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bunel@lsu.edu
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Distinctions
Freeport-McMoran Endowed Professorship in Economics # 1
Education
PhD Economics, Brown University, 2004
MA Economics, Bilkent University, 1999
BS Engineering, Bilkent University, 1997
Dinopoulos, E., Hiens, G. and Unel, B. (2024). Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Top Incomes. Journal of Monetary Economics, 148, 103616.
Unel, B. and Upton, G. (2023). Oil & Gas Induced Economic Fluctuations and Self-Employment. Labour Economics, 82, 102362.
Chanda, A. and Unel, B. (2021). Do Attitudes Toward Risk Taking Affect Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Second-generation Americans. Journal of Economic Growth, 26, 385-413.
Beland, L. and Unel, B. (2019). Politics and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.. Canadian Journal of Economics, 57, 33-57.
Unel, B. (2018). Offshoring and Unemployment in a Credit-Constraint Economy. Journal of International Economics, 111, 21-33.
Dinopoulos, E. and Unel, B. (2015). Entrepreneurs, Jobs, and Trade. European Economic Review, 79, 93-112.
Dinopoulos, E. and Unel, B. (2011). Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth. European Economic Review, 55, 595-612.
Page, T., Putterman, L., and Unel, B. (2005). Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry, and Efficiency. Economic Journal, 115, 1032-53.
Research Interests: Trade and Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Labor Economics
Teaching Interests: International Trade, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics
ECON 4520 - International Trade
ECON 4530 - The Chinese Economy
ECON 4710 - Aggregate Economic Analysis
ECON 7071 - Economic Growth
ECON 7718 - Advanced Macroeconomics I
Southern Economic Journal, Editor, Associate Editor (September, 2012 - September, 2020)
Graduate Studies, Committee Chair (June, 2016 - June, 2023)
