Isa E. Hafalir

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Assistant Professor of Economics

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Microeconomic theory, game theory, mechanism design, industrial organization

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

Published Papers: 

• Revenue and Efficiency Effects of Resale in First-Price Auctions
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming.
  (with: V. Krishna)
  
  
• Stability of Marriage with Externalities
  International Journal of Game Theory 37, 2008; 353-370.
  
  
• Asymmetric Auctions with Resale
  American Economic Review 98, 2008; 87-112.
  (with: V. Krishna)
  
  
• Efficiency in Coalition Games with Externalities
  Games and Economic Behavior 61, 2007; 242-258.
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Core Deviation Minimizing Auctions
  February, 2012.
  (with: Hadi Yektas)
  
  
• School Choice with Controlled Choice Constraints: Hard Bounds versus Soft Bounds
  November, 2011.
  (with: Lars Ehlers, Bumin Yenmez, Muhammed Yildirim)
  
  
• School Choice with Controlled Choice Constraints: Hard Bounds versus Soft Bounds
  November, 2011.
  (with: Lars Ehlers, Bumin Yenmez, Muhammed Yildirim)
  
  
• Auctions versus Negotiated Sale: Evidence from Real Estate Sales
  February, 2011.
  (with: YuenLeng Chow, Abdullah Yavas)
  
  
• Sort-Cut: A Pareto Optimal and Semi-Truthful Mechanism for Multi-Unit Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders
  July, 2009.
  (with: Sayedi Amin, R. Ravi)
  
  
• Nonlinear Pricing with Resale
  September, 2008.
  
  
• Nonlinear Pricing with Resale
  August, 2007.
  
  

Awards:

• National Science Foundation Grant, SES 0752928, "Auctions and Resale Markets" joint with Vijay Krishna - 2008-2011
• Faculty Giving Chair, Tepper School of Business - 2008-2009, 2009-2010
• Excellence in Refereeing Award American Economics Review - 2008

Courses Taught:

• Microeconomics I (47800)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2013, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2012, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2011, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2010, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2009, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)

• Game Theory and Applications (47817)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2011, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2010, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2009, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 2 (Section: A)

• Market Design (47880)
  (Ph.D. Program)
  • 2011, Mini 2 (Section: A)

• Game Theory for Economists (73347)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2011, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2010, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2010, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2009, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2009, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2008, Spring (Section: A)
  • 2008, Spring (Section: A)

• Auctions and Markets (73440)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Fall (Section: A)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)

• Tepper Senior Honors Thesis I (73500)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: A)

• Tepper Senior Honors Thesis II (73501)
  (B.S. in Economics Program)
  • 2013, Spring (Section: A)