People Biography

• Islamic Finance and Economy
• Fintech
• Banking and Finance
• Macroeconomics
• Central Banking

Books

• Turkish Economy: Between Middle Income Trap and High Income Status. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-70380-0.

• Türkiye’de Kredi Kartı Piyasası (Credit Cards Market in Turkey). Edited volume in Turkish. Central Bank of Republic Turkey.

• Determinants of Turkish Exports: Competitiveness and Unit Labor Cost. VDM Verlag. ISBN 978-3-639-14584-7.

Book Chapters

• COVID-19 Salgınının Dünya Ekonomisini Etkilemesinde Belirsizlik ve Güven Kavramsallaştırması. In: Şeker, M., Özer, A., & Korkut, C. (Eds.), Küresel Salgının Anatomisi: İnsan ve Toplumun Geleceği. Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi, TÜBA. ISBN: 978-605-2249-46-8.

• On the Path to High-Income Status or to Middle-Income Trap: The Turkish Economy in Search of its Future. In: Aysan, A.F., Babacan, M., Gur, N., & Karahan, H. (Eds.), Turkish Economy: Between Middle Income Trap and High Income Status. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 1–11.

• Faizsiz Finans Ve Küresel Etkileri. In: Elmas, M., Bilen, M., & San, M.K. (Eds.), Sosyal Bilimlerle Çağı Yorumlamak. Mahya Yayınları. 249–260.

• Macroeconomic Shocks and Islamic Bank Behavior in Turkey. In: Hassan, K. (Ed.), Handbook of Empirical Research on Islam and Economic Life. Edward Elgar Publishing. 375–394.

• Post-Crisis Shifts in Macroeconomic Management and Central Banking: Could Consumption Planning Emerge as a Macro-Prudential Tool? In: Yülek, M. (Ed.), Economic Planning and Industrial Policy in the Globalizing Economy. Vol 13 of the series Public Administration, Governance and Globalization. Springer International Publishing. 355–375.

• Assessing the Adverse Effects of Interbank Funds on Bank Efficiency through Using Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods. In: Fethi, M., Gaganis, C., Pasiouras, F., & Zopounidis, C. (Eds.), Global Trends in the Efficiency and Risk Management of Financial Services. New York: Nova Science Publishers. 41–62.

• Sustaining Growth in Emerging Markets: The Role of Structural and Monetary Policies. In: Nowotny, E., Mooslechner, P., & Ritzberger-Grunwald, D. (Eds.), A New Model for Balanced Growth and Convergence. Edward Elgar Publishing. 122–144.

• The Effects of Convergence in Governance on Capital Accumulation in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Countries. In: Ugur, M., & Sunderland, D. (Eds.), Does Economic Governance Matter? Governance Institutions and Outcomes. Edward Elgar Publishing. 119–138.

• Do Political and Governance Institutions Matter for Private Investment Decisions?: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa. In: Sayan, S. (Ed.), Economic Performance in the Middle East and North Africa: Institutions, Corruption and Reform. London: Routledge. 94–109.

• Transformation of the Turkish Financial Sector in the Aftermath of the 2001 Crisis. In: Onis, Z., & Senses, F. (Eds.), Turkish Economy in the Post-Crisis Era: the New Phase of Neo-Liberal Restructuring and Integration to the Global Economy. Routledge. 73–100.

Journal Articles/Book Reviews

• Small Business Lending and Credit Risk: Granger Causality Evidence. Economic Modelling, 83. 245–255.

• Effects of the Geopolitical Risks on Bitcoin Returns and Volatility. Research in International Business and Finance, 47. 511–518.

• Small Business Lending and Credit Risk: Granger Causality Evidence. Economic Modelling, 83(C). 245–255.

• Does Islamic Banking Offer a Natural Hedge For Business Cycles? Evidence from a Dual Banking System. Journal of Financial Stability, 36. 22–38.

• Religiosity vs. Rationality: Depositor Behavior in Islamic and Conventional Banks? Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(1). 1–19.

• Islamic Banks, Deposit Insurance Reform, and Market Discipline: Evidence from a Natural Framework. Journal of Financial Services Research, 51(2). 257–282.

• Financial Crisis, Macroprudential Policies, and Depositor Discipline. The Singapore Economic Review, 62(1). 5–25.

• Is Small the New Big? Islamic Banking for SMEs In Turkey. Economic Modelling, 54(C). 187–194.

• Regulate One Service, Tame the Entire Market: Credit Cards in Turkey. Journal of Banking & Finance, 37(4). 1195–1204.

• Non-Price Competition in Credit Card Markets Through Bundling and Bank Level Benefits. Contemporary Economic Policy, 29(4). 593–604.

Others

• Small Business Lending and Credit Risk: Granger Causality Evidence. Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Belgium: Ghent University.

• Islamic Banks, Deposit Insurance Reform, and Market Discipline: Evidence from a Natural Framework. Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Belgium: Ghent University.

• Managing Short-Term Capital Flows in New Central Banking: Unconventional Monetary Policy Framework in Turkey. Working Paper 1403. Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.

• Macroprudential Policies as Buffer Against Volatile Cross-Border Capital Flows. Working Paper 1404. Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.

• The Effects of Convergence in Governance on Capital Accumulation in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Countries. Working Paper 611, Economic Research Forum.

• Non-Price Competition in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from an Emerging Economy. Meeting Paper 2, Society for Economic Dynamics.

• Authoritarianism, Credibility of Reforms, and Private Sector Development in the Middle East and North Africa. ERF Working Paper 443, Economic Research Forum.

• The Competitiveness of Turkey with Respect to the Slovak Republic for the 1995–1999 Period. MPRA Paper 5496, University Library of Munich, Germany.

• Concentration, Competition, Efficiency and Profitability of the Turkish Banking Sector in the Post-Crises Period. Bogazici University Research Papers, ISS/EC 2007-20, Istanbul.

• Governance and Private Investment in the Middle East and North Africa. Policy Research Working Paper Series, 3934. World Bank.

• TOP INFLUENCER RECOGNITION IN ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE
  Institution: Academic article published in the Pacific-Basin Journal
  Year: 2020
• GLOBAL RANKING AS AN ACADEMIC (11TH IN ISLAMIC BANKING, 16TH IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS, AND 22ND IN ISLAMIC FINANCE) 
  Institution: As per number of citations in Google Scholar
  Year: 2019
• BEST PAPER AWARD FOR CO-AUTHORED ARTICLE, “RELIGIOSITY VS. RATIONALITY: DEPOSITOR BEHAVIOR IN ISLAMIC AND CONVENTIONAL BANKS?,” JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS, 46(1)
  Institution: PlumX Metrics 
  Year: 2018
• GRANT AS PI FOR “ETHICAL FINANCE TOOLS, INTEGRATED REPORTING, AND SDGS”
  Institution: Newton Mobility Fund 
  Year: 2018