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

From 1995 to 2000 Iyigun served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board.[1] He was appointed assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in August 2000.[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 Mathematical Population Studies.[9] He is currently Co-editor of Journal of Demographic Economics[10] and on the editorial board of Journal of Economics, Management and Religion.[11] Murat Iyigun is Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Studies (IZA)[7] in Bonn Germany and a Research Affiliate at the Center for International Development at Harvard University.[12]

Publications

Pr. Iyigun published papers in leading journals such as American Economic Review[13][14] Quarterly Journal of Economics,[15] The Review of Economic Studies.[16]

Books

In 2015, Iyigun published a general interest book entitled War, Peace and Prosperity in the Name of God.[17] 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.[18][19][20]

Music

Pr. Iyigun is also a musician, band leader and guitar player.[21] His band, The Custom Shop,[22] 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". Retrieved 2019-01-30.
  4. "Murat-Iyigun's page at the Center for Asian Studies". 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.
  10. "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  11. "Editorial Board". www.worldscientific.com/page/jemar/editorial-board.
  12. "People :: Center for International Development at Harvard University (CID)". sites.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God.
  18. "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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. The Custom Shop - Band, The Custom Shop-Band: Pressure & Time @ ARISE Music Festival, 8.14.2020
  22. "The Custom Shop - Band". thecustomshopband.com. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
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