Metin Coşgel

Associate Professor

Department of Economics
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road Unit 1063
Storrs, CT 06269-1063

Office hours:    MW 1:00-2:00
Phone: 486-4662
Office: 316 Monteith
Email: metin.cosgel@uconn.edu

Personal Webpage: http://www.cosgel.uconn.edu/

Vita: http://www.cosgel.uconn.edu/career.htm

IDEAS profile (online publications): http://ideas.repec.org/e/pco79.html

Additional link: Economic History of the Ottoman Empire http://www.ottoman.uconn.edu/

Education:
B.A. (Economics), Bogazici University
M.A. (Economics), University of Iowa
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Iowa

Honors and appointments:

Ömer Lütfi Barkan Article Prize for the best article (during
2005-07) in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies, awarded by the Turkish Studies Association in 2007.

The Helen Potter Award of Special Recognition, Association for Social Economics, 1997

Research and teaching interests:
Economic history of the Ottoman Empire and the political economy of religion

Courses taught:
ECON2104W Economic History of the Middle East

ECON2110 History of Economic Thought

ECON2198W Economics of Religion

ECON4494W Economics Seminar

ECON6110 History of Economic Thought

Selected publications:
"State and Religion," Journal of Comparative Economics, forthcoming. (with Thomas Miceli)

"Law, State Power, and Taxation in Islamic History,"  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009. (with Thomas Miceli and Rasha Ahmed)

"Tax Collection in History," Public Finance Review, 2009. (with Thomas Miceli)

Entries on the UConn Economics blog