I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Leicester. My main research interests are political economy, industrial organization, and behavioral economics. 

Email: aytimure [at] gmail.com

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Publications 

“Salience and Horizontal Differentiation”, forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Economics

"On the Optimality of Competition within a Team" (2022), Managerial and Decision Economics

“Extreme Parties and Political Rents” (2021), B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

“Accountability with Large Electorates” (2019) (with C. Bruns), Economic Journal.  PDF 

“Labor Force Participation of Women Left Behind in Tajikistan” (2019) (with S. Kan), Oxford Development Studies. 

“The Citizen-Candidate Model with Imperfect Policy Control: Strategic Delegation and Polarization” (2016) (with A. Boukouras and R. Schwager), Canadian Journal of Economics, 49, pp. 997-1015. PDF

“Voting as a Signaling Device” (2014) (with A. Boukouras and R. Schwager), Economic Theory, 55, pp. 753-777. PDF 

“Importance of Status Quo when Lobbying a Coalition Government” (2014), Economics of Governance, 15, pp. 203-219. PDF 

 Working Papers 

“On Signaling and a Trade-Off between Electoral Accountability and Selection” (with C. Bruns)

“Electoral Accountability and Transparency” (with C. Bruns)