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Current Affiliations/Positions:

Associate Provost

Bilkent University

Associate Professor of Economics

Bilkent University, Department of Economics

Affiliated Faculty Member

Bilkent University, Graduate Program in Neuroscience

Affiliated Faculty Member

Bilkent University, Aysel Sabuncu Brain Research Center

Research Affiliate

CESifo, Munich

Member

Bilgi Economics Lab of İstanbul

News:

• Editorship: As of May 2025, I started serving as an associate editor for European Economic Review.

• Published Paper: "A Game-theoretic Investigation of the Thucydides Trap" (with K. Keskin and Ç. Sağlam) at Dynamic Games and Applications.

• Workshop: 9th BEET will be at Seoul National University, on August 15-16, 2025.

• Special Issue: "Conflict, Distribution, and Efficiency in Bargaining" in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization!

• Published Paper: "Consideration Sets and Reference Points in a Dynamic Bargaining Game" (w. K. Keskin) at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

• Published Paper: "Moral Preferences in Bargaining" (with P. Juan-Bartroli) at Economic Theory.

• Special Issue: Special issue on "Strategic Behavior and Bargaining Process" in the Journal of Economic Psychology is out!

• Editorship: As of April 2023, I started serving as an associate editor for Frontiers in Behavioral Economics.

• Book: Bargaining - Current Research and Future Directions is out!

Degree:

Ph.d. in Economics (2010)

Maastricht University

The Netherlands

Broad Research Fields:

Behavioral Economics

Experimental Economics

Game Theory

Neuroeconomics

Research Focus: 

Bargaining / Negotiation

Fairness Concerns

Preferences for Morality

Morality in Economic Theory 

Reference and Focal Points

Distributive and Procedural Justice

Rationing (Bankruptcy) Problems

Contest Theory 

You can download my papers also on:

Research Gate

Google Scholar

Upcoming Seminars/Talks/Visits:

Aug 15-16, 2025 - Seoul National University

May 10, 2025 - İstanbul Bilgi University

May 2-4, 2025 - Selçuk University

October 29, 2024 - University of Mannheim

October 28, 2024 - Heidelberg University

June 6, 2024 - Tinbergen Institute

June 5, 2024 - Tilburg University

June 3-4, 2024 - 8th BEET in Maastricht

April 22-23, 2024 - ADA University, Baku