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Departmental Seminars – 2019

Fall 2019

Schedule: Friday, 3:00 - 4:30 pm. Other dates/times as announced.

Place: Department of Economics Murat Sertel Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building (MAP)

Organizers: M. Yiğit Gürdal & Yeliz Kaçamak & Murat Koyuncu

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
Dec 26, 2019	Yunus Aksoy	Birkbeck University	Time Variation in Lifecycle Consumption and Housing Wealth (joint with CED) Abstract
Dec 24, 2019	Gizem Bacaksızlar	Santa Fe Institute	Political Behavior in Online Networks Abstract
Dec 19, 2019	Lydia Assouad	Paris School of Economics	Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building: Ataturk's Visits in Turkey (joint with CEE) Abstract
Dec 16, 2019	—	—	CEE 2019 Conference: Economics of Matching
Nov 21, 2019	Orkun Saka	University of Sussex	Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes: Costs of Political Misalignment Abstract
Nov 11, 2019	Hakkı Yazıcı	Sabancı University	Optimal Fiscal Policy under Declining Labor Share (with Orhan Erem Ateşağaoğlu) Abstract
Nov 8, 2019	Mehmet Barlo	Sabancı University	Behavioral Implementation under Incomplete Information Paper
Nov 1, 2019	Cevat Giray Aksoy	EBRD	Refugee Crisis, Flight to Safety and Entrepreneurship (with Nicolas Ajzenman and Sergei Guriev) Abstract
Oct 11, 2019	Burak Ünveren	Yıldız Technical University	Estimating a Dynamic Model with Unequal Opportunities
Sep 27, 2019	O. Erem Ateşağaoğlu	Bilgi University	Foreign Direct Investment as a Determinant of Cross-Country Stock Market Comovement
Sep 19, 2019	Gareth Myles	University of Adelaide	Some Economic Implications of Advances in Genetics (joint with CED) Abstract

Spring 2019

Schedule: Friday, 3:00-4:30 PM & Wednesday, 3:00-4:30 PM. Other dates/times as announced.

Place: Department of Economics Murat Sertel Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building (MAP)

Organizers: M. Yiğit Gürdal & Murat G. Kırdar & Orhan Torul

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
Jun 21, 2019	Guillermo Hausmann-Guil	Bank of Lithuania and Vilnius University	Solving Heterogeneous-Agent Models around the Ergodic Steady-State Abstract
Jun 14, 2019	Jan Stuhler	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Kinship Correlations and Intergenerational Mobility Abstract
May 30, 2019	So Kubota	Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study	Culture, Gender, and Structural Transformation: A Case in Turkey Abstract
May 17, 2019	Gazi Kara	Federal Reserve Board of Governors	Policy Uncertainty and Bank Mortgage Credit (with Youngsuk Yook) Abstract
May 9, 2019	Alpay Filiztekin	Sabancı University	Demir Demirgil Lecture "Self-employment (Entrepreneurship?) in Turkey"
May 3, 2019	Mustafa Oğuz Afacan	Sabancı University	School Choice with Vouchers Abstract
Apr 30, 2019	Konstantinos Matakos	King's College London	Diversity without Adversity: Social Tie Formation with Natives Mitigates Identity-based Bias towards Refugees Abstract
Apr 19, 2019	Emekcan Yücel	Boğaziçi University	Candidate Dislikability and Policy Extremism Abstract
Apr 12, 2019	İnci Gümüş	Sabancı University	Model-Based Estimation of Sovereign Default Abstract
Apr 5, 2019	Simon Quinn	University of Oxford	Learning Management through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design Abstract
Mar 29, 2019	Gözde Çörekçioğlu	Kadir Has University	Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Proximity to Health Care and Electoral Outcomes (with F. Serkant Adıgüzel and Aslı Cansunar) Abstract
Mar 15, 2019	David Kiss	Leibniz University Hannover	High Stakes Testing and Student Achievement Abstract
Mar 1, 2019	Alp Atakan	Koç University	Price Discovery in a Large Auction with Costly Information” joint work with Mehmet Ekmekci Abstract
Feb 25, 2019	Emre Ekinci	University Carlos III de Madrid	The Effect of Firing Costs on Worker Productivity and Turnover: Theory and Evidence Abstract
Feb 15, 2019	Doruk Cengiz	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Affected Individuals Abstract
Feb 11, 2019	Alparslan Tuncay	University of Chicago	Assortative Mating and Inequality Abstract