Research

Working Papers

  • "From Elected to Appointed: The Economic Consequences of Local Authoritarian Takeovers", with F. S. Adiguzel and M. Kaba, submitted.

  • “Factor intensity, structural change, and firm concentration”, with M. Curuk and F. K. Hoke, draft available upon request.

  • "The Effects of Tax Amnesties on Growth and Employment: Evidence from Turkey”, with F. Kubra Hoke, draft available upon request.

  • "Is Seeing Believing? How Public Service Visibility Influences Local Government Spending and Procurement Policies", with F. S. Adiguzel, A. Cansunar, and M. Kaba,  in progress.

  • "Local Responses to a Global Crisis: Public Service Delivery in Turkish Municipalities Amidst Migrant Influx", with F. S. Adiguzel and M. Kaba, in progress.

  • "Social Networks in Times of Turkey’s Currency Crisis", with N.G. Bacaksizlar Turbic, M.C. Yardı, Ö.E. Acar, O. Gürerk, A. Hurriyetoglu, T. Etgu, and E. Yörük, in progress

  • "Structural Change and Income Inequality," with F. Alvarez-Cuadrado, in progress.

  • "Distributional Effects of Public Capital under Progressive Taxation," with A. Unsal, in progress.

 

Publications

A Computational Analysis of Ideologies, Emotions, and Support for Presidential Candidates in Turkey, with E. Yörük, Ş. Atsızelti, M.F. Kına, F. Duruşan, O. Gürerk, M.C. Yardı, A. Hürriyetoğlu, O. Mutlu, T. Etgü, and I. Topçu; forthcoming at the Developing Economies.

Social Norms, Political Polarization, and Vaccination Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey with M. Kaba, S.O. Schneider, and M. Sutter, European Economic Review, Volume 168, September 2024, 104818.

Keeping Refugee Children in School and Out of Work: Evidence from the World's Largest Humanitarian Cash Transfer Program with A. Aygün, M. Kirdar, and Q. Stoeffler, Volume 168, May 2024, 103266, Journal of Development Economics.

Does violent conflict affect the distribution of social welfare? Evidence from India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, with E. Yörük and B. Gürel, Social Policy & Administration, September 2023, Vol 57, Issue 3, 656-678.

A Note on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Ethnic/Racial Tension, with K.P. Arin and N. Spagnolo, Economics Letters, 2017, Vol 155, 100-103.

Foreword (as the Guest Editor), Issue in Honor of Fikret Şenses, with H. Cömert, METU Studies in Development, 2016, Vol 43, No 1.

Should We Care About the Composition of Tax-Based Stimulus Packages?, with P. Arin, P. Helles, O. Reich, Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 3, 430-445.

The Dynamics of Growth and Income Inequality under Progressive Taxation, with S. J. Turnovsky, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 4, 560-588.

Trans-Tasman Transmission of Government Spending Shocks, with P. Arin, and C. Schumacher, Australian Economic Papers, 2012, Vol 51, Issue 4, 167-188.

Can Progressive Taxation Explain Cross-Country Variation in Labor Supply?,  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2011, Vol 35, 1474-1488.

Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Tax Policy with Interdependent Preferences: The Role of `Catching up with the Joneses', with S. J. Turnovsky, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, Vol 14, 200-223.

Socioeconomic Effects of Economic Crises: A Comparative Analysis of the Experience of Indonesia, Argentina and Turkey, with F. Şenses, 2008, in Köse, A.H., Şenses, F. and Yeldan, E. (eds.): Neoliberal Globalization as New Imperialism: Case Studies on Reconstruction of the Periphery, Nova Publishers.

 

Recent Project

Effects of Structural Change on Income Inequality, EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, 2017-2019.

 

Other / Publications in Turkish

In memoriam: Fikret Şenses (1947 – 2023), New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol 68, 3-6.

İyi Yaşam Hakkı Bakımından Pandemi Süreci ve Alınan Önlemlere İlişkin Bir Değerlendirme, with E. Memiş, 2022, in H. Çağlayan, and K. A. Türker (eds.): Feminizm, Ekoloji, Toplumsal Direniş, Nota Bene: İstanbul. 

Geçmişten Geleceğe Türkiye Ekonomisi, Edited book, with H. Mıhcı, and E. Yeldan, 2017, İletişim: Ankara.

Büyümemek Mümkün mü? 'Ekonomik Küçülme' Fikri üzerineTartışmalar, with Ş. Özar, 2017, in H. Cömert, E. Özçelik, and E. Voyvoda (eds.): Kalkınma İktisadının Penceresinden Türkiye'ye Bakmak, İletişim: Ankara.

Kısa Dönem Krizlerin Sosyoekonomik Etkileri: Türkiye, Endonezya ve Arjantin Deneyimleri, Çalışma ve Toplum, 2004, Vol 3, 11-52.