2013
Fall 2013
Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*
Department of Economics Murat Sertel Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*
Organizers: Ceyhun Elgin & Deniz Selman
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of the Paper |
| Dec. 16, 2013 | Henryk Kierzkowski | Graduate Institute Geneva | "A New Global Auto Industry?" |
| Dec. 16, 2013 | Donald Larson | World Bank | "A Deepening of Policy and Trade Ties between Turkey and the EU: The Implications for Agriculture" |
| Dec. 13, 2013 | Alexander Vostroknutov | Maastricht University | "Norms Make Preferences Social" |
| Nov. 29, 2013 | Levent Kockesen | Koc University | "Commitment without Reputation: Renegotiation-Proof Contracts under Asymmetric Information" |
| Nov. 15, 2013 | Nazif Tolga Sinmazdemir | Boğaziçi University | "Hearts, Minds, and Pockets: The Political Economy of Civilian Support for Kurdish Insurgency in Turkey" |
| Oct. 25, 2013 | Gareth Myles | University of Exeter and Institute for Fiscal Studies | "The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Growing Economies" (joint with CED) |
| Oct. 22, 2013 | Stefan Brunnhuber | Szeged University & Budapest PPKE University | "Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link" (joint with Department of Management) |
| July 16, 2013 | Lant Pritchett | Harvard Univercity | "Evidence Based Policy Making in the Social Sectors: Using Impact Evaluations to Learn about Performance in the Field" |
| June 21, 2013 | Olivier Scaillet | University of Geneva & Swiss Finance Institute | "Predicability in Financial Markets" |
| May. 31, 2013 | Mehmet Caner | North Carolina State University | "Hybrid Generalized Empirical Likelihood Estimators: Instrument Selection with Adaptive Lasso" |
| May. 24, 2013 | John Roemer | Yale University | "Kantian optimization: An approach to cooperative behavior" (joint with CED) |
| May. 17, 2013 | Leonor Modesto | Catholic University of Portugal | "Government spending and fiscal policy stabilizing rules" (joint with CED) |
| May. 14, 2013 | Charles Goodhart & Dr. Ozan Cangürel | LSE & BRSA (BDDK) | "Future of Monetary Policy and Banking" & "Banking and Regulation in Turkey" (with Econfin) |
| May. 11, 2013 | ALL ISTANBUL WORKSHOP at Sabanci | ||
| May. 8, 2013 | Fahrettin Yagci | 1980'lerden Günümüze Dünyada ve Turkiye'de Gelir Bölüşümü (Income Distribution in the World and in Turkey since the 1980's) | |
| May. 3, 2013 | Murat Arsel | International Institute of Social Studies | "From the 'curse of the plenty' to post-extractivism? The Yasuni-ITT initiative of Ecuador" |
| Apr. 16, 2013 | Joel Mokyr | Northwestern University | "Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth" (joint with the Department of History) |
| Apr. 10, 2013 | Sam Bowles | Sante Fe Institute | "Technology Institutions & Wealth Inequality in the Very Long Run" |
| Apr. 5, 2013 | Paolo Roberti | University of Padova | "Interest groups and non-salient issues: lobby on the topics no one cares about " |
| Mar. 15, 2013 | Milan Horniacek | University of Bratislava | "Collusion between Firms on Both Sides of a Market" |
| Mar. 8, 2013 | Bettina Klaus | University of Lausanne | "Strategy-Proofness makes the Difference: Deferred-Acceptance with Responsive Priorities" (joint with Lars Ehlers) |
| Mar. 6, 2013 | Sena Eken | DEIK | "2000-10: A Decade of Transition-Discussions among Experts" |
| Feb. 25, 2013 | S. Mehmet Ozsoy | Duke University | "Ambiguity, News and Asymmetric Correlations" |
| Feb. 22, 2013 | Irem Bozbay | Lund University | "Truth-seeking judgment aggregation over interconnected issues" |
| Feb. 21, 2013 | Ayse Z. Kabukcuoglu | University of Texas, Austin | "The Redistributional Consequences of Tax Reform Under Financial Integration" |
| Feb. 20, 2013 | Orhan Torul | University of Maryland | "Transatlantic Differences in Taxation, Redistribution and Provision of Public Goods: How Fair is Inequality?" |
| Feb. 15, 2013 | Cem Oyvat | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | "Agrarian Structures, Urbanization and Inequality" |
| Feb. 14, 2013 | M. Yigit Gurdal | TOBB-ETU | "Why Blame?" |
| Feb. 13, 2013 | Kemal Yildiz | New York University | "Implementation Via Codes Of Rights" |
| Feb. 12, 2013 | Muruvvet Buyukboyaci | California Institute of Technology | "Parallel Tournaments" |
| Feb. 11, 2013 | Kemal Ozbek | Cornell University | "Decision Making with Rational Inattention" |
| Jan. 30, 2013 | Gazi Ishak Kara | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
"Systemic Risk, International Regulation, and the Limits of Coordination" |
| Jan. 22, 2013 | Ali Güneş | University of Rochester | "Why Do College Graduates Save More? Imperfect Information about Ability" |
