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I am an Associate Professor at the Sogang University, School of Economics (ranked 3rd in S. Korea and 257rd in the World by IDEAS) in Seoul, Korea, since September 2012.

I completed my Ph.D. in Economics (Thesis Title: Four Essays in Behavioral Economics) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in September 2011.

I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at UC San Diego in March 2009 - March 2010.

NEWS...

I am visiting Duke University, Department of Economics from July 2022 to July 2023.

I have become an associate professor at Sogang University in August 2018.

I am one of the founder and currently board member of the National Association of Foreign Scholars in Korea (NAFSIK): https://sites.google.com/view/nafsik

Research Interest:

Applied Micro Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, International Trade

I am co-organizing YES (Yonsei, Ewha, Sogang) Economics Graduate Students Seminar Series.

Selected Published and Forthcoming Papers:

10. “Subjective Beliefs in International Negotiations” with Sungwoo Im (Sogang U., Former grad. student) and Hyeonggyun Ko (Ohio State U.; grad. student) [Working Paper], accepted, Singapore Economic Review

9. "Delegation and Public Pressure in a Threshold Public Good Game" with Jungmin Lee (Seoul National U.) and Alessandro Tavoni (U. Bologna & LSE Grantham), Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019, Vol. 74, Issue 3, 1331-1353 [Working Paper] [Supporting Files]

8. "Loss Aversion in International Environmental Agreements," with Alessandro Tavoni (LSE Grantham), Environmental and Resource Economics Review, 2018, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 363-397 [Working Paper]

7. "Cournot Duopoly and Tacit Collusion under Fairness and Reciprocal Preferences," Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics, 2017, Vol. 28, Issue 4, 22-39

6. "Economic Targets and Loss-Aversion in International Environmental Cooperation," Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pages 624-648 [Working Paper]

5. "Experimental Cournot Oligopoly and Inequity Aversion," with Luís Santos-Pinto (HEC Lausanne), Theory and Decision, 2014, Vol. 76, Issue 1, pages 31-45 [Working Paper]

4. "Tacit Collusion under Fairness and Reciprocity," with Luís Santos-Pinto (HEC Lausanne), Games, 2013, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pages 50-65

3. "Multilateral Tariff Cooperation under Fairness and Reciprocity," with Costas Hadjiyiannis (U. Cyprus) & Chrysostomos Tabakis (KDI School), Canadian Journal of Economics, 2012, Vol. 45, No. 3, pages 925-941 [Working Paper]

2. “International Environmental Cooperation under Fairness and Reciprocity," with Costas Hadjiyiannis (U. Cyprus) and Chrysostomos Tabakis (KDI School), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, Vol. 12, Issue 1

1. “Manipulation via Endowments in University-Admission Problem,” with İpek Özkan-Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi U.), Economics Bulletin, 2011, Vol. 31, No. 4

Working Papers

"Representation, Peer Pressure and Punishment in a Public Goods Game," with Hyoyoung Kim (Sogang U., grad. student), Jinkwon Lee (Sogang U.), and Alessandro Tavoni (U. Bologna & LSE Grantham)

"When Fairness Bends Rationality: Incorporating Inequity-Aversion in Models of Regretful and Noisy Behavior," with Hyeonggyun Ko (Ohio State U.; grad. student) and Alessandro Tavoni (U. Bologna & LSE Grantham), to be submitted

"Consumer Nationalism and Multilateral Trade Cooperation," with Costas Hadjiyiannis (U. Cyprus) & Chrysostomos Tabakis (KDI School) [Working Paper], to be submitted

Works in Progress:

"Cognitive Hierarchy Model in Threshold Public Goods Games," with Sojin Lee (Sogang U., grad. student) and Ali Ozkes (WU Vienna)

"Reciprocity and Fairness Abatement Perceptions in International Environmental Agreements," with Suha Kim (Sogang U., grad. student)

“Reference-Dependent Preference in Coalition Formation Games,” with Hyeonggyun Ko (Sogang U., grad. student)

Teaching:

2012-Present: Sogang University, S. Korea;

Microeconomics (Principles & Intermediate)

Behavioral Economics (Undergraduate & Graduate),

Microeconomic Theory (Graduate),

Received the highest rating in student evaluation for Behavioral Economics, Fall 2012

2015 Winter: Lecturer, Crash Course on Behavioral Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Japan

2010-2012: Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Microeconomics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2005-2006: Teaching Assistant, Decision and Game Theory, Universidad Carlos 3 de Madrid, Spain

2004-2005: Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Statistics, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Grants & Scholarships:

Principal and Sole Investigator, Sogang University Research Grant 2013

Co-Investigator, Sogang Research Frontier Fund 2013 (joint with several colleagues from Sogang Economics)

