Microeconomics Seminars

2024-2025

Date	Time	Speaker	Institution	Topic	Location
April 28, 2025	15:30	Salvatore Nunnari	Bocconi University	Coordination with Cognitive Noise	Semih Koray Seminar Room
April 24, 2025	15:30	Kemal Kıvanç Aköz	HSE University	Search in a Non-exclusive Online Matching Platform (Joint with Levent Çelik and Emre Doğan)	Semih Koray Seminar Room
April 22, 2025	15:30	İsmail Sağlam	TOBB ETU	Correlated Equilibrium and Disobedience-Proofness	Semih Koray Seminar Room
April 16, 2025	15:30	Ingela Alger	Toulouse School o Economics	Norms and Norm Change - Driven by Social Kantian Preferences	Semih Koray Seminar Room
February 26, 2025		Christopher Turansick	Bocconi University	Identifying Restrictions on the Random Utility
January 8, 2025		Doruk Cetemen	Royal Holloway, University of London	Mediation in Dynamic Contracting
December 24, 2024		Selçuk Özyurt	York University	Designing Information for Peaceful Dispute Resolution
December 4, 2024		Sonal Yadav	University of Liverpool	Teacher redistribution in public schools
November 13, 2024		Giacomo Rubbini	Department of Economics, Brown University	The Revelation Principle without Rational Expectations
October 16, 2024		Anqi Li	University of Waterloo	Learning Source Biases: Multisource Misspecifications and Their Impact on Predictions
October 4, 2024		Umut Dur	North Carolina State University	Who gets the bonus? Affirmative Action Reforms in High School Admissions in China
October 2, 2024		Rossella Argenziano	Essex University	Data Governance with Vulnerable Individuals (joint with Francesco Squintani)

2023-2024

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
May 17, 2024	Emre Ekinci	Koç University	The Effect of International Graduate Students on University Innovation: Evidence from Patent Data
April 24, 2024	Inga Deimen	University of Arizona	Strategic Information Transmission in the Employment Relationship
April 18, 2024	Mustafa Doğan	İstanbul Technical University	Designing Information to Screen
April 4, 2024	Mohamed Saleh	LSE	The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890–1950 (with Cihan Artunç)
March 27, 2024	Arseniy Samsonov	Özyeğin University	Should Politicians be Informed? Targeted Benefits and Heterogeneous Voters
March 21, 2024	Michele Lombardi	University of Liverpool	Implementation in vNM Stable Set
December 7, 2023	Isaac Sorkin	Stanford University	Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spells.
November 29, 2023	Chiara Aina	Harvard University	Tailored Stories

2022-2023

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
May 24, 2023	Selcen Çakır	Boğaziçi University	Delegation and Recruitment in Organizations: The Slippery Slope to "Bad" Leadership
May 17, 2023	Aleksandr Sasha Levkun	Bilkent University	Dynamics of Risky Agreements
May 10, 2023	Paula Onuchic	Oxford University	Disclosure and Incentives in Teams
May 3, 2023	Murat Demirci	Koç University	Major Outcomes: Do Foreign Undergraduate Students Impact Major Choices at U.S. Colleges and Universities?
April 26, 2023	Toygar Kerman	Corvinus University of Budapest	Persuading Communicating Voters
April 12, 2023	Murat Güray Kırdar	Boğaziçi University	Propagation of Immigration Shocks through Firm-to-Firm Trade Networks
March 30, 2023	Seda Ertaç Güler	Koç University	Randomized Educational Interventions on Social Interactions and Incentives in the Classroom Environment
March 29, 2023	Stefan Trautmann	Heidelberg University	Higher Order Risk Preferences and Economic Decisions
March 23, 2023	Özgün Ekici	Özyeğin University	Pair-efficient Reallocation of Indivisible Objects
March 15, 2023	Tore Ellingsen	Stockholm School of Economics	A Model of Social Duties
March 13, 2023	Amanda Friedenberg	University of Michigan	Epistemic Foundations for Level-k Behavior (with Adam Brandenburger and Terri Kneeland)
March 1, 2023	Arda Gitmez	Bilkent University	Informational Autocrats, Diverse Societies
January 10, 2023	Erkut Özbay	University of Maryland	The Thrill of Gradual Learning
December 21, 2022	Cem Peker	School of Management, Polytechnic University of Milan	Peer Prediction Markets to Elicit Unverifiable Information
December 13, 2022	Mert Demirer	MIT Sloan School of Management	Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency: Evidence from Power Plants
December 7, 2022	Ayşe Gül Mermer	Tilburg University	Over-workers and Drop-Outs in Competitions: Contests with Expectations-Based Loss-Averse Agents
November 30, 2022	Maria Titova	Vanderbilt University	Targeted Advertising in Elections
November 23, 2022	Yi-Chun Chen	National University of Singapore	Information Design in Optimal Auctions
November 20, 2022	Kym Pram	University of Nevada, Reno	Learning and Evidence in Insurance Markets.
November 16, 2022	Siyang Xiong	University of California, Riverside	Common Agency with Non-Delegation or Imperfect Commitment
November 9, 2022	Gözde Çörekçioğlu İshakoğlu	Kadir Has University	Leadership, Social Networks and Workplace Climate Through a Gender Lens
November 2, 2022	Kym Pram	University of Nevada, Reno	Learning and Evidence in Insurance Markets.
October 21, 2022	Teddy Mekonnen	Brown University	Certification in Search Markets (Joint with Zeky Murra-Anton and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson)

2021-2022

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
August 11, 2022	Ahmet Gülek	MIT	Formal Effects of Informal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Syrian refugees in Turkey
June 15, 2022	Yunus Can Aybaş	Stanford University	Efficient Cheap Talk in Complex Environments
May 11, 2022	Özgür Kıbrıs	Sabancı Üniversitesi	A Random Reference Model
December 22, 2021	Florian Brandl	University of Bonn	A Natural Adaptive Process for Collective Decision-Making
December 15, 2021	Matthew Backus	Columbia University	Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-To-Eat Cereal Industry
December 8, 2021	Naci Mocan	LSU	Deterrence and Compellence in the Parliament
December 1, 2021	Ali Yürükoğlu	Stanford University	Concentration in Product Markets
November 24, 2021	Luis Candelaria	Warwick	Identification and Inference of Network Formation Games with Misclassified Links
November 17, 2021	Simone Cerreia Vioglio	University of Bocconi	Making Decisions under Model Misspecification
November 10, 2021	Selim Güleşçi	Trinity College Dublin	Childcare for family welfare: Experimental evidence from Uganda
November 3, 2021	Özgür Kıbrıs	Sabancı University	A Random Reference Model
October 13, 2021	Luciano Pomatto	Caltech	Monotone Additive Statistics

2020-2021

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
May 12, 2021	Faruk Gul	Princeton University	Lindahl Equilibrium as a Collective Choice Rule
May 5, 2021	Harry Pei	Northwestern University	Reputation Building under Observational Learning
April 28, 2021	Parag Pathak	MIT	The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston
April 14, 2021	Laura Doval	Columbia	Purchase history and product personalization
March 31, 2021	Dana Foarta	Stanford GSB	Market Competition and Political Influence: An Integrated Approach
March 24, 2021	Charles Sprenger	CALTECH	Intertemporal Salience: Theoretical Foundations and Experimental Evidence
March 10, 2021	Arjada Bardhi	Duke University	Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics
March 3, 2021	Ingela Alger	Toulouse School of Economics	Homo Moralis Goes to the Voting Booth
December 14, 2020	Chiara Margaria	Boston University	Signaling What You Don't Want
December 9, 2020	Gabriele Gratton	UNSW	Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies
December 2, 2020	Ina Taneva	University of Edinburgh	Organized Information Disclosure
November 25, 2020	Benjamin Marx	Sciences Po	Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
November 18, 2020	Román Andrés Zárate	University of Toronto	An Experimental Approach to Peer Effects: Evidence on Social and Academic Skills
November 9, 2020	Sydnee Caldwell	UC Berkeley	OutsIde OptIons In the Labor Market
September 26, 2020	Wioletta Dziuda	University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy	Voters and the Policy Stability versus Responsiveness Tradeoff
September 19, 2020	Camille Terrier	HEC Lausanne	The Design of Teacher Assignment: Theory and Evidence
September 5, 2020	Alexander Woliztky	MIT	Do a Few Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel? Cooperation in Large Populations with Incomplete Information

