Dr. Oktay Özden is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business, Istanbul Bilgi University, and a post-doctoral researcher in economics.

He graduated from Istanbul Kemerburgaz University in 2017. Subsequently, he specialized in endogenous monetary theory and inflation, earning a master’s degree in Economics from Marmara University. Dr. Özden completed his doctoral research in the Department of Economics at Kadir Has University, focusing on post-COVID-19 inflation and income distribution dynamics in the UK economy.

Some of his publications has been published in Review of Keynesian Economics, Review of Political Economy, and PSL Quarterly Review. Dr. Özden also serves as a reviewer for international journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and has actively participated in both international and national academic conferences, where several of his presentations have been recognized with awards.

2020-2025 Ph.D. in Economics, Istanbul Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

Thesis: Inequality and Post-COVID Inflation in a Two Household SFC Model for the UK Economy.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erinç Yeldan

2017-2020 MA in Economics, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Thesis: Production, Profit, and Money: Classical Theory of Inflation and Its Application to European Countries.

Supervisor: Dr. Nedim Süalp

2012-2017 BA in Economics, Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey

Heterodox Economics, Stock-Flow Consistent Modelling (SFC), Incomes Policies, post-COVID Inflation, Income Distribution, UK Economy