Refet Gürkaynak: new EABCN Scientific Vice-Chair

The Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN) is happy to announce that Refet Gürkaynak has been appointed as the network's new Scientific Vice-Chair. Refet, who currently Chairs the EABCN Dating Committee, will take over on 1st  January 2025 from Klaus Adam, who was Vice-Chair from 2014-2017, Chair from 2018-2021 and then Vice-Chair again from 2021-2024. EABCN is grateful to Klaus for his dedication to the Network and commitment to the excellence of our activities.

As Vice-Chair, Refet will be responsible, along with EABCN Chair, Barbara Rossi, for providing intellectual leadership of the network by ensuring the appropriate thematic focus and content of the annual workshops, training schools, conferences and panel discussions; contributing to the development of ideas and proposals for new initiatives; and collaborating with the CEPR Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee.

Refet Gürkaynak has been a professor of economics at Bilkent University since 2014 and has research interests in monetary economics, financial economics and international finance. Refet is also Programme Director of the Monetary Economic and Fluctuations Programme at CEPR .

Prior to his current positions, he was an economist at the Monetary Affairs Division of the Federal Reserve Board. He is also a frequent consultant to various central banks and has worked on extracting information from asset prices that help answer monetary policy related questions. He has been a CEPR Research Fellow since 2010. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the American Economic Review. Gürkaynak has been the recipient of awards from the Central Bank of Turkey, the European Central Bank and the Turkish Academy of Sciences and also previously held an ERC Grant.