CV
EDUCATION
PhD in Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, January 2013
MA in Economics, Sabanci University (Turkey), June 2007
BS in Mathematics, Bilkent University (Turkey), June 2005
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, March 2015-present
Researcher, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, July 2014-March 2015.
Instructor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, September 2013-July 2014.
Research and Teaching Assistant, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 2008-2013.
Research and Teaching Assistant, FASS Economics, Sabancı University, 2005-2007.
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics
DISSERTATION
Title: The Effects of Heterogeneity on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching
Dissertation Committee: Leeat Yariv (chair), Thomas Palfrey, Federico Echenique
PUBLICATIONS
Risk Attitudes and the Stag-Hunt Game, Economics Letters, 124 (3), 323-325, 2014.
A Designer's Choice Between Single-Prize and Parallel Tournaments, Economic Inquiry, 54(4), 1774-1789, 2016.
Costly Pre-play Communication and Coordination in Stag-Hunt Games, with Serkan Küçükşenel, Managerial and Decision Economics, 38(6), 845-856, 2017.
Collaboration and Free-Riding in Team Contests, with Andrea Robbett, Labour Economics, 49, 162-178, 2017.
Team Formation with Complementary Skills, with Andrea Robbett, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 28(4), 713-733, 2019.
An Experimental Study of the Investment Implications of Bankruptcy Laws, with Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal, Özgür Kıbrıs, Arzu Kıbrıs, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 158, 607-629, 2019.
Analyzing multiple pricing decisions for substitutes under stochastic demand: An experiment, with Nur Cavdaroglu, Managerial and Decision Economics, 43 (5), 1351-1361, 2022.
The Role of Random Noise on Effort in Group Contests, with Merve İntişah, Theory and Decision, 97, 311-346, 2024.
PUBLICATIONS IN TURKISH JOURNALS
Loss Sharing in Partnerships. Metu Studies in Development, 44(1), 2017.
Coordination with Indirect Messages, with Serkan Küçükşenel, Metu Studies in Development, Vol. 44 (2), 2017.
The Role of Gender and Relative Skills in Task Juggling, Bogazici Journal, 2018, 32(1), 29-36.
Davranışsal İktisat ve Sınırlı Rasyonellik Varsayımı, İktisatta Davranışsal Yaklaşımlar,İmge Kitabevi, 2015, with Çınla Akdere.
Ekonomide Yarismalarin Motivasyona Etkisi, Efil Yayinevi, 2018, with Nur Cavdaroglu.
WORKING PAPERS
Action Assortative Matching and Cooperation in Prisoner’s Dilemma, with Mehmet Yigit Gurdal
Risk, Ambiguity and Gender Gap in Tournament Entry, with Luke Boosey and Merve Intisah.
Earned Entitlements and Risky Investments in Bargaining: An Experiment, with Emin Karagozoglu and Serkan Kucuksenel.
Productive and Unproductive Effort Choices in Groups and Sharing: An Experimental Study, with Emin Karagozoglu and Serkan Kucuksenel.
Issue Driven Ingroup Bias: Earthquakes and Elections, with Gonul Dogan and Serkan Kucuksenel.
HONORS AND AWARDS
EC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022-2024.
1001 Principal Investigator, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2022-2024
1002 Principal Investigator, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2022-2023
3501 Principal Investigator, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2021-2023
3501 Researcher, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2019-2021
METU Young Researcher Award, 2018
EC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2015-2017
2232 Postdoctoral Return Fellowship Program, Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2014-2016
Institute Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2007-2008, 2011-2012
Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2006-2007
Scholarship, Sabanci University, 2005-2006
Scholarship, Bilkent University, 2000-2005
INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2024 SEET, M-BEES.
2018 ESA World Meeting, 4th Turkish Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics
2017 ESA-Europe, IMEBESS, 3rd Turkish Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics
2016 2nd Turkish Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics
2015 Bilkent University, 1st Turkish Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Conference on Economic Design-SED2015
2013 UC Merced (Merced, USA), Bogazici University, Bilgi University, Middle East Technical University, Sabanci University
2012 WZB (Berlin, Germany); EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland); Contests, Mechanisms, and Experiments (University of Exeter, Great Britain)
2011 Asia Pacific ESA Meeting (Melbourne, Australia)
2010 ESA North America Meeting (Tucson, USA)
2009 Experimental Summer School, Koc University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor for ECO 443-Game Theory and Its Applications, METU, Spring 2015
Instructor for ECO 201-Intermediate Microeconomics, METU, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Instructor for ECO 101-Introduction to Microeconomics, METU-NCC, Fall 2013, 2014, Spring 2014, 2015
Instructor for ECO 205-Statistics for Economists, METU-NCC, Fall 2013
Instructor for ECO 487-Experimental Economics, METU-NCC, Fall 2013
Instructor for CVE 303-Probability and Statistics in Civil Engineering, METU-NCC, Spring 2014
Instructor for STAS 221 Probability and Statistics, METU-NCC, Spring 2014
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Languages: Turkish (Native), English (Fluent) German (Intermediate)
Date and Place of Birth: February 12, 1982; Isparta, Turkey
Married with two kids