Staff profile

Eren Arbatlı is an Associate Professor of Economics at Durham University Business School since September 2023. Before this post, he was an Associate Professor at the HSE University and completed his PhD from Brown University under the supervision of Professor Oded Galor. Eren has research interests in long-run economic development, political economy, cultural economics. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and a Faculty Fellow at the Association for Analytical Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS).

Research Interests

Development Economics, Political Economy, Cultural Economics

Book review

• 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

Journal Article

• 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/s10887-022-09210-8
• Shchukin, V., & Arbatli, C. E. (2022). Clientelism and development: Vote-buying meets patronage. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 34(1), 3-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/09516298211061515
• 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.2021.103891
• 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.12240
• Arbatli, C. E., Ashraf, Q. H., Galor, O., & Klemp, M. (2020). Diversity and Conflict. Econometrica, 88(2), 727-797. https://doi.org/10.3982/ecta13734
• 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.2019.08.005
• 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/s40822-015-0044-3
• 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.12076
• 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/10.1177/0738894214545956

Other (Print)

• Arbatli, E., & Arbatli, C. E. (2017). The International Determinants of Military Coup Behavior