Professor Nejat Anbarci

Present Position:
Professor in Economics

Phone: +61 3 9244 6530
Email: nejat.anbarci@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Melbourne Campus at Burwood

Academic Qualifications: BA MAEc Bogazici (Turkey), MAEc PhDEc Iowa

Commenced at Deakin: 2008

Research Interests:

Theoretical Microeconomics (Game Theory, Bargaining Theory, Industrial Organization)
Applied Microeconomics (Health Economics, Labor Economics)
Political Economy
Economic Development

Publication Highlights

Earthquake Fatalities: The Interaction of Nature and Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, 1907-1933 (with M. Escaleras and C. Register).
Comparing Bargaining Solutions in the Shadow of Conflict: How Norms against Threats Can Have Real Effects, Journal of Economic Theory, 2002, 106, 1-16 (with S. Skaperdas and C. Syropoulos).
Inter-Firm Complementarities in R & D: Re-examination of the Relative Performance of Joint Ventures, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2002, 20, 191-213 (with R. Lemke and S. Roy)
Reference Functions and Balanced Concessions in Bargaining, Canadian Journal of Economics, 1995, 28, 675-682.
Noncooperative Foundations of the Area Monotonic Solution, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993, 108, 245-258.

Forthcoming

"Collective (In)Action and Corruption: Access to Improved Water and Sanitation" (with M. Escaleras and C. Register), forthcoming at Land Economics.
"Income, Income Inequality, and the Hidden Epidemic of Traffic Fatalities" (with M.
Escaleras and C. Register), forthcoming at the Canadian Journal of Economics.

Current Research Projects

"Intersectoral Size Differences and Migration: Kuznets Revisited" (with M.A. Ulubasoglu) revise and resubmit at The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development.
"Strategic Behavior and Racial Bias in Issuing Traffic Tickets: Theory and Evidence" (with J. Lee).
"Economic Bias of Weather Forecasting: A Spatial Modeling Approach" (with E. Floehr, J. Lee and J. J. Song).
"Why is the Support for Extreme Right Higher in More Open Societies?" (with H. Kirmanoglu and M. Ulubasoglu).
"Endogenous Liberalization and Within-Country Inequality" (with M.A. Ulubasoglu).
"Nash Demand Game and the Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution" (with J. Boyd).
"Division Rules, Network Formation, and the Evolution of Wealth" (with J. Boyd).
"Socially Beneficial Mergers: A New Class of Concentration Indices" (with B. Katzman).
"Inequality, Segregation, and the Spread of Infectious Diseases" (with M. Escaleras and C. Register).
"Income, Inequality and Collective Action: The Case of Cholera Pandemics" (with M. Escaleras and C. Register).
"Institutions and Growth Volatility" (with J. Hill and H. Kirmanoglu).
"Do Institutions, Inequality and Religious Beliefs Affect Cadaveric versus Live-Kidney Harvesting: An Empirical Analysis?" (with M. Caglayan).

External Grants

Social Science Research Council (Privatization), Summer 1995 ($19,500).
Social Science Research Council (Privatization), Summer 1996 ($19,500).
FIU Foundation Summer Research Grant (Traffic Fatalities), Summer 2006 ($15,000).

Teaching Interests