SİNAN SARPÇA
Koç University, Department of Economics, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450, Sarıyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Phone: +90 212 338 1214
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
M.Sc. in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001
B.A. in Economics, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), 1997
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Public Economics, Economics of Education, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of Economics – Koç University, 2017 –
Assistant Professor of Economics – Koç University, 2005 – 2017
COMPLETED ARTICLES
Profiling in Bargaining over College Tuition, Economic Journal, v116, 515, (Nov., 2006), pp.
459-479 (with Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, and Holger Sieg)
Multi-dimensional Skills, Specialization, and Oligopolistic Competition in Higher Education,
Journal of Public Economics, vol 94, Nos. 9-10, (Oct., 2010), 800-811
Private Schools and Residential Choices: Accessibility, Mobility, and Welfare, The B.E. Journal
of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 11, issue 1 (Contributions, 2011), Article 44, pp.1-32 (with
Eric Hanushek and Kuzey Yılmaz)
An Exploration in School Formation: Income vs. Ability, Economics Letters, vol 117, issue 2,
(Nov., 2012), pp. 500-504 (with Ahmet Alkan and Nejat Anbarci)
Public Housing Units vs. Housing Vouchers: Accessibility, Local Public Goods, and Welfare,
Journal of Housing Economics, vol 21, issue 4 (Dec., 2012), pp 310-321 (with Charles Leung and
Kuzey Yılmaz)
Commercialization of University Research and the Career Choices of Science and Engineering
Doctoral Students, Economics Bulletin, vol 34, issue 2 (2014) pp 850-855 (with Sencer Ecer and
Youxin Huang)
The Relationship between Nonprofits’ Revenue Composition and Their Economic-Financial
Efficiency, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 46, issue 1 (Feb., 2017), 141-155,
(with Sencer Ecer and Mark Magro)
A General Equilibrium Analysis of State and Private Colleges and Access to Higher Education in
the U.S., Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming (with Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, and
Holger Sieg)
Majority Choice of Income Targeted Educational Vouchers, revised and resubmitted, (with Dennis
Epple and Richard Romano)
Market Power and Price Discrimination in the U.S. Market for Higher Education, under review,
(with Dennis Epple, Richard Romano, Holger Sieg, and Melanie Zaber)
Does School Matter? School Value-Added and Peer Quality Effect Estimates from a National
School Assignment System, Working Paper (with Ahmet Alkan)
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HONORS AND GRANTS
Doçent title (Habilitation) awarded by the Interuniversity Council of Turkey, February 2013
Subsidies and Price Controls in Higher Education. The Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Grant, September 2013-March 2015, Principal Investigator
Extending the General Equilibrium Analysis of Provision and Allocation of Higher Education.
TÜBİTAK Grant, April 2012-April 2013, Sole Investigator
Housing Aid Policies for Low Income Households. TÜBİTAK Grant, March 2010-September 2011,
Principal Investigator
Specializing Universities: Foundations and Consequences for Students and Institutions. TÜBİTAK
Grant, January 2007 - July 2008, Principal Investigator
William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, 1999-2002
SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (includes scheduled)
2017: Association for Education Finance and Policy, Washington DC; Bilgi University, Istanbul;
Public Economic Theory, Paris.
2016: XXV Meeting of the Economics of Education Association, Badajoz; Istanbul Technical
University, Istanbul; Boğaziçi University, Istanbul; Koç University, Istanbul; Association of
Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET) Annual Meeting, Thessaloniki.
2015: Conference on Economic Design, Istanbul; Association of Southern European Economic
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Theorists (ASSET) Annual Meeting, Granada; 36 Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design,
Bodrum; Ifo Public Opinion and the Political Economy of Education, Munich.
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2014: Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings, Minneapolis; 35 Bosphorus
Workshop on Economic Design, Bodrum.
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2013: Bilkent University, Ankara; Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul; 34 Bosphorus
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Workshop on Economic Design, Bodrum; Institut d’Economia de Barcelona 4 Workshop on
Economics of Education, Barcelona.
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2011: 33 Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design, Bodrum.
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2010: Econometric Society 10 World Congress, Shanghai; Middle East Technical University,
Ankara; Public Goods, Public Projects, Externalities (PGPPE) Closing Conference, Istanbul;
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Economic Theory and Policy, Athens; 32 Bosphorus Workshop on Economic Design, Bodrum;
Public Economic Theory, Istanbul.
2009: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association – Asian Real Estate Society joint
International Meeting, Los Angeles; Bilkent University, Ankara; Association of Southern European
Economic Theorists (ASSET) Annual Meeting, Istanbul; Spring Meeting of Young Economists ’09,
Istanbul.
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2008: Ohio State University, Columbus; Indiana University, Bloomington; 30 Bosphorus
Workshop on Economic Design, Bodrum; American Real Estate and Urban Economics
Association International Meeting, Istanbul; Macroeconomics, Real Estate, and Public Policy
Workshop, Istanbul; Public Goods and Public Policy: Competition, Regulation, Incentives,
Governance, Bonn.
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SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (cont.)
2007: Econometric Society North American Summer Meetings, Durham; Public Economic
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Theory, Nashville; Western Economic Association International, Seattle; 65 Midwest Political
Science Association National Conference, Chicago; American Real Estate Society 2007
meetings, San Francisco; Econometric Society European Meetings, Budapest; TÜSİAD - Koç
University ERF Bosphorus Winter Workshop in Economics, Istanbul; Western Regional Science
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Association 46 Annual Meeting, Newport Beach.
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2006: 21 Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Vienna; Bilgi University,
Istanbul; The Eighth International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul;
Association of Southern European Economic Theorists Annual Meeting, Lisbon.
2005 and before: Social Interactions in Profiling Conference, Evanston; Pennsylvania Economic
Association Conference, Moon Township; Koç University, Istanbul; Bilkent University, Ankara;
Sabancı University, Istanbul; American Education Finance Association Conference, Salt Lake
City; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
REFEREEING (listed in alphabetical order, with multiple reviews for most journals)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Boğaziçi Journal, Economic Journal,
Economics Bulletin, Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, Education Finance
and Policy, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Public
Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Southern Economic
Journal
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Department Workshop Series Organizer, 2007-08, 2013-present
CASE Faculty Council, 2008-11
Economics Graduate Programs Committee, 2011-13
Newcomer Advisor, 2010-present
Faculty Recruiting Committee, 2005-06, 2007-08
TEACHING
Koç University: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Principles of Economics, Microeconomics,
Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets
Carnegie Mellon University: Intermediate Microeconomics
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
PhD: Nergis Zaim (chair) placement: Econ One Research, USA
MA: Berk Şener (chair); Oktay Türkyılmaz, Mehmet Kapudan, Esra Atahan, Berk Yavuzoğlu,
Nergis Zaim, Hatice İpek, İpek Mumcu (committee member)
OTHER
Visiting Scholar – Carnegie Mellon University (January-May 2008 & March-June 2012)
This version: July 2017