Sevin Yeltekin

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Associate Professor of Economics

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Macroeconomics, Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Computational Economics, Repeated and Dynamic Policy Games, Mechanism Design, Political Economy.

Website and/or personal homepage:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sevin/

Published Papers: 

• How does the U.S. government finance fiscal shocks?
  AEJ Macroeconomics, 01/01/2012.
  (with: Antje Berndt, Hanno Lustig)
  
  
• Fiscal hedging with nominal assets
  Journal of Monetary Economics 55, 2008; 710-727.
  (with: Christopher Sleet, Hanno Lustig)
  
  
• Politically Credible Social Insurance
  Journal of Monetary Economics 55, 2008; 129-151.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Recursive Monetary Policy Games with Incomplete Information
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31(5), 2007; 1557-1583.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Credibility and Endogenous Societal Discounting
  Review of Economic Dynamics 9, 2006; 410-437.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Optimal Taxation with Endogenously Incomplete Debt Markets
  Journal of Economic Theory 127, 2006; 36-73.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Computing Supergame Equilibria
  Econometrica 71(4), 2003; 1239-1255.
  (with: Kenneth Judd, James Conklin)
  
  
• Dynamic Labor Contracts with Temporary Layoffs and Permanent Separations
  Economic Theory 18(1), 2001; 207-235.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Computing Equilibria of Dynamic Games
  July, 2011.
  (with: Kenneth Judd)
  
  
• Nonlinear capital taxation without commitment
  March, 2011.
  (with: Christopher Sleet, Emmanuel Farhi, Ivan Werning)
  
  
• Misery and Luxury: Long Run Outcomes with Private Information
  January, 2010.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Dynamic Strategic Investment
  August, 2009.
  (with: Kenneth Judd)
  
  
• Allocation and Taxation in Uncommitted Societies
  January, 2009.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Solving Dynamic Private Information Models
  August, 2008.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Numerical Methods for Analyzing Dynamic Economic and Social Systems
  August, 2008.
  (with: Michael Ferris, Kenneth Judd)
  
  
• Social Credibility, Social Patience and Long Run Inequality
  October, 2007.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  
• Optimal Rules for Patent Races
  May, 2007.
  (with: Kenneth Judd, Karl Schmedders)
  
  
• On the Approximation of Value Correspondences
  September, 2003.
  (with: Christopher Sleet)
  
  

Awards:

• Frank A. and Helen E. Risch Faculty Development Professorship in Business, Tepper School of Business - 2007-2010

Courses Taught:

• Global Ecomonics (45711)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2013, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2013, Mini 4 (Section: B)
  • 2012, Mini 1 (Section: F)

• Macroeconomics (45752)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2012, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2012, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2012, Mini 3 (Section: C)
  • 2011, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2011, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2010, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2010, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2009, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2009, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: B)
  • 2006, Mini 1 (Section: F)
  • 2006, Mini 1 (Section: M)
  • 2006, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2006, Mini 3 (Section: B)

• Emerging Markets (45913)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2013, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2013, Mini 4 (Section: E)