ADDRESS:	DATE:
Department of Economics New York University 269 Mercer Street, Room 723 New York City, NY 10003	August 30, 1999

DATE OF BIRTH:
January 12, 1969

EDUCATION:
B.Sc., Economics, Magna Cum Laude, Middle East Technical University, 1990

B.Sc., Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Middle East Technical University, 1990

M.A., Mathematics, Cornell University, 1993.

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, 1995.

EMPLOYMENT:
[1995-present] Assistant Professor at New York University

[1999 fall] Visiting Professor at Princeton University

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION:
Welfare Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Public Economics

SPECIALIZED RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Evolution of Preferences, Choice Theory, Theory of Bargaining, Measurement of Income Inequality

and Social Mobility, Political Economy of Redistribution.

RESEARCH GRANTS:
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Research Grant, 1995-1998

NSF Grant (with R. Sethi), SBR-9809208, 1998-1999

PUBLICATIONS:

1. "The Choquet Bargaining Solutions," (with L. Zhou), forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.
2. "The Strategic Advantage of Negatively Interdependent Preferences," (with L. Koçkesen and R. Sethi), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory.
3. "Measuring Movement of Incomes," (with G. Fields), forthcoming in Economica.
4. "Negatively Interdependent Preferences," (with L. Koçkesen), forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.
5. "Evolution of Interdependent Preferences in Aggregative Games," (with L. Koçkesen and R. Sethi), forthcoming in Games and Economic Behavior.
6. "Lorenz Dominance and the Variance of Logarithms," (with J. Foster), Econometrica, 67 (1999), 901-907.
7. "On Evaluating Social Welfare by Sequential Generalized Lorenz Dominance," (with P. Lambert), Economics Letters, 63 (1999), 45-53.
8. "Revealed Group Preferences on Non-convex Choice Problems," (with L. Zhou), Economic Theory, 13 (1999), 671-687.
9. "The Measurement of Income Mobility: An Introduction to the Literature," (with G. Fields), forthcoming in J. Silber (ed.), Handbook of Inequality Measurement, Kluwer Acad. Press.
10. "Popular Support for Progressive Taxation and the Relative Income Hypothesis," (with T. Mitra and L. Koçkesen), Economics Letters, 58 (1998), 69-76.
11. "Inequality Averse Collective Choice," Journal of Mathematical Economics, 30 (1998), 301-321.
12. "The Measurement of Opportunity Inequality: A Cardinality-Based Approach," (with L. Kranich), Social Choice and Welfare, 15 (1998), 263-286.
13. "The Measurement of Income Mobility: A Partial Ordering Approach," (with T. Mitra), Economic Theory, 12 (1998), 77-102.
14. "On Opportunity Inequality Measurement," Journal of Economic Theory, 77 (1997), 300-329.
15. "A Note on the Existence of Progressive Tax Structures," Social Choice and Welfare, 14 (1997), 527-543.
16. "On the Equitability of Progressive Income Taxation," (with T. Mitra), Journal of Economic Theory, 73 (1997), 316-334.
17. "The Meaning and the Measurement of Income Mobility," (with G. Fields), Journal of Economic Theory, 71 (1996), 349-377.
18. "Personal Income Taxation and the Principle of Equal Sacrifice Revisited," (with T. Mitra), International Economic Review, 37 (1996), 925-948.
19. "Fuzzy Income Inequality Measurement: Some Possibility Results on the Fuzzification of the Lorenz Ordering," Economic Theory, 7 (1996), 513-530.
20. "On the Principle of Equal Sacrifice in Income Taxation," Journal of Public Economics, 58 (1995), 453-468.
21. "Fuzzy Income Inequality Measurement: A Class of Fuzzy Inequality Measures," Social Choice and Welfare, 12 (1995), 111-136.
22. "On the Approximation of Fuzzy Preferences by Exact Relations," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 67 (1994), 173-179.

SUBMITTED ARTICLES:

1. "Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution," (with R. Bénabou), NBER Working Paper 6795. [revision requested by Quarterly Journal of Economics]
2. "Submajorization Type Integral Inequalities Induced by p-Norms," (with T. Mitra), mimeo. [submitted to Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications]
3. "Bargaining, Interdependence and the Rationality of Fair Division," (with G. Lopomo), C.V. Starr Center working paper 98-19. [submitted to RAND Journal of Economics]
4. "On the Evolution of Individualistic Preferences: Complete and Incomplete Scenarios," (with F. Vega-Redondo), C.V. Starr Center working paper 99-07. [submitted to Journal of Economic Theory]
5. "Utility Representation of an Incomplete Preference Relation," mimeo. [submitted Econometrica]

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Books:

1. A Course in Welfare Economics, four of eleven chapters mimeographed.
2. Lectures on the Theory of Choice, Welfare and Bargaining, several lectures mimeographed.

Papers:

1. "Strategic Delegation by Unobservable Contracts," (with L. Koçkesen), C.V. Starr Center working paper 99-11.
2. "Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity," (with R. Bénabou), mimeo.
3. "Theory of Risk and Incomplete Preferences," (with J. Dubra), mimeo.
4. "Voting over Nonlinear Income Taxes with Incentives," (with T. Mitra), mimeo.
5. "Monotonic Rearrangement of Functions via Daniell-Bourbaki Integrals," mimeo.
6. "Hardy-Littlewood-Polya Majorization Theorem in Vector Lattices," mimeo.
7. "Voting Games and Demand for Progressive Taxation." mimeo.
8. "A Theory of Rationalizability for Coalitional Form Games Without Side Payments," (with L. Zhou), mimeo.
9. "Harsanyi’s Aggregation Theorem with Multiple Priors," (with I. Gilboa), mimeo.
10. "Strategic Delegation in a Model of Political Competition," (with I. Ortuno-Ortin), mimeo.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1. Member of the Center for Economic Design, Bogazici University, Istanbul.
2. Referee for Games and Economic Behavior, Econometrica, Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Choice and Welfare
3. Member of Econometric Society, American Economic Association, Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Society for Social Choice and Welfare
4. Microeconomic theory workshop coordinator, New York University, 1996-97, 1998-99
5. Member of the organization committee for The Fourth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, June 23-25, 1998, University of British Columbia.