Eren Arbatli

Dr. Eren Arbatli is an Associate Professor of Economics at Durham University Business School since 2023. Previously, he held an Associate Professor position at HSE University and earned his PhD from Brown University under Prof. Oded Galor. His research focuses on long-run development, political economy, and cultural economics, with affiliations to the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) and the Association for Analytical Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS).

Education: PhD in Economics from Brown University (supervised by Oded Galor). Earlier academic roles include Associate Professor positions at HSE University.

Research interests span Development Economics, Political Economy, and Cultural Economics. His work examines topics like human capital transfers in post-expulsion regions, sectarian conflict impacts, and electoral dynamics in Turkey. Recent studies address religious associations’ influence on local politics and historical economic legacies of ethnic expulsions.

Publications highlight contributions to understanding vote-buying mechanisms, Ottoman trade dynamics, and the economics of genocide. His 2024 article on municipal elections in Turkey analyzes religious association proliferation’s role in political outcomes.

Current supervision includes PhD students Sebastian Marland and Tom Bradshaw. Collaborations involve interdisciplinary projects on conflict economics and institutional development.