Levent Kutlu

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: Room 220, Old CE Building
Phone: 404-894-4453
Fax: 404-894-1890

Levent Kutlu is assistant professor in the School of Economics. He received his BSc in mathematics from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), his MSc in economics from Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey), and MStat in statistics and PhD in economics from Rice University. His teaching and research interests include applied econometrics, industrial organization, and social choice theory. His specific interests are productivity analysis (Stochastic Frontier Analysis), market power analysis, and price discrimination. He has a special interest in programming. At the moment his favorite programming language is Matlab.

Publications

  • "Kutlu, L. (2012), Price Discrimination in Cournot Competition, R&R at Economics Letters"
  • "Kutlu, L. and Sickles, R.C. (2012), Estimation of Market Power in the Presence of Firm Level Inefficiencies, Forthcoming at Journal of Econometrics"
  • "Kutlu, L. (2012), U.S. Banking Efficiency, 1984-1995, Forthcoming at Economics Letters"
  • "Kutlu, L. (2010), Battese-Coelli Estimator with Endogenous Regressors, Economics Letters"

    See http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~lkutlu3/Codes/BCE/BCE.m for a code implementing the estimator proposed in the paper.

  • "Kutlu, L. (2009), Price Discrimination in Stackelberg Competition, The Journal of Industrial Economics"
  • "Kutlu, L. (2009), A Dictatorial Domain for Monotone Social Choice Functions, Economics Letters"
  • "Kutlu, L. (2008), Intersection of Nash Implementable Social Choice Correspondences, Mathematical Social Sciences "
  • "Kutlu, L. (2007), Superdictatorial Domains for Monotonic Social Choice Functions, Economics Letters"
  • "Kutlu, L. (2007), Arrovian Aggregation for Preferences over Sets, Mathematical Social Sciences"

Under Revision

  • "Chakrabarty, D. and Kutlu, L. (2012) Competition and Price Discrimination in the Airline Market"
  • "Kumar, R. and Kutlu, L. (2011), Price Discrimination in Quantity Setting Oligopoly "
  • "Kutlu, L. (2012), On the Greene’s Problem: A Simulation Study"

Selected Working Papers

  • "Kutlu, L. and Qu, J. (2011), Mergers in the Price Discrimination Framework"
  • "Kutlu, L. and Nakkas, A. (2011), Multi-Product Stackelberg Competition with Incomplete Information (In progress)"
  • "Kutlu, L. and Sickles, R.C. (2011), Price Discrimination in the Airline Market (In progress)"
  • "Fethi, M.D., Kutlu, L., and Sickles, R.C. (2010), Measuring Efficiency: A Kalman Filter Approach (In Progress)"
  • "Sertemel, R., Kutlu, L., and Sanver, M.R., (2010), Voting Games of Resolute Social Choice Correspondences"
  • "Almanidis, P. and Kutlu, L. (2010), A Dynamic Stochastic Frontier Model with Threshold Effects (In progress)"


     

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