Professor Levent Celik

Professor of Economics

School/Department: Business, School of; Economics, Finance and Accounting, Department of

Profile

I am a Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at the University of Leicester School of Business. Previously, I worked at City, University of London, HSE University in Moscow, and CERGE-EI in Prague. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Research

I am a micro-economist with main research interests in industrial organisation, information economics, international trade and political economy.

Publications:

Manipulation through Biased Product Reviews (joint with Kemal Kıvanç Aköz and Cemal Eren Arbatlı), Journal of Industrial Economics, Dec. 2020
Fast-Track Authority: A Hold-up Interpretation (joint with Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren), Journal of International Economics, Nov. 2020
Opaque Selling (joint with Simon Anderson), Information Economics and Policy, Sep. 2020
Veto Players and Equilibrium Uniqueness in the Baron-Ferejohn Model (joint with Bilgehan Karabay), Theory and Decision, Jun. 2016
Competitive Provision of Tune-ins under Common Private Information, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Jan. 2016
When is it Optimal to Delegate: The Theory of Fast-track Authority (joint with Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Aug. 2015
Product Line Design (joint with Simon Anderson), Journal of Economic Theory, May 2015
Determination of Odds in Prediction Markets: Coexistence of Posted-offer and Double-auction Designs (joint with Esen Onur), Journal of Prediction Markets, Jul. 2015
Information Unraveling Revisited: Disclosure of Horizontal Attributes, Journal of Industrial Economics, Mar. 2014
A More General Framework to Analyze Whether Voluntary Disclosure is Insufficient or Excessive, Review of Industrial Organization, Mar. 2014
Trade Policy-making in a Model of Legislative Bargaining (joint with Bilgehan Karabay and John McLaren), Journal of International Economics, Nov. 2013

See https://sites.google.com/site/celiklev for further details and ongoing research.

Supervision

I am happy to supervise students interested in industrial organisation, game theory, international trade and political economy.

Teaching

EC3066 International Trade

Interests

Industrial organisation (advertising, information disclosure, product differentiation, product design)
Digital markets (privacy, product personalisation, search auctions)
International trade (political determinants of trade policy)
Political economy (electoral models)

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Virginia (Aug 2006; officially conferred on Jan 4, 2007)
M.A. in Economics, University of Virginia (2002)
B.A. in Economics, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul (2000)