Curriculum Vitae - METU Department of Economics

MÜRÜVVET İ. BÜYÜKBOYACI
Middle East Technical University
Department of Economics
06800, Ankara, Turkey
https://sites.google.com/site/muruvvetbuyukboyaci/
EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, March 2015present.
Researcher, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, July 2014- March 2015.
Instructor, Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus,
September 2013-July 2014.
Research and Teaching Assistant, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California
Institute of Technology, 2008-2013.
Research and Teaching Assistant, FASS Economics, Sabancı University, 2005-2007.
DEGREES
PhD in Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, June 2013
MA in Economics, Sabanci University (Turkey), June 2007
BS in Mathematics, Bilkent University (Turkey), June 2005
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Primary: Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics
Secondary: Matching
DISSERTATION
Title: The Effects of Heterogeneity on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching
Dissertation Committee: Leeat Yariv (chair), Thomas Palfrey, Federico Echenique
PUBLICATIONS
Risk Attitudes and the Stag-Hunt Game, Economics Letters, 124 (3), 2014, 323-325.
PUBLICATIONS IN TURKISH JOURNALS
Koordinasyon Oyunları, İktisat ve Toplum, 51, 2015, 27-32.
Açık Arttırmalar ve Açık Arttırmalarda Teorik Beklentilerden Sapmalar, İktisat ve Toplum, 52,
2015, 83-88.
Davranışsal İktisat ve Sınırlı Rasyonellik Varsayımı, İktisatta Davranışsal Yaklaşımlar, İmge
Kitabevi, 2015, with Çınla Akdere.
WORKING PAPERS
Parallel Tournaments
Decentralized Matching with Time Frictions
An Experimenttal Study of the Investment Implications of Bankruptcy Laws, with Mehmet Yiğit
Gürdal, Özgür Kıbrıs, and Arzu Kıbrıs.
HONORS AND AWARDS
EC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2015-2017.
2232 Postdoctoral Return Fellowship Program, Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey, 2014-2016
Institute Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2007-2008, 2011-2012
Fellowship, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2006-2007
Scholarship, Sabanci University, 2005-2006
Scholarship, Bilkent University, 2000-2005
INVITED SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2015 Bilkent University, 1st Turkish Workshop on Experimental and Behavioral Economics,
Conference on Economic Design-SED2015
2013 UC Merced (Merced, USA), Bogazici University, Bilgi University, Middle East Technical
University, Sabanci University
2012 WZB (Berlin, Germany); EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland); Contests, Mechanisms, and
Experiments (University of Exeter, Great Britain)
2011 Asia Pacific ESA Meeting (Melbourne, Australia)
2010 ESA North America Meeting (Tucson, USA)
2009 Experimental Summer School, Koc University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor for ECO443-Game Theory and Its Applications, METU, Spring 2015
Instructor for ECO 201-Intermediate Microeconomics, METU-Ankara, Fall 2014
Instructor for ECO101-Introduction to Microeconomics, METU-NCC, Fall 2013, Spring 2014
Instructor for ECO205-Statistics for Economists, METU-NCC, Fall 2013
Instructor for ECO487-Experimental Economics, METU-NCC, Fall 2013
Instructor for CVE 303-Probability and Statistics in Civil Engineering, METU-NCC, Spring 2014
Instructor for STAS 221 Probability and Statistics, METU-NCC, Spring 2014
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Turkish citizen, F1 visa
Languages: Turkish (Native), English (Fluent) German (Intermediate)
Date and Place of Birth: February 12, 1982; Isparta, Turkey
Married
REFERENCES
Professor Leeat Yariv (Chair)
Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences, 228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
[email protected]
+1 626-395-8924
Professor Thomas R. Palfrey
Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences, 228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
[email protected]
+1 626-395-4088
December, 2015
Professor Federico Echenique
Division of Humanities and Social
Sciences, 228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
[email protected]
+1 626-395-4273