The University of Sheffield
Department of Economics

Yontem Sonmez BA (Cyprus International University), MSc (Manchester University)

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Room: 413
Tel: 0114 22 23311

Supervisors: Jonathan Perraton and Scott McDonald

email : y.sonmez@sheffield.ac.uk

Yontem Sonmez

About Yontem

Yontem completed her undergraduate degree in Economics at Cyprus International University in North Cyprus and her postgraduate degree in Economics at Manchester University.

The research objective of her PhD is to analyze the economic impacts of the enlargement of the European Union both on the existing member states and on the candidate countries. It is usually expected that the integration will re-orientate trade and cause labour migration between the less and more advanced economies of the enlarged European Union. This research examines the effects of EU´s enlargement on global trade and the migration of labor by using a global general equilibrium model – Globe CGE- to conduct simulation experiments.

Teaching

Research Interests

PhD Thesis

Title: "Globalization and European integration: The impact of Turkey´s potential EU membership"
Supervisors: Jonathan Perraton and Scott McDonald

Sheffield Economics Research Papers Series

'Augmenting the GTAP Database with Data on Inter-Regional Transactions' by Scott McDonald and Yontem Sonmez

SERP2004009 (PDF)

Conferences

2004 `Augmenting the GTAP Data Base with Data on Inter-Regional Transactions´ presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Washington DC, United States

2006 `Labor Migration and Remittances: Some Implications of Turkish "Guest Workers"´, 9th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2006 `Trade Implications of Turkey´s Accession to the EU´, ECOMOD 2006, "International Conference on Policy Modeling ", Hong Kong, China