IMF RESEARCHER

Serkan Arslanalp has worked in several departments of the Fund (OMD, STA, APD, MCM, FAD, and AFR) on a range of diverse countries (LIC/fragile states, transition, EMs, AEs), policy areas and issues, including: strategy, bilateral, regional, and global surveillance; Fund lending operations; standards; and capacity development. His research work includes pioneering work on the investor base of sovereign debt and use of big data tools. With his colleague Takahiro Tsuda, he maintains a widely-used database on the global investor base for sovereign debt, publicly available online at the IMF. Work in the area of leading and supervision has involved mission leadership on a range of countries in Asia and Pacific and the Middle East and complex and cross-departmental work to assist over 40 countries advance on IMF data standards over the last two years. His research has been published in leading journals, including the IMF Economic Review, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the Journal of Finance. Mr. Arslanalp holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Computer Science from MIT and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. 

Email: SARSLANALP@imf.org

Fluent In: Turkish.