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Burcu Fazlioglu is a Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of International Entrepreneurship in Ankara, Turkey. In 2019-2020, she was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University, Department of Decision Sciences. Her research centers mainly on economic growth, innovation, productivity, foreign trade, firm dynamics and microeconometrics. She works with big data from Turkish firms to understand why some firms perform better than others and what drives productivity. Previously, she worked as an analyst at one of the leading think tanks of Turkey, the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV). She has been selected to attend to the 4th Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Economic Sciences in 2011. Currently, she serves at the editorial board of Sosyoekonomi.
Gölçek was born in the Karşıyaka district of İzmir. He graduated from the Department of Public Finance at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Sciences in 2013, and completed his master’s thesis titled “Taxation in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century: An assassment on Temettuat Defterleri of Nigde Sanjak” at Dokuz Eylül University’s Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Finance, in 2016. In 2022, he earned his PhD with a dissertation titled “The risk of poverty in Türkiye: Determinants of child and elderly poverty” at Pamukkale University’s Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Finance. Since 2016, Gölçek has been working as a Dr. Research Assistant in the Department of Public Finance at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
