Bulent Guler
Portrait of Bulent Guler

Indiana University Bloomington

Bulent Guler

Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics

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About

I am an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Indiana University Bloomington. My research spans macroeconomics, household finance, housing, labor, and sovereign debt, with a focus on how credit markets and public policy shape household and macroeconomic outcomes.

Research

Publications

  1. Dynamics of Deterrence: Implications of Criminal Justice Policy

    International Economic Review, 2026 · with Amanda Michaud

  2. Trading Institutions in Experimental Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence

    European Economic Review, 2025 · with Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Daniela Puzzello, and Steven Tucker

  3. Sovereign Debt Disclosure

    Journal of International Economics, 2025 · with Yasin Kursat Onder and Temel Taskin

  4. Hidden Debt

    AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022 · with Yasin Kursat Onder and Temel Taskin

  5. Price Search, Consumption Inequality and Expenditure Inequality over the Life-Cycle

    International Economic Review, 2021 · with Yavuz Arslan and Temel Taskin

  6. Homeownership and Unemployment: The Effect of Market Size

    Labour Economics, 2018 · with Ahmet Ali Taskin

  8. Joint Dynamics of House Prices and Foreclosures

    Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2015 · with Yavuz Arslan and Temel Taskin

  9. Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd Out Home Production?

    European Economic Review, 2013 · with Temel Taskin

  10. Euler Equation Approach for Emerging-market Macro Models

    International Economic Journal, 2013 · with Tack Yun

  11. Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions

    Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012 · with Fatih Guvenen and Gianluca Violante

Current work

Working Papers

  1. Credit Supply versus Housing Demand in the U.S. Boom-Bust Cycle

    2026 · with Yavuz Arslan and Burhan Kuruscu R&R, International Economic Review

  2. The Composition and Concentration of Wealth: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Implications

    2025 · with Burhan Kuruscu and Baxter Robinson R&R, Quantitative Economics

  4. Fragile Prudence: Loan-to-Value Limits and Macroeconomic Stability

    2026 · with Yavuz Arslan Submitted

  5. Unemployment Insurance and Macro-Financial (In)Stability

    2026 · with Yavuz Arslan, Ahmet Degerli, Gazi Kabas, and Burhan Kuruscu Submitted

  6. Consumer Debt Moratoria

    2025 · with Yasin Kursat Onder, Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas, and Jose Villegas Submitted

  7. Mortgage Moratoria as Fiscal-free Stimulus: Evidence from Belgium

    2025 · with Julia Jesionek, Yasin Kursat Onder, Koen Schoors, and Milan van den Heuvel

  9. Home Production and Optimal Rate of Unemployment Insurance

    2015 · with Yavuz Arslan and Temel Taskin