ABOUT ME
I'm a full professor of economics at MEF University, department of economics. I hold a B.A. degree in Business-Economics from Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey, a M.A. degree in Economics from University of Saskatchewan, Canada and a Ph.D. degree in Law and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I spent the 2017-18 academic year as a Visiting Research Scholar at Montana State University, with the Initiative for Regulation and Applied Economic Analysis where I worked on organ donation and gun control.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Causal Inference
Irregular assignment mechanisms, observational data, instrumental variables, RDD, synthetic control, causal graphs
2008 - 2011
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ph.D, Law and Economics
Health Economics
Organ donation, transplantation, epidemiology, health externalities, socioeconomic disparities
Law and Economics
Empirical legal studies, gun control, mass shootings, program evaluation
Political Economy
Political conflict, democratization, election forensics, voting behavior
2003 - 2004
University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada
M.A, Economics
1999 - 2003
Istanbul Bilgi University
B.A., Business-Economics
Spatial analysis and mapping
Spatial econometrics, multiscale geographically weighted regression