SEMINAR IN ECONOMIC DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

Throughout the Seminar in Economic Design and Management, the following papers or original works were presented:

FALL 2004: 

(Seminars in Fall 2004 are organized in conjunction with the Economics Department of Bogazici University)

December 17 Semsa Ozar (Boğaziçi U.)

TBA

December 10 Herve Cres (HEC)

TBA

December 3 Kamil Yilmaz (Koç U.)

TBA

November 26 Emanuele Gerratana (Koç U.)

TBA

November 19 Utku Unver (Koç U.)

"Pairwise Kidney Exchange"

October 22 Mehmet Bac (Sabancı U.)

"Beneficial Collusion in Corruption Control: The Case of Nonmonetary Penalties"

October 15 Naci Mocan (U. of Colarado at Denver)

"What Determines Corruption? International Evidence from Micro Data"

October 8 Mich Tvede (U. of Copenhagen)

"Dynamics in Overlapping Generations Economies"

FALL 2003: 

December 3, 12, 19 Efe Ök (New York U.)

A SHORT COURSE ON DECISION THEORY

Lecture 1: Revealed Preference Theory

Lecture 2: Expected Utility Theory

Lecture 3: Decision Making Under Uncertainty

 SPRING 2003: 

May 28 Semih Koray (Bilkent U.)

"On Self-Monotonicity and Implementation"

May 21 Hakan Orbay (Sabanci U.)

"Market Contingent Managerial Hierarchies"

May 14 Leonard Mirman (U. of Virginia)

"Lattice Programming and the Consumer's Problem"

March 5 Kuzey Yilmaz (Koç U.)

"Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility"

February 19 Özgür Kibris (Sabanci U.)

"Bargaining over a Finite Set of Alternatives"

February 26 Sevket Alper Koç (Kocaeli U.)

"Bribery Between the Auctioneer and the Bidders in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions"

FALL 2002:

December 18 Antonio Villanacci (U. of Florence)

"Taxes and Outside Money in Incomplete Financial Markets"

December 11 Ipek Özkal-Sanver (Bilgi U.)

"Efficiency in the Degree of Compromise: A New Axiom for Social Choice"

November 29 Dr. Stefano Siviero  (Bank of Italy) 

"The Role of National Information in Euro Area Monetary Policy-Making: Bound to Vanish on the Way to Full

Convergence?"

November 6 Remzi Sanver (Bilgi U.)

"Dictatorial Domains in Choosing Committees"

October 30 Anirban Kar (Indian Statistical Institute and Sabanci U.)

"Cost Monotonicity, Consistency and Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Games"

October 23 Pinar Dogan (Koç U.)

"Unbundling the Local Loop"

October 16 Francis Bloch

(GREQAM and Ecole Superieure de Mecanique de Marseille)

"When Does Universal Peace Prevail? Secession and Group Formation in Rent Seeking Contests and Policy Conflict"

October 9 Selçuk Özyurt (Bogaziçi U.)

"Strategy-Proof Social Choice Correspondences Defined Over Domains Restricted Through Extension Axioms"

 SPRING 2002:

May 10 Tayfun Sönmez (Koç U.)

"Room Assignment - Rent Division: A Market Approach"

April 12 Murat R. Sertel (Bogaziçi U.)

"Designing Rights (Some Invisible Hand Theorems)"

SPRING 2001:

June 20 Dirk Bergemann (Yale U.)

"Information Structures in Optimal Auctions" (Joint work with M. Pesendorfer (Yale U.))  

June 8 Ricardo Cavalcanti  (Penn State U.)

"A Monetary Mechanism for Sharing Capital: Diamond and Dybvig Meet Kiyotaki and Wright" (Bogazici U. -Sabancı U. Joint Seminar)

May 25 Yasar Barut (Rice U.)

Risk Premium With Uncertain States   (Bogazici U. -Sabancı U. Joint Seminar)

May 11 Başak Gunes (Bogazici  U.)

