Oguzhan Dincer
Professor
Economics

Office
STV Stevenson Hall 430
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Biography
Oguzhan (Oz) Dincer is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Institute for Corruption Studies at the Illinois State University. His research interests lie in the intersection between public economics, institutional economics and development economics with a focus on corruption. Between 2011 and 2015 he was a Non-Residential Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics where (together with Michael Johnston) he developed measures of legal and illegal corruption across U.S. states. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Oregon in 2004.
Current Courses
138.002Economic Reasoning Using Statistics
102.003Principles Of Macroeconomics
Teaching Interests & Areas
Public Economics, Econometrics
Research Interests & Areas
Economic Growth and Development, Public Economics
Presentations
Does Democratization help in the fight against corruption? Evidence from Turkey. Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association 2024. (2024)
Yes We Can (Get Along)? Religion, Ethnicity, and Intergroup Trust in Chicago. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 2012. (2012)
Grants & Contracts
2023 Scott M. Elliott Cross-Disciplinary Pilot Grant. Department of Economics. Illinois State University. (2023)