Academic Positions

Duke University

Department of Economics

Associate Professor, July 2006-present

Columbia University

Department of Economics

Associate Professor (tenured in January 2006), July 2004 – June 2006

Assistant Professor, July 2001 - June 2004

Northwestern University

Department of Economics and the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science (CMS-EMS) at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management

Assistant Professor, July 2000-June 2001

Affiliations

Faculty Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISERP), Columbia University, 2005 - 2006

Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Northwestern University, 2000 - 2002

Education

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Ph.D. Economics, April 2000

Dissertation: Essays on Real Life Assignment Problems

Supervisor: William Thomson

        M.A. Economics, September 1998

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

M.A. Economics, July 1995.

B.S.  Electrical and Electronics Engineering, June 1993

Research Interests

Mechanism Design, Market Design, Game Theory and Dynamic Contracting

Honors, Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships

National Science Foundation, NSF Career Award (SES-0449946), 2005-2010

Project: Theoretical and Practical Mechanism Design with an emphasis on Public School Choice

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2003-2006

Mac Donald Fellow, Columbia University, Summer 2004

ISERP Research Grant, Columbia University, 2004 (with Till Von Wachter)

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000

Kaplan Award, Best Graduate GPA, University of Rochester, 1998

University of Rochester Summer Research Grant, 1997

W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy Research Grant, 1996-1997

University of Rochester Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, 1995-1999

Bilkent University Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, 1989-1993, 1993-1995

Journal Publications

“College Admissions with Affirmative Action” International Journal of Game Theory, 2005, 33: 535-549

“The New York City High School Match” (with Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth) American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2005, May, 95: 364-367

“The Boston Public School Match” (with Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez) American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2005, May, 95: 368-371

“Room Assignment-Rent Division: A Market Approach” (with Tayfun Sönmez and Utku Unver) Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, 22: 515-538

“School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach” (with Tayfun Sönmez) American Economic Review, 2003, 93-3: 729-747

“Ordinal Efficiency and Dominated Sets of Assignments” (with Tayfun Sönmez), Journal of Economic Theory, 2003, 112: 157-172

“Unemployment Insurance and the Role of Self-Insurance” (with Burhanettin Kuruşçu and Ayşegül Şahin), Review of Economic Dynamics, 2002, 3: 681-703

“House Allocation with Existing Tenants” (with Tayfun Sönmez), Journal of Economic Theory, 1999, 88: 233-260

“Random Serial Dictatorship and the Core from Random Endowments in House Allocation Problems” (with Tayfun Sönmez), Econometrica, 1998, 66: 689-701

Manuscripts under review

 “Strategy Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match” (with Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth)

“Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships” (with Kyle Bagwell)

“Controlled School Choice” (with Lars Ehlers)

Work in Progress

“The Demand for High School in New York City” (with Parag A. Pathak)

“Expanding Choice in School Choice” (with Yeon-Koo Che and Yosuke Yasuda)

“Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism” (with Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Tayfun Sönmez)

“Dynamic House Allocation” (with Simon Loertscher)

“Mechanism Design with Tacit Collusion” (with Kim Sau Chung)

“Trust game (tentative)” (with Kyle Bagwell)

Editorial Positions

Co-editor, The Review of Economic Design, November 2004-present

Associate Editor, B. E. Journals in Theoretical Economics, November 2006 - present

Professional Activities

Referee

American Economic Review, The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics, The B.E. Journals in Theoretical Economics, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Public Economic Theory, National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Discussant

AEA Meetings, Washington, DC, January 2003.

Program Committee Member

Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, Florence, July 2004

Biannual Meeting of the Society of Economic Design, New York, July 2002

Plenary Session Organizer

North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Durham, NC, June 2007

Conference and Seminar Presentations

“Expanding Choice in School Choice”

The Workshop on Matching: Theory, Applications and Experiments, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (June 2007)

“Strategy Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the New York City High School Match”

University of Florida (March 2007), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (May 2007), Hong Kong University (May 2007), The Workshop on Matching: Theory, Applications and Experiments, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (June 2007)

“Controlled School Choice”

Biannual Meetings of the Society of Economic Design, Bodrum, Turkey (July 2006)

