Afşin Şahin is a professor in the Department of Finance and Banking, Faculty of Financial Sciences, at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Ankara, Türkiye. He earned his BA in Economics from Bilkent University, his MA in Economics from Gazi University, and his PhD in Economics from Selçuk University. He held academic and administrative positions at Gazi University and Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, and served as a visiting research scholar in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University. His earlier professional experience includes banking audit and inspection, as well as work as a European Union expert in the Turkish public sector. His research focuses on macroeconomics, macro-finance, money and banking, monetary economics, and applied econometrics.