Current Research
Search in a Non-exclusive Online Matching Platform (joint with Emre Doğan and Levent Çelik)
Incentivising Public Lawyers via Sorting in Adversarial Systems (joint with Emre Doğan, Behrang Kamali, and Danisz Okulicz)
A Simple Model of Wage and Education Gaps (joint with K. Peren Arin, Sudipta Sarangi, and Nagham Sayour )
Core-Periphery Networks and (Limited) Farsightedness (joint with Steven Kivinen)
Information Agreements (joint with Arseniy Samsonov) (forthcoming at Journal of Economic Theory)
Stability as Right to Counsel of Choice: A Lawyers’ Matching Problem (joint with Emre Doğan, Onur Kesten, and Danisz Okulicz) Games and Economic Behavior, 152, (2025):1-22.
Divide and conquer: Presidents, parliaments, and political polarization during electoral campaigns (joint with Ekim Arbatli and Dina Rosenberg) Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 3, no. 3–4 (2022): 295-315.
Electoral Turnout with Divided Opposition (joint with Alexei Zakharov) Social Choice and Welfare, 60(3), 439-475.
On the labor market effects of salience of ethnic/racial disputes (joint with K. Peren Arın, and Christina Zenker) Journal of Public Economic Theory, 24, no. 2 (2022): 348-361.
Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews (joint with Cemal Eren Arbatlı and Levent Celik), Journal of Industrial Economics, 68(4), 2020. - Online Appendix
Rents from Power for a Dissident Elite and Mass Mobilization (with Pablo Ignacio Hernandez-Lagos) Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 66(4), 2019. - Online Appendix
Revisiting the Democracy-Private Investment Nexus: Does Inequality Matter? (with Benjamin Barber IV, Jeffrey Jensen and Christina Zenker) Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(4) (2018), 1215-1233
Impact of modern communication infrastructure on productivity, production structure and factor demands of US industries: Impact revisited (with M. Ishaq Nadiri and Banani Nandi) Telecommunications Policy, 42(6) (2018),433-451.
Information Manipulation in Election Campaigns (with Cemal Eren Arbatlı) Economics&Politics, 28 (2016),181-215.
Older Working Papers
An Explicit Model of Bargaining with on-the-Job Search and Retention (joint with Nejat Anbarci)
Preemptive versus Counter Offers (joint with Nejat Anbarcı and Kang Rong)
Can Public Sector Employment Reduce Widespread Corruption? (joint with Abdul G. Noury)