Click here for the 2013 seminars.

Departmental Seminars – 2013

Fall 2013 / Seminar Schedule

Schedule: Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*

Place: 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)
Jul 16, 2013	Lant Pritchett	Harvard University	"Evidence Based Policy Making in the Social Sectors: Using Impact Evaluations to Learn about Performance in the Field"
Jun 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	—	Sabancı University	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	Santa 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"