Dr. Sevcan Yesiltas is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at Koc University. Currently, she also works as a researcher for the Koc-TUSIAD Economic Research Fund. She received her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University in 2006, and her master’s degree in Economics from Bilkent University in 2009, and then her Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a consultant for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the World Bank. She received grants and honorarium for her research from the NBER, and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Her research in the areas of Applied Macro-Finance, International Finance, and Corporate Finance has been published in leading international journals such as the Journal of International Economics and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, among others.