Levent Kutlu | UTRGV Economics Professor

    
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Levent Kutlu
Associate Professor of Economics · University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
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About
I am an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. My field is applied econometrics: panel data and stochastic frontier analysis in particular, and more recently machine learning approaches.
levent.kutlu@utrgv.edu
Recurring questions
How do you measure efficiency when the regressors are endogenous?
What happens to inefficiency when firms spill over into each other in space?
How much distributional structure does an efficiency model actually need?
Where does firm heterogeneity end and inefficiency begin in a panel?
Elsewhere

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            Econometrics
            Empirical
            Applied Micro
            Micro Theory
          
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          Applied Micro
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Software
Estimators you can install, not just cite.
Two Stata commands on SSC, each shipped with the paper that derives it.

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            Stata · SSC
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Panel stochastic frontier estimation with endogenous regressors, the estimator from the Japanese cotton spinning paper.

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Karakaplan & Kutlu (2017), Applied Economics 49, 5935–5939

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Stochastic frontier estimation that handles endogeneity in the frontier and in the inefficiency term.

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Karakaplan & Kutlu (2017), Economics Bulletin 37, 889–901
Teaching
Econometrics, taught again and again.
Every course at every institution, with the number of sections beside it. Counts include the current semester. Years are appointment periods, so the Georgia Tech gap is the year spent at Antalya.

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      Photos
      
        UTRGV
Levent Kutlu in academic regalia at a UTRGV commencement ceremony.

        Academic life
Levent Kutlu with his Ph.D. advisor and a friend from Rice University.

        Family
Levent Kutlu with his father and mother.

        Family
Levent Kutlu with his grandmother and her sister.

        Family · Kaş, Antalya
Levent Kutlu with his sister in Kaş, Antalya.

        Family
Levent Kutlu with his two children during a family outing.

        Academic life
Levent Kutlu with friends from his Rice University PhD years during an academic visit.

        Academic life
Levent Kutlu with friends from his Rice University PhD years on the Rice University campus.

        Personal history
A childhood photograph of Levent Kutlu studying again!

        Personal history
Levent Kutlu in a graduation photograph with family.

        Personal life
Levent Kutlu with friends during an evening gathering.

        Travel
Levent Kutlu enjoying coffee during personal travel.

        Travel
Levent Kutlu and his spouse at the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Türkiye.

        Travel
Levent Kutlu and his spouse near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

        Travel
Levent Kutlu and his spouse beside an Amsterdam canal.

        Travel
Levent Kutlu on the waterfront of a historic Adriatic coastal town.

        Travel
Levent Kutlu and his spouse beside the Bay of Kotor waterfront.

        Family
Levent Kutlu holding his child on a coastal sand dune.

        Family
Levent Kutlu with his child beside a life-size mammoth exhibit.

        Family
Levent Kutlu on a family walk beside the Bosphorus in Istanbul.

        Family
Levent Kutlu playing video games with his child.

        Personal life
Levent Kutlu outdoors in Texas during winter.

  Curriculum vitae
Education, positions, and the full record.
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    Levent Kutlu
    Department of Economics · University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    levent.kutlu@utrgv.edu
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