Mehmet Serkan Tosun

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D. Syracuse University, 2001.
M.A. Boston University, 1994.
B.A. Bogazici University, 1993.

Current Positions:

Research Assistant Professor, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, West Virginia University
Director, West Virginia Public Finance Program, Bureau of Business and Economic Research.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.

Selected Previous Positions:

Research Assistant, New York State Tax Study Commission, New York State Assembly, Ways and Means Committee, 2000-2001.
Graduate Research Associate, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1998-2001.
Instructor, Department of Economics, Syracuse University, 1997-1998.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Syracuse University, 1996-1997.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Finance/Economics, Boston University, 1994.

Research Interests:

State and local public finance, applied tax incidence, population aging and economic growth, and international tax systems.

Selected Publications:

Tosun, Mehmet S. Population aging and economic growth: Political economy and open economy effects. Economics Letters, forthcoming.

Tosun, Mehmet S., Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin and Mary E. Lovely. Generational conflict, fiscal policy and economic growth. Journal of Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

Tosun, Mehmet S. Asymmetric population aging, open economy, and fiscal policy. Proceedings of International Federation of Automatic Control, Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Elsevier, forthcoming.

Tosun, Mehmet S. 2002. International spillover effects of a demographic shock when fiscal policy is politically responsive, Policy Evaluation with Computable General Equilibrium Models, Amedeo Fossati and Wolfgang Wiegard eds., Routledge.

Tosun, Mehmet S. 2002. A comparative assessment of West Virginia’s state tax system. West Virginia Public Affairs Report, 19 (3), Institute of Public Affairs, West Virginia University.

Selected Scholarly Service and Honors:

Member, Eastern Economics Association, 2001.
Member, National Tax Association, 1999-
Member, American Economic Association, 1999-
Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 1997.
Haci Omer Sabanci Foundation Fellowship, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989-1993
Referee for:
National Tax Journal
Mehmet Serkan Tosun
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6025
Morgantown, WV 26506-6025
Voice: (304) 293-7829
Email: metosun@mail.wvu.edu
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