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Cevat Giray Aksoy

Cevat Giray Aksoy

Associate Director, Senior Research Economist

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Cevat Giray is a Senior Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and Assistant Professor of Economics at King’s College London, Department of Political Economy. He is also a Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Research Associate at IZA Institute of Labor Economics. His current research focuses on forced migration (effects on host communities and self-selection of refugees), the political economy of trust (confidence in leaders and governments, civic values, and attitudes towards democratic institutions) and economic inclusion (earnings inequalities and access to banking services).

His research has been covered by over 100 media outlets, including BBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Mirror, Reuters, The Daily Mail, The Independent, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Times, Quartz, Vox, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and World Economic Forum.

He is the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Association of British Turkish Academics and was selected as a Leader of Tomorrow by The St. Gallen Foundation. He also occasionally contributes to Pocket Economics podcasts and write for GALLUP Blog, LSE Business Review, and VOXEU.

Personal website (external website - opens in new window).

Research interests

Labour Economics

Population Economics

Applied Microeconomics

Education

2017 – Ph.D. in Economics, University of London, Royal Holloway College
2011 – M.A. in Economics, State University of New York at Albany
2010 – B.A. in Economics, Istanbul University

Journal articles

Aksoy, C. G., Jose Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zarate (2022). "Working from Home Around the World", Forthcoming, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

Aksoy, C. G., Nicolas Ajzenman and Sergei Guriev (2022). "Exposure to Transit Migration: Public Attitudes and Entrepreneurship", Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.

Aksoy, C. G., Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka (2022). "The Political Scar of Epidemics", Conditionally Accepted, the Economic Journal.

Aksoy, C. G., Christopher Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Mathias Dolls, and Lisa Windsteiger (2022). "Reducing Sexual-Orientation Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from Basic Information Treatments", Forthcoming, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Aksoy, C. G., Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka (2022). "Epidemic Exposure, Financial Technology, and the Digital Divide", Forthcoming, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Aksoy, C. G. and Panu Poutvaara (2021). "Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe", Journal of Development Economics, Volune 152.

Aksoy, C. G., Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka (2021). "Revenge of the Experts: Will COVID-19 Renew or Diminish Public Trust in Science?", Journal of Public Economics, Volume 193.

Aksoy, C. G. and Semih Tumen (2021). "Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration", Journal of Development Economics, Volume 149.

Aksoy, C. G., Berkay Ozcan and Julia Philipp (2021). "Robots and the Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Europe",  European Economic Review, Volume 134.

Aksoy, C. G., Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, and Kevin Tran (2020). "Do Laws Shape Attitudes? Evidence from Same-sex Relationship Recognition Policies in Europe", European Economic Review, Volume 124.

Aksoy, C. G., Carpenter C.S., Frank J. and Huffman M. (2019). “Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 159, 167-180. View EBRD Working Paper. 

Aksoy, C. G., Carpenter C.S. and Frank J. (2018). “Sexual Orientation and Earnings: New Evidence from the UK”, ILR Review. View EBRD Working Paper. 

Aksoy, C. G. (2016). “The Effects of Unemployment on Fertility: Evidence from England”, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 16(2), 1123-1146.

Working papers

Aksoy, C. G., Antonio Cabrales, Mathias Dolls, Ruben Durante, and Lisa Windsteiger (2022). "Calamities, Common Interests, Shared Identity: What Shapes Altruism and Reciprocity?"

Aksoy, C. G., Panu Poutvaara and Joop Adema (2022). "Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate"

Aksoy, C. G. and Thomas Ginn (2022). "Attitudes and Policies toward Refugees: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries"

Aksoy, C. G., Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos Molina (2021). "(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support"

Aksoy, C. G., Panu Poutvaara and Felicitas Schikora (2020). "First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees"

Aksoy, C. G., Guriev S. and Treisman D.S. (2018). “Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide”

Aksoy, C. G. (2016). “Short-term effects of house prices on birth rates”

Policy writing, books and reports

Aksoy, C. G., J. Michelle Brock, Francesca Dalla Pozza and Panu Poutvaara (2018). “International Migration”, EBRD Transition Report 2018-19, Chapter 3.

Aksoy, C. G., Yvonne Giesing, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva and Elisa Wirsching (2018). “Skills, Employment and Automation”, EBRD Transition Report 2018-19, Chapter 2.

Aksoy, C. G. (2016). "Life Satisfaction in the Transition Region", EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 1, pp. 10-22.

Aksoy, C. G. (2016). "Governance in the Transition Region", EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 2, pp. 26-37.

Aksoy, C. G. (2016). "Gender in the Transition Region", EBRD “A Decade of Measuring Transition” Report, Chapter 3, pp. 40-49.