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Tuğba Akın is an Associate Professor at the Department of Econometrics, Faculty of Economics, Aydın Adnan Menderes University. She received her undergraduate degree in Economics from Middle East Technical University, her master’s degree from Uludağ University, and her integrated PhD from Adnan Menderes University with a dissertation titled “The Effects of Savings on Macroeconomic Performance.”
Her research mainly focuses on macroeconomics, international finance, the relationship between savings and investment, time series, and panel data econometrics. She has published on topics such as inflation co-movement, external debt sustainability, high-technology exports, income inequality, environmental sustainability, and financial fragility. Her work has appeared in reputable journals including Empirical Economics, Economics Letters, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, Eastern Journal of European Studies, and Sosyoekonomi.
Akın has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and contributed book chapters published by Elsevier, Ekin, Gazi Kitabevi, Eğitim Yayınevi, İKSAD, Seçkin, and IJOPEC. She has served as a researcher and trainer in projects supported by TÜBİTAK and BAP, and has undertaken academic visits at institutions such as UC Davis (USA), Universidad de Extremadura (Spain), Università degli Studi dell’Insubria (Italy), and Lazarski University (Poland).
She has also held administrative positions, including Head of the Econometrics Department and Vice Director of the Institute of Social Sciences. In addition to supervising numerous master’s theses and co-authoring publications with her students, she continues to contribute to the literature through the application of econometric methods.
Mehmet Metin Dam is a multidisciplinary researcher with a Master’s degree in Economic Science from Selcuk University (Turkey) and a PhD in Environmental Economics from Aydin Adnan Menderes University (Turkey). He is currently working as an Associate Professor at Aydin Adnan Menderes University in Turkey. His research interests include Environmental economics, Climate change, Environmental health, Environmental modeling, Environmental policy, Sustainable development, Air Pollution and Sustainable environmental management. He has published more than 40 articles and more than 10 books and book chapters, although some of his recent articles are S/ SCI-E journal articles.
