Research

Fields of Interests:

• Labor-Market Macroeconomics, Empirical Macroeconomics, Trade, Natural Resources, Business Cycles & Monetary Policy.

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

• Minimum wages and financial constraints in firms (with Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Ahmet Ali Taskin),  European Economic Review (2024)

• Wage bargaining structure and political budget cycles: a policy game approach, European Journal of Political Economy (2024)

• Wage centralization and the political economy of budget deficits, European Journal of Political Economy  (2022).

Working Papers

• Financial Constraints, Wages and Macroeconomic Implications (with Almut Balleer & Britta Gehrke), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (R&R )

• Distribution of resource rents and deindustrialization: the role of luxury goods (with Arsham Reisinezhad), submitted

• Why the rich may want a low pollution tax? (with Baris Vardar)

Work in progress

• Export intensity and heterogeneous impact of monetary policy 

• Minimum wage and exposure to trade

• How does the demand for luxuries shape the manufacturing sector in developing resource-rich countries? (with Arsham Reisinezhad)