Stanford University, Economics, 2008

Koc University, BA in Economics and BA in Business Administration, 2000

Kıvanç Karaman received bachelor's degrees in Economics and Business Administration from Koç University in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2008. He was on the faculty at Boğaziçi University from 2009 to 2026 and joined Özyeğin University in 2026. In 2013-2014, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His research examines political economy, institutions, economic history, and long-run economic development. He has received research grants from TÜBİTAK, the French Development Agency (AFD), and Boğaziçi University's Scientific Research Project Fund. Among his honors are the 2016 Science Academy Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) and the 2015 TÜBİTAK Young Scholar Award.

Political Economy, Economic and Political History, Institutional Economics, Monetary Economics, Long-run Economic Development

PUBLICATIONS

• Henriques, A., Karaman, K. K., & Palma, N. (2026). Fiscal capacity and executive constraints in early modern Europe. Public Choice, 1-46.
• Ceylan, P., Karaman, K. K., & Pamuk, Ş. (2025). Market integration in the Ottoman Balkans and the Middle East from the sixteenth century until the First World War. The Economic History Review.
• Pamuk, Şevket, and Kıvanç Karaman. "The rise of the modern state since 1500: Annual revenues of European and other states." Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research 8 (2023): 13-21.
• Karaman, K. K., & Yıldırım-karaman, S. (2022). Erken modern dönem osmanlı devleti ve avrupa’da enflasyon. Sosyoekonomi, 30(54), 401-420.
• Karaman, K. K., Pamuk, Ş., & Yıldırım-Karaman, S. (2020). Money and monetary stability in Europe, 1300–1914. Journal of Monetary Economics, 115, 279-300.
• Karaman, K. K., & Yıldırım-Karaman, S. (2019). How does financial development alter the impact of uncertainty?. Journal of Banking & Finance, 102, 33-42

UNDER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS

• Money for Taxes (revise & resubmit at International Economic Review, with Nuno Palma and Roberto Bonfatti)
• The Century of State Failure: A Fiscal History of China, 1850-1949 (under review, with Hanhui Guan, Nuno Palma and Zhiyin Xu)

WORK IN PROGRESS

• GDP per capita Estimates for the Ottoman Middle East and Southeast Europe, 1500–1914 (Pınar Ceylan Kotan ve Şevket Pamuk ile)
• Globalization Before Modern Growth: Evidence From Four Centuries of Grain Prices (Yavuz Selim Kaçmaz ile)
• The Geopolitical Roots of Institutional Divergence: Unstable Fragmentation in the Middle East, Stable Fragmentation in Europe, and Unstable Unification in China (Ezgi Kurt ile)
• Prices and Real Exchange Rates in Europe: The Long Run View (Malik Çürük ve Seçil Yıldırım Karaman ile)