The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24794-9.
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Arbatlı, C. E. (2023). The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province. By Ümit Kurt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 400 pp. Photographs, maps, tables. Hardcover, $46.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-24794-9. Business History Review, 97(1), 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000768052300020x
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Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey (2022)
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Arbatlı, C. E., & Gokmen, G. (2023). Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey. Journal of Economic Growth, 28(1), 1-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-022-09210-8Can the economic legacy of highly skilled groups persist long after they were uprooted from their homelands? To answer this question, we study long-term sub-national development in Turkey after the mass expulsions of the Armenian and Greek communitie... Read More about Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey.
Clientelism and development: Vote-buying meets patronage (2021)
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Shchukin, V., & Arbatli, C. E. (2022). Clientelism and development: Vote-buying meets patronage. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 34(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298211061515Offering employment in the public sector in exchange for electoral support (patronage politics) and vote-buying are clientelistic practices frequently used by political machines. In the literature, these practices are typically studied in isolation.... Read More about Clientelism and development: Vote-buying meets patronage.
Sectarian aid, sanctions and subnational development (2021)
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Arbatli, C. E., & Gomtsyan, D. (2021). Sectarian aid, sanctions and subnational development. European Economic Review, 139, Article 103891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103891Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant group based in Lebanon, is believed to receive a significant amount of informal funding from Iran. In this paper, we evaluate whether this funding has had any economically meaningful effect on s... Read More about Sectarian aid, sanctions and subnational development.
Manipulation Through Biased Product Reviews* (2020)
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Aköz, K. K., Arbatli, C. E., & Celik, L. (2020). Manipulation Through Biased Product Reviews*. The Journal of Industrial Economics, 68(4), 591-639. https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12240We study a signal-jamming model of product review manipulation in which rational consumers consult product reviews and price to better estimate a product's quality, and a firm, whose quality is either high or low, chooses its price and how much bias... Read More about Manipulation Through Biased Product Reviews*.
Diversity and Conflict (2020)
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Arbatli, C. E., Ashraf, Q. H., Galor, O., & Klemp, M. (2020). Diversity and Conflict. Econometrica, 88(2), 727-797. https://doi.org/10.3982/ecta13734This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of... Read More about Diversity and Conflict.
Voting retrospectively: Critical junctures and party identification (2019)
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Arbatli, C. E., & Gomtsyan, D. (2019). Voting retrospectively: Critical junctures and party identification. European Economic Review, 119, 356-390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2019.08.005This paper provides evidence for retrospective voting in the very long-term by exploiting a unique quasi-natural experiment of history. We trace the origins of party identification to a critical juncture in the local history of Sasun, a mountainous r... Read More about Voting retrospectively: Critical junctures and party identification.
The International Determinants of Military Coup Behavior (2017)
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Arbatli, E., & Arbatli, C. E. The International Determinants of Military Coup Behavior. [Online]Why do coups d’état happen? Although many studies have investigated this question, they pay relatively little attention to the international causes and ramifications of coups. Especially, empirical studies on the external determinants of coup risk an... Read More about The International Determinants of Military Coup Behavior.
Information Manipulation in Election Campaigns (2016)
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Aköz, K. K., & Arbatli, C. E. (2016). Information Manipulation in Election Campaigns. Economics and Politics, 28(2), 181-215. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12076We provide a game-theoretical model of manipulative election campaigns with two political candidates and a Bayesian voter. The latter is uncertain about how good the candidates are. Candidates take unobservable, costly actions to manipulate voter's o... Read More about Information Manipulation in Election Campaigns.
Trade and income growth in the Ottoman Empire: assessing the role of volatility and trend growth in terms of trade (2015)
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Arbatli, C. E. (2016). Trade and income growth in the Ottoman Empire: assessing the role of volatility and trend growth in terms of trade. Eurasian Economic Review, 6(2), 173-194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-015-0044-3This paper focuses on the Ottoman economy from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the early twentieth century when the first wave of economic globalization coupled with the sweeping forces of rapid industrialization in the West led to majo... Read More about Trade and income growth in the Ottoman Empire: assessing the role of volatility and trend growth in terms of trade.
External threats and political survival: Can dispute involvement deter coup attempts? (2014)
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Arbatli, C. E., & Arbatli, E. (2016). External threats and political survival: Can dispute involvement deter coup attempts?. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 33(2), 115-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/0738894214545956Diversionary war theory holds that insecure leaders are more likely to pursue aggressive foreign policies than their more secure counterparts. This hypothesis rests on the premise that interstate dispute involvement helps leaders deter potential chal... Read More about External threats and political survival: Can dispute involvement deter coup attempts?.