• Banking
• Financial Crises 
• Corporate Finance

PhD
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Finance, 2013
Graduate
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Finance, 2008
Istanbul Bilgi University, Economics, 2006
Undergraduate
Marmara University, Econometrics, 2003

• Akin, Akin, O, J M Marín and J-L Peydró (2020), “Anticipating the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Insider Trading in Banks”, Economic Policy 35(102): 213–267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiaa012
• Akin, O, N S Coleman, C Fons-Rosen, J-L Peydró (2020), “Political connections and informed trading: Evidence from TARP”, Financial Management, 1-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/fima.12292
• Akin,O. and Sungu-Esen, G., (2019). An Overview of Insider Trading in Borsa Istanbul. Journal of Research in Economics, 3(2), 76-90.
• Akin, O., Montalvo, J. G., Villar, J. G., Peydró, J. L., & Raya, J. M. (2014). The real estate and credit bubble: Evidence from Spain. SERIEs, 5(2-3), 223-243

Book Chapters

• Akin, O. and Ozsoy, M., “Global Trends in Liquidity Creation: The Role of the Off - Balance Sheet”, New Trends in Banking and Finance, pp. 77-94, Peter Lang, Berlin 2019.

Grants

• Principal Investigator, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 3501 National Young Researchers Career Development Program Grant, 2017-2018. Project Title: “The Information Content of Insider Trading: Evidence from Turkey”
• Co-Investigator, Government of Spain-The Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) 2017-2019. Project Title: “The True Cost of Housing in Spain: Implications for the Real Estate, Financial and Public Sectors” with Josep M. Raya, Catia Nicodemo and Daniel Mcmillen                                                       

Finans (FIN202), Corporate Finance (FIN302), Banking and Financial Intermediation (FIN312) , Corporate Finance (FIN502),Financial Institutions and Banking (FIN909), Financial Management (FIN 709)