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Primary Program

Climate & Sustainability
Cilekoglu, Akin

About

Akin Cilekoglu is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Climate and Sustainability Program at KAPSARC. Using micro-level datasets, his research focuses on firm-level analysis, primarily in climate change and energy-related topics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Barcelona, an M.Sc. in economics from the Catholic University of Milan, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir. Previously, he worked as a climate policy consultant and as a lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University.

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12 January 2025

Sectoral Clustering and Climate-Tech Startup Financing Through Venture Capital and Private Equity

In this study, I investigate climate-tech startup financing of venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments across different sectors around the world for the 2022-2024 period. Cross-sectional analysis suggests that start-ups in sectors with higher dynamism (proxied by dea...

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25 June 2025

Determinants of Sustainable Finance Flows: A Literature Review

Sustainable finance has gained remarkable momentum over the past decade, but its global allocation remains uneven, with emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) struggling to attract the capital required to meet ambitious climate targets. This shortfall threatens progress towa...

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21 August 2025

The Role of Ownership Structure in Oil and Gas Production After the Paris Agreement

This paper investigates the role of state ownership in oil and gas production after the Paris Agreement, comparing national oil companies (NOCs) with international oil companies (IOCs). Using firm-level panel data spanning from 2010 to 2021 in a difference-in-differences setting, it w...