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 session, it still tended to rise against the euro in the same…
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Through most of 2024, you could bet on the American presidential election in at least seven different places. Polymarket, Betfair, Bovada, BetOnline, William Hill, Unibet and Everygame all posted a running probability t…
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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 before the scheduled 8:30 release. For half an hour, inflation…
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Türkiye ekonomisi son yıllarda döviz krizleri, yüksek enflasyon ve alışılmadık politikalar gibi zorluklarla karşı karşıya kalarak inişli çıkışlı bir seyir izledi. Peki bu çarpıcı olaylar ülkedeki ekonomik eşitsizlikleri…
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Turkey’s economy has been on a rollercoaster ride in recent years, facing challenges like currency crises, high inflation, and unorthodox policy responses. But how have these dramatic events affected economic inequality…
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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 modeling and rational expectations theory. Some of Sargent’s…
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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 recent years, wealth inequality appears to be increasing and…
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Intergenerational mobility refers to the extent to which an individual’s socioeconomic outcomes are associated with the outcomes of their parents. High intergenerational mobility implies that an individual’s economic fo…
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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 advising as an academic advisor. In order to do less of it, I…
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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 economics blogs to those interested in the field. These blogs…
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