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Talan Iscan

Professor

Talan Iscan

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Email: Talan.Iscan@Dal.Ca
Phone:  902-494-6994
Mailing Address: 
Department of Economics
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6214 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Macroeconomics
  • International finance
  • Development economics

Current Research

  • Structural change in global trade
  • Land reform and economic inequality

Courses

Selected Awards and Honours

  • Nominated for the 2018 Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision, pilipiliÂþ»­
  • Department of Economics Award for Excellence in Teaching, pilipiliÂþ»­, 2012
  • SSHRC 4A Award, pilipiliÂþ»­, July 2003
  • Research Development Fund, pilipiliÂþ»­, June 1998
  • Mellon Foundation Area Studies Fellowship, 1993
  • Professor Herbert Joseph Davenport Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Cornell University, 993
  • First of graduating class in economics, 1989, Middle East Technical University

Selected Publications

  • Inequality and structural transformation: the case of South Korea (with Kyoung Mook Lim), Economic Modelling, vol. 107, 2022, p. 105735. .
  • Does distance matterfor trade in services? The case of interprovincial trade in Canada (with Catherine Boulatoff and Yulia Kolyarova), Open Economics Review, vol. 33, 2022, pp. 157-185. .
  • Drivers of farm commercialization in Nigeria and Tanzania (with Obed Owusu), Agricultural Economics, vol. 52, no. 2, 2021, pp.265-299. .
  • Structural change in trade: Does an emerging giant matter? (with Benjamin Dennis), Review of International Economics, vol. 100, issue 3, 2018, pp.732-761. .
  • Redistributive land reform and structural change in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 100, issue 3, 2018, pp. 732–761. .
  • Market power and the aggregate saving rate (with Andrea Giusto), Macroeconomic Dynamics, published online, 2018, pp. 1–29. .
  • Engel versus Baumol: Accounting for U.S. structural change using two centuries of data (with Benjamin N. Dennis). Explorations in Economic History, vol. 46, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 186–202. Online supplementary material (data): .
  • School fees and access to primary education: Assessing four decades of policy in sub-Saharan Africa (with Katie Tinker and Daniel Rosenblum), Journal of African Economies, vol.24, no. 4, 2015, pp. 559–592. .

Education

  • Ph.D. (Cornell University)
  • M.A. (Cornell University)
  • B.Sc. (Middle East Technical University)