Fields of Interest

Political Economics, Development Economics, Public Finance, Industrial Organization.

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Suffolk University, Fall 2004-

Education

· Ph.D., Economics, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 2004
Dissertation: “Political Economy of Anti-Corruption Reforms.”
Advisors: Dilip Mookherjee (main advisor), Jorgen Weibull, Michael Manove.

· M.A. in Economics, Bogazici University, Turkey, 1999.
Thesis Title: “Regulating a Duopoly Using Revenue Contests.”
Thesis Advisor: E. Unal Zenginobuz.

· B.S. in Management Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey, 1995.

Teaching Experience

Microeconomic Theory (PhD, Master’s, Undergraduate)

Political Economics (PhD)
Money and Banking Theory, (Undergraduate)
Industrial Organization, (Undergraduate)
Statistics, (Undergraduate)
Game Theory, (Undergraduate)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Master’s).

Fellowships and Awards

Director of Graduate Studies Award, Boston University, May 2004
Rosenstein-Rodan Prize (Best paper in Economic Development), Institute for Economic Development, Boston University, May 2002
Boston University Teaching Fellowship 1998-2004.

Refereeing

Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory

Research

Three-Candidate Competition when Candidates Have Valence: The Base Case (forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare)

A Game-Theoretic Explanation for the Persistence of Political Corruption (under review)

Mackerels in the Moonlight: A Duopoly Model of Political Agency (under review)

On the (in)effectiveness of some commonly discussed anti-corruption reforms: a theoretical analysis (under review)

Three-candidate competition when candidates have valence: probabilistic voting (with Dmitriy Kha)

Are honest citizens to blame for corruption: on political economy of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax reform

Revenue Contest as a Regulatory Mechanism (with E. Unal Zenginobuz)

Anti-corruption reform as regulation: political economy of anti-corruption reform

Presentations

Economics Seminar, Bentley College, April 2008

MPSA 56th Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2006
Economics Seminar, University of Connecticut, October 2004.
Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting, Brown U., June 2004.
Public Choice Society Meeting, Baltimore, March 2004.
Economics Seminar, Suffolk University, February 2004.
European Economic Association, Stockholm U., August 2003.
Conference on Economic Design, NYU, July 2002.
Institute for Economic Development/ International Economics Seminars, Boston U., November 2001.
The North-East Universities’ Development Consortium (NEUDC), Boston U., September 2001.