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M.A. Seda Adsoy

Seda Adsoy

Freie Universität Berlin

Promotionskolleg EQUALFIN

PhD Project "Essays on the Political Economy of Monetary Policy"

Address
Boltzmanstraße 20
Room 402
14195 Berlin

Education

Since 09/2025

PhD Student, EQUALFIN

11/2021 – 09/2024

Master degree in “Public Economics“ at Freie Universität Berlin

Thesis : “ECB and the Global South: A Study on Monetary Policy Transmission”

10/2011 – 06/2016

Bachelor degree in “Economics“ at Freie Universität Berlin

Thesis : “Die Auswirkungen der Novellierung der Handwerksordnung im Jahre 2004: Eine empirische Studie zum deutschen Handwerk”

Work Experience 

06/2023– 08/2025

Commercial Operations Specialist, Bausch + Lomb, Berlin

11/2021 – 05/2023

Pharma Key Accounts Working Student, Bausch + Lomb, Berlin
10/2019 – 10/2021 CRM/Sales Systems Expert, Kühne+Nagel, Istanbul
01/2018 – 18/2019  IT/DevOps Specialist, Daimler SDC, Istanbul
08/2014 – 01/2018 Market Research Business Analyst, Nielsen, Istanbul

Research Project

Project Title: "Essays on the Political Economy of Monetary Policy"

Supervisors: Prof. Theocharis Grigoriadis

In her research, Seda examines how monetary policy decisions in center economies affect financial stability, political dynamics, and financial sovereignty in the periphery. Her project analyzes the global transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policies, with particular attention to how structural asymmetries, such as currency hierarchies, financial openness, and institutional capacity, amplify external vulnerabilities. By linking international monetary spillovers to political and institutional contexts, her research aims to contribute to the literature on the mechanisms through which global liquidity cycles and currency hierarchies constrain policy autonomy and reinforce inequalities within the international financial system.