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Education

Ph.D. Economics, Boğaziçi University (In progress)
M.A. Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City
     Advisor: Mathew Forstater
B.A. Economics, Ege University
B.A. Business Administration, Ege University

Short Bio

Cigdem Ates Saygili is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Economics, and a graduate research/teaching assistant at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. In her Ph.D. studies, Cigdem focuses on Applied Macroeconomic Theory, DSGE Modeling, Gender Macroeconomics, Modeling of Gender, and Structural Transformation. She is also a research fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity.

Cigdem has double majors in Economics and Business Administration from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. Later, she received a graduate studies scholarship from Turkish Ministry of Education, which allowed her to continue her studies in Economics in the USA. Cigdem received her MA degree from the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.

She completed a Master’s Thesis titled A Heterodox Analysis of International Exchange and Employment Policies under the supervision of Mathew Forstater. In her thesis, Cigdem analyzed major heterodox approaches to the international trade, exchange rates, prices and employment policies: the Institutional Economics, Post-Keynesian Economics, the Modern Monetary Theory and the Marxian Economics. From a history of economic thought perspective, she sought applicable solutions to the problems arose from the refugee crisis such as unemployment.

Her research interests other than Macroeconomics include but are not limited to Post-Keynesian Economics, Institutional Theory, Marxian Economics, Feminist Economics and Development Economics. While working as a teaching and research assistant in Turkey, she gained invaluable hands-on experience which she put in her academic works.