Seyhun received a a PhD. in Economics from Paris School of Economics in December 2015. Then, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Lausanne, before joining King's Business School in September 2019. His research focuses on the implications of cross-cultural interactions between different ethnic and religious groups. He is also interested in understanding the effectiveness of nation-building policies, shedding light on conditions under which they succeed or fail.

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Selected Publications

Grosfeld, Irena, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, “Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire”, Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming).