BOOKS
Anbarci, Nejat and Kemal Kivanc Aköz
Game Theory: A Very Brief and Non-Technical Introduction
World Scientific Publishing (2025).
Anbarci, Nejat and Kemal Kivanc Aköz
Akıl Oyunları: Oyun Teorisine Giriş (in Turkish).
Alfa Publishing (2024).
McCloskey, Donald, George K. Hersh Jr., John Coatsworth, Stefano Fenoaltea, John Komlos,
Michelle McAlpin, Pedro de Mello, Richard Roehl, Lars Sandberg, Gary Saxenhouse, Steven
Webb, Nejat Anbarci, Metin Cosgel and Kevin O’Meara
A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980.
Cambridge University Press (1990).
REFEREED PAPERS
66. Afacan, Mustafa Oguz, Nejat Anbarci and Ozgur Kibris
“Arbiter Assignment”
Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming (2025)
65. Anbarci, Nejat and Gorkem Celik
“Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently”
International Economic Review, 66, 201-221 (2025).
64. Feltovich, Nick and Nejat Anbarci
“Experiments on Directed Search”
Chapter 61. In Chuah, S-H, Hoffmann, R. and Neelim, A. (eds),
Elgar Encyclopedia of Behavioural and Experimental Economics. Edward Elgar. 205-209
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207736 (2025).
63. Anbarci, Nejat and Mehmet Ismail
“AI-powered Mechanisms as Judges: Breaking Ties in Chess”
PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305905 (2024).
62. Anbarci, Nejat, Kutay Cingiz and Mehmet Ismail
“Proportional Resource Allocation in Dynamic n-player Blotto Games”
Mathematical Social Sciences, 125, 94-100 (2023).
61. Rahman, M. Habibur, Nejat Anbarci and Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu
“Storm Autocracies: Islands as Natural Experiments”
Journal of Development Economics, 159, 102982 (2022)
- appeared at The Guardian, The Geographical and The Environment Magazine, among others.
60. Nick Feltovich and Nejat Anbarci
“Market Institutions, Prices, and Distribution of Surplus: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation”
Chapter 10. In Kyle Hyndman and Emin Karagozoglu, eds.
Bargaining: Current Research and Future Directions, Palgrave Macmillan, 203-225
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76666-5_10 (2022).
59. Civilini, Andrea, Nejat Anbarci and Vito Latora
“Evolutionary Game Model of Risk Propensity in Group Decision Making”
Physical Review Letters, 127, 268301 (2021) - Editors' Suggestion.
58. Anbarci, Nejat, Ching-jen Sun and Utku Unver
“Designing Practical and Fair Sequential Team Contests”
Games and Economic Behavior, 130, 25-43 (2021).
An interview on the paper (and shootout mechanisms) can be found at this link: https://faculti.net/designing-practical-and-fair-sequential-team-contests/
57. Anbarci, Nejat, Kang Rong and Jaideep Roy
“Random-Settlement Arbitration and the Generalized Nash Solution: The One-shot and Infinite-horizon
Cases”
Economic Theory, 68, 21-52 (2019).
56. Anbarci, Nejat, Peren Arin and Christina Zenker
“Tennis Data May Elude Some as Serves Get Too Fast”
Econ Journal Watch, 16, 124-129 (2019).
55. Anbarci, Nejat, Richard Dutu and Ching-jen Sun
“On the Timing of Production Decisions in Monetary Economies”
International Economic Review, 60, 447-472 (2019).
54. Anbarci, Nejat, Peren Arin, Torben Kuhlenkasper and Christina Zenker
“Revisiting Loss Aversion: Evidence from Professional Tennis”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 153, 1-18 (2018).
53. Anbarci, Nejat, Nick Feltovich and Mehmet Y. Gurdal
“Payoff Inequity Reduces the Effectiveness of Correlated-equilibrium Recommendations”
European Economic Review, 108, 172-190 (2018).
52. Anbarci, Nejat and Nick Feltovich
“Pricing in Competitive Search Markets: Experimental Evidence of the Roles of Price Information and Fairness
Perceptions”
Management Science, 64, 1101-1120 (2018).
51. Anbarci, Nejat, Pedro Gomis-Porqueras and Marcus Pivato
“Evolutionary Stability of Bargaining and Price Posting: Implications for Formal and Informal Activities”
Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 28, 365-397 (2018).
50. Anbarci, Nejat and Jaideep Roy
“Double Auctions with No-Loss Constrained Traders”
Theory and Decision, 84, 1-9 (2018).
49. Anbarci, Nejat and Nick Feltovich
“How Much Do People Exploit Their Bargaining Power? The Effects of Bargaining Institution and the 50-50
Norm”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145, 320-334 (2018).
48. Rahman, M. Habibur, Nejat Anbarci, Prasad Bhattacharya and Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu
“Can Extreme Rainfall Trigger Democratic Change: The Role of Flood Induced Corruption?”
Public Choice, 171, 331-358 (2017).
47. Anbarci, Nejat, Saptarshi Ghosh and Jaideep Roy
“Informational Control under Reputational Cheap Talk”
Games and Economic Behavior, 106, 153-160 (2017).
46. Anbarci, Nejat, Peren Arin, Cagla Okten and Christina Zenker
“Is Roger Federer More Loss Averse than Serena Williams?”
Applied Economics, 49, 3546-3559 (2017).
45. Rahman, M. Habibur, Nejat Anbarci, Prasad Bhattacharya and Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu
“The Shocking Origins of Political Transitions? Evidence from Earthquakes”
Southern Economic Journal, 83, 796-823 (2017).
44. Anbarci, Nejat, Jungmin Lee and Aydogan Ulker
“Win at All Costs or Lose Gracefully in High-Stakes Competition?: Gender Differences in Professional Tennis”
Journal of Sports Economics, 17, 323-353 (2016).
43. Anbarci, Nejat, Richard Dutu and Nick Feltovich
“Inflation Tax in the Lab: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Competitive Search Equilibrium with
Inflation”
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 61, 17-33 (2015).
42. Anbarci, Nejat and Brett Katzman
“A New Industry Concentration Index”
Economic Papers, 34, 222-228 (2015)
41. Anbarci, Nejat, Nick Feltovich and Mehmet Y. Gurdal
“Lying about the Price? Ultimatum Bargaining with Messages and Imperfectly Observed Offers”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116, 346-360 (2015).
40. Anbarci, Nejat, Peren Arin and Jungmin Lee
“Gender Differences in Response to Contingent Rewards: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Junior
Tennis”
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly Journal of Socio-Economics), 53,
131-137 (2014).
39. Anbarci, Nejat and Jungmin Lee
“Detecting Racial Bias in Speed Discounting: Evidence from Speeding Tickets in Boston”
International Review of Law and Economics, 38, 11-24 (2014).
38. Anbarci, Nejat and Ching-jen Sun
“Robustness of Intermediate Agreements and Bargaining Solutions”
Games and Economic Behavior, 77, 367-376 (2013).
37. Anbarci, Nejat and Ching-jen Sun
“The Asymmetric Nash Bargaining Solutions: A Simple Nash Program”
Economics Letters, 120, 211-214 (2013).
36. Anbarci, Nejat and Nick Feltovich
“How Sensitive Are Bargaining Outcomes to Changes in Disagreement Payoffs?”
Experimental Economics, 16, 560-596 (2013).
35. Anbarci, Nejat and Nick Feltovich
“Directed Search, Coordination Failure and Seller Profits: An Experimental Comparison of Posted Pricing with
Single and Multiple Prices”
International Economic Review, 54, 873-884 (2013).
34. Anbarci, Nejat, Monica Escaleras and Charles Register
“From Cholera Outbreaks to Pandemics: The Role of Poverty and Inequality”
American Economist, 57, 21-31 (2012).
33. Anbarci, Nejat and Nick Feltovich
“Bargaining with Random Implementation: An Experimental Study”
Games and Economic Behavior, 76, 495-514 (2012).
32. Alkan, Ahmet, Nejat Anbarci and Sinan Sarpca
“An Exploration in School Formation: Income vs Ability”
Economics Letters, 117, 500-504 (2012).
31. Anbarci, Nejat and Ching-jen Sun
“Distributive Justice and the Nash Bargaining Solution”
Social Choice and Welfare, 37, 453-470 (2011).
30. Anbarci, Nejat and John Boyd III
“Nash Demand Game and the Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution”
Games and Economic Behavior, 71, 14-22 (2011).
29. Anbarci, Nejat and Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu
“Intersectoral Size Differences and Migration: Kuznets Revisited”
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 20, 251-292 (2011).
28. Anbarci, Nejat and Ching-jen Sun
“Weakest Collective Rationality and the Nash Bargaining Solution”
Social Choice and Welfare, 37, 425-429 (2011).
27. Anbarci, Nejat, Jonathan Hill and Hasan Kirmanoglu
“Institutions and Growth Volatility”
Economic Papers, 30, 233-252 (2011).
26. Anbarci, Nejat, John Boyd III, Eric Floehr, Jungmin Lee and Jung Jin Song
“Population and Income Sensitivity of Private and Public Weather Forecasting”
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 41, 124-133 (2011).
25. Anbarci, Nejat and Mustafa Caglayan
“Do Institutions, Inequality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Cadaveric versus Live-Kidney Harvesting?”
Economics Bulletin, 30, 10-19 (2010).
24. Anbarci, Nejat, Monica Escaleras and Charles Register
“The Ill Effects of Public Sector Corruption in the Water and Sanitation Sector”
Land Economics, 85, 363-377 (2009).
