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EMRE OZDENOREN

(Last Update August 2007)

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

Business Address:

University of Michigan

Department of Economics

611 Tappan Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220

Business Phone: (734) 647-5606

Email: emreo@umich.edu

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 2000-2007.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Fall 2003.

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Strategy, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June 2000

M.A., Economics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, 1996

M.A., Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994

B.S., Electrical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1991

 

PUBLICATIONS AND ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPTS

 

"Durable Goods and Conformity" (with Chris House), Accepted for publication by the RAND Journal of Economics.

 

"Feedback Effects and Asset Prices" (with Kathy Yuan), accepted for publication by Journal of Finance.

 

"Ambiguity Aversion, Games Against Nature, and Dynamic Consistency" (with James Peck) Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 62(1), January 2008, 106-115.

 

"Sealed Bid Auctions with Ambiguity: An Experimental Study," (with Yan Chen and Peter Katuscak) Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 136(1), September 2007, pp. 513-535.

 

"Subjective Recursive Expected Utility," (with Peter Klibanoff) Economic Theory, vol. 30(1), January 2007, pp. 49-87.

 

"Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity" (with Subir Bose and Andreas Pape) Theoretical Economics, vol. 1(4), December 2006, pp. 411-438.

 

"Intermediation in Innovation," (with Heidrun Hoppe) International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 23(5-6), June 2005, pp. 483-503.

 

"Auctions with Uncertain Numbers of Bidders," (with Dan Levin) Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 118(2), October 2004, pp. 229-251.

 

"Probabilistic Representation of Complexity," (with Nabil Al-Najjar and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell) Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 111(1), June 2003, pp. 49-87.

 

"Completing the state space with subjective states," Journal of Economic Theory, 105(2), May 2002, pp. 531-539.

 

"Maxmin Expected Utility Through Statewise Combinations," (with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Peter Klibanoff) Economics Letters 66(1), January 2000, pp. 49-54.

 

"Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors," (with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Peter Klibanoff), Journal of Economic Theory 92(1), May 2000, pp. 35-65.

 

WORKING PAPERS

 

"Learning and Complementarities: Implications for Speculative Attacks" (with Itay Goldstein and Kathy Yuan), October 2007.

 

"Ambiguity and Compound Lotteries: Calibration" (with Yoram Halevy), June 2008.

 

"Coarse Matching and Price Discrimination" (with Heidrun Hoppe and Benny Moldovanu), May 2008.

 

"Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges" (with Steve Salant and Dan Silverman), January 2008. Also available as: NBER working paper # W12278. Under review.

 

"Why Can't a Woman Bid More Like a Man?" (with Yan Chen and Peter Katuscak.)

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

University of Michigan: Behavioral Economics (Econ 490), Microeconomic Theory (Econ 601), Information and Incentives (Econ 604), Mathematics for Economists (Econ 600), Strategy (Econ 398), Decision Theory (Econ 619)

Kellogg Graduate School of Management: Lecturer, Math Review for MBA's

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

Kellogg Graduate School of Management Fellow, 1996-1999

Northwestern University Graduate School Fellow, 1996-1999

Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant 410-2006-0948: "Uncertainty and Compound Lotteries: Calibration" (joint with Yoram Halevy.)

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Recent Presentations:

 

- 2003 Decentralization Conference: "Sealed Bid Auctions with Ambiguity: An Experimental Study;"

- 2003 Canadian Economic Theory Conference: "Sealed Bid Auctions with Ambiguity: An Experimental Study;"

- Risk Uncertainty and Decision Conference 2003, University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy: "Optimal auctions with Ambiguity;"

- University of Michigan, School of Information, May 2004: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- 2004 Decentralization Conference: "Optimal auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Cowles Foundation, Robust Mechanism Design Conference, May 2004: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- University of Bonn, May 2004: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Cowles Foundation, Uncertainty in Economic Theory Conference, October 2004: "Surplus - Extraction in Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- University of Montreal, Department of Economics, October 2004: "Surplus Extraction in Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Sabanci University, Economics Group, May 2005: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Bilkent University, Department of Economics, May 2005: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Koc University, Department of Economics, May 2005: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Summer Workshop in Economic Theory Seminars at UBC Economics, August 2005: "Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity;"

- Cowles Foundation, Workshop on Coordination Games, September 2005: "Strategic Uncertainty in Asset Markets;"

- University of Michigan, Department of Economics, Macroeconomics Seminar, October 2005: "Durable Goods and Conformity"

- University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Microeconomics Seminar, November 2005: "Durable Goods and Conformity"

- Penn State University, Department of Economics, Micro Theory Seminar, March 2006: "Durable Goods and Conformity"

- Coombs Conference 2006, April 2006: "Subjective Recursive Expected Utility"

- Econometric Society North America Summer Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2006: "Feedback Effects and Asset Prices."

- Koc University Summer Workshop in Economic Theory, July 2006: "Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges."

- Society for Economic Design 2006 Conference in Economic Theory, July 2006: "Durable Goods and Conformity."

- The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), Psychology and Economics 6.0, August 2006: "Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges."

- Arizona State University, Department of Economics, Micro Theory Seminar, September 2006: "Durable Goods and Conformity."

- University of Toronto, Department of Economics, Microeconomics Seminar, October 2006: "Durable Goods and Conformity."

- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics, Microeconomics Seminar, Novermber 2006: "Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges."

- Harvard/MIT Theory Seminar, May 2007: "Uncertainty and Compound Lotteries: Calibration."

- Boston College Microeconomics Seminar, May 2007: "Learning and Strategic Complementarities: Implications for Currency Attacks."

-Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, Microeconomics Seminar, September 2007: "Learning and Strategic Complementarities: Implications for Currency Attacks."

- University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics, Applied Micro Theory Workshop, October 2007, "Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges."

- Midwest Economic Theory Conference, November 2007, "Learning and Strategic Complementarities: Implications for Currency Attacks."

- Columbia University, Theory Seminar, March 2008, "Learning and Strategic Complementarities: Implications for Currency Attacks."

 

 

Referee for:

 

American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Econometrica, Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Canadian Journal of Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, International Economic Review, Journal of Psychological Economics.

 

Dissertation Committees:

 

- Main Advisor for Andreas Pape, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

- Main Advisor for Kan Takeuchi, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

- Committee Member for Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Electrical Eng. & Comp Science Department, University of Michigan.

- Committee Member for Judson Caskey, University of Michigan Business School, Accounting Department.

- Committee Member for Vicki Tang, University of Michigan Business School, Accounting Department.

- Committee Member for Ayse Irem Tuna, University of Michigan Business School, Accounting Department.

- Committee Member for Martin Heintzelman, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

- Committee Member for Katalin Bognar, Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

 

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