Özyeğin University, Çekmeköy Campus Nişantepe District, Orman Street, 34794 Çekmeköy - İSTANBUL
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Gökhan
Özertan
Professor, Dean-Designate Faculty of Applied Sciences
Economics
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
B.A. in Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Gökhan Özertan earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University in 1994 and obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in 2001. He was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University between 2001-2025. Throughout his career, he has held visiting positions at the University of Massachusetts Boston (2009–2010) and the Central Bank of Turkey (2016–2017).
Gökhan Özertan has led projects funded by EU PRIMA, TÜBİTAK, various Turkish ministries, the UNDP, and the UK Prosperity Fund. In 2019, he participated in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cochran Fellowship Program. Additionally, he served as the rapporteur for the Copyrights Section of Turkey’s Eleventh Development Plan. Gökhan Özertan served as the Chairman of the Working Group of the IV. Agricultural Council in 2025.
His research focuses on modeling agricultural and environmental processes, the role of technology in agriculture, the impacts of climate change, commodity price dynamics, and the economic implications of intellectual property rights and regulations in the IT sector.
He teaches microeconomics, statistics, econometrics, economics of innovation, agricultural economics, and environmental economics at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Technology Use in Agriculture, Modeling of Agricultural Processes, Commodity Prices, Common-Pool Resources, Industrial Organization, Intellectual Property Rights
Research / Supervision Interests
Although not limited to, some of the possible topics of supervisions are as follows:
- Technology Use in Agriculture and Food Sectors
- Food Price Inflation
- Climate Change and Its Impacts on Agriculture
**Note: I am open to new MSc and PhD students**
Previous PhD Supervisions
Student Name | Start | End | University | Thesis Title |
Sani Tiryaki | 2017 | 2022 | Boğaziçi University | Evolution of Efficiency in Electricty Markets |
Leyla Güzeloğlu | 2014 | 2019 | Boğaziçi University | Sustainability Assessment of Selected Dairy Farms Using Social Multi Criteria Approach |
Mehtap Işık | 2003 | 2008 | Boğaziçi University | Three Essays in Industrial Organization |
Previous Masters Supervisions
Student Name | Start | Ende | University | Thesis Title |
Orhan Olgen | 2022 | 2024 | Boğaziçi University | Asymmetric Exchange Rate Pass-through to Food Prices in Turkey: The NARDL Model |
Cem Tüfekçi | 2022 | 2024 | ODTÜ | A policy design for deployment and diffusion of precision farming in Türkiye” |
Çağla Tabak | 2019 | 2021 | Boğaziçi University | Gold Mining in Mount Ida: Development Discourses and Valuation Languages in the Social Media |
Safa Yıldıran | 2018 | 2020 | Boğaziçi University | Modelling Farmers’ Marketing Process: The Case of Potato Sector in Çorum Province |
Hüseyin Akar | 2017 | 2019 | Boğaziçi University | The Welfare Effects of Changes in Global Food Prices on Income Distribution in Turkey |
Elif Çatmakaş | 2017 | 2019 | Boğaziçi University | The Impact of Climate Change on Turkish Agriculture: An Analysis of Crop Yields and Acreage |
Ümit Yapıcı | 2015 | 2017 | Boğaziçi University | Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Turkish Dried Nuts Market: Does it Verify Market Power? |
Mustafa Safa Öz | 2009 | 2011 | Boğaziçi University | Empirical Analysis of Agricultural Commodity Prices |
Cem İskender Aydın | 2008 | 2010 | Boğaziçi University | Should Turkey Adopt GM Crops? A Multicriteria Evaluation Framework |
Elif Akben | 2005 | 2007 | Boğaziçi University | Consumer Reactions to the H5N1 Avian Influenza: The Turkish Case |
Hakan Karaca | 2005 | 2007 | Boğaziçi University | Managing Irrigation-Induced Salinity: The Case of Harran Plain |
Z. Burcu Songur | 2003 | 2005 | Boğaziçi University | Growth Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Turkey |
Barış Çevik | 2001 | 2003 | Boğaziçi University | Implications of Software Piracy on Social Welfare |