Presentation on

"Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf Indices Revisited''  by Annick Laurelle and Federico Valenciano

April 27 Diego Restuccia (U. of Toronto)

"Barriers to Capital Accumulation in a Model of Technology Adoption and Schooling" (Bogazici U. -Sabancı U. Joint Seminar)

April 20 Ozgur Kibris (CORE and Sabanci U.)

"Ordinalism and Egalitarianism in Bargaining" (Bogazici U. -Sabancı U. Joint Seminar)

April 13 Myrna Wooders (U. of Warwick)

"Approximate Equilibria in Pure Strategies of Large Games with Finite Player Sets where Most Players Mimic Similar Players" (Joint work with R. Selten (U. of Bonn) and Edward Cartwright (U. of Warwick))

March 30 Tayfun Sönmez (Koç U.)

"Improving Efficiency of On-Campus Housing: An Experimental Study" (Joint work with Yan Chen (U. of Michigan))

March 16 Andrew Postlewaite (U. of Pennsylvania)

"Efficient Auction Mechanisms with Multidimensional Signals"

March 2 Ayşe Mumcu-Serdar (Bogazici U.)

"Competition Between Regulated and Unregulated Generators on Electricity Power Networks" (Joint Work with Serhan Oğur (Northwestern U.) and U. Zenginobuz (Boğaziçi U.))

February 23 Fuad Aleskerov (Bogazici U.)

"Simple Semiorders, Interval Graphs, and Their Application to Choice: Measurement, Genetics, and Transportation"

FALL 2000:

December 15 Michael Landsberger  (U. of Haifa)

"Symmetric Auction Theory: Still Enigmatic"

December 8 İsmail Sağlam (Boğaziçi U.)

"Real Effects of Anticipated Inflation"

December 1 Murat Usman (Koc U.)

"The Role of Lender Behavior in International Project Finance"

November 24 Walter Trockel (Bielefeld U.)

"Implementations of the Nash Solution"

November 17 Nezih Güner (Queen's U.)

"Inequality, Education, and Marital Sorting"

November 10 Ipek Ozkal Sanver (Bogazici U.)

"Coalition Structural Games in Matching"

November 3

ASSET ANNUAL MEETING

October 27 Remzi Sanver (Bilgi U.)

"Implementation by Set-Valued Mechanisms"

 October 20 YunTong Wang (Sabancı U.)

"Axiomatic Cost Sharing"

October 13 Lars-Gunnar Svensson (Lund U.)

"Strategy-Proof and Nonbossy Allocation of Indivisible Goods and Money"

October 6 Utku Ünver (Koç U.)

"On the Survival of Some Unstable Two-Sided Matching Mechanisms: A Laboratory Investigation"

SPRING 2000:

April 28 Nuray Akin and Cagatay Kayi (Bogazici U.)

Presentation on

"Axiomatic Cost and Surplus Sharing" (by Hervé Moulin)

April 21 Ahmet Alkan (Sabancı U. and Bogazici U.)

Discrete Revealed Preference and Multipartner Matching

March 10 R. Serkan Albayrak and Fuad Aleskerov (Bogazici U.)

"Convexity of Choice Function Sets"

February 18 Remzi Sanver (Bilgi U.)

"Coalition Structural Games and the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods"

FALL 1999:

December 10 Cagatay Kayi (Bogazici U.)
Presentation on
"Feasible Implementation of Taxation Methods" (by N. Dagan, R. Serrano, and O. Volij"
Gokce Goktepe (Bogazici U.)
Presentation on
"On the Multi-Preference Approach to Evaluating Opportunities" (by K. Nehring and C. Suppe)
 

December 3 Nuray Akin (Bogazici U.)
Presentation on
'Majority Rule in a Stochastic Model of Bargaining' (by H. Eraslan and A. Merlo)
Emel Filiz (Bogazici U.)
Presentation on
'Voting Paradoxes and How to Deal with Them' (by H. Nurmi)
 

November 19 Nikolaos Vettas (The Fuqua School of Business, Duke U.)
"Location as a Signal of Quality"
 

