Economic Performance and Political Outcomes: An Analysis of the Turkish Parliamentary and Local Election Results Between 1950 and 2004, (with Aysit Tansel). Public Choice, forthcoming, 2006.

Identifying Crucial Oil-Price Shocks, (with Dimitri Andrianacos). The Journal of Economics, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 115-124.

Long-Run Impact of Tax Rate Changes on Government Receipts, (with Dimitri Andrianacos), Public Finance Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, Jan. 1998, pp. 80-94.

The 1979 Oil Price Shock and Inflation in Five Industrial Countries: An Intervention Analysis (with Thomas V. Long). In O.D. Anderson, ed., Time Series Analysis: Theory and Practice 4, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1983, pp. 187-192.

On the Relationship Between Energy and GNP: A Reexamination (with Thomas V. Long). Journal of Energy and Development, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 1980, pp. 326-331.

Energy and Employment: A Time Series Analysis of the Causal Relationship (with Thomas V. Long), Resources and Energy, Vol. 2, No. 2/3, October/November 1979, pp. 151-162.

The effect of economic variables on election outcomes and vice versa

Tax rates and tax revenues

The behavior of the oil price and its effects on the macroeconomy

Other Significant Accomplishments:

O.E.C.D. Fellow, 1969-1971 and 1972-1975.

Ford Foundation Fellow, 1971-1972.

Research Associate, the Committee on Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, 1978-1980.

Finalist, Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, 1993 & 1994.

Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. Award for travel to Uzbekistan, 1994.

Certificate of Recognition from The John Nuveen Center for International Affairs, for supporting visiting international scholars and students at UIC, 1997.

Honorarium, for paper presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Economic Research Forum at Al-Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2002.

Honorarium, for paper presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Economic Research Forum at Marrakesh, Morocco, 2003.