Ali Akarca

Professor of Economics, University of Illinois

Ali T. Akarca is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago with which he has been affiliated since 1975. He has also worked as a Research Associate at the Committee on Public Policy Studies (now Harris School of Public Policy) of the University of Chicago during 1978-1980. His articles on the behavior of oil prices and their impact on the economy; the effect of tax rate changes on tax revenues; economic, social, and political determinants of election outcomes and of government performance; causes and consequences of coups; and economic and political consequences of internal migration are published in books such as Turkish Economy: Between Middle Income Trap and High Income Status, Miracles in European Economies, Time Series Analysis: Theory and Practice 4, and Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, and in journals such as Journal of Energy and Development, Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Economics, International Advances in Economic Research, Public Finance Review, Public Choice, Electoral Studies, Insight Turkey, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, European Urban and Regional Studies, Journal of Economic Studies, Middle East Development Journal, and IZA Journal of Development and Migration. His analyses and predictions about Turkish elections regularly appear in the media.