ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇᴡs ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ sʜᴀᴘᴇs ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴꜰʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛ 📺 📈 Our new @voxeu.org blog piece with @selvademiralp.com & #MichaelWeber is now online: cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Orkun Saka
@orkunsaka.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at City St George's (UoL) Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Research Affiliate at CESifo #FinancialIntermediation · #InternationalFinance · #PoliticalEconomy Web: https://sites.google.com/site/orkunsaka/
🎧 My favorite podcast series has just dropped a new episode on #Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6a5z...
Our new project with @selvademiralp.com & #MichaelWeber is now out as a @cepr.org discussion paper: cepr.org/publications... #KocUniversity @cityeconomics.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @cesifo.org #PurdueUniversity #ESMTBerlin @nber.org See below for a summary 👇🏼
Enjoyed my first time in Cambridge and the privilege to present my research in a great workshop to conclude the academic year. Big thanks @d-luca.bsky.social @orkunsaka.bsky.social @ygursoy.bsky.social @lsects.bsky.social for the organisation and the perfectly air conditioned room amidst the heat 🌞
Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE@lsects.bsky.social · 4w agoDay 1- 6th LSE-Cambridge Workshop on Political Economy of Türkiye (9th July) The first day of the workshop took place in Cambridge. Conducted in two sessions, researchers and policymakers discussed new research and identified areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed.
Day 1- 6th LSE-Cambridge Workshop on Political Economy of Türkiye (9th July) The first day of the workshop took place in Cambridge. Conducted in two sessions, researchers and policymakers discussed new research and identified areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed.
⏰ Only ☝🏻 week left for the LSE-Cambridge Workshop on Political Economy of Turkiye! Register here to join us at the @universitypress.cambridge.org: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Orkun Saka@orkunsaka.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣With @d-luca.bsky.social, we are glad to announce the programme for the “𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐒𝐄-𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓ü𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐲𝐞” Register here: sites.google.com/view/lseturk... @lse-ei.bsky.social; @lsects.bsky.social; @universitypress.cambridge.org
📣With @d-luca.bsky.social, we are glad to announce the programme for the “𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐒𝐄-𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓ü𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐲𝐞” Register here: sites.google.com/view/lseturk... @lse-ei.bsky.social; @lsects.bsky.social; @universitypress.cambridge.org
Orkun Saka@orkunsaka.bsky.social · 6mo ago@lse-ei.bsky.social; @lsects.bsky.social; @universitypress.cambridge.org Link: sites.google.com/view/lseturk...
📣With @d-luca.bsky.social, we are glad to announce the programme for the “𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐋𝐒𝐄-𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓ü𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐲𝐞” Register here: sites.google.com/view/lseturk... @lse-ei.bsky.social; @lsects.bsky.social; @universitypress.cambridge.org
Orkun Saka@orkunsaka.bsky.social · 6mo ago@lse-ei.bsky.social; @lsects.bsky.social; @universitypress.cambridge.org Link: sites.google.com/view/lseturk...
So happy that this paper has now found itself such a nice home at @pnas.org. Such massive work with a global set of co-authors! DOI: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · 2mo ago1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
Our next event is on Monday, 18 May 2026. Clement Minaudier from @cityeconomics.bsky.social will present "Media coverage and issue politicisation: experimental evidence". Joint work with Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen. @clementminaudier.bsky.social
Looking forward to the 1st London MEF Meeting (Macroeconomics, Econometrics, and Finance) at City St George’s on Wednesday 29 April. @ran-gu.bsky.social @orkunsaka.bsky.social Full program here: sites.google.com/view/london-...
1st London MEF Meeting
About the workshop: The 1st London MEF Meeting brings together researchers in macroeconomics, econometrics, and finance for a one-day workshop at City St George's, University of London. The workshop p...
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What’s bubbling up in the Turkish stock market? A very nice piece by @donalgriffin.bsky.social and co-authors at @bloomberg.com accompanied by some of my comments: lnkd.in/exNy7F59 @cityeconomics.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lsects.bsky.social
How much do European countries actually trust each other? 🌍 Less than you might think… and it varies a lot. With Barry Eichengreen, we're launching the new website for our 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲! Free to use 👉 bilateraltrust.com
Delighted to have joined @aljazeera.com today for a live discussion with Jonah Hull on the economic fallout from the Iran-US war — covering the OECD's downgraded UK outlook, the collapse in consumer confidence, Russia's oil windfall …
CfP - deadline March 15; our BIS, @cepr.org Cebra and @unibas.ch conference seeks papers on inflation heterogeneity - consumers, firms, and shocks - and the implications for aggregate inflation and policy: www.bis.org/events/26052...
📣Join #LSETürkiye at Cambridge, present your paper and receive valuable feedback 📜CfP: 6th Workshop on the Political Economy of Türkiye 9-10 July 2026 ⏰3 days to go until the deadline to submit www.lse.ac.uk/contemporary... @lsects.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @orkunsaka.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS | 6th LSE - Cambridge Workshop on Political Economy of Türkiye
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🚨6th LSE-Cambridge Workshop on Political Economy of Türkiye🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 9-10 July 2026, Cambridge, UK Submission deadline: 1 March 2026 lse.ac.uk/contemporary... @lse-ei.bsky.social @lsects.bsky.social @orkunsaka.bsky.social
Publication alert! New article by our colleague @clementminaudier.bsky.social (with S. Aman-Rana) in the American Economic Review on unintended consequences of digitization reforms. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan
(Forthcoming Article) - Digitization reforms have been hailed as an effective way of strengthening state capacity. However, digitization can also fundamentally reshape the organization of bureaucracie...
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I’m glad to have started the new year by being promoted to “Reader” at @cityeconomics.bsky.social 😊 For those not familiar with the title: it’s a British way of saying “I’m now a better Associate Professor than I used to be”😛
Great to announce that Alejandro Riaño (@alejandroriano.bsky.social) and Orkun Saka (@orkunsaka.bsky.social) have both been promoted to Reader 🎉 They’re exceptional scholars whose work has made a real impact across research and teaching. Big congratulations to both — ad maiora!
Some Xmas gifts for this year’s Econ job market candidates 🎁 For our rapidly expanding department of economics at @cityeconomics.bsky.social, we are looking for 5️⃣ Assistant Professors this year! Ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... Deadline: 18 Jan 2026
“Central bankers, let Turkey be a warning” via @financialtimes.com: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙨 continue with a new session 🚀 🗣️ Mara Faccio (Purdue University) 📝 “The externalities of corporate political ties: Evidence from the supply chain” 📆 10/12/2025 🏫 @cityeconomics.bsky.social + Zoom 🤔 -> o.saka@city.ac.uk
𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙨 continue with a new session 🚀 🗣️ Kjetil Storesletten (University of Minnesota) 📝 “Fiscal Progressivity of the US Federal and State Governments” 📆 26/11/2025 🏫 @cityeconomics.bsky.social + Zoom 🤔 -> o.saka@city.ac.uk
We’re delighted to host Dr. Liliana Varela (London School of Economics) in our upcoming external seminar: “Segmented Financial Integration” 📍 DLG03, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm
We’re excited to host @ralphdehaas.bsky.social (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) in our external seminar series next week: “Violent Conflict and Cross-Border Lending” 📍 D220, Rhind Building 📅 Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 2:30–3:45 pm
