Murat Iyigun

Murat Iyigun (born March 21, 1964) is an American and Turkish scholar and author in the field of the economics of family, economic development, political economy and cliometrics. He is a professor at the University of Colorado.[1]

Murat Iyigun
NationalityAmerican and Turkish
EducationPhD from Brown University
OccupationEconomist
EmployerUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Websitehttps://spot.colorado.edu/~iyigun/

Education

Murat Iyigun graduated with a B.S. in business administration from Hacettepe University in 1985.[2] He then completed a MBA in Finance and economics from Boston University in 1991.[3] He completed an A.M in Economics in 1992 from Brown University.[4] Finally in 1995 he completed his PhD in economics from Brown.[5] The title of his PhD thesis was Essays on Economic Mobility, Trade, Production and Extralegal Appropriation.[6]

Career

Upon graduating from Brown University in 1995, Murat Iyigun was hired by the Federal Reserve Board, in Washington DC, making him the first Turkish citizen hired by the US Central Bank as a staff economist.[1] In August 2000, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder.[7] He became Associate professor in 2005, Professor in 2010[8] and appointed Calderwood Chair in 2014.

Besides his academic activities he has held several editorial positions. From 2008 to 2011 he was a board member of the European Journal of Political Economy. From 2010 to 2012 he was Associate Editor for the Journal of Mathematical Population Studies[9] and, between 2014 and 2023, he was Co-editor of Journal of Demographic Economics.[10] He is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Demographic Economics[11] and Journal of Economics, Management and Religion.[12] Murat Iyigun is also Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Studies (IZA)[7] in Bonn Germany and the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Between 2007 and 2010, he was a visiting scholar and a Research Affiliate at the Center for International Development at Harvard University.[13]

Publications

Professor Iyigun published papers in leading journals such as American Economic Review[14][15] Quarterly Journal of Economics,[16] The Review of Economic Studies.[17]

Books

In 2015, Iyigun published a general interest book entitled War, Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God.[18] In this book Pr. Iyigun studies the impact of monotheistic faith on socio-economic development of societies using econometric techniques. He demonstrates thanks to data that polities based on monotheistic faiths historically had larger territories and survived longer. On this basis, Pr. Iyigun argues that monotheism was a factor of sociopolitical stability domestically but a source of conflicts & territorial conquest internationally.[19][20][21]

Music

Murat Iyigun is also a musician, band leader and guitar player.[22] His band, the Custom Shop - Band, [23] plays rock, blues and R&B and performs regularly in Colorado and the Front Range.

References
  1. "Murat Iyigun". Economics. 2018-05-17. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  2. "Murat Iyigun". spot.colorado.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  3. "Murat Iyigun 's page at the Center for Asian Studies". 27 July 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. "Murat-Iyigun's page at the Center for Asian Studies". 27 July 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  5. "Murat Iyigun - CV". Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  6. "Bibliographic record of PhD-Thesis from Brown University". Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  7. "Murat Iyigun | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  8. University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Economics Newsletter, Fall 2010
  9. "Mathematical Population Studies Editorial Board". Mathematical Population Studies. 20 (4): ebi. 2013. doi:10.1080/08898480.2013.837725. S2CID 220377414.
  10. "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  11. "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  12. "Editorial Board". www.worldscientific.com/page/jemar/editorial-board.
  13. "People :: Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)". sites.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  14. Iyigun, Murat; Greif, Avner (May 2013). "Social Organizations, Violence, and Modern Growth". American Economic Review. 103 (3): 534–538. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.362.2670. doi:10.1257/aer.103.3.534. ISSN 0002-8282.
  15. Weiss, Yoram; Iyigun, Murat; Chiappori, Pierre-André (December 2009). "Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market". American Economic Review. 99 (5): 1689–1713. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.529.6770. doi:10.1257/aer.99.5.1689. ISSN 0002-8282. S2CID 13645857.
  16. Iyigun, Murat (2008-11-01). "Luther and Suleyman". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 123 (4): 1465–1494. doi:10.1162/qjec.2008.123.4.1465. ISSN 0033-5533.
  17. Walsh, P. Randall; Nick, Murat (2007-04-01). "Building the Family Nest: Premarital Investments, Marriage Markets, and Spousal Allocations". The Review of Economic Studies. 74 (2): 507–535. doi:10.1111/j.1467-937X.2007.00429.x. hdl:10419/33447. ISSN 0034-6527. S2CID 14769780.
  18. War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God. University of Chicago Press.
  19. "Aksan on Iyigun, 'War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution'". November 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  20. Rubin, Jared (August 2015). "War, Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God: The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution". Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  21. Ulker, Aydogan (2018). "War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God, by Murat Iyigun (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2015), pp. 272". Economic Record. 94 (305): 217–219. doi:10.1111/1475-4932.12411. ISSN 1475-4932. S2CID 158405363.
  22. the Custom Shop-Band: I Want You to Want Me
  23. "the Custom Shop - Band". thecustomshopband.com. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
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