Berkay Saygin

Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics
University of Chicago

zbsaygin@uchicago.edu  ·  CV  ·  GitHub

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago, and a 2025 Stripe Economics of AI Fellow. My research interests are in Economic Growth, Entrepreneurship, and Spatial Economics.

Berkay Saygin

Research

Venture Capital and Geography of Startups

Work in progress.

Supply Networks

Work in progress.

Science and Innovation

Work in progress.

Turkish Academic Diaspora Report

Report, 2023. PDF

with Ufuk Akcigit, Cagatay Koc, Sinan Parmar, Jeremy Pearce, Younghun Shim, Nil Taspinar, and Deniz Tokmakoglu

Restabilizing Matching Algorithm: Convergence from Non-empty Matching

Master's thesis, 2022.

Teaching

Spatial Economics (PhD)

Teaching Assistant for Esteban Rossi-Hansberg · Winter 2026

Slides and Code

Theory of Income I (PhD)

Teaching Assistant for Nancy Stokey · Fall 2024

Game Theory

Teaching Assistant for Cesar Barilla · Summer 2022