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Dr Serhat Ugurlu : Technical Adviser

Dr Serhat Ugurlu is a Technical Adviser on Econometrics and Data Science, and brings with him ten years of experience as an academic researcher and economic practitioner. He works as a technical lead in projects across different domains, and leads the design and delivery of projects’ analytical outputs, including their data pipelines, modelling, and visualisation. His main focus is designing econometric and data science workflows that resolve causal or predictive analytical challenges.

Serhat’s prior academic work focuses on heterogeneity in consumer behaviour, developing economic measures that account for this heterogeneity, and calculating metrics consistent with such heterogeneity using machine learning methods and big data. In particular, he worked on how some AI methods can be combined with economic models to uncover causal effects more flexibly and with fewer assumptions. His research is published in a peer-reviewed journal and he acted as a referee for the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Serhat speaks English.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6601

Serhat's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Econometric adviser on a project relating to analysis for VetPartners regarding the CMA investigation in the UK veterinary services for household pets (2024–)

  • Causal identification of the pass-through of alleged damages arising from the price setting of a large technology company (2024–)

  • Econometric adviser on a project relating to analyses for a stock exchange regarding the impact of a new trading policy (2024)

  • Causal and predictive assessment of impacts arising from a safety policy introduced by an international logistics firm (2023–24)

  • Causal assessment for Mastercard in their defence against a damages claims regarding the pass-through of interchange fees in the UK (2022–24)

  • Econometric adviser of analysis for Transport Canada regarding the merger between Sunwing Airlines and WestJet Airlines (2022)

Selected
publications

  • Ugurlu, S. (2018), ‘Essays in Economic Measurement and Consumer Behavior’, PhD thesis, Norwegian School of Economics.

  • Almas, I., Hvide, M., Grewal, M. and Ugurlu, S. (2017), ‘The PPP approach revisited: A study of RMB valuation against the USD’, Journal of International Money and Finance, 77, pp. 18–38.

Qualifications

  • PhD Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway

  • MA Economics, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • BA Economics, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

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