Fields: Micro Theory,  Incentives, Career Concerns, Political Economy, Charitable Fund-raising, Contests

Publications

Multiple Prizes in Tournaments with Career Concerns, with Huseyin Yildirim, 215 (2024): 105778,  Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming

Biased Experts, Majority Rule, and the Optimal Composition of Committee, with Huseyin Yildirim, 127 (2021): 1-27, Games and Economic Behavior

Social Pressure, Transparency, and Voting in Committees, with Huseyin Yildirim, 184 (2019): 104943 Journal of Economic Theory

A Capture Theory of Committees, with Huseyin Yildirim, 177(1) (2018): 135-154  Public Choice

Learning by Fund-raising, 21(4) (2017): 291–316, Review of Economic Design.

"Giving" in to Social Pressure, with Huseyin Yildirim, 99 (2016) 99-116, Games and Economic Behavior

A Theory of Charitable Fund-raising with Costly Solicitations, with Huseyin Yildirim, 103(2) (2013): 1091‐1107, American Economic Review

reprinted in The Economics of Philanthropy and Fundraising Volume II, edited by James Andreoni, ed., Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN-10: 1782546057, 2015.

Online Appendix,  A Theory of Charitable Fund-raising with Costly Solicitations, 

Working Paper

Managing Skills and Signals: Firm Training with Career Concerned Workers, with Huseyin Yildirim. December 2025

Work in Progress

Teams competing in Tournaments with Career Concerns

Political Purchases

Teaching

Principles in Economics (Fall 2025)

Public Economics (Fall 2023, undergrad)

Industrial Organization (Spring 2024, undergrad)

Topics in Public Economics (Spring 2024, undergrad)

Topics in Advanced Microeconomics (Spring 2024, PhD)