PUBLICATIONS and FORTHCOMING PAPERS
Proliferation of religious associations and local incumbency advantage: evidence from municipal elections in Turkey, Democratization, November 2024 (with Ekim Arbatli).
Book review for the book titled The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (by Umit Kurt, Harvard University Press), published in Business History Review.
Human Capital Transfers and Sub-national Development: Armenian and Greek Legacy in Post-expulsion Turkey (with Gunes Gokmen), Journal of Economic Growth, July 2022.
Sectarian Aid, Sanctions and Subnational Development (with David Gomtsyan), European Economic Review, October 2021, [Working paper]
Diversity and Conflict (with Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Marc Klemp), Econometrica, March 2020, 88(2), pp. 727–797. DOI [Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper | Print Version | Online Appendix ] [Replication Files].
Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews (with Kemal Kıvanç Aköz and Levent Çelik), February 2021, 68(4), pp.591-639, Journal of Industrial Economics [Working paper].
Voting Retrospectively: Critical Junctures and Party Identification (with David Gomtsyan), European Economic Review, October 2019, 119, pp. 356-390 [Working paper].
Information Manipulation in Election Campaigns (with Kemal Kıvanç Aköz), Economics & Politics, July 2016, 28(2), pp. 181-215.
Clientelism and Development: Vote-buying meets patronage (with Vladimir Shchukin), Journal of Theoretical Politics, December 2021, pp. 1-32.
External Threats and Political Survival: Can Dispute Involvement Deter Coup Attempts? (with Ekim Arbatlı), Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2016, 33(2), 115-152.
Trade and income growth in the Ottoman Empire: Assessing the role of volatility and trend growth in terms of trade Eurasian Economic Review, 2016, 6(2), 173-194.
The International Determinants of Military Coup Behavior (with Ekim Arbatli) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, June 2017.
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Adjusting to Toxic Husbands: Normalization of Domestic Violence by Women (joint with Arzu Kibris and Cole Williams), link to working paper.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Agro-climatic Origins of Value Diversity” with Mariko Klasing and Petros Milionis.
“Biased Media and Political Competition” with Levent Çelik and Dmitry Vorobyev.
“Religious Diversity, Market Access and Sub-national Development: Lessons from the Ottoman Empire’’
“Mosques and Churches: The Cultural and Economic Legacy of Inter-group Contact”, with Güneş Gökmen.
“Occupational structure in the mid-19th century Ottoman Empire and economic dynamics after ethnoreligious homogenization” with Erdem Kabadayı and Arhan Ertan.