OKAN YILANKAYA

Professor

Department of Economics

Nazarbayev University


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Research Interests

Game Theory, Information Economics; Auctions, Mechanism Design, Evolutionary Game Theory

Publications

"Equilibria in Second Price Auctions with Participation Costs" (with Xiayong Cao, Guofu Tan and Guoqiang Tian), Economic Theory, 2018

"Resale in Second-Price Auctions with Costly Participation" (with Gorkem Celik), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2017

"Optimal Auctions with Simultaneous and Costly Participation" (with Gorkem Celik), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Advances), 2009

"Evolution of Preferences" (with Eddie Dekel and Jeffrey Ely), The Review of Economic Studies, 2007

"Ratifiability of Efficient Collusive Mechanisms in Second Price Auctions with Participation Costs" (with Guofu Tan), Games and Economic Behavior, 2007

"Equilibria in Second Price Auctions with Participation Costs" (with Guofu Tan), Journal of Economic Theory, 2006

"A Model of Evidence Production and Optimal Standard of Proof and Penalty in Criminal Trials," Canadian Journal of Economics, 2002

"Nash Equilibrium and the Evolution of Preferences" (with Jeffrey Ely), Journal of Economic Theory, 2001

"Cooperation, Secret Handshakes, and Imitation in the Prisoners’ Dilemma" (with Thomas Wiseman), Games and Economic Behavior, 2001

"A Note on the Seller’s Optimal Mechanism in Bilateral Trade with Two-Sided Incomplete Information," Journal of Economic Theory, 1999


Teaching


ECON 201 Intermediate Microeconomics

ECON 302 Game Theory


Contact Information

okan.yilankaya@nu.edu.kz

Office: 8.116

Office Hours: By appointment


Mailing Address:

Nazarbayev University

Department of Economics, SSH

53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave.

Astana, Kazakhstan, 01000

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