Click here for the 2007 seminars.

Click here for the 2007 seminars.

Departmental Seminars – 2007

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
5/10/2007*	Ayşe Mumcu	Boğaziçi University	“College Admissions under Early Decision” (joint with İsmail Sağlam)
19/10/2007*	Annick Laruelle	University of Caen, visiting Sabancı University	“Egalitarianism and Utilitarianism in Committees of Representatives”
23/10/2007*	Harald Wiese	University of Leipzig	“An outside-option value with exogenous payments"
26/10/2007*	Marie-Laure Breuillé	Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung	“Tradable Deficit Permits: A Way to Ensure Sub-National Fiscal Discipline”
2/11/2007	Pınar Ardıç	Boğaziçi University	“Network Effects in Risk Sharing and Credit Market Access: Evidence from Istanbul”
9/11/2007*	Ahmet Alkan	Sabancı University	“University Admissions and Shortlist Matching”
16/11/2007	Selva Demiralp	Koç University	“Money and the Transmission of Monetary Policy”
23/11/2007	Korkut Ertürk	University of Utah, visiting Boğaziçi University	“Globalization and Institutional Fragmentation: Towards a Post-Walrasian Insight”
30/11/2007	Aslı Demirgüç-Kunt	Development Research Group (DECRG), The World Bank	“Finance for All? Policies and Pitfalls in Expanding Access”
7/12/2007	Ahmet Akyol	York University	“Unsecured Credit and Self–Employment”
14/12/2007	Ümit Özlale	Bilkent University	“Does Inflation Targeting Matter? Evidence from Industrialized Countries”

* joint with Center for Economic Design

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
9/3/2007	Tansel Yılmazer	Purdue University	“Marriage and the Allocation of Assets in Women's Defined Contribution Plans”
16/3/2007	Coşkun Küçüközmen	Central Bank of Turkey and Middle East Technical University	“A Macro-econometric Model for Stress Testing Credit Portfolio”
23/3/2007	Müge Adalet	Victoria University of Wellington	“The Effect of Financial Structure on Crises: Universal Banking in Interwar Europe”
13/4/2007	Taner Yiğit	Bilkent University	“Inflation Targeting: An Indirect Approach to Assess the Direct Impact”
20/4/2007	Thanasis Stengos	University of Guelph	“Nonlinearities in economic Growth: A Semiparametric Approach applied to Information Technology Data”
7/5/2007	Burçin Ünel	University of Florida	“International R&D Alliances”
11/5/2007	Steven A. Matthews	University of Pennsylvania	“Smooth Monotone Contribution Games”
18/5/2007	Tolga Yüret	Koç University	“Restriction on Stating Preferences in College Admissions in Turkey”
7/6/2007	Ali Akarca	University of Illinois at Chicago	“Economic Performance and Political Outcomes: An Analysis of the Turkish Parliamentary and Local Election Results Between 1950 and 2004” (joint with Aysit Tansel)

joint with Center for Economic Design