Professor Soner Baskaya
- Professor of Economics (Economics)
Biography
Soner Baskaya is a Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School. In the past, he worked at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) at different positions, including the General Manager of Communications and Foreign Relations Department and the Deputy General Manager of the Research Department. He served as the Deputy’s Deputy of CBRT during Turkish Presidency of G20 in 2015. The institutions in which he taught include the London School of Economics, Dartmouth College, Brown University, Bilkent University and Middle East Technical University. He has also been an LSE Fellow at London School of Economics, Department of Management and a Research Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements. He obtained his BA degree in Economics from Bogazici University, MSc in Economics from Middle East Technical University and MA and PhD in Economics from Brown University.
Research interests
Soner is a member of the School's Finance research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary economics
- Central banking
- Financial stability
- Applied econometrics
- Labour economics
Supervision
Supervisory interests
- Macroeconomics
- Monetary Economics
- Central Banking
- Global Financial System
- Effectiveness of the policies aiming at financial stability
- Macroeconomic analysis of credit markets
Current PhD students
- Shi, Shuren
Essay on Macroprudential Policies - Yudha, Graha
Essays on the Corporate Banking and Finance
Teaching
- Macroeconomics
- Topics in monetary economics
- Global financial system
- Financial stability
- Applied econometrics
- Microeconometrics for macroeconomists
- Econometric methods for policy evaluation
Additional information
- CBT Economic Notes, Editor (2009-2016)
- Central Bank Review, Co-Editor (2009-2016)