November 12 Ahmet Alkan (Bogazici University)
"Choice Function Lattices"
 

November 5 Mehtap Özcanli ( Bogaziçi University)
Presentation on
"A theory of Endogenous Coalition Structures" ( by Debraj Ray and Rajiv Vohra)
 

October 22 Tayfun Sonmez (Koc U.)
"School Choice: A Solution to the Student Placement Problem'' (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroglu)
 

October 8 Remzi Sanver (Bilgi U.)
"Characterizing 'Cooperarive' Equilibrium Outcomes of Voting Games" (joint with Bora Arslan)
 

October 1 Ayse Mumcu Serdar (Bogazici U.)
"Employment Relationships versus Independent Contracting: On the Organizational Choice and Incentives"
 

FALL 1998:

December 25 Ipek Özkal (Bogaziçi University) "Individual Manipulation of Matching Models"

December 18 Murat Usman (Koç University) "Endogenous Determination of Verifiability"

December 11 Salvador Barbera (Autonomous U. of Barcelona)
1) Lecture 1: Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem. Proofs and Extensions Restricted Domains I: Single Peakedness
2) Lecture 2: Strategy Proofness of Social Choice Functions on Multidimensional Issues: Multiple Public Goods, Rationing and Exchange
3) Seminar: "Strategy Proof Social Choice Correspondences and Probabilistic Voting Schemes"

December 4 Fuad Aleskerov (Bogaziçi University) "Local Social Choice Correspondences"

November 27 Hakan Inal (Bogaziçi University) "On the Strongly Implementable SCC's"

November 20 and 13 Hakan Orbay (Koç University) Basic Finance for Economic Designers

November 6 Michael Maschler (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem)

October 16 Joachim Rosenmuller (U. of Bielefeld)

October 9 Jacques Dreze (CORE, Univesit) "On the Dynamics of Supply-constrained Equilibria"

October 2 Ayça Kara (Bogaziçi University) Presentation on Caplin A. and B. Nalebuff, "On 64% Majority Rule", Econometrica, Vol. 56, No. 4, July 1988.

SPRING 1998:

May 27 Tekinel Özdemir "Analysis of Efficiency and Stability Conflict in Networks"

May 18-22 Roy Radner (New York University) Lectures on the Internal Economy of Large Firms

May 11-14 Joan Estaban (Autonomous University if Barcelona) Lectures on Overlapping Generations Models

May 4-8 Antonio Villanaci (University of Florence) Lectures on General Equilibrium with Incomplete Markets

April 27 - May 8 Serge Christophe Kolm (EHESS)A Series of Lectures on Justice and Economic Design

April 22 Hakan Inal (Bogazici University)

April 15 David Schmeidler "Case Based Decision Theory"

April 2 Felix Fitzroy (University of St. Andrews) "On the Stability of the Phillips Curve and the Wage Curve"

March 28-April 6 James Mirrlees

March 25 Remzi Sanver (Bogaziçi U.)"An Analysis of Allocation Axioms in Public Good Economies"

March 18 Presentation on the book, Tournament Solutions and Majority Voting, by Jean-François Laslier.Yusufcan Masatlioglu (Bogaziçi U.)

March 11 Marco Fugazza (European University Institute and Galatasaray U.) "Search Subsidy vs Hiring Subsidy: a General Equilibrium Analysis of Employment Vouchers"

March 4 Remzi Sanver (Bogaziçi U.) Title: TBA

February 25 G. Demange and R. Guesnerie (Research in Economics, 1997), 'Nonemptiness of the Core: Low Multidimensional Decision Spaces and One Dimensional Preferences', by Bogaçhan Çelen (Bogaziçi U.)

FALL 1997:

December 17 Bhaskar Dutta and Mutuswami, (1997) "Stable Networks" Journal of Economic Theory, presented by T. Ozdemir, Bogazici U.

