviors, it has mixed welfare effects across different individuals. For example, if coinsurance rate is increased by 20 percentage points, smoking prevalence goes down by about 2 percentage points and medical expenditures to GDP ratio slightly declines. Although higher cost sharing increases the overall welfare in the economy, unhealthy individuals are either worse off or have much less welfare gains compared to healthy individuals. The quantitative implications of the model are consistent with the variation in smoking prevalence and excise taxes across tobacco and non-tobacco states.
Work in Progress “Life Cycle Analysis with an Increasing Wage Profile” Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of an increasing efficiency profile of labor documented by Rupert and Zanella (2010) on hours worked throughout the life cycle using a general equilibrium framework. Results show that the income effect dominates the substitution effect coming from higher wages, hence after making a peak at prime ages, hours worked start declining far before reaching retirement. These results are robust to different intertemporal elasticity of substitution for labor and different utility functions. Personal Information
References
Citizenship: Turkey Visa Status: Student (F1) Date of Birth: 1984 ˙ Professor Ay¸se Imrohoro˘ glu Marshall School of Business Finance and Business Economics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089
[email protected] (213)740-6518
Professor Vincenzo Quadrini Marshall School of Business Finance and Business Economics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089
[email protected] (213)740-6521
Professor Guillaume Vandenbroucke Department of Economics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089
[email protected] (213)740-2098
Professor S ¸ elale T¨ uzel Marshall School of Business Finance and Business Economics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089
[email protected] (213)740-9486
