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Education

Ph.D. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra                                            expected 2009

M.Sc. in Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra                                                             2005

M.A. in Economics, New York University                                                                       2004

B.S. in Mathematics, Boğaziçi University                                                                         2000

Research and Teaching Interests

Primary fields: Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics

Secondary fields: Applied Microeconomics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Networks in Economics

Awards

Graduate Scholarship, Universitat Pompeu Fabra                                            2004 – present 

EBES Grant for Conferences and Short Stays, Universitat Pompeu Fabra                    2008

 Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, New York University                                   2002 – 2004

Teaching Assistant Experience

    UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA                                                                  2004 – present

        Graduate Level   

    - Real Analysis, Fall 2007 & Fall 2008 (for Gabor Lugosi)

    - Graduate Level Micro I 

            Fall 2006 (for Fabrizio Germano) (Best Graduate TA evaluations)

            Fall 2007 (for Nagore Iriberri)

    Undergraduate Level

    - Microeconomia I, Fall 2008

    - Teoria Economica IV, Spring 2008

    - Game Theory, Spring 2006

    - Teoria Economica II, Fall 2005 & Fall 2006

    - Macro Aplicada, Spring 2006

    - Estadistica, Winter 2006 & Winter 2008

    - Teoria Economia I, Spring 2005

    - Teoria Economia II, Winter 2005

    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY                                                                                        2003-2004

     - Introductory Microeconomics, Spring 2004

     - Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2003

    BOĞAZİÇİ UNIVERSITY                                                                                        2000 – 2002

        Graduate Level

     - Mathematical Economics, Fall 2001, Spring 2002 (for Remzi Sanver)

    Undergraduate Level

    - Economic Theory, Fall 2001

    - Introductory Macroeconomics, Spring 2000

    - Introductory Microeconomics, Fall 2000

Research Assistant Experience

    Boğaziçi University                                                                                                    2000 – 2002

    Helped Prof. Şevket Pamuk in his studies concerning the economic history of

    Turkey with an extensive analysis of the data gathered.

Presentations

Doctoral Seminar on Behaviroal and Experimental Economics, UPF

                                                                                                                     Barcelona, October 2008

International ESA Conference

                                                                                                                            Pasadena, June 2008

Barcelona LeeX Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics (BLEESS-M)

                                                                                                                           Barcelona, June 2008 

10^th Experimental Economics Days (JEE)

                                                                                                                                   Dijon, May 2008 

4^th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics (IMEBE)

                                                                                                                           Alicante, March 2008 

Working Papers

“Explaining Public Good Provisions in Networks” (job market paper)                                       

“Endowment Effect: Another Explanation of Preference Reversals?”, working paper

 “Conflict Networks: An Experiment” (joint with Jörg Franke, Zeynep Gürgüç and Tahir Öztürk),

work in progress

Language

    Turkish (native); English (fluent); Spanish (intermediate); German (elementary) 

Computer Skills

    PASCAL, MATLAB, STATA, Eviews, GAUSS, z-Tree, Microsoft Office applications