Huseyin Yildirim, Associate Professor

Huseyin Yildirim is an associate professor of economics at Duke University. He obtained this position in 2007, after joining the Duke faculty in 2000. In 2004, he also served as a visiting faculty member at Northwestern University. He earned is Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2000, where he received the awards of Best Second Year and Best Third Year paper. He earned his M.A. and B.S. from Bilkent University in Turkey. Professor Yildirim specializes in the subjects of industrial organization, political economy, and public finance. His research has involved the investigation of multi-period procurements with learning curves, majority voting in multilateral bargaining, charitable fundraising, and rent seeking contests. His recent projects include, “A Theory of ‘Soft’ Targets in Fundraising”, “Simultaneous vs. Sequential Bilateral Negotiations with Externalities” with Silvana Krasteva, and “Optimal Voting Rules on Public Projects” with Daniel Graham. Professor Yildrim has published his work in a number of academic journals and books. His articles have appeared in such prestigious journals as the American Economic Review, the International Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior and the Journal of Public Economics. He recently contributed a chapter entitled, “Managing Dynamic Procurements”, to the Handbook of Procurement, published by Oxford University Press. Along with publishing his work, Professor Yildirim has presented his findings and ideas at a number of universities and seminars. In 2009, he spoke at the winter meetings for the Econometric Society and, in 2008, spoke at UBC, Virginia Tech, the Duke-Northwestern-Texas IO Conference, Vanderbilt, and at the plenary session for the Econometric Society at Duke. He has also traveled internationally for invited talks at Bilkent University, the University of Toronto, and at a Society for Social Choice and Welfare meeting in Istanbul. Along with his duties as a teacher and researcher, Professor Yildrim also holds various other professional responsibilities. He is on the editorial board for The B.E. Journal of Economic Policy & Analysis and for the Review of Economic Design. He has also been a program committee member for the 2nd and 6th Duke-Northwestern-Texas IO Conferences, and for the North American Meetings of the Econometric Society at Duke. For his achievements in academia, Professor Yildrim has received numerous honors. He has received support from the Duke University Dean’s Research Fund and the Duke University Research Development Fund. He also earned the Howard D. Johnson Trinity College Teaching Award in 2008.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	205 Soc Sci Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-1805
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• ECON 188.01, COMPETITIVE STRAT & INDUS ORG

  Soc/Psych 128, WF 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• ECON 288.01, COMPETITIVE STRAT & INDUS ORG

• ECON 301D.001, MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS I

  Soc/Psych 126, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Education:

PhD	University of Florida	2000
MA	Bilkent University, Turkey	1995
BS	Bilkent University, Turkey	1993

Specialties:

Industrial Organization

Research Interests: Industrial Organization, Procurement Theory, Bargaining Theory, and Public Finance

Professor Yildirim conducts research within the general subject areas of industrial organization, procurement theory, bargaining theory, and public finance. His studies tend to focus specifically on such variables as the learning curve in procurement and its implications, charitable fundraising strategies in public finance, and bargaining issues in political economy. These projects investigate a wide range of topics including sequential bargaining, pre-election polls, majority voting, rent-seeking contests, fundraising targets, and more. His published papers have appeared in numerous academic journals, including American Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior and Journal of Public Economics. Some of his latest investigations include the projects entitled, “A Unified Analysis of Rational Voting with Private Values and Cost Uncertainty,” “Public Information and Electoral Bias,” and “Subjective Performance and the Value of Blind Evaluation,” each completed in collaboration with Curtis Taylor; and “Public vs. Private Negotiations in Bilateral Relationships” with Silvana Krasteva. He also recently contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Procurement entitled, “Managing Dynamic Procurements.” Professor Yildrim has received support for his research endeavors from the Duke University Dean’s Research Fund and the Duke University Research Development Fund.

Areas of Interest:

Industrial Organization
Procurement and Regulation
Multilateral Bargaining
Charities

Keywords:

rent seeking contests • sequential bargaining • majority voting • pre-election polls • fundraising targets

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Yong Cai  
• Wolfgang Kohler  
• Haofei Chen  
• Bo Jiang  
• Stephen Ryan  
• Kyobook Lee  
• Jeremy Ascher  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. with Tracy Lewis, Managing Switching Costs in Multiperiod Procurements with Strategic Buyers, International Economic Review (vol. 46 , no. 4 (2005), pp. 1233-69) [pdf]
2. Piecewise Procurement of a Large-Scale Project, International Journal of Industrial Organization (vol. 22, no. 8-9 (2004) pp. 1349-1375) [pdf]
3. Contests with Multiple Rounds, Games and Economic Behavior (vol. 51 (2005), pp. 213-227) [pdf]
4. with Tracy Lewis, Managing Dynamic Competition, American Economic Review, vol. 92 (September, 2002), pp. 779-97 [pdf]
5. with Tracy Lewis, Learning by Doing and Dynamic Regulation, RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 33 no. 1 (Spring, 2002), pp. 22-36 [pdf]
6. with Richard Romano, Why Charities Announce Donations: A Positive Perspective, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 81 no. 3 (2001), pp. 423-447 [pdf]
7. with Joel Demski, Tracy Lewis, and Dennis Yao, Practices for Managing Information Flows within Organizations, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, vol. 15 no. 1 (1999), pp. 107-131 [pdf]

Conferences Organized

• Industrial Organization and Regulation Workshop, Program Committee Member, 2000 - present  
• 2nd Duke-Northwestern-Texas IO Conference, Program Committee Member, October, 2004  
• Public Economic Theory Conference, Program Committee Member, June, 2003  
• International Industrial Organization, Organizer, May, 2003