Research
PUBLICATIONS and FORTHCOMING PAPERS
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
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.
“Local Government Control and the Rise of Religious Associations in Turkey", with Ekim Arbatlı.
“When a political ally goes rogue: The electoral costs of choosing dubious partners", with Ekim Arbatlı.