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Gulcin Ozkan

Professor Gulcin Ozkan

Professor of Finance

Research interests

  • Banking & Finance

Biography

Gulcin Ozkan is Professor of Finance at King's Business School. She holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a PhD from the University of York.

Prior to joining King's, she held academic positions at METU, Durham University and the University of York where she held a Chair during 2011-2019. She has also been the Managing Editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research since 2013.

Gulcin’s main research focuses on the intersection of macroeconomics and finance covering issues such as financial crises; financial stability; monetary and macroprudential policies; emerging markets; public debt and financial development; fiscal policy and financial constraints and the economics of constitutions.

Her recent work is on supply chain networks; Brexit; climate risk; and fiscal policy in recessions. Her book on ‘Why are presidential regimes bad for the economy? Understanding the link between forms of government and economic outcomes’, is forthcoming from Routledge in January 2022.

Gulcin supervised a large number of PhD students who are currently working for key international policy-making institutions such as the IMF, OECD and various national central banks around the globe as well as a number of academic institutions in the UK and abroad.

Are you currently accepting new PhD students?

Yes

    Research

    QCBPromo
    Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance

    The Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance is a research centre dedicated to the study of central banks and the challenges they face in the global environment. It aims to develop cutting-edge research in all areas of central bank policy making, ranging from monetary policy to financial stability and regulation.

    News

    King's Business School students take on the role of the world's financial regulators in a first-of-its-kind debate

    Student teams role-played as different financial bodies to discuss the role of central banks in the green transition

    kbsevent_2024-02-29_0271

    Assessing the UK – EU trade deal

    Supply networks aggravate the losses from Brexit significantly even in the absence of tariffs

    EU flag in the top left hand corner, UK flag in the bottom right hand corner

    COVID-19 recovery: some economies will take longer to rebound – this is bad for everyone

    Professor Gulcin Ozkan writes in The Conversation about the uneven recovery to national economics after the COVID-19 pandemic

    Long Covid

    Countries prepared for the climate emergency have had fewer COVID deaths

    Countries where individuals look after each other and the environment are better able to cope with climate and public health emergencies, research by King’s...

    Climate Change Promo

    Events

    30MayAfrica Tree

    The inter-university debate: Is there a role for offsetting in Higher Education?

    Join this thought-provoking debate on the role of offsetting in Higher Education.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Turkey's collapsing lira: government is running out of options for embattled currency

    Why is the Turkish lira in so much trouble? Professor Ozkan looks at what the lira's latest tumble means for Turkey's economy

    stock exchange shares

      Research

      QCBPromo
      Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance

      The Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance is a research centre dedicated to the study of central banks and the challenges they face in the global environment. It aims to develop cutting-edge research in all areas of central bank policy making, ranging from monetary policy to financial stability and regulation.

      News

      King's Business School students take on the role of the world's financial regulators in a first-of-its-kind debate

      Student teams role-played as different financial bodies to discuss the role of central banks in the green transition

      kbsevent_2024-02-29_0271

      Assessing the UK – EU trade deal

      Supply networks aggravate the losses from Brexit significantly even in the absence of tariffs

      EU flag in the top left hand corner, UK flag in the bottom right hand corner

      COVID-19 recovery: some economies will take longer to rebound – this is bad for everyone

      Professor Gulcin Ozkan writes in The Conversation about the uneven recovery to national economics after the COVID-19 pandemic

      Long Covid

      Countries prepared for the climate emergency have had fewer COVID deaths

      Countries where individuals look after each other and the environment are better able to cope with climate and public health emergencies, research by King’s...

      Climate Change Promo

      Events

      30MayAfrica Tree

      The inter-university debate: Is there a role for offsetting in Higher Education?

      Join this thought-provoking debate on the role of offsetting in Higher Education.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Turkey's collapsing lira: government is running out of options for embattled currency

      Why is the Turkish lira in so much trouble? Professor Ozkan looks at what the lira's latest tumble means for Turkey's economy

      stock exchange shares