Cemal Eren Arbatli

https://sites.google.com/site/erenarbatli/

Research Affiliate, HiCN Households in Conflict Network, June 2017 - present

Faculty Fellow, Association for Analytical Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS), May 2018 - present

• Three-year (2018-2020) Joint Research Grant for the project “Information Acquisition, Diffusion and Disclosure in Markets” funded by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Centre for Advanced Studies Individual Research Grant, 2013

Economic Growth and Development, Political Economics, Economic History, Cultural Economics

• Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews (with Kemal Kıvanç Aköz and Levent Çelik). Forthcoming, Journal of Industrial Economics. Link to working paper.
• “Ethnic Capital and Sub-national Development: Armenian and Greek Legacy in Post-expulsion Turkey" (with Gunes Gokmen). Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Economic Growth. Link to working paper

• “Historical Religious Diversity, Cultural Tolerance and Secular Values”
•  “Religious Diversity, Market Access and Sub-national Development: Lessons from the Ottoman Empire’’
• “Mosques and Churches: The Cultural and Economic Legacy of Inter-group Contact”
• “Random Encounters in the City: When is Public Space an Opportunity for Social Integration?"
• “How to Raise a Pious Generation: Local Government Control and the Rise of Religious Associations in Turkey"
• “When a political ally goes rogue: The electoral costs of choosing dubious partners" (with Ekim Arbatlı)

Conference and Seminar Presentations:

• HSE ICSID & NES CSDSI Research Seminar (November 13, 2018)
• University of Groningen (October 2, 2018)
• Sabanci University (April 25, 2018)
• AALIMS-Princeton Conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World (April 20-21, 2018)
• Gaidar Forum (Moscow, January 16-18, 2018)
• NBER Summer Institute - Income Distribution and Macroeconomic Dynamics (Cambridge, MA, 2017)
• The Lisbon Meetings in Game Theory and Applications (Lisbon, 2017)
• Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, 2017)
• Freie Universität (Berlin, 2017)
• Workshop on Culture, Diversity and Economic Development (University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2017)
• Migration and Conflict Workshop (UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2017)
• HSE/NES research seminar on political economy (Moscow, 2016)
• Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society (Kyoto, 2016), EACES Workshop (St. Petersburg, 2016)
• ASSA Annual Meeting, 2016 (San Francisco, CA, January 3-5, 2016), “The Nature of Conflict”
• Kadir Has University, Economics Seminar (Istanbul, Turkey. October 5, 2015), “Minorities and Long-run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey”.
• Sabancı University, Economics Seminar (Istanbul, Turkey. October 2, 2015), “Minorities and Long-run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey”. 
• European Economic Association Annual Meeting (Mannheim, Germany. August, 2015), “Minorities and Long-run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey”.
• ICEF Brown Bag Seminar (Moscow, Russia, April 7-10, 2015), “Minorities and Long-run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey”.
• HSE/NES research seminar on political economy (Moscow, Russia, March 10, 2015), "Armenian and Greek Legacy in Modern Turkish Development".
• Macro Lunch, Department of Economics, Brown University (Providence, RI, March 18, 2015), "Armenian and Greek Legacy in Modern Turkish Development".
• Association for the Study of Religion, Economics and Culture (ASREC) Annual Conference (Boston, MA, March 20-21, 2015), "Armenian and Greek Legacy in Modern Turkish Development".
• XVI HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia, April 7-10, 2015), "Armenian and Greek Legacy in Modern Turkish Development".

• Workshop on Political Economy at the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia. September 26-27, 2014), "The Nature of Civil Conflict".
• 14th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference (Den Haag, Netherlands.June 24, 2014), "Explaining the Relationship between External Threats and Coups: Rally Around the Flag or Credible Commitments?".
• Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX. April 21, 2014), "Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns".
• Southwestern Economics Association (San Antonio, TX. April 17, 2014), "Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns". 
• Southwestern Economics Association (San Antonio, TX. April 17, 2014), "Random Encounters in the City: When is Public Space an Opportunity for Social Integration?"
• HSE/NES research seminar on political economy (Moscow, April 8, 2014), "Random Encounters in the City: When is Public Space an Opportunity for Social Integration?".
• European Public Choice Society (EPCS) Meeting, (Cambridge, UK, April 4-6, 2014), "Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns".
• Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Biology and Behavior in Political Economy, Laboratory for Institutional Analysis, HSE (Moscow, March 14, 2014), "The Nature of Civil Conflict".
• International Conference on Culture, Diversity and Development (Moscow, October 18-19, 2013), "Intrapopulation Diversity, Civil Conflict and Potential Channels".
• HSE Department of Theoretical Economics Seminar (Moscow, May 21, 2013), "Competitive Election Campaigns and Manipulated Voters".
• HSE/NES research seminar on political economy (Moscow, March 5, 2013), "The Nature of Conflict: Diversity and Civil Wars".
• Annual Meeting of American Economic Association (Chicago, IL, January 6, 2013), "Genetic Diversity and Civil Conflict" (presented by my co-author Quamrul Ashraf).
• EconCon 2011 Conference at New York University (New York City, August 18-19, 2011), "Information Manipulation in Election Campaigns".
• Macro Seminar, Department of Economics, Brown University (November 16, 2011), "The Quest for Political Survival: Can External Threats Save the Day?".
• The Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association (APSA) (September, 2010), "Military Coups and Security Threat Environment: Taking Competing Hypotheses to Data".
• The Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference (Chicago, April, 2010), "Military Coups and Security Threat Environment: Taking Competing Hypotheses to Data".
• The Annual Democracy and Democratization Conference (University of Connecticut, March 2009 and February 2010).

Assistant Professor of Economics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow (September 2012 - present)

• Zaruhi Hakobyan, Ph.D. student at HSE, “Information Manipulation and Protests: A Game-theoretic Approach"
• Vladimir Shukin, M.A. student at HSE, “Optimal Vote Buying Strategies in a Model of Clientelist Politics”