Merve Meral

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

508-910-6614

merve.meral@umassd.edu

Liberal Arts 375

Education

2008

Michigan State University

PhD

2003

Central Michigan University

M.A.

2001

Bogazici University

B.A.

Teaching

Labor Economics
Health Economics
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Econometrics
Mathematical Economics

Teaching

Programs

Economics BA, BS

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

ECO 338: Health Economics

Methodologies used by economists to study the economics of health. Topics covered include market for health care, demand for insurance, demography and health, and cross-national comparisons of medical care systems.

ECO 300: Mathematical Economics

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.
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ECO 231: Principles Micro

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.
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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.