New York University
Department of Economics

 

 

 

      CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EFE A. OK

 

 

ADDRESS:                                                                                        DATE:

Department of Economics                                                                    September 02, 2007

New York University

269 Mercer Street, Room 723

New York City, NY 10003

 

PHONE:                                                                                             E-MAIL:

(Office) 212 998 8920;  (Home) 212 254 9284                                    efe.ok@nyu.edu

                                                                                                         

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:

[2001-present]            Associate Professor at New York University

[2004 spring]              Visiting Professor at Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain

[2003 fall]                   Visiting Professor at Koc University, Turkey

[1999 fall]                   Visiting Professor at Princeton University

[1995-2000]               Assistant Professor at New York University

 

 

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION:

Decision Theory, Game Theory, Public Economics, Nonlinear Analysis

 

SPECIALIZED RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Theory of Individual Preferences, Choice Theory, Theory of Bargaining, Measurement of Income Inequality and Social Mobility, Political Economy of Redistribution, Fixed Point Theory, Theory of Correspondences

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 

Economics:

 

“A Theory of (Relative) Discounting,” (with Y. Masatlioglu), forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory.

 

“Delay Aversion” (with J-P. Benoit), Theoretical Economics, 2 (2007), 71-113.

 

“On Combining Implementable Social Choice Rules,” (with J-P. Benoit and R. Sanver), Games and Economic Behavior, 60 (2007), 20-30.

 

“Voting over Income Taxation,” (with O. Carbonell), Journal of Economic Theory, 134 (2007), 249-286.

 

“Indifference or Indecisiveness? Choice Theoretic Foundations of Incomplete Preferences,” (with K. Eliaz), Games and Economic Behavior, 56 (2006), 61-86.

 

“Maskin’s Theorem with Limited Veto Power,” (with J-P. Benoit), Games and Economic Behavior, 55 (2006), 331-339.

 

“Rational Choice with Status-Quo Bias,” (with Y. Masatlioglu), Journal of Economic Theory, 121 (2005), 1-29.

 

“Expected Utility Theory without the Completeness Axiom,” (with J. Dubra and F. Maccheroni), Journal of Economic Theory, 115 (2004), 118-133.

 

“Strategic Delegation by Unobservable Contracts,” (with L. Koçkesen), Review of Economic Studies, 71 (2004), 397-424.

 

“Delegation and Polarization of Platforms in Political Competition,” (with R. Fauli-Oller and I. Ortuno-Ortin), Economic Theory, 22 (2003), 289-309.

 

“A Model of Procedural Decision Making in the Presence of Risk,” (with J. Dubra), International Economic Review, 43 (2002), 1053-1080.

 

“Utility Representation of an Incomplete Preference Relation,” Journal of Economic Theory, 104 (2002), 429-449.

 

“Bargaining, Interdependence and the Rationality of Fair Division,” (with G. Lopomo), RAND Journal of Economics, 32 (2001). 263-283.

 

“Social Mobility and the Demand for Redistribution: the POUM Hypothesis,” (with R. Bénabou), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (2001), 447-487.

 

“On the Evolution of Individualistic Preferences: An Incomplete Information Scenario,” (with F. Vega-Redondo), Journal of Economic Theory, 97 (2001) 231-254.

 

“The Choquet Bargaining Solutions,” (with L. Zhou), Games and Economic Behavior, 33 (2000), 249-264.

 

“The Strategic Advantage of Negatively Interdependent Preferences,” (with L. Koçkesen and R. Sethi), Journal of Economic Theory, 92 (2000), 274-299.

 

“Negatively Interdependent Preferences,” (with L. Koçkesen), Social Choice and Welfare, 17 (2000), 533-558.

 

“Evolution of Interdependent Preferences in Aggregative Games,” (with L. Koçkesen and R. Sethi), Games and Economic Behavior, 31 (2000), 303-310.

 

“Lorenz Dominance and the Variance of Logarithms,” (with J. Foster), Econometrica, 67 (1999), 901-907.

 

“Revealed Group Preferences on Non-convex Choice Problems,” (with L. Zhou), Economic Theory, 13 (1999), 671-687.

 

“Measuring Movement of Incomes,” (with G. Fields), Economica, 66 (1999), 455-471.

