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Murat R. SERTEL, Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Economic Design (CED), Bogaziçi

University, Istanbul 80815, Turkey (e-address: sertel@boun.edu.tr) home phone/fax: +90 (212) 277 7716.

 

Positions Held: Liaison official, High Planning Council of Turkey, 1962; Research Assistant, State Planning

Organization, Prime Ministry of Turkey, 1963; Assistant, Dept. of Economics and Statistics, Middle East

Technical U., Ankara, 1963-64; Tutor (Economic Theory), St.Catherine's College (Oxford),1966-67; Instructor,

Sloan School of Management, M.I.T., 1969-70; Assistant Professor of Management, Sloan School of

Management, M.I.T., 1970-74; Research Fellow, International Institute of Management (I.I.M.), Berlin, 1972-74;

Senior Research Fellow, I.I.M., 1974-77; Visiting Professor at Depts. of Mathematics and Economics, Middle

East Technical U., Ankara , 1976-77, at Technion, Israel, 1977-78, at Institut des Sciences Economiques,

Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1978; Director of Project: "Theory of Self-Management", Applied

Math. Division, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, 1978; Professor of Economics, Bo ğ aziçi

U., İ stanbul, since 1979, where Dean of Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 1982-85, and

Director of Institute of Social Sciences, 1982-85, and Chairman of Dept. of Economics,1984-88; Visiting

Research Fellow, Div. of Applied Math., Twente U. of Technology, Netherlands, 1981-82; Visiting Professor,

Depts. of Decision Sciences (Wharton School) and Economics, U. of Pennsylvania, 1988-89; Visiting Fellow,

Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC), Barcelona, 1991-92; Visiting Professor, GREQAM, Ecole des Hautes

Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseille, 1997-98; Catedrático Especial de BBV (Special BBV Chair),

Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spring 1999; Visiting Professor, Bilkent U., Ankara, 1999-2000, 2000-

2001.

Degrees: B.A.(Econ.), Robert College, Istanbul, 1963; B.Phil. (Econ.), Oxford U. (Balliol College, Nuffield

College), 1966; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971.

Languages: Turkish, English, French, German, Spanish.

Selected Publications: Books: (1)Workers and Incentives, North-Holland, 1982; (2)Türkiye için Yeni bir Seçim

Yöntemi Tasarımına Do ğ ru (Toward the Design of a New Electoral Method for Turkey) (with E. Kalaycıo ğ lu),

TÜSIAD, İ stanbul, 1995.

Edited special issues, books, volumes: (3-4) European J. of Political Economy (with A. Steinherr), 5, 2-3

(Special double issue devoted to Economic Design ), 1987; (5)Workers' Enterprises - Alternative in

Privatization, North-Holland / Elsevier, 1996; (6)Economic Behaviour and Design, vol. 4 Contemporary

Economic Issues, London: Macmillan, 1999; (7) Mitigation and Financing of Earthquake Risks in Turkey (with

P.R. Kleindorfer), Amsterdam: Kluwer, 2001; (8) Advances in Economic Design (with S. Koray), Heidelberg:

Sprınger, 2001f.

Selected Articles: "Topological Semivector Spaces: Convexity and Fixed Point Theory" (with P.Prakash),

Semigroup Forum, 9(2), 1974; "The Fundamental Continuity Theory of Optimization on a Compact Space", J. of

Optimization Theory & Applications 16, 1976; "Hyperspaces of Topological Vector Spaces: Their Embedding

in Topological Vector Spaces" (with P. Prakash), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 61(1),1976; "Class Conflict and

Fairness in Democratic Capitalism" (with Y.M.I. Dirickx), Public Choice, 1978; "Synopses in the Theory of

Choice" (with A.Van der Bellen), Econometrica, 47(6),1979; "Profit-Maximizing Design of Enterprises through

Incentives" (with P. Kleindorfer), J. Econ. Theory, 20,1979; "On the Routewise Application of Choice"(with

A.Van der Bellen), J. Econ. Theory, 22,1980; "Information, Incentives and the Design of Efficient Institutions"

(with A. Steinherr), Z. für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, 140(2), 1984; "Workers' Enterprises are not

Perverse", European Economic Review, 31(8), 1987; "A Non-Dictatorial Compromise", Soc. Choice Welf., 5,

1988; "Regulation by Participation", Z. für Nationalökonomie, 48(2), 1988; "Characterizing Approval Voting",

J. Econ. Theory, 45(1), 1988; "On the Continuity of Closed Convex Hull", Math. Soc. Sc., 18,1989; "The

Welfaristic Characterisation of Revelation Equilibria under Imputational Government" (with S. Koray), Soc.

Choice Welf., 1991; "Workers' Enterprises in Imperfect Competition", J. Comp. Economics,1991; "Pseudo-Experimental

Estimates of Labor Supply Functions in Two Turkish State Enterprises" (with F. Adaman, Ü.

Zenginobuz), J. Econ. Beh. Org., 1992; "Resolving Paradoxical Centipedes Behavioristically or by Unilateral

Pre-donations" (with F. Chen), in B. Dutta et al. (Eds.), Game Theory and Economic Applications, Springer,

1992; "The Nash Bargaining Solution Manipulated by Pre-Donations is Talmudic", Economics Letters, 40, 1992;

"The Economics of Workers' Enterprises" (with P. Kleindorfer), in D. Bös (ed.), Public Policy and Economic

Organization, vol. 3 of the Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of the International Economic Association

(Moscow, August, 1992), London: Macmillan; "Workers' Enterprises in Price Competition", Managerial and

Decision Economics, 1993; "Two Forms of Workers' Enterprise facing Imperfect Labor Markets" (with E. Fehr),

Economics Letters, 1993; "Auctioning the Provision of an Indivisible Public Good" (with P. Kleindorfer), J.

Econ. Theory, 64(1),1994; "Manipulating Lindahl Equilibria via Endowments", Economics Letters, 1994; "The

Trade Paradox Persists under Excise Taxes" (with B. Zeki Orbay), European J. Pol. Econ., 11,1995; "On the

Existence of Non-Cooperative Equilibrium in Social Systems (with P. Prakash), J. Math. Econ., 25(1),1996;

"Twenty Years after Prakash and Sertel's Theory of Non-Cooperative Equilibrium in Social Systems", J. Math.

Econ., 25(1),1996; "Cooperative Interim Contract and Re-Contract: Chandler's M-Form Firm" (with T. Ichiishi),

 

 


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