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Mahmut S. İpek

Third-year PhD candidate in Economics at Bilkent University, visiting CREST during the 2026–2027 academic year. My research focuses on monetary economics. 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)