Publications

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• "On the Design of Effective Sanctions: The Case of Bans on Exports to Russia" with Ricardo Hausmann and Ulrich Schetter. Economic Policy, forthcoming.

  • Harvard Kennedy School, CID Faculty Working Paper No. 417 (September 2022).

• “Economic costs of friend-shoring” with Beata S. Javorcik, Lucas Kitzmueller & Helena Schweiger. The World Economy, forthcoming.

  • CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17764

  • In Aiyar, S, A Presbitero and M Ruta (eds), Geoeconomic Fragmentation: The Economic Risks from a Fractured World Economy, CEPR Press, Paris & London. 

• “COVID-19 and Emerging Markets: An SIR Model, Demand Shocks and Capital Flows,” with Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan & Sevcan Yeşiltaş, Journal of International Economics, 103825 (2023).

  • Highlighted in Reuters, BBC News, Financial Post, Yahoo Finance, LSE Blog, Cumhuriyet, Sözcü, Karar, Yeni Çağ, Yetkin Reports, Gazete Duvar, Sputnik News and Yeşil Gazete.

  • NBER Working Paper No. 27191, May 2020; IMF Working Paper No. 20/133, July 2020. First circulated as: “COVID-19 and Emerging Markets: The Case of Turkey,” Koç University-TÜSIAD Economic Research Forum Working Papers. No. 2011, April 2020.

• “Quantifying the Inflationary Impact of Fiscal Stimulus Under Supply Constraints,” with Julian Di Giovanni, Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan & Alvaro Silva, AEA Papers & Proceedings, 113, 76-80 (2023).

  • NBER Working Paper No. 30892.

• “Role of institutional, cultural and economic factors in the effectiveness of lockdown measures,” with Cem Çakmaklı, Selva Demiralp, Önder Ergönül & Sevcan Yeşiltaş (all authors contributed equally), International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 116, 111-113 (2022).

• “Production Ability and Economic Growth,” with Sebastián Bustos, Research Policy, 104153 (2022).

• “Implied Comparative Advantage,” with Ricardo Hausmann & Daniel P. Stock, Research Policy, 104143 (2022).

• “Productive Ecosystems and the Arrow of Development” Neave O’Clery*, Muhammed A. Yıldırım* & Ricardo Hausmann, Nature Communications 12, 1479 (2021).

* Contributed equally

• Muhammed A. Yıldırım# & Michele Coscia. "Using Random Walks to Generate Associations between Objects." PloS one 9, no. 8 e104813 (2014).

# Corresponding Author

• “School Choice with Control: Hard Bounds versus Soft Bounds.” with Lars Ehlers, Isa E. Hafalir & M. Bumin Yenmez, Journal of Economic Theory 153, 648-683 (2014).

  • Second most-cited article of Journal of Economic Theory published since 2010.

• “Effective Affirmative Action in School Choice.” with Isa E. Hafalir & M. Bumin Yenmez, Theoretical Economics 8, 325–363 (2013).

  • The second most-cited article of Theoretical Economics.

• “The Atlas of Economic Complexity” with Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia & Alexander Simoes, MIT Press (2014).

  • Highlighted in Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, The Washington Post, PhysOrg, ABC Australia, Infosthetics, Crackajack and others.

  • Initial version: “The Atlas of Economic Complexity” with Ricardo Hausmann, César A. Hidalgo, Sebastián Bustos, Michele Coscia, Sarah Chung, Juan Jimenez & Alexander Simoes, Puritan Press (2011).

Natural sciences

• Jin-Wu Nam, Olivia S. Rissland, David Koppstein, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Calvin Jan, Vikram Agarwal, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “Global analyses of the effect of different cellular contexts on microRNA targeting,” Molecular Cell 53, 1031-1043 (2014).

• Alfredo Giménez-Cassina, Luisa Garcia-Haro, Cheol Soo Choi, Mayowa A. Osundiji, Elizabeth A. Lane, Hu Huang, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “Regulation of Hepatic Energy Metabolism and Gluconeogenesis by BAD,” Cell Metabolism 19, 272-284 (2014).

• Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Thomas Rolland, Ilan Wapinski, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., ““Proto-genes” and de novo gene birth,” Nature 487, 370–374 (2012).

• Han Yan, Kavitha Venkatesan, John E. Beaver, Niels Klitgord, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “A genome-wide gene function prediction resource for Drosophila melanogaster,” PLoS One 5, e12139 (2010).

• Quan Zhong, Nicolas Simonis, Qian-Ru Li, Benoit Charloteaux, Fabien Heuze, Niels Klitgord, Stanley Tam, Haiyuan Yu, Kavitha Venkatesan, Danny Mou, Venus Swearingen, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “Edgetic perturbation models of human inherited disorders,” Molecular Systems Biology 5, 321 (2009).

  • Highlighted in News & Views: Albertha J. M. Walhout, “Getting an edge on human disease,” Molecular Systems Biology 5, 322 (2009) & Research Highlights: Mary Muers, “Human disease: Edges, nodes and networks,” Nature Reviews Genetics 11, 4–5 (2010).

• Matija Dreze, Benoit Charloteaux, Stuart Milstein, Pierre-Olivier Vidalain, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “'Edgetic' perturbation of a C. elegans BCL2 ortholog,” Nature Methods 6, 843-849 (2009).

  • Highlighted in News & Views: Michael Costanzo, Anastasia Baryshnikova, Corey Nislow, Brenda Andrews & Charles Boone, “You too can play with an edge,” Nature Methods 6, 797-798 (2009) & Research Highlights: Mary Muers, “Human disease: Edges, nodes and networks,” Nature Reviews Genetics 11, 4–5 (2010).

• Nicolas Simonis, Jean-François Rual, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Murat Tasan, Irma Lemmens, Tomoko Hirozane-Kishikawa, Tong Hao, Julie M Sahalie, Kavitha Venkatesan, Fana Gebreab, Sebiha Cevik, Niels Klitgord, Changyu Fan, Pascal Braun, Ning Li, Nono Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Elizabeth Dann, Nicolas Bertin, David Szeto, Amélie Dricot, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “High-quality high-throughput mapping of the Caenorhabditis elegans interactome,” Nature Methods 6, 47-54 (2009).

• Kavitha Venkatesan, Jean-François Rual, Alexei Vazquez, Ulrich Stelzl, Irma Lemmens, Tomoko Hirozane-Kishikawa, Tong Hao, Martina Zenkner, Xiaofeng Xin, Kwang-Il Goh, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “An empirical framework for binary interactome mapping,” Nature Methods 6, 83-90 (2009).

• Mike Boxem, Zoltan Maliga, Niels Klitgord, Na Li, Irma Lemmens, Miyeko Mana, Lorenzo de Lichtervelde, Joram D. Mul, Diederik van de Peut, Maxime Devos, Nicolas Simonis, Muhammed A. Yıldırım et al., “A protein domain-based interactome network for C. elegans early embryogenesis,” Cell 134, 534-545 (2008).

• Haiyuan Yu,* Pascal Braun,* Muhammed A. Yıldırım* et al., “High quality binary protein interaction map of the yeast interactome network,” Science 322, 104-110 (2008).

* Contributed equally

• • Highlighted in Perspective: Lars J. Jensen & Peer Bork, Not comparable, but complementary, Science 322, 56-57 (2008). Faculty of 1000 rated.

• Muhammed A. Yıldırım & Marc Vidal, “Systems engineering to systems biology,” Molecular Systems Biology 4, 185 (2008).

• Muhammed A. Yıldırım, Kwang-Il Goh, Michael E. Cusick, Albert-László Barabási & Marc Vidal, “Drug-target network,” Nature Biotechnology 25, 1119-1126 (2007).

  • Highlighted in News & Views: Andrew L. Hopkins, “Network pharmacology,” Nature Biotechnology 25, 1110-1111 (2007) & Hot off the press: Arthur Wuster Networking with drugs, Molecular BioSystems 4, 14 (2008). Faculty of 1000 rated.

• Robert J. McEliece & Muhammed Yıldırım, “Belief propagation on partially ordered sets,” IMA Volume "Mathematical Systems Theory in Biology, Communications, Computation, and Finance," D. Gilliam and J. Rosenthal, eds. 275-300 (2003).