Serhat Ugurlu

Serhat is a member of Oxera’s Analytics and Transport teams. He specialises in data science and microeconometrics. He graduated with a PhD in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics in June 2018.

During his PhD, he worked on economic measurement, consumer behaviour, and machine learning. He also has experience in the financial services industry and worked in one of Turkey’s largest private banks for two years before his graduate studies.

Serhat speaks English.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6601

Serhat's specialisms include:

SECTORS

Transport

EXPERTISE

Analytics and Data Science

Selected
professional experience

Advice to an insurance firm on the possible impacts of a proposed market intervention by the FCA (2020)
Advice to some UK transmission and network operators regarding a damages claim against a European cartel in the high voltage power cables market (2019–20)
Quantification of the economic impacts of an airport’s capacity expansion (2019–20)
Quantification of the economic benefits arising from the trial of an automated rail traffic management system on part of the UK rail network (2019)

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

Latest Insights: Dr Serhat Ugurlu

26 November 2021

Agenda

8 minute read

Causality and natural experiments: the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 to three economists—Joshua Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens. Their…
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