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Job Market Paper:
(Market) Power is (Political) Power! The Pressure of Declining Competition on Democracy JMP, 2021 Short Summary: This paper studies how the concentration of market power among a restricted set of corporates leads to a concentration of political power that ultimately undermines democracy in recent years. It provides statistical evidence for the existence of this mechanism. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Working Papers:
Blue Screen of Death? Obsolescence and Structural Change in the Computer Age Working Paper, 2021 – article-based chapter from Doctoral Dissertation (submitted) Short Summary: This modelling-based paper investigates, for U.S. case, how fast-changing nature of high technologies (i.e., hardware and software) causes the decline in labor income share, the stagnation of wages, and the decrease in productivity growth. |
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Turkey’s Transition to Sustained Growth: Some Econometric Evidence (with M. Aykut Attar)
Working Paper, 2018 – article-based chapter from Master Thesis (withdrawn and revised) Ottoman Population within the Current Borders of Turkey: Malthusian Characteristics of A New Construction Working Paper, 2018 – article-based chapter from Master Thesis (revised) Nightlights as a development indicator: the estimation of gross provincial product in Turkey Seda Basihos. The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, 2016. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Selected Reports and Projects: Support to Development of a Policy Framework for Total Factor Productivity in Turkey United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), contributed in 2016 as research associate. Measuring the Size of the Turkish Informal Economy: Technical Assistance for Fight Against Informal Economy European Commission, International Cooperation and Development, contributed in 2016 as research associate. Trade Relations with Syria after the Refugee Influx Seda Basihos, Esra Ozpinar, Aycan Kulaksiz. The Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, 2015. Contractual Agreements in Turkish Coal Mining Sector International Labor Organization (ILO), 2015. Contributed as research associate. |