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Burhanettin Kuruscu
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Research
Latest funding
- $50,792
Wealth Taxation in the 21st Century
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $40,447
Housing and Financial Markets, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Government Policies
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $39,593
Housing and Financial Markets, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Government Policies
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
Wealth Taxation in the 21st Century
Principal investigators: Kuruscu, Burhanettin
Keywords: Wealth taxation; automation; intangible capital; global capital flows; misallocation; imperfect infomation and uncertainty
Housing and Financial Markets, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Government Policies
Principal investigators: Kuruscu, Burhanettin
Keywords: housing market; mortgages; wealth composition; household and bank balance sheets; leverage; household and bank bailouts; macro-prudential policies; COVID-19
Housing and Financial Markets, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Government Policies
Principal investigators: Kuruscu, Burhanettin
Keywords: housing market; mortgages; wealth composition; household and bank balance sheets; leverage; household and bank bailouts; macro-prudential policies; COVID-19
Interaction of Household and Bank Balance Sheets and Macroprudential Policies
Principal investigators: Kuruscu, Burhanettin
Keywords: (1) Macroprudential policies; (2) Bank Balance Sheets; (3) Household balance Sheets; (4) Housing and Mortgage Market; (5) 2007-2009 Financial Crisis; (6) Quantitative General Equilibrium Model
Optimal taxation of wealth
Principal investigators: Kuruscu, Burhanettin
Keywords: optimal taxation; wealth inequality; misallocation of capital; capital income tax; wealth tax; inheritance tax; rate of return heterogeneity; efficiency
Cross-country differences in wage inequality and government policies
Principal investigators: Kuruscu, Burhanettin
Keywords: wage inequality; human capital; education policy; labor market policies
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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