Emin Köksal
Where economic rigor meets AI fluency
I’ve spent twenty years in competition economics, as a professor, a journal editor, and a consultant to law firms. A few years ago I started using AI tools in my own research, mostly to save time. They changed the work instead. Today I design AI workflows for competition and regulation teams at international law firms, train practitioners on legal AI platforms, and publish research that uses AI to read a quarter-century of regulatory decisions at once.
Four areas of work that feed each other
Everything here draws on the same foundation: twenty years of competition economics, and daily hands-on use of the most capable AI tools available. The mix looks unusual on paper. In practice, each part makes the others better.
Academic Economics & Teaching
The foundation. Associate Professor of Economics, with 50+ publications, a co-edited Routledge volume, and an editorship at Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (SAGE). I’ve taught graduate courses 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’ve run on real work 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 3,369 Turkish Competition Board decisions as a single dataset. The second maps the 18,513 citations connecting all 9,995 published decisions.
Explore the researchPublic Thought Leadership
Essays and talks on AI, competition, and regulation, for 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, I analyzed all 3,369 decisions the Board published over twenty-five years. Nobody had treated the full 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 quietly shifts.
Recent writing
- 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…
- 8 Jul 2025Geçtiğimiz günlerde, Bilgi Üniversitesi Rekabet Hukuku Merkezi’nde sunduğumuz ilk yapay zekâ destekli çalışmamızın YouTube kaydı yayınlandı. Bu çalışma, hem benim hem de…
- 30 Jan 2025I am delighted to announce an innovative new course that I’ll be teaching this Spring semester at Bahçeşehir University. After spending the…
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’re doing overlaps with any of that, send me a note and tell me about it.