2019-2020

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
December 18, 2019	Yunus Can Aybaş	Stanford University	The Value of Precision in Persuasion
December 11, 2019	Duk Gyoo Kim	University of Mannheim	Multilateral Bargaining over the Division of Losses
November 27, 2019	Mikhail Panov	NYU (HSE St. Petersburg starting September 2019)	Cooperation in Bargaining and the Nash Program
October 30, 2019	Andreas Dzemski	University of Gothenburg	Confidence Set for Group Membership
October 23, 2019	Peter Neary	University of Oxford	Sales and Markup Dispersion: Quantifying Misallocation
October 16, 2019	Eric Verhoogen	Columbia University	Estimating Production Functions Using Quantity Information and External Instruments
October 2, 2019	Nuh Aygün Dalkıran	Bilkent University	Behavioral Implementation under Incomplete Information

2018-2019

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
May 15, 2019	Beata Javorcik	Oxford Unv	Good for the Environment, Good for Business Foreign Acquisitions and Energy Intensity
May 8, 2019	Shiran Rachmilevitch	unv. of Haifa	Symmetric equilibria in a class of symmetric 2-player repeated games.
April 24, 2019	Wolfgan Leininger	TU Dortmund	Optimal Favoritism in Contests with Complete Information: the (almost) complete Theory
April 18, 2019	Marco Mariotti	Queen Mary Unv	Sequential Approval: A Model of "Likes", Paper Downloads and Other Forms of Click Behaviour
April 17, 2019	Paola Manzini	Unv. of Sussex	Inferring Cognitive Heterogeneity from Aggregate Choices
April 3, 2019	Miguel Ballester	Oxford Unv	Multı-Parametrıc Random Utılıty Models For The Joınt Treatment Of Rısk And Tıme Preferences
March 27, 2019	Hamid Sobourian	Unv. of Cambridge	Evolution of rules, Selection and Mutation: Efficiency and Egalitarianis
March 8, 2019	Emre Özdenören	LBS	Dynamic Asset-Backed Security Design
December 26, 2018	Pelin Akyol	Bilkent University	Taking PISA Seriously: How Accurate are Low-Stakes Exams?
December 5, 2018	Remzi Sanver	LAMSADE, Paris Dauphine University	Positively Responsive Collective Choice Rules and Majority Rule: a Generalization of May's Theorem to Many Alternatives
November 21, 2018	Özgür Evren	NES	Extension of Monotonic Functions and Representation of Preferences
November 14, 2018	Martin Weidner	UCL	Nuclear Norm Regularized Estimation of Panel Regression Models
October 31, 2018	Doruk Cetemen	Collegio Carlo Alberto	Moral Hazard and Time Inconsistency: Dynamic Contracting with Non-exponential Discounting
October 17, 2018	Selçuk Özyurt	Sabancı University	Efficient and Incentive Compatible Mediation: An Ordinal Mechanism Design Approach
October 10, 2018	Fabio Galeorri	CNRS-Gate Lab Lyon	The negative spillover effects of monitoring on intrinsic honesty
September 26, 2018	Sarah Auster	University of Bocconi	Robust Bidding and Revenue in Descending Price Auctions
September 19, 2018	Ben Greiner	University of Vienna	Strategic Uncertainty Aversion in Bargaining - Experimental Evidence

