Welcome
These are the personal pages of Mehmet Yigit Gurdal. I am a Professor of Economics at Bogazici University.I graduated in 2009 with a PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota.
publications
- "The Seeds of Success: The Pivotal Role of First Round Cooperation in Public Goods Games" with Orhan Torul and Mustafa Yahsi. Journal of the Economic Science Association, forthcoming
- "Protectionist demands in Globalization" with Arzu Kibris and Ozgur Kibris (2022). Review of Economic Design, 26, 345-365.
- "Culture and Prevalence of Sanctioning Institutions" with Ozgur Gurerk and Mustafa Yahsi (2021). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 92, 101692.
- "Norm Compliance, Enforcement, and the Survival of Redistributive Institutions" with Orhan Torul and Alexander Vostroknutov (2020). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, 313--326.
- "Cheap Talk Games with Two-Senders and Different Modes of Communication" with Esra Eren Bayindir, Ayca Ozdogan and Ismail Saglam (2020). Games, 11(2), 18.
- "Demand for Decision Autonomy and the Desire to Avoid Responsibility in Risky Environments: Experimental Evidence" with Seda Ertac and Mert Gumren (2020). Journal of Economic Psychology, 77.
- "Preference Communication and Leadership in Group Decision-Making" with Seda Ertac (2019). Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 77, 130--140.
- "An Experimental Study of the Investment Implications of Bankruptcy Laws " with Muruvvet Buyukboyaci, Arzu Kibris and Ozgur Kibris (2019). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 158, 607--629.
- "Payoff inequity reduces the effectiveness of correlated-equilibrium recommendations " with Nejat Anbarci and Nick Feltovich (2018). European Economic Review, 108, 172--190.
- "Fines versus prison for the issuance of bad checks: Evidence from a policy shift in Turkey " with Ozan Eksi and Cuneyt Orman (2017). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 143, 9--27.
- "Measures of Individual Risk Attitudes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from Pension Participants " with Tolga Umut Kuzubas and Burak Saltoglu (2017). Journal of Economic Psychology, 62, 186--203.
- "Religiosity and Fairness Perceptions" with Ceyhun Elgin and Murat Yilmaz (2016). Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 9(3&4), 182--199.
- "Does time to Medicare eligibility affect the likelihood of being uninsured?" with Esra Eren Bayindir and Ismail Saglam (2015). Economics Bulletin, 35(3), 1589--1597.
- "Lying about the price? Ultimatum bargaining with messages and imperfectly observed offers" with Nejat Anbarci and Nick Feltovich (2015). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 116, 346--360.
- "Truth-telling and Trust in Sender-Receiver Games with Intervention" with Ayca Ozdogan and Ismail Saglam (2014). Review of Economic Design, 18(2), 83--103.
- "Why Blame?" with Joshua B. Miller and Aldo Rustichini (2013). Journal of Political Economy, 121(6), 1205--1247.
- "Religion, Income Inequality, and the Size of the Government" with Ceyhun Elgin, Turkmen Goksel and Cuneyt Orman (2013). Economic Modelling, 30(1), 225--234.
- "Deciding to Decide: Gender, Leadership and Risk-taking in Groups" with Seda Ertac (2012). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 83(1), 24--30.
working papers
- "The Fork Game: A Graphical Interface for Eliciting Higher-Order Risk Preferences" with Emre Ergin and Tolga Umut Kuzubas
- "Order Effects, Reciprocity and Equilibrium Play in a TV Show" with Yeliz Kacamak, Tolga Umut Kuzubas and Busra Yavuz
- "How to Increase and Sustain Cooperation in Public Goods Games: Conditional Commitments via a Mediator" with Ozgur Gurerk, Yeliz Kacamak and Edip Kart
- "Action-assortative Matching and Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma" with Muruvvet Buyukboyaci
- "Matching and Confidence" with Friederike Mengel and Elisabetta Leni
- "What kind of communication is best? Cheap talk with two senders and one receiver" with Nejat Anbarci and Nick Feltovich
- "Personality, Group Decision-Making and Leadership" with Seda Ertac
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