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EREN İNCİ
SABANCI UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Orhanli / Tuzla
34956 ISTANBUL
TURKEY
T: + 90 216 483 93 40
myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/ereninci
ereninci@sabanciuniv.edu
January 23, 2015
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Associate Professor of Economics, Sabanci University (2013 – present)
Assistant Professor of Economics, Sabanci University (2007 – 2013)
Visiting Researcher, Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) (Summer 2006)
Lecturer, Teaching Fellow, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, Boston College, (2002
– 2007)
Research Assistant, Center for Retirement Research (Summer 2003)
EDUCATION
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PhD (Economics), Boston College, 2007
MA (Economics), Boston College, 2004
BSc (Management Engineering), Istanbul Technical University, 2002
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
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Urban Economics, Transportation Economics, Public Economics, and Industrial
Organization
Current Interest: Economics of Parking
AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientists Award (TUBA-GEBIP) (2014)
The Science Academy Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) (2014)
FASS Teaching Award (2011)
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TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Career Grant
111K051, “The Economic Analysis of Garage and Curbside Parking in Downtown Areas”
(2011-2013)
Best Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the International Transportation
Economics Association (2010)
Paula and Daniel Greeley Award (2006)
The Cambridge-MIT Institute Travel Grant (2006)
BC Dissertation Fellowship Award (2006)
NBER Entrepreneurship Initiative Travel Grant (for dissertation) (2005)
BC Summer Fellowship Award (2004)
European Economic Association Travel Grant (2004)
BC Full Scholarship for PhD in Economics (2002 – 2007)
The Certificate of Exceptionally Successful Performance (2002)
Orhan Karakullukcu Award (1998)
RESEARCH
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PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
 A Review of the Economics of Parking, Economics of Transportation, forthcoming
 Downtown Curbside Parking Capacity, Journal of Urban Economics, 86 (2015), 8397 (earlier draft is available as CESifo Working Paper 4085) (with Richard Arnott
and John Rowse)
 Free Parking for All in Shopping Malls, International Economic Review, 55 (2014),
1281-1304 (This paper won the Best Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the
International Transportation Economics Association in 2010) (with Kevin Hasker)
 Occupational Choice and the Quality of Entrepreneurs, Journal of Economic
Behavior & Organization, 92 (2013), 1-21 (earlier draft is available as Boston
College Working Paper 666)
 Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network, Journal of Economics &
Management Strategy 22 (2013), 232-258 (earlier draft is available as IZA
Discussion Paper 6288) (with Simon Parker)
 The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs, Journal of Economics &
Management Strategy 19 (2010), 889-918 (earlier draft is available as CESifo
Working Paper 3071) (with Mehmet Bac)
 The Stability of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion, Journal of Urban
Economics 68 (2010), 260-276 (earlier draft is available as CESifo Working Paper
2525), (with Richard Arnott)
 R&D Tax Incentives: A Reappraisal, International Tax and Public Finance 16 (2009),
797-821 (earlier draft is available as Boston College Working Paper 597)
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 An Integrated Model of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion, Journal of
Urban Economics 60 (2006), 418-442 (earlier drafts are available as NBER Working
Paper 11118 and Boston College Working Paper 608), (with Richard Arnott)
Conference Proceedings
 The Unbearable Lightness of Free Parking, International Symposium on Parking
Policies and Applications, Istanbul, May 2011, 63-73.
WORKING PAPERS
 Garage and Curbside Parking Competition with Search Congestion, mimeo (with
Robin Lindsey)
 Career Concerns and Bayesian Overconfidence of Managers, mimeo (with Haluk
Citci)
 The Masquerade Ball of the CEOs and the Mask of Excessive Risk, mimeo (with
Haluk Citci)
 Banks versus Venture Capital When the Venture Capitalist Values Private Benefits
of Control, mimeo (with Mehmet Barlo)
UNPUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS
 Public Policy towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation, PhD Dissertation, Boston
College (2007)
 A Game Theoretical Model of Foreign Direct Investments, Graduation Thesis,
Istanbul Technical University (2002)
PUBLICATIONS (OUTSIDE ECONOMICS)
 Gri, Cati Pub. Co. (2013)
 Turkish translation of The Color of Water, James McBride, Epsilon Pub. Co.
