Research Interests for Huseyin Yildirim

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.

Keywords:

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

Areas of Interest:

Industrial Organization
Procurement and Regulation
Multilateral Bargaining
Charities

Representative 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]