Financial Economist Office of Litigation Economics
Education Summary
Ph.D. Economics, NYU Stern School of Business, 2013
M.A. Political Economy, Purdue University, 2006
B.A. Economics, Bogazici University, 2004
Fields of Interest
Merger,acquisition and restructuring
Information and market efficiency
Fintech
Securities Litigation Economics
Professional Experience
Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2019-present
Senior Financial Economist
Office of Economic and Risk Analysis
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
2016-2019
Senior Economist
Bates White Economic Consulting
2013-2016
Visiting Scholar
Economic Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
2010-2013
Graduate Assistant NYU Stern School of Business
2009-2011
Research Assistant Center for Global Development
2006-2008
Publications
Akkus-Clemens, Selvin and John Asker, 2014, Tomorrow's antitrust rulings on conditional pricing: How the latest economic research may show the way, Monopoly Matters, 12(1): 8-12.
Working Papers
Timmer, C. Peter and Selvin Akkus, 2008, The structural transformation as a pathway out of poverty: Analytics, empirics, and politics, Center for Global Development.
Presentations
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, 2018, Annual Inspections Training.
University of Maryland, 2012, Consortium for Competitiveness and Cooperation.
