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A Safe Haven for How Long?

In April 2025, as the trade conflict escalated and American stocks sold off, the dollar behaved differently depending on when you looked. During the trading ...

When the Odds Do Not Agree

Through most of 2024, you could bet on the American presidential election in at least seven different places. Polymarket, Betfair, Bovada, BetOnline, William...

Thirty-Five Minutes of Silence

On May 15, 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics loaded a subset of the April Consumer Price Index files onto its public website roughly thirty minutes b...

Çalkantılı Dönemlerde Şaşırtıcı Eğilimler

Türkiye ekonomisi son yıllarda döviz krizleri, yüksek enflasyon ve alışılmadık politikalar gibi zorluklarla karşı karşıya kalarak inişli çıkışlı bir seyir iz...

Surprising Trends Amid Turbulent Times

Turkey’s economy has been on a rollercoaster ride in recent years, facing challenges like currency crises, high inflation, and unorthodox policy responses. B...

Tom Sargent's Views on Economics

Thomas Sargent is an American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2011 (along with Christopher Sims). He is known for his work on macroeconomic...

A Brief Survey on Turkey's Economic Inequalities

Turkey has persistently ranked as one of the most economically unequal countries among OECD nations. While income inequality has stagnated at a high level in...

A Brief Survey on Intergenerational Mobility in Turkey

Intergenerational mobility refers to the extent to which an individual’s socioeconomic outcomes are associated with the outcomes of their parents. High inter...

Tips for Graduate Students in Economics

Over the couple of years I have been serving at the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, I noticed several times that I was repeating myself when ...

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Economics is one of the disciplines that hardly ever becomes clear right after the first encounter. Exposure is key, for which I would like to recommend some...