Associate Professor
School of Economics
Sogang University
Mapo-gu, 121-742
Seoul, Korea
E-mails:
dorukiris[at]sogang[dot]ac[dot]kr
dorukiris[at]gmail[dot]com
Office:
+82-02-705-8505
I am an Associate Professor at the Sogang University, School of Economics (ranked 4th in S. Korea and 306th in the World by IDEAS) in Seoul, Korea, since September 2012.
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Co-guest editing the virtual special issue at the Journal of Economic Psychology: Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior At Multiple Levels: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/319629/promoting-pro-environmental-behaviour-at-multiple-levels
One of the founder and the president of the National Association of Foreign Scholars in Korea (NAFSIK) since 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/nafsik
Visited Duke University, Department of Economics from July 2022 to July 2023.
Applied Micro Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics,
I co-organize YES (Yonsei, Ewha, Sogang) Economics Graduate Students Seminar Series.
"Reciprocal Preferences and Expectations in International Agreements," with Suha Kim (Ohio State, Ph.D. Student), Conditionally Accepted at the Journal of Behavioral Economics and Organization
"Are Nationalist Countries More Protectionist?," with Costas Hadjiyiannis (U. Cyprus) & Chrysostomos Tabakis (KAPSARC School), Gi Khan Ten (Xi'an-Jiaotong Liverpool), [Working Paper], Revised and Resubmitted to World Development
"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), Revision and Resubmission is requested at the International Journal of Game Theory
"Assessing private solutions to collective action problems in a 34-nation study," with Eugene Malthouse (Warwick) et al., submitted
"Expectations of Reciprocal Negotiators," submitted
"Strategic Use of Expectations in a Public Goods Game"
“Reference-Dependent Preference in Coalition Formation Games,” with Hyeonggyun Ko (Sogang U., grad. student)
"Minimum Contribution Requirement in an Infinitely Repeated Public Goods Game," Korean Economic Review, 2025, Vol. 31(2), 349-374
"Cognitive Hierarchy Model in Threshold Public Goods Games," with Sojin Lee (Mannheim, Ph.D. Student) and Ali Ozkes (SKEMA), Forthcoming in Theory and Decision
"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), Environmental and Resource Economics, 2025, Vol. 88, 1407-33
“Subjective Beliefs in International Negotiations” with Sungwoo Im (Sogang U., Former grad. student) and Hyeonggyun Ko (Ohio State, Ph.D. Student) [Working Paper], published online, Singapore Economic Review, 2022
"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]
"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]
"Economic Targets and Loss-Aversion in International Environmental Cooperation," Journal of Economic Surveys, 2016, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pages 624-648 [Working Paper]
"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]
"Tacit Collusion under Fairness and Reciprocity," with Luís Santos-Pinto (HEC Lausanne), Games, 2013, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pages 50-65
"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]
“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. "Tipping and Reference Points in Climate Change Games," with Alessandro Tavoni (LSE Grantham), published in the Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, eds. Chichilnisky and Rezai, Edward Elgar Press, UK [Working Paper]
Media Coverage: When enough countries lead by example, they create a tipping point for climate agreements, LSE Business Review
2. "Economic Targets and Loss-Aversion in International Environmental Cooperation," in Brian Chi-ang Lin and Siqi Zheng (Eds.), 2017, Environmental Economics and Sustainability. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 251-278 [Reprinted]
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
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
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
“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