Professors

Engin IYIDOGAN

Assistant Professor

Technologie financière, Tokenomics, Economics of artificial intelligence, Technologu Adoption

Download resume
Engin IYIDOGAN

Academy

Innovation

Research center

Finance & Accounting Insights on Risk and Regulation

Location

Paris

Discipline

Finance

Engin Iyidogan is Assistant Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School, where he is a member of the Innovation Academy and of the FAIRR research centre on the Grand Paris campus. He holds a PhD in Finance from Imperial College Business School, an MA in Economics from Koç University and a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University. His research applies game theory, contract theory and financial econometrics to digital finance: token launches and airdrops, stablecoins and central bank digital currencies, blockchain adoption and governance, and the economics of artificial intelligence markets. His work sits at the intersection of finance, operations research, and economics. He teaches corporate finance, algorithm design in FinTech, and applied artificial intelligence across SKEMA's MSc programmes in Paris and Dubai.

 

Education
2019
Ph.D. in Finance, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
2014
MA in Economics, Koç University, Turkey
2012
BSC in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey
Experience
Full-time academic positions
Since 2019
Assistant Professor, SKEMA Business School, France
Other academic affiliations and appointments
2016 - 2018
Teaching Assistant, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
Research grants, Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
2017
Graduate Teaching Award, Imperial College Business School, Great Britain
2005
Silver Medal, National Mathematical Olympiad
Research Grants
2014
President's PhD Scholarship, Imperial College, Great Britain
2012
Full scholarship for master's study, Koç University, Turkey
2007
Full scholarship for undergraduate study, Bilkent University, Turkey
Other research activities
Reviewer for:
European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Asset Management, International Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance
Organization of a conference or a research seminar
2025
Organisation Committee of the European Finance Association Annual Meeting
2022
Co-organiser, SKEMA-ESSEC FinTech Conference, ESSEC Business School, France
Other academic activities
2026
Discussion - "The Participation Reversal Puzzle*, by Mainardi, Mihet, and Veldkamp
2025
Programme Committee Annual Meeting 2025, European Finance Association
2025
Session Chair, European Finance Association
2024
Tokenomics Workshop, University of Waseda, Waseda University, Japan
2022
Discussion - "Fundamental Pricing of Utility Tokens*, by Danos, Marcassa, Oliva, and Prat
2022
SKEMA FinTech Group
2022
Discussion - "Socially Responsible Finance: How to Optimize Impact?" by Landier and Lovo
2022
Discussion - "Market Discipline in the Direct Lending Space" by Davydiuk, Marchuk, and Rosen
2022
Discussion - "On the Quality of Cryptocurrency Markets: Centralized versus Decentralized Exchanges" by Barbon and Ranaldo
2021
SKEMA Emerging Scholars Group
Since 2019
Member, European Finance Association
Since 2019
Member, American Finance Association, United States of America

Peer-reviewed journal articles

IYIDOGAN, E. and OZKES, A. (2025). Agentic AI and hallucinations. Economics Letters, 255, pp. 112520.
AMINI, H., DEGUEST, R., IYIDOGAN, E. and MINCA, A. (2024). Blockchain adoption and optimal reinsurance design. European Journal of Operational Research, 318(1), pp. 341-353.

Conference proceedings

NIESTEN, E., JOLINK, A. and IYIDOGAN, E. (2024). The Comparative Efficiency of Blockchain Governance–Empirical Evidence on the Fashion Supply Chain. Academy of Management Proceedings, 12953(2024), pp. 40.

Conference presentations

NIESTEN, E., IYIDOGAN, E. and JOLINK, A. (2024). The Comparative Efficiency of Blockchain Governance–Empirical Evidence on the Fashion Supply Chain. In: Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2021). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: 4th UWA Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference. Perth.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2021). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: FMA Annual Conference. Virtual.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2021). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: AFFI (Association Française de Finance) Conference. Virtual.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2020). Return Spillovers and Systemic Risk in the Cryptocurrency Market. In: Crowdinvesting Symposium. Berlin.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2020). Return Spillovers and Systemic Risk in the Cryptocurrency Market. In: International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics. London.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2019). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: ABFER, CEPR and CUHK Annual Symposium in Financial Economics. Hong Kong.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2018). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: SBE Crowdfunding and Blockchain Workshop. Lyon.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2018). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: Crowdinvesting Symposium. Munich.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2018). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: IFZ FinTech Colloquium. Zug.
IYIDOGAN, E. (2018). An Equilibrium Model of Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrencies. In: Australasian Finance and Banking Conference. Sydney.