Cemal Eren Arbatlı
Curriculum vitae
Associate Professor of Economics
Durham University Business School
Updated October 2026
Academic appointments
- 2023–present
- Associate Professor of Economics
Durham University Business School - 2020–2023
- Associate Professor of Economics
HSE University - 2012–2020
- Assistant Professor of Economics
HSE University
Education
- 2006–2012
- Ph.D. in Economics
Brown University - 2004–2006
- M.A. in Economics
Bilkent University - 2000–2004
- B.A. in Economics
Sabanci University
Research affiliations
- 2017–present
- Research Affiliate
HiCN Households in Conflict Network - 2018–present
- Faculty Fellow
Association for Analytical Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies - Current
- External member
Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
Academic service
- 2025–present
- PGR Director
Department of Economics, Durham University - 2024–present
- Organizer, Internal Seminar Series
Department of Economics, Durham University - 2024–present
- Co-chair, Development Economics Workshop (DEW)
Durham - 2019–2023
- Co-organizer, HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences International Research Seminar
- 2019
- Co-organizer, Information Economics Workshop, HSE University
- 2018
- Co-organizer, Dynamics, Economic Growth, International Trade (DEGIT) Conference
- 2018–2019
- Chair for Academic Hiring, HSE University
- 2014–2016
- Faculty Hiring Committee, HSE University
- 2014–2019
- Student Advisor for Graduate School Applications, HSE University
- 2016–2024
- Research Master Program Academic Committee, HSE University
- 2021–2022
- Expert Reviewer, Russian National Award in Applied Economics
Grants, awards & training
- Primary Research Support Funding for data collection, Durham Business School (£5,000).
- Joint Research Grant, “Information Acquisition, Diffusion and Disclosure in Markets,” Russian Science Foundation and Austrian Science Fund, 2018–2020 (RUB 6 million per year).
- HSE Centre for Advanced Studies Individual Research Grant, 2013.
- Best Teachers of HSE University Awards: supervisor of the Best Research Paper in Political Science for Bachelor’s Students and the Best Research Paper in Economics for Bachelor’s Students, 2021.
- Fellow, Spatial Structures in Social Sciences (S4), Brown University, 2008–2012.
- Certificate I, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Brown University, 2010.
Refereeing
Quarterly Journal of Economics; Journal of Economic Growth; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Public Economics; American Political Science Review; European Economic Review; Journal of Health Economics; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Comparative Economics; Journal of Population Economics; Economics of Transition; Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Metroeconomica; International Review of Economics; Economic Inquiry; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Languages
Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (intermediate).
See Research for publications and working papers, and Teaching for courses.