Erhan Artuc

Dr. Erhan Artuc is a Senior Economist at The World Bank.
His research focuses on international trade policy and its effects on labor markets.
He has studied the distributional effects of trade liberalization on workers from different age, education, and human capital groups; timing of trade policy; occupational and sectoral mobility of workers; unemployment; and changes in skill premium in response to trade shocks and discount window borrowing from central banks.
Before joining the World Bank in 2011, Dr. Artuc was a faculty member at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey, where he taught international trade, microeconomics, and macroeconomics classes.
He received a BA in 2001 from Bilkent University, Ankara, and a PhD in 2006 from the University of Virginia, both in Economics.