23. Anbarci, Nejat, Monica Escaleras and Charles Register
“Traffic Fatalities: Does Income Inequality Create an Externality?”
Canadian Journal of Economics, 42, 244-266 (2009).
22. Anbarci, Nejat
“Relative Disagreement-Point Monotonicity of Bargaining Solutions”
Atlantic Economic Journal, 36, 293-299 (2008).
21. Monica Escaleras, Nejat Anbarci and Charles Register
“Public Sector Corruption and Major Earthquakes: A Potentially Deadly Interaction”
Public Choice, 132, 209-230 (2007).
20. Anbarci, Nejat and Mustafa Caglayan
“Cadaveric vs. Live-Donor Kidney Transplants: Theoretical Foundations of Interaction between Institutions and
Inequality”
Public Administration and Management, 12 (2007).
19. Anbarci, Nejat
“Finite Alternating-Move Arbitration Schemes and the Equal Area Solution”
Theory and Decision, 61, 21-50 (2006).
18. Anbarci, Nejat, Monica Escaleras and Charles Register
“Traffic Fatalities and Public Sector Corruption”
Kyklos, 59, 327-344 (2006).
17. Anbarci, Nejat, Monica Escaleras and Charles Register
“Earthquake Fatalities: The Interaction of Nature and Political Economy”
Journal of Public Economics, 89, 1907-1933 (2005).
16. Anbarci, Nejat, Robert Lemke and Santanu Roy
“Inter-Firm Complementarities in R&D: Re-examination of the Relative Performance of Joint Ventures”
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 20, 191-213 (2002).
15. Anbarci, Nejat
“A Simple Two-Axiom Characterization of the Nash Solution”
OR Spectrum, 24, 215-218 (2002).
14. Anbarci, Nejat, Stergios Skaperdas and Costas Syropoulos
“Comparing Bargaining Solutions in the Shadow of Conflict: How Norms against Threats Can Have Real
Effects”
Journal of Economic Theory, 106, 1-16 (2002).
13. Anbarci, Nejat
“Divide-the-Dollar Game Revisited”
Theory and Decision, 50, 295-304 (2001).
12. Anbarci, Nejat and Mehmet Karaaslan
“An Efficient Privatization Mechanism”
Journal of Policy Reform (later became Journal of Economic Policy Reform), 2, 73-87 (1998).
11. Anbarci, Nejat and Gyoseob Yi
“An Iterative Allocation Mechanism in the Edgeworth Box”
International Advances in Economic Research, 4, 253-258 (1998).
10. Anbarci, Nejat
“Simple Characterizations of the Nash and Kalai/Smorodinsky Solutions”
Theory and Decision, 45, 255-261 (1998).
9. Anbarci, Nejat
“Noncooperative Foundations for the Kalai/Smorodinsky and Equal Sacrifice Solutions via Prominence
Structures”
Atlantic Economic Journal, 35, 403-411 (1997).
8. Anbarci, Nejat
“Reference Functions and Balanced Concessions in Bargaining”
Canadian Journal of Economics, 28, 675-682 (1995).
7. Anbarci, Nejat and John Bigelow
“The Area Monotonic Solution to the Cooperative Bargaining Problem”
Mathematical Social Sciences, 28, 133-142 (1994).
6. Anbarci, Nejat
“Noncooperative Foundations of the Area Monotonic Solution”
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108, 245-258 (1993).
5. Bigelow, John and Nejat Anbarci
“Non-Dictatorial, Pareto-Monotonic, Cooperative Bargaining: An Impossibility Theorem”
European Journal of Political Economy, 9, 551-558 (1993).
4. Anbarci, Nejat
“Strategic Vote Manipulation in a Simple Democracy”
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 20, 319-330 (1993).
3. Anbarci, Nejat and Gyoseob Yi
“A Meta-Allocation Mechanism in Cooperative Bargaining”
Economics Letters, 38, 175-179 (1992).
2. Anbarci, Nejat
“The Nash Solution and Relevant Expansions”
Economics Letters, 36, 137-140 (1991).
1. Anbarci, Nejat
“The Kalai/Smorodinsky Solution with Time Preferences”
Economics Letters, 31, 5-7 (1989).
RECENT WORK
Anbarci, Nejat, Nick Feltovich and Mehmet Y. Gurdal
“What Makes Communication Informative? Cheap Talk with Multiple Senders”
Revise-and-resubmit, Management Science
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATION(S)
Anbarci, Nejat and Angel Hernando-Veciana,
“The Pandemic is a Chance to Rethink Education, Not settle for Online Lectures”
The Guardian (2020) (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/dec/18/the-pandemic-is-a-chance-to-rethink-education-not-settle-for-online-lectures)