İsmail Sadık YAVUZ

İsmail Sadık YAVUZ is an Associate Professor at Süleyman Demirel University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, affiliated with the Department of Finance and Department of Financial Economics. His research focuses on fiscal sustainability, fiscal federalism, and intergovernmental fiscal relations.

• PhD in Finance (2017), MSc in Finance (2011), and BA in Business Administration (2008) from Süleyman Demirel University.

His research integrates econometric modeling, panel data analysis, and bibliometric methods to examine fiscal policy dynamics. Recent publications analyze the tourism sector’s macroeconomic impact during the Covid-19 pandemic, tax burden trends in Turkey and OECD countries, and time-varying models for public expenditure-economic growth relationships. He has contributed to international and national journals, including Economic Research Guardian and İzmir İktisat Dergisi, and presented at conferences like the International Public Finance Symposium.

His methodological expertise spans statistical analysis, data visualization (VOSViewer, R), and comparative governance studies. Collaborative works include cross-country analyses of the Fragile Five economies and comparative fiscal decentralization studies between Turkey and Germany.