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Mahmut S. İpek

PhD student in Economics at Bilkent University. My research focuses on monetary economics, particularly the identification and transmission of monetary policy shocks. I also work with the Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee.

This page lists selected teaching materials and interactive resources
for macroeconomics, monetary economics, and quantitative methods.

Advanced Monetary Economics


  • Introduction to Monetary VARs

  • GSS (2005, IJCB) Factor Rotation

Introductory Macroeconomics


  • ECON 102 Complementary Notes: GDP and Inflation Calculations

  • Growth Facts and the Solow Model (I/II)

  • Growth Facts and the Solow Model (II/II)

ECON 102 Recitation Materials


  • Recitation 1: GDP and Balance of Payments

  • Recitation 2: Inflation and Unemployment

  • Recitation 3: Growth Facts and the Solow Model

  • Recitation 4: Cyclical Facts, Goods-Market Equilibrium, Aggregate Expenditure, and Output

  • Recitation 5: Money, Banking, and Central Banks

  • Recitation 6: AD/AS – From Real Variables to Prices

  • Recitation 7: AD/AS, Policymaking, and Trade-Offs

  • Recitation 8: Fiscal Policy in the AD/AS Framework

  • Recitation 9: The Phillips Curve and Supply Shocks

  • Recitation 10: The Open Economy and Exchange Rates

Interactive Macroeconomic Tools


  • Basic Solow Model Simulator

  • Term Structure Simulator (Muhammet Ali Cansi)

Econometrics and Quantitative Methods


  • Probability and Statistics (Serkan Karademir & M. Eray Yucel)

  • VAR Toolbox (Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi)