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Biography

Dr. Pinar Celikkol Geylani is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business. At the undergraduate level, she teaches Intermediate Microeconomics, Econometrics, Environmental Economics, and Principles of Microeconomics. At the graduate level, she teaches Managerial Economics and Applied Economics. 

Dr. Geylani's research interests include economics of productivity and innovation, environmental economics, applied econometrics, and microeconomics of trade and investment.

She has received multiple research grants from the Economic Research Service in USDA and has used micro-level confidential data collected by US Census Bureau.

Dr. Geylani's research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals including Small Business Economics, Operational Research, Journal of Economics and Finance, Business Ethics, Empirical Economics, Applied Economics, Land Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, and Food Economics.

Prior to joining Â鶹ֱ²¥, she was a visiting research affiliate at the U.S. Census Research Data Centers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan.

Education

  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
  • M.S., Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests

Dr. Geylani develops economic models of firm behavior, finds new ways to evaluate firms' performance measures (i.e., productivity and efficiency), and analyzes large databases.

As an applied econometrician and micro-economist, her research uses a variety of methods, ranging from analysis of secondary data which involves analyzing firm performance measures using large panel databases of establishments and firms (e.g., US Census Bureau, ORBIS, Compustat, and KLD databases) to developing and analyzing surveys.

Her research is multi-disciplinary, using economics, business, and statistics theories, and is multi-level, examining economic behavior at the plant, firm, and industry/aggregate levels. 

Dr. Geylani’s training in applied microeconomics, environmental economics and econometrics has allowed her to channel research efforts into three main categories: (1) economics of productivity, efficiency, and innovation, (2) environmental economics, and (3) microeconomics of trade and investment.

She also investigates how innovation and technological change play a role in a firm's production decisions and analyzes the impact of the firm's involvement in international trade on its product mix, productivity, efficiency, cost structure and innovation.

Additionally, she examines environmentally friendly technical changes that alleviate a firm's existing polluting activities, designs effective policy instruments which lead to better outcomes for both the environment and producers, and analyzes the effect of corporate social responsibility on shareholder wealth.

School

Palumbo-Donahue School of Business
  • Summer Research Grant, 2018

External
  • Research Grant, Economic Research Service (ERS), Department of Agriculture (USDA), 2021
  • Research Grant, International Development Research Center, Canada and Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2009
  • Research Contract, Economic Research Service (ERS), Department of Agriculture (USDA), 2006

Articles in Journals

Geylani, P., Kapelko, M., & Stefanou, S. E. (2019). Dynamic productivity change differences between global and non-global firms: a firm-level application to the U.S. food and beverage industries. Operational Research., doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12351-019-00489-x.

Davlasheridze, M., & Geylani, P. (2017). Small Business Vulnerability to Floods and the Effects of Disaster Loans. Small Business Economics, 49, 865-888, doi: doi:10.1007/s11187-017-9859-5.

Geylani, P. C. (2013). Lumpy investments and capital adjustment patterns in the food manufacturing industry. Journal of Economics and Finance., doi: DOI 10.1007/s12197-013-9262-2 (published online).

Geylani, P.C., Baird, P., & Roberts, J. (2012). Corporate Social and Financial Performance Re-examined: Industry Effects in a Linear Mixed Model Analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 109 (3), 367-388.

Geylani, P. C. & Stefanou, S. E. (2012). Linking Investment Spikes and Productivity Growth: U.S. Food Manufacturing Industry. Empirical Economics. doi: 10.1007/s00181-012-0599-8 (online).

Geylani, P. C. & Stefanou, S. E. (2011). Productivity Growth Patterns in U. S. Dairy Products Manufacturing Plants. Applied Economics, 43, 3415-3432.

Geylani, P. C. (2009). Policy Reforms and Productivity Differences in US Food Manufacturing: The Case of Meat, Dairy and Sugar Plants. Food Economics, 6 (1), 43-55.

R. Scott Farrow, Martin T. Schultz, Pinar Celikkol, and George L. Van Houtven. (2005). Pollution Trading in Water Quality Limited Areas: Use of Benefits Assessment and Cost-Effective Trading Rations. Land Economics, 81(2):191-205.

Geylani (Celikkol), P. & Stefanou, S. (1999). Measuring the Impact of Price-Induced Innovation on Technological Progress: Application to the U.S. Food Processing and Distribution Sector. Journal of Productivity Analysis, (12) 2.

Chapters

Erbas, B. C. & Geylani, P. C. (2016). Technological Chance and Environmental Problems. In Press, In Erkan Erdil, Bilgi University Publishers, Istanbul (Ed.), Handbook of Science, Technology and Innovation (in Turkish) (pp. 22).

Geylani, P. Celikkol, Stefanou, S. E., Pompelli, G. K. (2008) Productivity and Innovation in the U.S. Food Processing Sector. Handbook of Innovation in the Food and Drink Industry, Ruth Rama (Editor), The Haworth Press Inc., N.Y.-London\, 81-106.