2017-2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
May 30, 2018	Elias L. Khalil	Monash Business School	Naturalizing the Sacred.
May 23, 2018	Brit Grosskopf	University of Exeter	More Meat for Boys: Evidence of Gender Based Statistical Discrimination in British Carvery Restaurants
May 16, 2018	Giorgia Romagnoli	University of Amsterdam	Testing the Separation of Tastes and Beliefs
May 9, 2018	Geert Dhaene	KU Leuven	Profile-Score Adjustments For Incidental-Parameter Problems
May 2, 2018	Anna Sanktjohanser	Toulouse School of Economics	Optimally Stubborn
April 25, 2018	Donato Gerardi	Collegio Carlo Alberto	Dynamic Contracting with Limited Commitment and the Ratchet Effect
April 11, 2018	Mehmet Ali Soytaş	Özyeğin University	What is the Source of the Intergenerational Correlation in Earnings?
April 4, 2018	Arno Riedl	Maastricht University	Revealed Incomplete Preferences under Uncertainty: Convexity and Bewley Preferences
March 28, 2018	Alp Atakan	Koç University	Price Discovery with Costly Competitive Bidding
March 14, 2018	Aysit Tansel	METU	Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
January 5, 2018	Alessandro Bonatti	MIT	Ratings-Based Price Discrimination
December 20, 2017	Murat G. Kırdar	Boğaziçi University	The Labor Market Effects of Syrian Immigrants in Turkey
December 6, 2017	Christoph Vanberg	Universty of Heilderberg	Legislative Bargaining with Subjective Claims
November 29, 2017	Jordi Brandts	Barcelona GSE	Deliberative Structures and Their Impact on Voting Behavior under Social Conflict
November 15, 2017	Nuh Aygün Dalkıran	Bilkent University	Intransitive Indifference under Uncertainty - Scott-Suppes Utility Representation
October 25, 2017	Nejat Anbarcı	Deakin University	Strategic Investments in Bargaining Positions with a Fixed Surplus
October 8, 2017	Christoph Kuzmics	University of Graz	Cognitive Empathy in Conflict Situations
October 4, 2017	Kemal Yıldız	Bilkent University	Prudential Choice
September 6, 2017	Battal Doğan	HEC Lausanne	Unified Enrollment in School Choice: How to Improve Student Assignment in Chicago

2016-2017

Date	Speaker	Topic
May 24, 2017	Jeremy Fox	Geographic Expansion Mergers and FCC Spectrum Policy: Estimating a Matching Game with Externalities
April 19, 2017	Michael Richter	Breadth vs Depth (joint with S. Geng and L. Pejsachowicz)
April 12, 2017	Mert Kimya	Choice, Consideration Sets and Attribute Filters
March 29, 2017	Yusuf Ertaş	Two Essays on Bargaining Games
December 28, 2016	Muharrem Yeşilırmak	Bonus Pay for Achievement Teachers, Spatial Sorting, and Student
December 16, 2016	Mehmet Barlo	Spillovers between Skilled and Low Skilled Labor Migration in a Multi-Regional Setting
December 14, 2016	Erol Doğan	Common learning on a continuum state space
October 30, 2016	Tuğçe Çuhadaroğlu	Interdependent Choice and Influence
October 19, 2016	Begüm Güney	Choice and Games with Switching Costs

2015-2016

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
December 23, 2015	Takuro Yamashita	Toulouse School of Economics	Asymmetric information allocation to avoid
December 16, 2015	Kerim Keskin	Bilkent Üniversitesi	Organizational Refinements of Nash Equilibrium
December 9, 2015	Elif Kubilay	Koç University	Altruism through Empathy: Evidence from the Field
December 2, 2015	Mustafa Yıldırım	İzmir Katip Çelebi University	Pre-Contest Communication Incentives
November 11, 2015	Levent Kutlu	Antalya International University	Estimation of Cost Efficiency Without Cost Data
October 21, 2015	Daniel Wilhelm	University of College London	Nonparametric instrumental variable estimation under monotonicity
October 14, 2015	Özgür Yılmaz	Koç Üniversitesi	How (not) to integrate blood subtyping technology to kidney exchange
September 30, 2015	Swati Dhingra	LSE	Input-Output Linkages and Product Adoption

