Ulaş Karakoç

Ulaş Karakoç

Assistant Professor of Economics

Kadir Has University

I am a member of Economics Department of Kadir Has University. My current research focuses the regional inequalites, the West-East divide, industry location and railroads during the twentieth century. Besides, I am working with World Wildlife Fund-Turkey on a project regarding the drivers of the farmer’s adoption of local wheat seeds. Also, I am consulting World Bank with a project on labor market participation and entrepreneurship of Syrian migrants.

I am interested in the social science applications of the state-of-the-art computational methods in statistical programming, data visualization, text mining and spatial analysis.

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Interests

  • Economic History
  • Development
  • Applied statistics and econometrics
  • Statistical programming with R
  • Spatial analysis with GIS

Education

  • PhD in Economic History, 2015

    LSE

  • MSc in Economics, 2007

    Bogazici University

  • BA in Mathematics, 2004

    Bogazici University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Assist. Prof. in Economics

Kadir Has University

Sep 2020 – Present Istanbul
 
 
 
 
 

Assist. Prof. in Economics

TOBB ETU

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020 Ankara
Taught Econometrics, Mathematics for Economists and Introduction to Economics.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellow in Economic History

Humboldt University Berlin

Jan 2017 – Dec 2019 Berlin
Taught Econonics of Midddle East and Political Economy of Inequality.
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher in Marie-Curie Initial Training Project MACROHIST

Humboldt University Berlin

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 Ankara

Recent Posts

My first post defines economic historian (not so seriously)

Economic historians usually have a self-identification problem: are they economists, historians or what? My definition is simple: Economic historian is either the economist who reads books, or the historian who likes numbers, or both.
Oct 8, 2020 1 min read

Publications

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with Sevket Pamuk, Gunes Asik (2020). Regional Inequality and East-West Divide in Turkey since 1880. CEPR Discussion Paper.

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(2020). Dünyada ve Türkiye'de geç sanayileşme. in İktisat Tarihinin Dönüşü: Türkiye’de ve Dünyada Yeni Yaklaşımlar ve Araştırmalar, İletişim Yayınları (forthcoming).

with Laura Panza (2020). Overcoming the Egytian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds and access to credit. Economic History Review, forthcoming.

(2018). Industrial growth in interwar Egypt: first estimates, new insights. European Review of Economic History, 22(1), 53-72.

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(2018). Book Review: Metin Coşgel and Boğaç Ergene, The economics of Ottoman justice: settlement and trial in the Sharia courts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. The Economic History Review, 71(1), 348-49.

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