I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Sussex, a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre. My main research interests are in financial intermediation, international finance and political economy. I tweet @_orkunsaka.
We use data on the universe of credit in Turkey to document a strong political lending cycle. State-owned banks systematically adjust their lending...
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 193, 2021,104343.
Last week brought welcome news about the apparent effectiveness of a potential Covid-19 vaccine. While the challenges of manufacturing and...
Financial crises invariably lead governments to intervene in one way or another, whether to ease the damage to middle-class voters, to respond to the...
It is sometimes said that an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be heightened appreciation of the importance of scientific research and expertise...
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 52, 2020,12744.
What drives actual government policies after financial crises? In this paper, we first present a simple model of post-crisis policymaking driven by...
A rapidly expanding literature has shown the importance of political economy factors for legislative and regulatory actions in the financial sector...