2014-2015

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
May 20, 2015	Haluk Ergin		Living Donor Lobar Liver/Lung Exchange
May 6, 2015	Eric Meyersson		For the Love of the Republic - Education, Secularism and Empowerment
April 29, 2015	Görkem Çelik	ESSEC	Recıprocal Relatıonshıps And Mechanısm Desıgn
April 22, 2015	Sinan Ertemel	İTÜ	Welfare Egalitarianism under Uncertainty
April 15, 2015	Ethem Akyol	TOBB University	Allocation without Transfers: A Welfare Maximizing Mechanism
April 8, 2015	Paul Frijters	The University of Queensland	Give and you shall receive: the emergence of welfare-reducing reciprocity?
April 1, 2015	Mürüvvet Büyükboyacı	METU	On The Investment Implications of Bankruptcy Laws: An Experimental Test
March 24, 2015	Eren İnci	Boğaziçi University	Parking is the permanent loss leader in shopping malls
March 11, 2015	Gary Bolton	University of Texas	Inflated Reputations: Leniency and Moral Wiggle Room in Trader Feedback Systems
March 4, 2015	Murat Yilmaz	Boğaziçi Üniversity	Dynamic Voluntary Contribution to a Public Project under Time-Inconsistency
February 18, 2015	Berk Yavuzoglu	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Labor Force Attachment Beyond Normal Retirement Age
February 10, 2015	Eugene Jeong	Stanford University	Multidimensional Second-Price and English Auctions
December 30, 2014	Marc Muendler	UCSD	The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
December 24, 2014	Shiran Rachmilevitch	University of Haifa	Egalitarian-utilitarian bounds in Nash's bargaining problem
November 19, 2014	Daniel Garrett	Toulouse School of Economics	Residual Deterrence
November 12, 2014	Orhan Aygun	Bogazici University	College Admission with Multidimensional Privileges: Brazilian Affirmative Action Case
November 5, 2014	Takashi Kunimoto	Hitotsubashi University	Implementation with Transfers
October 31, 2014	Faruk Gul	Princeton University	Calibrated Uncertainty
October 1, 2014	Levent Kockesen	Koc University	Communication and Allocation of Decisions over Time
September 24, 2014	Eyal Winter	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Strategic Emotions
September 16, 2014	Nick Feltovich	Monash University	How fully do people exploit their bargaining position? The effects of bargaining institution and the 50-50 norm

2013-2014

Date	Time	Speaker	Institution	Topic
June 11, 2014		Kevin Hasker	Bilkent University	The Emergent Seed: A Representation Theorem for Models of Stochastic Evolution and two formulas for Waiting Time
June 4, 2014		Kevin Bryan	University of Toronto	University of Toronto
May 30, 2014		Johannes Horner	Yale University	Optimal Design for Social Learning
May 28, 2014		Rakesh Vohra	UPenn	On Fragmented Markets
May 21, 2014		Flip Klijn	Barcelona Graduate School of Economics	A Many-to-Many `Rural Hospital Theorem\'
May 14, 2014		Okan Yilankaya	Koc University	Resale in Second Price Auctions with Costly Participation
May 7, 2014		Nizar Allouch	Queen Mary, University of London	The cost of segregation in social networks
April 30, 2014		Mustafa Oguz Afacan	Sabanci University	The Object Allocation Problem with Random Priorities
April 16, 2014		Martin Kocher	University of Munich	An Anatomy of Ambiguity Attitudes
April 9, 2014		Ozgur Kibris	Sabanci University	On Surplus-Sharing Rules in Partnerships
April 2, 2014		Yusufcan Masatlioglu	University of Michigan	University of Michigan
March 26, 2014		Neslihan Uler	University of Michigan	Experimental Departures from Self-Interest when Competing Partnerships Share Output
March 19, 2014		Nenad Kos	Bocconi University	Information in Tender Offers With a Large Shareholder
March 12, 2014		Emre Ozdenoren	London Business School	Endogenous Contractual Externalities
March 5, 2014		Renato Gomes	Toulouse School of Economics	Competitive Screening under Heterogeneous Information
December 25, 2013	15:30	Selcuk Ozyurt	Sabanci University	\'Take it or Leave it\' Offers in Negotiations
December 18, 2013	15:30	Senay Sokullu	University of Bristol	Airport Prices in a Two-Sided Framework
December 4, 2013	15:30	Martin Weidner	University College London	Incidental Parameter Bias in Panel Quantile Regressions
November 27, 2013	15:30	Sergio Currarini	Università di Venezia	Games on Networks: Direct Complements and Indirect Substitutes
November 20, 2013	15:30	Ahmet Alkan	Sabanci University	Pairing Games and Markets
November 6, 2013	15:30	Shmuel Zamir	Center for Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Representations of Constitutions Under Incomplete Information
October 9, 2013	15:30	Alan Miller	University of Haifa	Scholarly Influence
October 2, 2013	15:30	Alp Atakan	Koc University	Auctions, Actions, and The Failure of Information Aggregation
September 25, 2013	15:30	Eray Cumbul	TOBB ETU / IESE	Stackelberg versus Cournot Oligopoly with Private Information

