Organisers

Main leader

Erinç Yeldan

Professor of Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the Yaşar University.  (erinc.yeldan@yasar.edu.tr).  He is one of the founding executive committee members of theInternational Development Associates (IDEAs) New Delhi, and also a member of the Independent Social Scientists’ Alliance of Turkey.  Yeldan teaches macroeconomics; international economics and theories of growth.

Co-leaders

Özden Birkan

Assistant Professor of Economics at Yaşar University.  (ozden.birkan@yasar.edu.tr).  She holds a PhD from University of Utah and teaches macroeconomics, econometrics and international economics.

Ilker Aslan

PhD student in Political Economy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. (ilker.aslan@unifr.ch). Aslan holds a MSc in European Law and Business from Aarhus University, Denmark and BSc in Business Administration from University of Texas at Dallas. His areas of research are macroeconomics, monetary economics with a focus on the effects of financialization.