Departmental Seminars
For inquiries, you may contact
Cagla Okten, Kevin Hasker, Refet Gürkaynak
 
IMPORTANT REMINDER FOR SPEAKERS

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 15:40 in Room FEASS 228 unless otherwise noted. Speakers are kindly requested to send Ms. Meltem Sağtürk the abstract and a copy of the paper to be presented at least one week in advance. The seminar secretariat will provide assistance with travel arrangements and accommodations on campus.

Phone
+90(312)290-1643
+90(312)290-1479
+90(312)290-2498
Fax
 +90(312)266-5140

 2007 Fall | 2007 Spring | 2006 Fall | 2006 Spring | 2005 Fall | 2005 Spring | 2004 Fall | 2004 Spring

*Please note the different seminar days

Date Presenter Topic
March 12 Semih Koray (Bilkent University)

Current State of the Art in Microeconomic Theory Research
*March 20 (Thursday) Kevin Hasker (Bilkent University)

Do players learn how to learn? Evidence from constant sum games with varying number of actions
*March 26 (16:30) Nikos Vettas (Athens University)

Dynamic price competition with capacity constraints and strategic buyers
*April 3 
(Thursday)		 Nagihan Comez (Bilkent University)

Optimal Transshipments and Orders: A Tale of Two Competing Retailers
*April 7 
(Monday)		 Hikmet Gunay (University of Manitoba)

Who will wait before buying? Strategic Delay and Dynamic Monopoly Pricing
April 9 Soner Baskaya (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)

An Empirical Analysis of Black-White Employment Differences Over the Business Cycles
April 16 Thomas Crossley (Cambridge University)

TBA
April 30 William Thomson (University of Rochester)

TBA
May 7 James Andreoni (University of California, San Diego)

TBA
May 14 Cagla Okten (Bilkent University)

TBA

2007Fall

Date Presenter Topic
October 19 Laura Bottazzi (Bocconi University)

The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital
November 16 Insan Tunali (Koc Universitesi)

Attrition in Turkish Household Labor Force Survey: 2000-2002
December 17 Bent Sorensen (University of Houston)

Childhood Determinants of Risk Aversion: The Long Shadow of Compulsory Education

 

2007 Spring

Date Presenter Topic
June 7 Hulya Eraslan (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Strategic Voting over Strategic Proposals
     

2006 Fall

Date Presenter Topic
November 10 Remzi Sanver (Bilgi University)

Perception as an Aggregation


2006 Spring

Date Presenter Topic
April 28 Spiro Stefanou (Penn State University)

Dynamic Efficiency Measurement: Theory and Application


2005 Fall

Date Presenter Topic
October 21 Murat Kirdar (METU)

An Estimable Dynamic Stochastic Model of Return Migration and Savings
November 25 Aysit Tansel (METU)

Determinants of Unemployment Duration for men and women in Turkey
   
 
  2005 Spring
Date Presenter Topic
May 6 William Thomson (University of Rochester) Children Crying at the Birthday Parties. Why? Fairness and Incentives for Cake Division Problems
May 13 Cagla Okten (Bilkent University) Ethnic Diversity and Income Distribution: Evidence From Charitable Giving
May 27 Emre Özdenören (University of Michigan) Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity
June 3 Halis Murat Yıldız (Ryerson University) Bilateral Trade Agreements and the Feasibility of Multilateral Free Trade
June 13 Hüseyin Yıldırım (Duke University) Public Information and Electoral Bias
June 14 Hüseyin Yıldırım (Duke University) Proposal Power and Majority Rule in Multilateral Bargaining with Costly Recognition
             
 
  2004 Fall
Date Presenter Topic
October 25 Remzi Sanver (Istanbul Bilgi University) Dictatorial Domains in Preference Aggregation
November 18 Naci Mocan (U. of Colorado-Denver) What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Micro Data
December 10 Kevin Hasker (Bilkent University) The Rise of Money: An Evolutionary Analysis of the Origins of Money
       
 
  2004 Spring
Date Presenter Topic
June 18 Wietze Lise( Institute for Environmental Studies Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences vrije Universiteit) Attainability of International Environmental Agreements as a Social Situation
May 17 William Thomson (University of Rochester) A New Solution to the Problem of Adjudicating Conflicting Claims
April 16 Insan Tunali (Koc University) Falling Behind While Catching Up:
Changes in the Female-Male Wage Differential in Urban Turkey,
1988 to 1994
March 26 Semih Koray (Bilkent University) Supra-implementation of discrete choices with transfers
February 24 Remzi Sanver & Ipek Ozkal-Sanver (Bilgi University) Ensuring Pareto Optimality by Referendum Voting