Bulent Unel

Professor
Department of Economics

Contact
bunel@lsu.edu
225-578-5211
2329 Business Education Complex South
Personal Website

Distinctions
Robert W. and June Heroman Scheffy Professorship

Education
PhD Economics, Brown University, 2004
MA Economics, Bilkent University, 1999
BS Engineering, Bilkent University, 1997

 

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Unel, B. "Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Top Incomes," with E. Dinopoulos and G. Heins. Forthcoming in Journal of Monetary Economics.

Unel, B. "Effects of Immigration on Native Entrepreneurship in the US: an Analysis of Selfemployment over 1980–2018." Forthcoming in Small Business Economics.

Unel, B. “Oil & Gas Induced Economic Fluctuations and Self-Employment," with G. Upton, 2023. Labour Economics, 82, 102362.

Chanda, A. and Unel, B. (2021). Do Attitudes Toward Risk Taking Affect Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Second-generation Americans. Journal of Economic Growth, 26, 385-413. 

Beland, L. and Unel, B. (2019). Politics and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.. Canadian Journal of Economics, 57, 33-57.

Unel, B. (2018). Offshoring and Unemployment in a Credit-Constraint Economy. Journal of International Economics, 111, 21-33. 

Dinopoulos, E. and Unel, B. (2015). Entrepreneurs, Jobs, and Trade. European Economic Review, 79, 93-112.

Dinopoulos, E. and Unel, B. (2011). Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth. European Economic Review, 55, 595-612.

Page, T., Putterman, L., and Unel, B. (2005). Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry, and Efficiency. Economic Journal, 115, 1032-53.

Research Interests: Trade and Productivity, Entrepreneurship, Labor Economics

Teaching Interests: International Trade, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics

ECON 4520 - International Trade

ECON 4530 - The Chinese Economy

ECON 4710 - Aggregate Economic Analysis

ECON 7071 - Economic Growth

ECON 7718 - Advanced Macroeconomics I

  • Excellence in Research Award, Louisiana State University, 2020
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, 2020
  • Jill and Roger Jenkins Energy Research Grant, 2018
  • Research Scholar Award, Louisiana State University, 2012
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University, 2011
  • Council on Research Grant, Louisiana State University, 2008
  • K. Alghanim Dissertation Fellowship, Brown University, 2004

Southern Economic Journal, Editor, Associate Editor (September, 2012 - September, 2020)

Graduate Studies, Committee Chair (June, 2016 - June, 2023)