Emin Köksal
Where economic rigor meets AI fluency
I have spent twenty years in competition economics, as an academic and, since 2015, as an economist working inside a law firm’s competition team. I started using AI to save time on my own research. It ended up changing how I do the work. Today I design AI workflows for competition and regulation teams and train the lawyers and economists who use them. My latest paper had an AI model read all 9,995 published decisions of the Turkish Competition Board.
Four areas of work that feed each other
On paper it is an odd pairing: twenty years of competition economics and daily use of the newest AI tools. In practice each feeds the other. The economics decides which question a workflow should answer, and the workflows let my research ask questions that were too large to ask by hand.
Academic Economics & Teaching
Where the rest comes from. I am an Associate Professor of Economics, with 50+ publications, a co-edited Routledge volume, and the Associate Editor-in-Chief role at Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (SAGE). I have taught every year since 2002, and still do.
Read moreAI Strategy & Workflow Design
I build AI workflows for competition and regulation teams at international law firms: playbooks, complex prompts, MCP-based research infrastructure. Then I train the people who use them. Everything I teach, I have run on a live matter first.
Read moreAI-Native Research
My current research program uses AI to read legal texts at a scale no person could. The first paper analyzed all 3,369 infringement decisions of the Turkish Competition Board as a single dataset. The second maps the 18,513 citations connecting all 9,995 of its published decisions.
Explore the researchWriting & Talks
I have written for a general audience since 2013, mostly in Turkish, on competition cases, platform regulation, climate policy, and now AI. The whole archive is on this site. I also give talks, to academic and professional audiences alike.
Read the blogWhat I’m working on now
The Economics and Regulation of Digitalisation: The Case of Türkiye
A co-edited volume on Türkiye’s digital transformation, with M. Eroğlu and M. Finger. My own chapter, written with O. Bakış, builds the Türkiye Digital Society Index.
A Quarter-Century Analysis of the Turkish Competition Board’s Decisions
With C. Peker and M. Üyer, we analyzed all 3,369 infringement decisions the Board published over twenty-five years. Nobody had treated that record as one dataset before; the patterns across industries and time only show up when you do.
The Intellectual DNA of the Turkish Competition Board
With C. Peker and M. Üyer, we mapped the 18,513 citations connecting all 9,995 published decisions of the Board: which decisions everything else leans on, and where the doctrine changed course.
Essays & working notes
- 22 Sep 2026Avrupa Komisyonu yayıncılara Google’ın yapay zekâ özetlerinden çıkma seçeneğini soruyor. 1.065 kullanıcılı bir saha deneyi cevabı çoktan vermiş: Özet çıktığında tıklamaların yüzde…
- 25 Aug 2026Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı’nın 18 Ağustos 2026’da yayımladığı Türkiye Yapay Zekâ Eylem Planı’nda, pek çok okurun gözünden kaçmış olabilecek küçük bir ayrıntı…
- 15 Jul 2026Our second AI-supported working paper is out. An AI model read all 9,995 published decisions of the Turkish Competition Board and extracted…
Working on something where economics, regulation, and AI meet?
Most of my work is with competition and regulation teams at international law firms and consultancies, alongside academic collaborations and my own research. If what you are doing overlaps with any of that, send me a note about it.