Арбатли Джемаль Эрэн

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

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

• “The Nature of Conflict” (with Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Marc Klemp). Revision requested by Econometrica.
• Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews (with Kemal Kıvanç Aköz and Levent Çelik). Revision requested by the RAND Journal of Economics.
• “Minorities, Human Capital and Long-term Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey" (with Gunes Gokmen). Submitted to Economic Journal.

• “The Nature of Conflict" (with Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor), NBER WP No. 21079, April 2015
• “Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey" (with Gunes Gokmen), CESifo WP, December 2016. The paper won the Best General Interest Paper Award at the 2016 Armenian Economic Association Annual Conference.
• “Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews”, (with Kemal Kıvanç Aköz and Levent Çelik)
• “Memories of the Distant Past and Long Term Party Identification” (with David Gomtsyan)

• “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?"
• “Agro-climatic Shocks and the Prevalence of Fatalism”
• “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:

• University of Groningen (scheduled for October 5, 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)