Mustafa Caglayan

Professor Mustafa Caglayan

Professor in Economics

Room 403
Telephone 0114 22 23320
Fax +44 114 222 3458

Mustafa joined the department in September 2006. He received his PhD from Boston College, USA, and his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He previously held positions at Glasgow University, University of Leicester, University of Liverpool and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (USA). He was Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Glasgow from 2005-2006.

Professional Standing

Mustafa presents regularly at the Money Macro and Finance Group Annual Conference, the European Economic Association and the European Meeting of the Econometrics Society. He also makes regular visits to the US to continue his collaborations with colleagues at Boston College.

Research interests:

Macroeconomics
International finance
Applied econometrics

Current research projects

Effects of exchange rate volatility on the volume and volatility of bilateral exports for the British Academy
Understanding the linkages between trade flows and exchange rate in developing economies
Patronage, banks and politics
Inflation and price volatility: an empirical analysis using disaggregated data

My research papers can be downloaded from RePec.

PhD supervision

Areas I am interested in supervising:

I am willing to supervise students who are interested in applied macroeconomic analysis, for instance on firm investment, cash holding behaviour, international trade flows and exchange rates, bank lending. See my recent working papers (downloadable from RePec) for examples of research areas.