Özlem Ömer is an assistant professor at Haci Bektas Veli University in Turkey. Her research interests include growth and inequality, distributive impacts of economic policies, forces and dynamics of structural change in developed and developing countries, financial crises and information theoretic approaches to modeling political economy. Her work combines theoretical, methodological, historical, structural and policy oriented aspects of macroeconomic issues by employing modern modeling techniques in her research.

Ömer has recently worked on a structural analysis of production, productivity, real wages, profit shares and employment across the sectors to understand the distributional dynamics of the existing structures of the US and Turkish economies. She has also written on the dynamics of the market behaviors during economic crises using information entropic maximum entropy methods.

Ömer has taught Macroeconomics, Growth Theories, Growth, Inequality and Discrimination, Methodology of Economics, Monetary Theory and Policy, and Turkish Economy.

She holds an MS in economic policy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a PHD from the New School for Social Research.

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Final Response to Andrew Smithers

Article | Oct 5, 2020

Lance Taylor and Özlem Ömer respond to Andrew Smithers’s final comment on their working paper

Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump

Article | Sep 10, 2020

This first book in the new INET and Cambridge University Press book series, Studies in New Economic Thinking, shows that wage repression—far more than monopoly power, offshoring, or technological change—has driven rising inequality.

Race to the Bottom: Low Productivity, Market Power, and Lagging Wages

Paper Working Paper Series | | Aug 2018

“Dualism” in the structure of production across sectors of the US economy, employment by sector, productivity levels and growth, real wages, and intersectoral terms-of trade increased markedly between 1990 and 2016.

Where Do Profits and Jobs Come From? Employment and Distribution in the US Economy

Paper Working Paper Series | | May 2018

“Meso” level analysis of 16 producing sectors sheds light on broad forces shaping growth of employment and profits. 

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Still Swimming Against the Tide?

40 Years of Thinking on Trade and Development

YSI Event Workshop YSI | Aug 1–7, 2021

The 4th UNCTAD YSI Summer School celebrates the approach and legacy of UNCTAD’s annual Trade and Development Report (TDR). The school will bring together UNCTAD experts, academics, diplomats, and young scholars from across the globe for lively and stimulating intellectual debates.

William Janeway reviews INET’s book, “Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump” in Project Syndicate

News Dec 7, 2020

“Now, in a powerful work of synthesis, economist Lance Taylor, assisted by Özlem Ömer of Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University in Turkey, has brought a new perspective to the discussion. Taylor is a rare figure among economists nowadays. Previously a professor at two of the established citadels of mainstream economics, Harvard University and MIT, he has spent the past generation at the New School for Social Research in New York City, and is deeply engaged with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. … The overriding message from Taylor’s work is the exact opposite of “trickle-down economics.” Reducing inequality will increase economic growth and productivity. But, at the end of the day, there is no magic bullet to reverse the impact of the structural transformation of the past 50 years. That, too, was driven by policy initiatives, the full implications of which many policymakers are only just now beginning to comprehend.” — William Janeway

Research Webinar & Book Launch: Macroeconomic Inequality From Reagan to Trump

Event Webinar | Sep 18, 2020

A discussion with Lance Taylor and Özlem Ömer, authors of INET’s new book Macroeconomics Inequality from Reagan to Trump