Orkun Saka

Using hand-collected data spanning more than a decade on European banks’ sovereign debt portfolios, we show that the trust of residents of a bank’s...

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 54 (7), 1913-1940

Mishandled public health and other disasters erode young people’s trust in politicians for years

We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage and who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining...

Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of...

Although epidemics are frequently cited as inducing changes in economic behaviour and accelerating technological and behavioural trends, there may be...

The Economic Journal, 131(693),  2763–2796

We use data on the universe of credit in Turkey to document a strong political lending cycle. State-owned banks systematically adjust their lending...