Department of Economics
Yilmaz Kocer
University of Southern California
kocer@usc.edu
3620 South Vermont Avenue KAP 306b
Los Angeles CA 90089
Tel: + 1 213 740 3512
Employment
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, USC, 2011Associate Research Scholar, Economic Theory Center, Princeton University, 2010-2011
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, New York University, 2010
M.A. in Economics, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2003
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2001
Research Fields
Microeconomic Theory, Bounded Rationality, Learning and Game Theory,
Dynamic Mechanism Design
Teaching
Behavioral Economics, ECON 415, Fall 2015
Ph.D. Game Theory, ECON 604 USC, Fall 2012, Spring 2016
Principles of Microeconomics, ECON203, USC, Fall 2011- Fall 2015
Microeconomics Principles, Stern School of Business, NYU, Spring & Fall 2009
Instructor, Microeconomics Principles, NYU, Summer 2007
Trainer for the Turkish National Mathematics Olympiad Team, Summer 1997, 1998
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Publications and Working Papers
Optimal Plans with Bounded Memory are Modified Multiself Consistent (revise and resubmit,
Economic Theory – previously titled “Optimal Bounded Memory Plans and Time Consistency”)
Endogenous Learning with Bounded Memory (under review, Econometrica)
Dynamic Matching with Learning (under review, Theoretical Economics)
Work in Progress
Experimentation and Competition in Contests: a Mean Field Approach
How to Reward Competitive Exploration.
Matching and Learning (joint with Onur Kesten, Carnegie Mellon U.)
Dynamic Matching with Learning
A Note on Overconfidence and Learning (joint with Ida Johnsson, USC)
Presentations and Conferences
2015
UC Riverside
2014
5th LA UCLA-Caltech-USC Theory Bash, USC Economics Economic Theory Seminar,
SoCal NeGt Symposioum 2014
2013
USC Economics, SWET Conference - Hawaii
2012
GAMES conference - Istanbul , UC Davis, USC Electrical Engineering - Artificial
Intelligence Seminars, USC Mathematical Finance Colloquium.
2011
UCSB, UCLA, Caltech, UCSD.
2010
Princeton University, USC, Oxford University, ITAM, Yeshiva University, Koc University,
Bilkent University, Max Planck Institute at Jena-Germany, Sciences PO Paris, CEU Budapest, University
of St. Andrews, 5th Ph.D. Presentation Meeting of the Royal Economic Society – London.
2009
NYU
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Grant Support
NSF 13-578 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), NSF number 1423436, pending.
Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Economic Theory Center Fellow, Princeton University, 2010-2011
McCracken Fellowship, New York University, 2003-2007
Dean's Supplementary Fellowship Grant, 2003
Bilkent University Scholarship, 2001 - 2003
Middle East Technical University Scholarship, 1996 - 1997
TUBITAK Scholarship for National Team members of Science Olympiads, 1996-1997
Bronze Medal, 37th International Mathematical Olympiad, Mumbai, India, 1996
Bronze Medal, 13th Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, Bacau, Romania, 1996
Gold Medal, 3rd National Mathematical Olympiad at Ankara, Turkey, 1995
Service
Placement (for the Ph.D. Candidates) Committee, USC Economics, 2015-2016
Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee , USC Economics, 2014-2015
Junior Faculty Recruiting Committee, USC Economics, 2011-2012
3rd year paper Committee, USC Economics, 2013-2014
Professional Activities and Refereeing
Referee for Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory.
Member of Econometric Society, Game Theory Society, American Economic Association.
Current Doctoral Students
KunHwa Kim, Ph.D. candidate in economics, USC
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