Hello! I'm Selçuk (sell - chook)
My research focuses on game theory and its applications on mechanism and market design, dispute resolution, industrial organization, education and development economics.
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EXPERIENCE
2019-Present
Assistant Professor of Economics
YORK UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics
Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
2017-2018
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Economics Group
Tepper School of Business
2015-2017
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2009-2019
Assistant Professor of Economics
SABANCI UNIVERSITY
Economics Group
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
EDUCATION
2009
PhD in Economics
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics
2003
MA in Economics
BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY
Department of Economics
2001
BS in Mathematics
BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY
Department of Mathematics
PUBLICATIONS
Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools
American Economic Review (forthcoming)
with Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim I Khwaja, and Niharika Singh
Building Reputation in a War of Attrition Game: Hawkish or Dovish Stance?
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (2016) 16: 797-816
Bargaining, Reputation, and Competition
Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization (2015) 119: 1-17
Searching a Bargain: Power of Strategic Commitment
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (2015) 7: 320-353
Audience Costs and Reputation in Crises Bargaining
Games and Economic Behavior (2014) 88: 250-259
A General Impossibility Result on Strategy-Proof Social Choice Hyperfunctions
Games and Economic Behavior (2009) 66: 880-892
with M. Remzi Sanver
An Impossibility for Strategy-Proof Resolute Social Choice Correspondences
Social Choice and Welfare (2008) 30: 89-101
with M. Remzi Sanver
WORKING PAPERS
Strategy-proof and Efficient Mediation: An Ordinal Market Design Approach
with Onur Kesten
Deception, Exploitation and Lifespan of Buyer-Seller Relationship in Experience Goods Markets
“Take it or Leave it” Offers: Obstinacy and Endogenous Deadlines in Negotiations
Wishful Players and Rationally Motivated Beliefs (work in progress)
Abstract: In this project I formalize a new, descriptively intuitive, and normatively appealing solution concept for finite-horizon extensive-form games. It is achieved by redefining the rational man paradigm and the concept of strategy. Three premises that generate the new paradigm are the following: (1) Players are wishful thinkers, (2) but not naive and seek to rationalize their beliefs, and (3) have the power to determine the path of the play.
Measuring the Impacts of Interpersonal Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution Skills Training on Academic Success: A Field Experiment with Fulya Türk (work in progress)
Abstract: This project implements a randomized controlled trial (RCT) experiment on 6th grade students in Gaziantep province of Turkey. The purpose of the project is to explore the impacts of Interpersonal Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution (ICMDR) skills training on academic success. Recent studies show that non-cognitive skills are as important as-or even more important than-cognitive skills or IQ in determining academic success and better economic outcomes later in life. There is growing attention from policymakers on how non-cognitive skills can be developed in children and young people. However, which non-cognitive skills should be targeted, how best to measure them, and how to prepare teachers to nurture them, remain open questions. ICMDR skills are inter-linked, non-cognitive skills and their impacts on children's academic success has not been established. This study will help us learn how these factors are correlated and guide us to inform policy makers for better design of curriculum in schools.