Bio
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Academic Positions
2023- : Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK
2015 - : Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University, Turkey
2013 - 2015 : AXA Postdoc Fellow, Department of Economics, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University, Turkey
2011 - 2013 : Assistant Professor of Econometrics, Department of Quantitative Economics, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Other Positions
2020 - : Columnist at Capital (Monthly Business and Economics Magazine)
Education
2012 : Ph.D. in Economics/Econometrics, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2007 : M.Phil in Economics (Cum Laude), Tinbergen Institute
2005 : MA in Economics (with distinction), Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences
2002 : B.Sc. in Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
1997: Istanbul Lisesi
Awards and Funding
2019-2020: TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 1001, (with Selva Demiralp), A Credibility Analysis for CBRT, 127K TL ,Istanbul, Turkey,
2019-2020: TUBITAK 3501, Estimating Large Time Varying Parameter VAR’s using Bayesian semiparametric techniques, 108K TL ,Istanbul, Turkey
2017-2019: TUBITAK 1001, Developing Coincident and Leading Indicators Jointly for Emerging Market Economies: Predicting Economic and Financial Activity and Measuring Their Cyclical Synchronization, 176K TL, Istanbul, Turkey
2013-2015: AXA Research Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the project ‘Measuring Economic and Financial Activity and Constructing Leading Economic Indicators for Emerging Markets’, 120K Euros, Istanbul, Turkey