“Experience in New York City” (co-presented with Neil Dorosin)

Eric M. Mindich Conference on “Designing Choice”, Harvard University (April 2006)

“Matching with Indifferences”

University of Texas at Austin (November 2005), Georgetown University (November 2005)

“Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships”

Annual Meetings of the Social Choice and Welfare Society, Istanbul, Turkey (July 2006), Tel Aviv University (May 2006), University of Haifa (May 2006), Rutgers University (April 2006), University of British Columbia (March 2006), University of Pennsylvania (December 2005), London School of Economics (June 2005), University College London (June 2005), University of Maryland (April 2005), New York University (November 2004), Annual Meetings of the Society of Economic Dynamics, Florence, Italy (July 2004)

“Mechanism Design and Market Design” (invited graduate lecture)

New York University (February 2005)

“The New York City High School Match”

American Economic Association Meetings 2005, Philadelphia, PA, Practical Mechanism Design: Four Matches

“School Choice in NYC and Boston”

Duke University (January 2006), University of Texas at Austin (November 2005), Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, Market Design Conference (December 2004)

“Better Mechanism Design”

Stanford University (November 2004), Rice University (November 2004), University of Texas at Austin (November 2004), ESSET Symposium, CEPR, Gerzensee, Switzerland (July 2004)

“Practical Mechanism Design and School Choice” (invited graduate lecture)

    Stanford University (May 2004)

“College Admissions with Affirmative Action”

California Institute of Technology (February 2004), SUNY Albany (February 2004), University of Montreal (December 2003), Yale University (November 2003), Duke University (November 2003), Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) Summer Workshop (August 2003), Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings, Evanston, Illinois (June 2003), University of Rochester (May 2003), London Business School (April 2003)

“School Choice: A Mechanism Design Approach”

London Business School (April 2003), Tulane University, Department of Economics (October 2002), Conference on Economic Design, SED 2002, New York (July 2002), Harvard University, Harvard-MIT Joint Theory Seminar (April 2002)

“Mechanism Design with Tacit Collusion”

New York University (November 2002), ESSET Symposium, Center for Economic Policy Research, Gerzensee, Switzerland (July 2002)

“School Choice: A Solution to the Student Assignment Problem”.

Columbia University (January 2001), Conference on Economic Design, SED 2000, Istanbul, Turkey (June 2000)

“Ordinal Efficiency and Dominated Sets of Assignments”

University of Maryland (February 2000), University of California, Santa Barbara (January 2000), Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management (MEDS) and Department of Economics (January 2000), California Institute of Technology (January 2000), University of Southern California (January 2000), Carnegie Mellon University (January 2000), Southeast Economic Theory Conference, Washington D.C. (November 1999), Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, Urbana-Champaign, IL (October 1999)

“House Allocation with Existing Tenants”

Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI (October 1998)

Teaching Experience

Graduate teaching

Duke University

        Market Design, Spring 2007, Fall 2007

        Graduate Microeconomics, Fall 2006, Fall 2007

Tel Aviv University

        Market Design (two-week mini course, May 2006)

Columbia University

Market Design, Spring 2006

Microeconomics Colloquium, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006

Advanced Topics in Economic Analysis: Theory and Applications, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004

Advanced Topics in Contract Theory: Theory and Applications, Northwestern University, Spring 2001

Undergraduate teaching

Columbia University

        Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003

        Principle of Economics, Summer 2002

        Intermediate Macroeconomics, Summer 2002

        Microeconomic Senior Seminar, Fall 2001, Fall 2002

Northwestern University

Intermediate Microeconomics, Winter 2001

Mathematical Economics, Spring 2001

Department and University Service

Duke University

Economics Department Junior Recruiting Committee, 2006 - 2007

          Academic Council, 2007 - 2009

Columbia University

Weekly Economic Theory Seminar Organizer, Spring 2003 – Spring 2006

Microeconomic Theory Field Exam Committee, 2001 – 2006

Graduate Financial Aid and Prizes Committee, 2004-2005, 2005-2006

PhD Placement Committee, 2005 - 2006

Junior Recruiting Committee, 2002 - 2003

          PhD Admissions Committee, 2001 - 2002