 

“Inequality Averse Collective Choice,” Journal of Mathematical Economics, 30 (1998), 301-321.

 

“On Opportunity Inequality Measurement,” Journal of Economic Theory, 77 (1997), 300-329.

 

“A Note on the Existence of Progressive Tax Structures,” Social Choice and Welfare, 14 (1997), 527-543.

 

“On the Equitability of Progressive Income Taxation,” (with T. Mitra), Journal of Economic Theory, 73 (1997), 316-334.

 

“The Meaning and the Measurement of Income Mobility,” (with G. Fields), Journal of Economic Theory, 71 (1996), 349-377.

 

“Personal Income Taxation and the Principle of Equal Sacrifice Revisited,” (with T. Mitra), International Economic Review, 37 (1996), 925-948.

 

“Fuzzy Income Inequality Measurement,” Economic Theory, 7 (1996), 513-530.

 

“On the Principle of Equal Sacrifice in Income Taxation,” Journal of Public Economics, 58 (1995), 453-468.

 

 

Mathematics:

 

“Fixed Set Theorems of Krasnoselkii-type,” forthcoming in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

 

“Fixed Set Theory of Closed Correspondences with Applications to Self-Similarity and Games,” Nonlinear Analysis, 56 (2004), 309-330.

 

“Nonzero Fixed Points of Power-Bounded Linear Operators,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 131 (2003), 1539-1551.

 

 “On the Approximation of Fuzzy Preferences by Exact Relations,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 67 (1994), 173-179.

 

 

Invited Articles:

 

“Progressive and Regressive Taxation,” (with. W. Vickrey) forthcoming in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by S. Durlauf and L. Blume, 2007.

 

“The Measurement of Income Inequality: An Introduction to the Literature,” (with G. Fields) in the Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement, edited by J. Silber,  Boston: Kluwer, 1999.

 

 

Books:

 

Real Analysis with Economic Applications. Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2007.

 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS:

 

Article(s):

 

“Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity,” (with R. Bénabou), NBER Working Paper 8431.

 

“A Theory of Procedural Choice with Status Quo Bias,” (with Y. Masatlioglu).

 

“Rational Choice with Endogeneous Reference Points,” (with P. Ortoleva and G. Riella).

 

“Theory of Product Differentiation in the Presence of the Attraction Effect,” (with P. Ortoleva and G. Riella).

 

“Incomplete Preferences under Uncertainty,” (with P. Ortoleva and G. Riella).

 

“On the Multi-Utility Representation of Preference Relations,” (with O. Evren)

 

“On the Existence of Trembling-Hand Perfect Equilibria in Discontinuous Games,” (with O. Carbonell-Nicolau)

 

“Nash Implementation without No-Veto Power” (with J-P. Benoit).

 

“Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives and Individual Choice.”

 

“On Increasing and Cone-Convex Correspondences.”

 

“Functional Representation of Rotund-Valued Correspondences.”

 

“On Continuous Selections from Preimage Correspondences.”

 

 

Books:

 

Probability Theory with Economic Applications (forthcoming in Princeton University Press).

 

Theory of Revealed Preferences.

 

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Associate Editor for the Economic Theory (2002 – 2007)

 

Associate Editor for the Review of Economic Design (2000 – present)

 

Member of the Center for Economic Design, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

 

Referee for  American Economic Review, Games and Economic Behavior, Econometrica, Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Mathematical Social Sciences, National Science Foundation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Design, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Choice and Welfare

 

Member of American Mathematical Society, American Economic Association, Econometric Society, Mathematical Association of America, Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Society for Social Choice and Welfare

 

Member of the organization committee for the 4th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, June 23-25, 1998, Vancouver, Canada.

 

Chair of the organization committee for SED2002: Conference on Economic Design, 2002, July 6-9, New York, USA.

 

Chair of the placement committee, New York University, 2002 and 2006-present.

 

Member of the program committee for 2004 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 17-20, 2004, Brown University.

 

Keynote Speaker for ASSET (Associacion Sudeuropa de Economica Teorica) 2003 Annual Conference, October 30-31, Ankara, Turkey.

 

Plenary Speaker for the 18th International Conference on Game Theory, July 9-13, Stony Brook, USA.

 

Invited Speaker for 2007 Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, October 4-6, Bogota, Columbia.