ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, 2023-present.
Visiting Researcher, Utrecht University School of Economics, July 2022.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, TED University, 2017-2023.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2011-2017.
Ph.D. student in Economics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, 2010-2011.
M.Sc. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2007-2010.
B.Sc. in Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002-2007.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Economy, Public Economics, Macroeconomics.
PUBLICATIONS
“International Commodity-Tax Competition and Asymmetric Producer Prices,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2025, 25(1), 59–98. doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2022-0332
"Democracy and Fiscal-Policy Response to COVID-19," with Ceyhun Elgin, Public Choice, 2024, 198, 25–45. doi.org/10.1007/s11127-023-01107-3
“Economic Stimulus Measures in the Pandemic: The Role of Fiscal Decentralization,” with Ceyhun Elgin and Abdullah Yalaman, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2023, 16, 167-184. doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsac047
“Economic Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of the Central Bank Independence,” with Ceyhun Elgin, Abdullah Yalaman, and Gokce Basbug, Economics Letters, 2021, 204, 109874. doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109874
“Budget flexibility, government spending and welfare,” Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2018, 20, 874-895. doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12309
“Turkiye’de dijital fotograf makinesi piyasasi,” with Erdem Oglakcioglu, in Turkish, Iktisat Isletme ve Finans, 2007, 22, 121-127. iif.com.tr/index.php/iif/article/view/iif.2007.256.1396
WORKING PAPERS
“Fiscal-Capacity with Accumulating Defense Activities”
GRANTS
Cardiff Business School Internal Research Grant, Budget: £2000, Principal Investigator, 2025.
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Grant 1001, Budget: 114,500 TL, Principal Investigator, 2019-2021.
TEACHING
Cardiff University
BS1551 Microeconomics
BS3568 International Trade
BS3570 Applied Macroeconomics and Finance
TED University
Econ 101 Economics I
Econ 102 Economics II
Econ 301 Game Theory
Econ 371 Introduction to Political Economy
Econ 472 Topics in Political Economy