Ahmet Akyol Department of Economics Vari Hall 1050 York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada Phone: (416) 736-2100 ext: 77044 Fax: (416) 736-5987 email: aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Fall 2011

GS/ECON 5510 Applied Macroeconomics

Winter 2012

ECON 2450N Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory II

ECON 3430M Monetary Economics I: Financial Markets and Institutions

ECON 3440M Monetary Economics II: Theory and Policy

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Research:

1. Optimal Monetary Policy in an Economy with Incomplete Markets and Idiosyncratic Risk, Journal of Monetary Economics 51 (2004):1245-1269.

2. Risky Higher Education and Subsidies, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 29 (2005): 979-1023. (joint with Kartik Athreya.)

3. Self--Employment Rates and Business Size: The Roles of Occupational Choice and Credit Market Frictions. (joint with Kartik Athreya) Annals of Finance 5 (2009): 495-519.

4. Relative Underperformance alla Turca, (joint with Tasso Adamopoulos) Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009): 697-717.

5. Credit and Self-Employment. (joint with Kartik Athreya) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 35(3) (2011): 363-385.

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7. 6.  Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits in a Life-Cycle Model, (joint with Guoxin Liu), revise-resubmit at Canadian Journal of Economics.

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