Principal and Sole Investigator, National Research Foundation of Korea 2013

Principal and Sole Investigator, Sogang University Research Grant 2012

Sogang Travel Grant, 2012-2017

Sogang Start-Up Research Grant (received twice)

RA for Prof. Susana Peralta, Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, 2011

Ph.D. Fellowship, Portuguese Science and Tech. Foundation, Portugal, 2006-2010

Ph.D. Scholarship, Universidad Carlos 3 de Madrid, 2005-2006

Conferences/Seminars we might have met:

2022 BUE-EBEL 2nd Annual Meeting in Behavioral and Experimental Economics (online)

2022 7th (online) Workshop on Experimental Economics for the Environment

2022 Virtual Asia-Pacific ESA Meeting

2021 Korean Economic Association International Conference, Virtual

2021 Western Economic Association Annual Conference, Virtual

2021 European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE), Virtual

Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminars

2021 Italian Assoc. Environmental and Resource Economics, Virtual

2021 Int. Workshop on Lab and Field Experiments, Virtual

ESA 2020 Global Around-the-Clock, Virtual

Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics 2020, Virtual

Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 21-23, 2018, Seoul, S. Korea

Social Choice and Welfare, June 14-17, 2018, Seoul, S. Korea

Asian-Pacific Economics Science Association Meeting, February 16-18, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan

Korean Economic Association International Conference, August 8-9, 2016, Seoul, S. Korea

Journal of Economic Survey International Conference and Special Issue on the Economics of Climate Change, August 27-28, 2015, Taipei, Taiwan

The Conference on Economic Design, July 1-4, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, June 24-27, 2015, Helsinki, Finland

International Society of Ecological Economics Meeting, August 13 - 15, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland

World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics Meeting, June 28 - July 2, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Asian-Pacific Economics Science Association Meeting, February 19-21, 2014, Auckland, New Zealand

East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Meeting, February 12-14, 2014, Busan, Korea

5th Southern Europe Experimentalists Meeting, January 30 - February 1, 2014, Sesimbra, Portugal

Borsa Istanbul Workshop Series 1: Behavioral Finance, January 27-28, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

Sogang-Supex: Behavioral and Experimental Economics Workshop, December 5, 2013, Seoul, Korea

ASSA Meeting, January 4-6, 2013, San Diego, USA

Sogang Research Frontier Conference: Recent Developments in Environmental Economics and Climate Change, August 31, 2012, Seoul, Korea

3rd Southern Europe Experimentalists Meeting, February 2-4, 2012, Lanzarote, Spain

ASSA Meeting, January 6-8, 2012, Chicago, USA

The 3rd Annual UECE Lisbon Meetings – Game Theory and Applications, November 3-5, 2011, Lisbon, Portugal

Murat Sertel Center Advanced Economic Studies Workshop, May 13-14, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey

Midwest Economic Theory and Trade Meetings, April 29 – May 1, 2011, Notre Dame, IN, USA

Environmental Protection and Sustainability Forum, April 13-15, 2011, Exeter, UK

The 2nd Annual UECE Lisbon Meetings – Game Theory and Applications, November 4-6, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal

IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference: A Boat Trip Through Economic Change, September 5-8, 2010, Cologne, Germany

9th Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics, July 7-11, 2010, Tinos, Greece

Public Economic Theory Conference, June 25-27, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

The Quantitative Economics Doctorate (QED) Jamboree, May 7-8, 2010, Alicante, Spain

Society for Economic Design Conference, July 19-21, 2006, Bodrum, Turkey

The 8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, July 13-17, 2006, Istanbul, Turkey

Workshop on Economic Design, August 23-28, 2005, Gokçeada, Turkey

International Conference on the Use of Mathematical Models in Socio-Economic Development, December 21-23, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey

Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design, August 21-28, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey

Games 2004, 2nd World Congress of Game Theory Society, July 5-9, 2004, Marseille, France

SED 2004, Conference on Economic Design, June 29-July 02, 2004, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Murat Sertel Memorial Conference on Economic Theory, May 14-16, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey

Murat Sertel 1st Student Festival, December 26-27, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey

Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design, August 23-30, 2003, Marmaris, Turkey

Summer Schools and Crash Courses Attended

“Prospect Theory”, Peter Wakker, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2012

“Supergames: Repeated games with complete information”, Sylvain Sorin, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2011

Experimental Econ. Summer School, Rosemarie Nagel & Simon Gaechter, Koç University, 2009

“Fair and Strategy-proof Allocation of Resources”, Hervé Moulin, Universidad Carlos 3 de Madrid, 2007

Strategy Proofness”, William Thomson, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2004

“Decision Theory”, Efe Ok, Bogazici University (Istanbul), 2003,

“Game Theory” and “General Equilibrium” Workshops, Economics Summer Seminar Series, Pamukkale University, 2002