Zafer Kanik joined the Adam Smith Business School as a Lecturer in Economics in September 2020. Before joining the University of Glasgow, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zafer holds a PhD in Economics from Boston College.

Zafer’s research focuses on economic and financial networks. His current research is centred around two main themes:

1. macroeconomic impacts of automation
2. systemic risk, financial stability and banking regulations.

He is particularly interested in risks, regulations, and reorganization in networked markets.

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Zafer is a member of the Schoo's Macroeconomics research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

• Economic and financial networks
• Financial crises and contagion
• Banking regulations and financial stability
• Systemic risk and its measurement
• Innovation and technological change
• Automation, productivity and income inequality
• Automation and the future of work

Supervisory interests

• Economic and financial networks
• Banking, financial stability, systemic risk
• Automation and the future of work
• Productivity, technological change and innovation
• Risks and regulations in networked markets

• Guo, Kaizhao
  Automation Technologies and Low-Skill Labour Supply: Evidence from Labour Markets in the UK