ASSET

CED is an institutional member of  The Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET).

ASSET is a group of economics departments and economics research centres that are all based in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region (Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and Turkey). ASSET promotes cooperation and exchange of ideas as well as reseachers among the members institutions in the general fields of analytical and quantitative economics and econometrics. ASSET's meetings and activities are open to international scholars from all parts of the world.

CED is an institutional member of ASSET. ASSET's annual international meetings were hosted by CED at Boğaziçi University in 1995 and 2009. In 2010, CED also hosted the annual meetings of the Association for Public Economic Theory, an international academic society with the participation of more than 400 academics from 32 countries. CED's director Prof. Dr. Ünal Zenginobuz was elected as the Secretary General of ASSET, a position he held from 2013 to 2017. Prof. Zenginobuz was elected Vice President of ASSET for 2019-2021 and served in this position from 2021 to 2023.