Cevat Gerni

Cevat Gerni is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Beykent University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He has held academic positions at several institutions including Doğuş University, Gebze Institute of High Technology, Atatürk University, and Indiana University Bloomington. His research focuses on international trade, macroeconomic stability, foreign direct investment, and economic development, particularly in transition and developing economies.

His educational background includes a doctorate from Atatürk University's Institute of Social Sciences with a thesis on export financing in Turkey, and an undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Economics and Administrative Sciences.

His research interests span international trade, economic growth, FDI, transition economies, macroeconomic policy, and regional development. He frequently explores the interplay between trade, investment, and institutional factors in shaping economic outcomes in Turkey and emerging markets.

The analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong focus on economic dynamics in Turkey and post-Soviet states, with themes including environmental taxation and renewable energy, military expenditures and development, export-import relationships, and provincial economic decline. His work often employs econometric methods and panel data analysis to derive policy-relevant insights.

• Do environmental taxes act as an automatic stabilizer for the transition to renewable energy in newly industrialized countries? (2025)
• Reflections of Military Expenditures on Development in OECD Countries (2024)
• The Effects of the Complexity Index on Growth and Its Reflection in the Differentiation in Development Levels: The Example of Former USSR Countries (2022)
• The Process of Decline at the Provincial Level: The Erzurum Example (2020)
• RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EXPORTS, IMPORTS AND EXCHANGE RATE IN THE TURKISH ECONOMY (2018)

Cevat Gerni has supervised numerous master’s and doctoral theses on topics related to trade, economic policy, public finance, and regional development. While no specific grants are mentioned in the text, his extensive publication record in refereed journals indexed in SSCI, RePEc, and EBSCO indicates sustained research activity. He has collaborated with researchers such as Ömer Selçuk Emsen, Mustafa Kemal Deger, and Hayati Aksu across multiple projects.

There is no mention of specific labs or research teams, but his collaborative publications suggest active participation in academic research networks.