2012-2013

Date	Speaker	Institution	Topic
March 20, 2013	Mehmet Barlo	Sabanci University	Entropic Selection of Nash Equilibrium
January 2, 2013	Murat Kirdar	Middle East Technical University	Does Longer Compulsory Education Equalize Educational Attainment for Disadvantaged Groups?\"
December 26, 2012	Ivan Pastine	UCD School of Economics	All-Pay Contests with Constraints
December 21, 2012	Ariel Rubinstein	Tel Aviv University and New York University	A Model of Persuasion with Boundedly Rational Agents
December 19, 2012	Peter Neary	Oxford University	Not so Demanding: Preference Structure, Firm Behaviour, and Welfare
December 12, 2012	Jerome Pouyet	Paris School of Economics	Anticompetitive Vertical Merger Waves
November 28, 2012	Abdurrahman Aydemir	Sabanci University	Turkish Immigrant Outcomes across European Destinations: Adult Labor Market Outcomes and School Success of Children
November 21, 2012	Kerem Cosar	Chicago Booth School of Business	Market Access and Regional Specialization in a Ricardian World
November 2, 2012	Jean Laine	Bilgi University	Consistent Collective Rankings
October 31, 2012	Mehmet Ekmekçi	Northwestern Kellogg Business Schoo	Informatıon in Tender Offers With a Large Shareholder
October 19, 2012	Unal Zenginobuz	Bogazici University	Oates Decentralization Theorem with Household Mobility
October 10, 2012	Roberto Weber	University of Zürich	Managing Social Credibility: An Experiment on Coordination and Leadership
October 3, 2012	Cahit Güven	Deakin University	Age at Migration; English Language Proficiency and Adult Outcomes Among Australian Immigrants: Evidence From Hilda Survey

2011-2012

Date	Time	Speaker	Institution	Topic
March 28, 2012		Biung-Ghi Ju	Seoul National University	Fair Adjudication of Claims on Multiple Goods
January 4, 2012		Kerim Peren Arin		Negotiating with terrorists: The costs of compliance
December 28, 2011		Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal	TOBB ETU	Truth-Telling and Trust in Sender-Receiver Games with Intervention
December 21, 2011		Rasim Özcan	Türk Telekom and Koç University	Public Procurement Auctions and Competition in Turkey
December 14, 2011		Uğur Özdemir	Bilgi University	Pass the Bucks: Investment Incentives as Political Credit-Claiming Devices:Evidence from a Survey Experiment
December 7, 2011		Sencer Ecer	İstanbul Technical University	Optimal Merger Policy-Variant Non-Price Strategies and Deterred Mergers
November 30, 2011		Alp Atakan	Koç University	Reputation in the Long-Run with Imperfect Monitoring
November 23, 2011		Ayça Özdoğan	TOBB ETU	Sequential Diappearance of Reputations in Two-Sided Incomplete-Information Games
October 19, 2011	15:30	Fernando Vega-Redondo	European University Institute	Social Networks, Institutions, and the Process of Globalization
October 12, 2011		Selçuk Özyurt	Sabanci University	Conflict Resolution: Role of Strategic Communication, Reputation and Audience Costs
October 5, 2011		Anita Gantner	University of Innsbruck	Division of a Dollar When Claims are Subjective