December 3  Salvador Barbera, Jordi Masso and Alejandro Neme (1997)"Voting under Constraint", Journal of Economic Theory, presented by I. Ozkal, Bogazici U.

November 26 Herve Moulin "Welfare Bounds in Fair Division", presented by Inal, H., Bogazici U.

November 19 Alkan, A. (Bogazici U.) on Supermodularity and Matching

November 12 Sarpca, S. (Bogazici U.) on Virtual Implementation.

October 22 Sanver, R. (1997), "Implementation via Generalized Lottery Mechanism"

October 15 U. Konishi, M. Le Breton, & S. Weber (1996), "An Application 'Local Public Goods Economy With Congestion", Games and Economic Behavior, presented by M. Barlo

SPRING 1997 AND FALL 1996:

May 21 Sotskov, A. I. (1996), "An Approach to Modeling a Market of Informational Goods"

May 14 Corchon, L. & S. Wilkie (1996), "Double Implementation of the Ratio Correspondence by a Market Mechanism", Economic Design, presented by I. Özkal

May 7 Saari, D. "Basic Geometry of Voting", presented by S. Sarpça

May 2 Nabli, M. (1997), "Import Liberalization and Economic Performance"

April 30 Basçi, E. & I. Saglam (1997), "Does Money Matter? A Deterministic Model with Cash in Advance Constraints in the Labor Market", Unpublished Working Paper, Bilkent University.

April 16 Holmström, B. & P. Milgrom (1991), "Aggregation and Linearity in the Provision of Intertemporal Incentives", Econometrica. presented by: M. Barlo, Bogaziçi University.

April 9 Zenginobuz, E. Ü. (1997), "Spillover Effects and Community Structure in a Local Public Good Model", Unpublished Working Paper, Bogaziçi University.

April 2 Baç, M. (1997), "How (Not) to Signal the Bargaining Power?", Unpublished Working Paper, Bilkent University.

March 26 Yildiz, M. (1997), "Bargaining Over Risky Assets", Unpublished Working Paper, Stanford University.

March 19 Papai, S. (1997), "Strategy-Proof Allocation of a Single Object", Unpublished Working Paper, Koç University.

March 12 Zenginobuz, E. Ü. (1996), "Concern for Status, Rank-Order Contests, and Contributions to Public Goods, Unpublished Working Paper, Bogaziçi University.

March 5 Sotskov , A. (1997), "A Characterization of Goods in a Lindahl Model with Fixed Incomes of Consumers", Unpublished Working Paper, Bogaziçi University.

February 26 Sertel M. R. & M. R. Sanver (1996), "Strong Equilibria of Voting Games are the Generalized Condorcet Winners", Unpublished Working Paper, Bogaziçi University.

Sanver, R (1996), "Dominant Strategy Implementation: A Survey", Unpublished Working Paper, Bogaziçi University.

Ecer, S. (1996), "Comparative Analysis of some Social Choice Correspondences", Unpublished M. A. Thesis, Bogaziçi University

SPRING 1996 AND FALL 1995:

Alkan, A. (1995), "Lectures in Matching theory", Unpublished Lecture Notes, Bogaziçi University.

Smith, D. A., (1995), "Manipulability Measures of Common Social Choice Functions", Unpublished Working Paper, California Institute of Technology. presented by: S. Ecer, Bogaziçi University.

Gärdenfors, P. (1976), "Manipulation of Social Choice Functions", Journal of Economic Theory, 13, 217-228. presented by: S. Ecer, Bogaziçi University.

Barbera, S. (1983), "Strategy-Proofness and Pivotal Voters: A Direct Proof of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem", International Economic Review, 24: 413-17.presented by: S. Papai, Koç University.

Sanver, M. R. (1996),"An Axiomatic Approach to Allocation Rules in Public Good Economies", Bogaziçi University Working Papers.

Sertel, M. R. & M. Yildiz (1995), "Non-existence of a Walrasian Bargaining Solution", Bogaziçi University Working Papers, presented by: M. R. Sanver, Bogaziçi University.