me defending my R code in front of the dissertation panel:

a phd

Mesut gelemeyebilirim #Copenhagen

A quiet night, good food, and a little wine✨

Fraud in venture capital-backed startups is rising. Founder-friendly contracts and cap table complexity strongly predict fraud. The venture capital market does not discipline fraudulent founders ex post, from Alexander Dyck, Freda Fang, Camille Hebert, and Ting Xu

The PE correction looks structural: • Higher cost of capital • Lower leverage • Exit bottlenecks • Multiple compression AI fears just accelerated what was already underway. Private Equity Was Headed for a Correction, Even Without AI Gloom wsj.com/finance/invest…

I guess it’s time for a LinkedIn-style announcement😬 “On pricing the extreme negative returns’ - accepted at EFMA 2026. Retail demand, extreme losses, and mispricing. See ya in Norway 🇳🇴

Venture capital is often described as funding innovation. But the real question is: Do VCs fund innovation, or do they simply find it first? At its core, this is a selection vs treatment problem.

1 tane leylek yok havada donerciler mi avliyo bunlari I’m just thinkin’

Every PhD paper begins with: “We construct a novel dataset…” I’m currently stuck at the construct part. Looking for datasets linking startups + VC investments + patents + text data (for NLP). Any tips appreciated🙂 #AcademicTwitter #EconTwitter #PhDlife OpenAcademics

Seni unutmayacağız hocam.

Verstappen’in degil redbull’un honeymoon donemi bitmis gibi

A brief account of how I studied for my PhD qualifying exam, and what turned out to matter most. iremdastan.github.io/PhDfinance/not…

AI: mini video series how to use Claude Code (and more) for applied economists - check out markusacademy.substack.com (+ videos)

Just a reminder

Derive the intuition, question the assumption👾

Bismillaa