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faculty
Merve Meral, PhD
Associate Professor
Economics
Contact
508-910-6614
merve.meral@umassd.edu
Liberal Arts 375
Education
2008 | Michigan State University | PhD |
2003 | Central Michigan University | MA |
2001 | Bogazici University | BA |
Teaching
- Labor Economics
- Health Economics
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Econometrics
- Mathematical Economics
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Survey of the American economy focusing on markets, the price system, and resource allocation. Price determination in competitive and imperfectly-competitive markets. Applications in agricultural economics, legal prices, excise taxes, labor market issues, advertising, technological change, pollution and the environment, public goods, antitrust policy, international trade, and alternative economic systems.
Survey of the American economy focusing on markets, the price system, and resource allocation. Price determination in competitive and imperfectly-competitive markets. Applications in agricultural economics, legal prices, excise taxes, labor market issues, advertising, technological change, pollution and the environment, public goods, antitrust policy, international trade, and alternative economic systems.
Contemporary intermediate treatment of microeconomic theory, applications, and price policy. Covers the theory of price determination, resource allocation, income distribution, and welfare economics. Perfectly competitive markets and models of imperfect competition are covered. Theory is integrated with public policy questions.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Mathematical treatment of economic theory. Topics in microeconomics, macroeconomics, general equilibrium and welfare economics will be considered. Though most models will be deterministic, some stochastic models will be treated.
Survey of the American economy focusing on markets, the price system, and resource allocation. Price determination in competitive and imperfectly-competitive markets. Applications in agricultural economics, legal prices, excise taxes, labor market issues, advertising, technological change, pollution and the environment, public goods, antitrust policy, international trade, and alternative economic systems.
Contemporary intermediate treatment of microeconomic theory, applications, and price policy. Covers the theory of price determination, resource allocation, income distribution, and welfare economics. Perfectly competitive markets and models of imperfect competition are covered. Theory is integrated with public policy questions.
Register for this course.
Contemporary intermediate treatment of microeconomic theory, applications, and price policy. Covers the theory of price determination, resource allocation, income distribution, and welfare economics. Perfectly competitive markets and models of imperfect competition are covered. Theory is integrated with public policy questions.
Register for this course.
Research
Research interests
- Labor Economics
- Health Economics
- Applied Microeconomics
- Applied Econometrics
Select publications
- Marta Lachowska, Merve Meral, and Stephen Woodbury (2016).
Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Work Test on Long-Term Employment Outcomes
Labour Economics , 41, 246-265. - Wayne Gray, Ronald Shadbegian, Chunbei Wang, and Merve Meral
(2014).
Do EPA Regulations Affect Labor Demand? Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management , 68, 188-202. - Merve Meral and Stephen Woodbury
(2014).
Health Insurance Tax Credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Health Insurance Coverage of Single Mothers
Health Economics , 23, 501-515.