3rd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop (10 June, 2025)

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I co-organised the 3rd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop, jointly sponsored by the Department of Economics and Bayes Business School at City St George's and Financial Markets Group at LSE. The workshop involved the presentations and discussions of 6 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from diffusion of global sanctions via banking networks to how CEO ideology shapes global trade.

The workshop featured a keynote speech by Anat Admati (Stanford).

5th LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey (7 June, 2024)

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I co-organised the 5th LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey, which took place at LSE campus on 7th of June, 2023. The workshop involved the presentations and discussions of 6 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from the economic effects of local authoritarian takeovers to how parental religiosity influences gender inequality. 

The keynote speech was delivered by Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago).

4th LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey (2 June, 2023)

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I co-organised the 4th LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey, which took place in a hybrid format (at LSE campus & online) on 2nd of June, 2023. The workshop featured the presentations and discussions of 7 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from how judicial alliance networks can drive democratic erosion to the long-run development effects of American missions in Anatolia.

The keynote speech was delivered by Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Maryland).

3rd LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey (3 September, 2021)

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I co-organised the 3rd LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey, which took place virtually on 3rd of September, 2021. The workshop involved the presentations and discussions of 5 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from the roots of nation-building via education and propaganda to what role political partisanship may play in bank depositors' behaviour amidst a currency crisis.

The keynote speech was delivered by Daron Acemoglu (MIT).

2nd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop (24-25 June, 2021)

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I co-organised the 2nd London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop, jointly sponsored by LSE's Systemic Risk Centre and the Business School (formerly Cass) of the City, University of London. The workshop involved the presentations and discussions of 8 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from politicians' corporate favouritism and influence on capital flows to polarization in finance and the role of dark money in elections.

The workshop featured a keynote speech by Renée B. Adams (Oxford).

2nd LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey (10-11 September, 2020)

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I co-organised the 2nd LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey, which took place virtually on 10-11th of September, 2020. The workshop involved the presentations and discussions of 8 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from how to better integrate refugee kids via educational means to what role economic shocks play in intimate partner violence and political conflict.

The keynote speech was delivered by Sule Alan (EUI). 

1st London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop (26-27 June, 2020)

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I co-organised the 1st London Political Finance (POLFIN) Workshop, jointly sponsored by Cass Business School and LSE's Systemic Risk Centre. The inaugural workshop involved the presentations and discussions of 9 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from how financial crises can lead to the rise of populism to how banks can capture the media in order to benefit from biased news coverage.

The workshop featured a keynote speech by Sir Timothy Besley (LSE).

ASSA Session on Social Capital and Banking Crises (3-5 January, 2020)  

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I organised a session for the ASSA Meetings on 3-5 January, 2020, in San Diego (CA, US). The set of papers in this session focused on the bilateral relationship between the failure of the banking systems and social values. Not only financial turbulence can cause individuals to change their social preferences, but also the nature of the financial system and its dynamics very much depend on the social structure upon which they are built. In this panel, we first see two cross-country studies using survey data to discuss how social capital in general and public confidence specifically in the banking sector might evolve in the aftermath of financial crises. We see a complementary perspective in the next two papers that use bank-level data in a national context in order to disentangle the disciplining effects of depositors’ social preferences on their banks’ (mis)behaviour. These papers illustrate how social values are incorporated into individuals’ financial decision-making and how banks react to this in return. 

The session was chaired by Paul Wachtel (NYU). 

1st LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey (12 March, 2019)  

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I co-organised the 1st LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey, which took place on 12th of March, 2019, at the Graham Wallas Room of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The first workshop of its kind involved the presentations and discussions of 7 high-quality academic papers. Topics ranged from how armed conflict may benefit politically-connected firms to how political communication may polarise voter attitudes. The workshop brought together some of the most promising junior scholars working on issues related to Turkey and its political economy. As a point of pride in the economics profession, six out of seven speakers were female, coming from a diverse set of academic institutions.

The workshop also featured a policy panel with Selin Sayek Böke (Member of Turkish Parliament) as the main speaker and Sergei Guriev (former Chief Economist of EBRD) as the chair.