Bulent Unel

Distinctions

Robert W. and June Heroman Scheffy Professorship

Education

PhD Economics, Brown University, 2004

MA Economics, Bilkent University, 1999

BS Engineering, Bilkent University, 1997

Awards

• Excellence in Research Award, Louisiana State University, 2020
• Excellence in Teaching Award, E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, 2020
• Jill and Roger Jenkins Energy Research Grant, 2018
• Research Scholar Award, Louisiana State University, 2012
• Excellence in Teaching Award, E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, 2011
• Council on Research Grant, Louisiana State University, 2008
• K. Alghanim Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, 2004

Research Highlights

"Effects of Chinese Import Competition on Self-employed Business Owners in the US" (Paper)

"Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Top Incomes," with E. Dinopoulos and G. Heins. (Paper and Appendix)

"Do Attitudes Toward Risk Taking Affect Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Second-generation Americans," with A. Chanda, 2021. Journal of Economic Growth, 26: 385-413. (Paper and Appendix)

"Effects of FDI on Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Right-to-Work and Non-Right-to-Work States," with O. Eren and M. Onda, 2019. Labour Economics, 58, 98-109.

"Offshoring and Unemployment in a Credit-Constrained Economy," 2018. Journal of International Economics, 111, 21-33.

"Firm Heterogeneity, Trade, and Wage Inequality," 2010. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34, 1369-79.

"Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry, and Efficiency," with T. Page and L. Putterman, 2005. Economic Journal, 115, 1032-53.

I am a professor of economics at Louisiana State University. I teach both graduate and undergraduate courses in international economics and macroeconomics.

My research interests include international trade, growth, and labor economics. In trade and growth, I develop empirical and theoretical models to study the impact of globalization on productivity, technology adoption, unemployment, etc. In labor economics, I have mainly studied enterpreneurship and its determinants.