Merve Meral

faculty

Merve Meral, PhD

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

508-910-6614

merve.meral@umassd.edu

Liberal Arts 375

Education

2008Michigan State UniversityPhD
2003Central Michigan UniversityMA
2001Bogazici UniversityBA

Teaching

  • Labor Economics
  • Health Economics
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Econometrics
  • Mathematical Economics

Teaching

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.

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.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education 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.
Register for this course.

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.
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.