Galatasaray University Economic Research Center (GIAM) was established in 2010 to conduct research activities in the field of economic theory and applied economics and to publish and share these on national and international platforms. The main activities of the center is publishing research notes, reports and discussion texts, especially in the field of labor economics and development, behavioural and experimental economics and on economic theory in general, and organizing seminars and conferences. Believing in the positive effect of interdisciplinary discussion, GIAM directs some of its work to seminars and presentations from different fields such as mathematics, political science, sociology, history and communication.