Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Florida 2000
  • M.A., Bilkent University (Turkey) 1995
  • B.S.E., Bilkent University (Turkey) 1993
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Associate Professor of Economics, Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2014
  • Assistant Professor of Economics, Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2007
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review. American Economic Review. 2010
  • Howard D. Johnson Trinity College Teaching Award. Unknown. 2008
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Name-Correa, AJ, and Yildirim, H. "A capture theory of committees." Public Choice 177, no. 1-2 (October 1, 2018): 135-154.  Full Text
    • Name Correa, A, and Yildirim, H. "Biased Experts, Majority Rule, and the Optimal Composition of Committee." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (Erid) Working Paper , no. 268 (June 12, 2018).
    • Name Correa, A, and Yildirim, H. "Social Pressure, Transparency, and Voting in Committees." (September 4, 2017).
    • Krasteva, S, and Yildirim, H. "Information, competition, and the quality of charities." Journal of Public Economics 144 (December 1, 2016): 64-77.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Name-Correa, AJ, and Yildirim, H. "“Giving” in to social pressure." Games and Economic Behavior 99 (September 1, 2016): 99-116.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Paskalev, Z, and Yildirim, H. "A Theory of Outsourced Fundraising: Why Dollars Turn into 'Pennies for Charity'." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (Erid) Working Paper , no. 189 (December 6, 2014). (Working Paper)  Open Access Copy
    • Yildirim, H. "Andreoni-Mcguire Algorithm and the Limits of Warm-Glow Giving." Journal of Public Economics 114 (January 1, 2014): 101-107. (Working Paper)  Full Text
    • Krasteva, S, and Yildirim, H. "(Un)Informed charitable giving." Journal of Public Economics 106 (October 1, 2013): 14-26.  Full Text
    • Name-Correa, AJ, and Yildirim, H. "A Theory of Charitable Fund-Raising with Costly Solicitations." American Economic Review 103, no. 2 (April 2013): 1091-1107.
    • Krasteva, S, and Yildirim, H. "Payoff uncertainty, bargaining power, and the strategic sequencing of bilateral negotiations." Rand Journal of Economics 43, no. 3 (September 1, 2012): 514-536.  Full Text
    • Krasteva, S, and Yildirim, H. "On the role of confidentiality and deadlines in bilateral negotiations." Games and Economic Behavior 75, no. 2 (July 1, 2012): 714-730.  Full Text
    • Taylor, CR, and Yildirim, H. "Subjective performance and the value of blind evaluation." Review of Economic Studies 78, no. 2 (April 7, 2011): 762-794. (Review)  Full Text
    • Taylor, CR, and Yildirim, H. "Public information and electoral bias." Games and Economic Behavior 68, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 353-375.  Full Text
    • Taylor, CR, and Yildirim, H. "A unified analysis of rational voting with private values and group-specific costs." Games and Economic Behavior 70, no. 2 (January 1, 2010): 457-471.  Full Text
    • Yildirim, H. "Distribution of surplus in sequential bargaining with endogenous recognition." Public Choice 142, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2010): 41-57.  Full Text
    • Yildirim, H. "Proposal power and majority rule in multilateral bargaining with costly recognition." Journal of Economic Theory 136, no. 1 (September 1, 2007): 167-196.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • YILDIRIM, HUSEYIN. "Getting the Ball Rolling: Voluntary Contributions to a Large-Scale Public Project." Journal of Public Economic Theory 8, no. 4 (October 2006): 503-528.
    • Lewis, TR, and Yildirim, H. "Managing switching costs in multiperiod procurements with strategic buyers." International Economic Review 46, no. 4 (November 1, 2005): 1233-1269.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Yildirim, H. "Contests with multiple rounds." Games and Economic Behavior 51, no. 1 (April 1, 2005): 213-227.  Full Text
    • Romano, R, and Yildirim, H. "On the endogeneity of Cournot-Nash and Stackelberg equilibria: Games of accumulation." Journal of Economic Theory 120, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 73-107.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Yildirim, H. "Piecewise procurement of a large-scale project." International Journal of Industrial Organization 22, no. 8-9 (November 1, 2004): 1349-1375.  Full Text
    • Lewis, TR, and Yildirim, H. "Managing dynamic competition." American Economic Review 92, no. 4 (September 1, 2002): 779-797.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Lewis, TR, and Yildirim, H. "Learning by doing and dynamic regulation." Rand Journal of Economics 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 22-36.  Full Text
    • Romano, R, and Yildirim, H. "Why charities announce donations: A positive perspective." Journal of Public Economics 81, no. 3 (September 1, 2001): 423-447.  Full Text
    • Demski, JS, Lewis, TR, Yao, D, and Yildirim, H. "Practices for managing information flows within organizations." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 15, no. 1 (April 1, 1999): 107-131.

  • Scholarly Editions

    • Yildirim, H. Time-Consistent Majority Rules and Heterogenous Preferences in Group Decision-Making. 2010.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ECON 464: Competitive Strategy and Industrial Organization 2019
  • ECON 564: Competitive Strategy and Industrial Organization 2019
  • ECON 593: Research Independent Study 2019
  • ECON 601D: Microeconomics 2019
  • ECON 799: Internship 2019
  • ECON 885: Special Topics in Economic Theory 2019
  • ECON 905: Microeconomic Theory Workshop 2019
  • ECON 699: Internship 2018
  • ECON 898: Directed Research 2018
  • ECON 601: Microeconomics 2017

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