Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan is an economist and the Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University. She is a co-editor of the Journal of International Economics,^[1] on the board of editors of the American Economic Review,^[2] an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association^[3] and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics.^[4] She is a research fellow at the NBER and CEPR.^[5][6]

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Born	Turkey
Citizenship	Turkey United States
Alma mater	Middle East Technical University. B.S. Brown University, M.A., PhD
Children	2
Scientific career
Fields	international finance, international development
Institutions	Brown University University of Maryland, College Park University of Houston
Website	http://econweb.umd.edu/~kalemli/

Education and career

She obtained a bachelor's degree from Middle East Technical University and her MA and PhD from Brown University.^[7] In 2007-08 she was a Wim Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank.^[8] From 2010 to 2011 she was an advisor to the World Bank as Lead Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region.^[7] In 2015, she became the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Maryland.^[9]

Research

Her research focuses on international finance, economic growth and development economics. Her works have been cited 12900 times.^[10] She studies foreign direct investment (FDI) and has given evidence on why capital flow do not go from developed to developing economies. In a 2008 paper with Laura Alfaro and Vadym Volosovych, she found that the quality of institutions were one of the main reasons.^[11] Her research has been featured in The New York Times,^[12] The Economist,^[13] Reuters,^[14] NPR,^[15] Bloomberg,^[16] and the Washington Post.^[17]

Selected works

• Alfaro, Laura, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. "FDI and economic growth: the role of local financial markets." Journal of international economics 64, no. 1 (2004): 89–112.
• Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych. "Why doesn't capital flow from rich to poor countries? An empirical investigation." The review of economics and statistics 90, no. 2 (2008): 347–368.
• Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem, Bent E. Sørensen, and Oved Yosha. "Risk sharing and industrial specialization: Regional and international evidence." American Economic Review 93, no. 3 (2003): 903–918.
• Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem, Harl E. Ryder, and David N. Weil. "Mortality decline, human capital investment, and economic growth." Journal of development economics 62, no. 1 (2000): 1-23.
• Alfaro, Laura, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. "Does foreign direct investment promote growth? Exploring the role of financial markets on linkages." Journal of Development Economics 91, no. 2 (2010): 242–256.

Awards and recognition

In 1999, she was nominated Best Young Economist by the Central Bank of Turkey.^[18] In 2008, she won a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant.^[19] In 2017–18, she was Houblon Norman Fellow at the Bank of England.^[20] She is one of the 50 most cited women in economics according to IDEAS.^[21]