Research

Research Areas 

Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Political Economy, Bargaining Theory, Mechanism Design

Working Papers (available upon request)

• "How to Increase Contributions in Partnerships: An Experimental Study of Surplus Sharing" (with Begüm Güney and Arzu Kıbrıs), SSRN working paper, October 2020.

Publications

• "Incentivizing Group Investment: Surplus sharing agreements in theory and experiment" (with Begum Guney and Arzu Kibris), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2025), online-first.

• "Arbiter Assignment" (with M. Oğuz Afacan and Nejat Anbarcı), Social Choice and Welfare, (2025), online-first.

• "Behavioral Interventions to Increase Adherence to Palivizumab Prophylaxis in Children with Congenital Heart Disease" (with E Erolu, Y Tosun, EZ Başar, Ö Pamukçu, Aİ Yıldırım, S Epçeçan, Y Dönmez, Y Giray, O Taşçı, P Dervişoğlu), Cardiology in the Young, (2024), 34:9, 1877-1884.

• "Persistence of Voice Pitch Bias Against Policy Differences" (with A. Ceren Cinar), Political Science Research and Methods, (2024), 12:3, 591-605

• "A Random Reference Model" (with Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Elchin Suleymanov), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (2024), 16:1, 155-209.

• "Social Media and Press Freedom" (with Korhan Koçak), British Journal of Political Science, (2023), 53:1, 140-162.

• "A Theory of Reference Point Formation" (with Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Elchin Suleymanov), Economic Theory, (2023), 75, 137-166.

• "Protectionist Demands in Globalization" (with Arzu Kıbrıs and Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal), Review of Economic Design, (2022), 26, 345-365.

• "Negotiation as a Cooperative Game", in Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation: Second Edition, Springer, eds: Marc Kilgour and Colin Eden, (2021), Springer.

• "State Society Relations in Civil Conflicts" (with Arzu Kıbrıs), Terrorism and Political Violence, (2020), 32:1, 138-166.

• "An Experimental Study of the Investment Implications of Bankruptcy Laws" (with M. Büyükboyacı, M. Y. Gürdal and A. Kıbrıs), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (2019), 158, 607-629.

• "Limited Attention with Status Quo Bias" (with Mark Dean and Yusufcan Masatlıoğlu), Journal of Economic Theory, (2017), 169, 93-127.

• "On Surplus-Sharing in Partnerships" (with Arzu Kıbrıs), Social Choice and Welfare, (2016), 47:1, 89-111.

• "On the Dynamics of Extremist Violence" (with Arzu Kıbrıs), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, (2016), 22:1, 1-25.

• "A Mechanism Design Approach to Allocating Central Government Funds Among Regional Development Agencies" (with İpek Gürsel Tapkı),  Review of Economic Design, (2014), 16:4, 269-282.

• "On the Investment Implications of Bankruptcy Laws" (with Arzu Kıbrıs), Games and Economic Behavior, (2013), 80, 85-99. (slides)

• "On Recursive Solutions to Simple Allocation Problems",, Theory and Decision, (2013), 75, 449-463.

• "Nash Bargaining in Ordinal Environments", Review of Economic Design, (2012): Vol. 16(4), 269-282.

• "A Revealed Preference Analysis of Solutions to Simple Allocation Problems", Theory and Decision, (2012): Vol. 72(4), 509-523.

• "Bargaining with nonanonymous disagreement: Decomposable Rules" (with İpek Gürsel Tapkı), Mathematical Social Sciences, (2011): Vol. 62(3), 151-161.

• "Bargaining with nonanonymous disagreement: Monotonic Rules" (with İpek Gürsel Tapkı), Games and Economic Behavior, (2010), Vol. 68(1), 233-241.

• "Cooperative Game Theory Approaches to Negotiation, in Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation, Springer, eds: Marc Kilgour and Colin Eden, (2010), Springer.

• "Trade Rules for Uncleared Markets" (with Serkan Kucuksenel), Social Choice and Welfare, (2008): Vol. 32, 101-121.

• "Allocating multiple commodities among a group of agents with single-peaked preferences? (with Anirban Kar), Social Choice and Welfare, (2008): Vol. 31(4), 641-666.

• "Bargaining over a Finite Set of Alternatives" (with Murat R. Sertel), Social Choice and Welfare, (2007): Vol. 28, 421-437.

• "Egalitarianism in Ordinal Bargaining: the Shapley-Shubik rule", Games and Economic Behavior (2004): Vol. 49(1), 157-170.

• "Bargaining Power in Stationary Parallelogram Games" (with Bart Taub), Review of Economic Design (2004): Vol. 8(4), 449-465.

• "Ordinal Invariance in Multicoalitional Bargaining", Games and Economic Behavior (2004): Vol. 46(1), 76-87.

• "Consistency, Converse Consistency, and Aspirations in Coalitional Games" (with Toru Hokari), Mathematical Social Sciences (2003), Vol. 45(3), 313-331

• "Constrained Allocation Problems with Single-Peaked Preferences: An Axiomatic Analysis", Social Choice and Welfare (2003), Vol. 20(3), 353-362

• "Misrepresentation of Utilities in Bargaining: Pure Exchange and Public Good Economies?, Games and Economic Behavior (2002): Vol. 39, 91-110.