Research Interests for Huseyin Yildirim

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

Huseyin Yildirim joined Duke in the fall of 2000 after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Florida. He is from Turkey and received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering, followed by an M.A. in Economics, from Bilkent University, Turkey. While his primary research interest has been in the field of industrial organization, with special focus on the implications of learning curve in repeated procurement environments, he also has a strong interest on issues pertaining to political economy and public finance. In fact, his current work examines multilateral bargaining situations in which involved parties can expend resources to be the proposer. Professor Yildirim teaches Industrial Organization in both graduate and undergraduate levels.

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]