Levent ÇELİK Assistant Professor of Economics Ph.D., University of Virginia

 

ON LEAVE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND FOR SPRING 2012

 

     CV      Teaching

     Research Interests:

• Primary: Industrial organization (with a focus on information disclosure, advertising, product differentiation and consumer search)

• Secondary: International trade, political economy, prediction markets, observational learning

     Current Research:

• Information Unraveling Revisited: Disclosure of Horizontal Attributes, updated April 2012 (revised and resubmitted to Journal of Industrial Economics)

• Why voluntary disclosure is excessive in the classical disclosure analysis: A comment (R&R requested by the Review of Industrial Organization). This comment is a correction and an extension to an example in Daughety and Reinganum, 2008.

• Trade Policy-making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining, joint with Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren (under review)

• When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority, joint with Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren (under review)

• A Note on Equilibrium Uniqueness in the Baron-Ferejohn Model,  joint with Bilgehan Karabay (under review)

• Determination of Odds in Prediction Markets: Coexistence of Posted-offer and Double-auction Designs, joint with Esen Onur

• Informative Advertising and Consumer Search in a Differentiated-Products Duopoly

• Strategic Informative Advertising in a Horizontally Differentiated Duopoly

• Monopoly Provision of Tune-ins

• Viewer Sampling and Quality Signaling in a Television Market

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