Bestseller (2001)
 ITU Management Faculty Undergraduate Catalogue, Literatur Pub. Co., (2000)
CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
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Parking is the Permanent Loss Leader in Shopping Malls
 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, January 2015
Getting the Quantity and Price of Parking Right in the City
 Excellence in Science: ERC Enables Young Researchers, TUBA-ERC-TUBITAK,
Istanbul, August 2014
 TIDE Training and Exchange Workshop, Milan, June 18
Career Concerns and Bayesian Overconfidence of Managers
 40th Annual Conference of the European Finance Association (EFA 2013),
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, August 2013
Garage and Curbside Parking Competition with Search Congestion
 54th European Regional Science Association Congress (Special Session Organized by
the Urban Economics Association), St. Petersburg, August 2014
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 All-Istanbul Economics Workshop, Bilgi University, Istanbul, May 2014
 1st Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure, University of Barcelona,
Barcelona, February 2014
 Kuhmo Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics, Northwestern University,
Chicago, July 2013
Urban Parking Policy
 3rd International Transportation and Park Areas Management Symposium, Istanbul,
May 2013
The Masquerade Ball of the CEOs and the Mask of Excessive Risk
 39th Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
(EARIE 2012), Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, September 2012
 4th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Bilgi University, Istanbul, July 2012
 University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, March 2012
Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion: A Diagrammatic Exposition
 European Regional Science Association 2012 Congress (Special Session Organized
by the Urban Economics Association), University of Economics, Bratislava, August
2012
 RCEF 2012: Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy, University of Toronto,
Toronto, August 2012
 Kuhmo Nectar Conference on Transportation Economics, DIW, Berlin, June 2012
 11th Annual Conference of the European Economics and Finance Society, Koc
University, Istanbul, June 2012
 Second All-Istanbul Economics Workshop, Koc University, Istanbul, May 2012
 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, April 2012
The Unbearable Lightness of Free Parking
 International Symposium on Parking Policies and Applications, Istanbul, May 2011
Dynamic Traffic Flow Theory with Curbside Parking
 Sabanci University, Istanbul, April 2012
Banks versus Venture Capital When the Venture Capitalist Values Private Benefits of
Control
 37th Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
(EARIE 2010), Sabanci University, Istanbul, September 2010
Banks versus Venture Capital: A Role for Nonmonetary Returns
 Third Annual Searle Research Symposium on the Economics and Law of the
Entrepreneur, Northwestern University, Chicago, June 2010
Free Parking for All in Shopping Malls
 TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, October 2011
 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, October 2011
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 North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, St. Louis, June 2011
 Kuhmo Nectar Conference on Transport Economics, Valencia, July 2010
 11th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Istanbul,
June 2010
 University of East Anglia, Norwich, May 2010
The Old-Boy Network and the Quality of Entrepreneurs
 Ifo / CESifo & ACES Conference on Banking and Institutions, Munich, December
2009
 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of the Southern European Economic
Theorists (ASSET), Istanbul, October 2009
 64th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Barcelona, August 2009
 IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, June 2009
 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, April 2009
The Stability of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion
 Istanbul Technical University (Faculty of Civil Engineering), Istanbul, October 2009
 24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Barcelona, August
2009
 National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, August 2009
 Far East and South Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, Tokyo, August 2009
 Bilkent University, Ankara, April 2009
 55th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International,
New York, November 2008
 Macroeconomics, Real Estate, and Public Policy Workshop, Istanbul, July 2008
 3rd International Conference on Funding Transport Infrastructure and 10th Journée
Transport, Paris, June 2008
Success Breeds Success Locally: A Tale of Incubator Firms
 2nd Winter Workshop in Economics, Istanbul, December 2008
 Far Eastern and South Asian Meetings of the Econometric Society, Singapore, July
2008
 Risk Capital and the Financing of European Innovative Firms (RICAFE2) Second
Conference – Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge-based
Entrepreneurship, Riga, October 2007
 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, October 2007
 European Economic Association and Econometric Society Parallel Meetings (EEAESEM Conference), Budapest, August 2007
Occupational Choice and the Quality of Entrepreneurs
 Risk Capital and the Financing of European Innovative Firms (RICAFE2) Third
Conference – Regional Comparative Advantage and Knowledge-based
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Entrepreneurship, Amsterdam, October 2008
 Koc University, Istanbul, October 2007
 University of Mannheim, Mannheim, February 2007
 Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), Bergen,
February 2007
 University of Aberdeen, Business School, Aberdeen, February 2007
 Sabanci University, Istanbul, February 2007
 Bilkent University, Ankara, February 2007
 Royal Economic Society Job Market Conference, London School of Economics,
London, January 2007
 Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Management, Atlanta, January 2007
 Boston University, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, Boston, September 2006
 European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Vienna, August 2006
 University of Mannheim, SFB Seminar, Mannheim, June 2006
 Center for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, June 2006
 CEBR Conference on Entrepreneurship: Occupational Choice and Financing,
Copenhagen, June 2006
 Boston College, Dissertation Workshop, Boston (April 2005, November 2005, May
2006, September 2006)
Public Policy towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Insights for Regions
 Cambridge-MIT Institute Workshop on Regional Innovation, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), June 2006.
A Model of R&D Tax Incentives
 European Economic Association and Econometric Society Parallel Meetings (EEAESEM Conference), Madrid, August 2004
 European Economic Association Congress (EEA Congress), Amsterdam, August 2005
Effects of Exchange Rates on R&D and Foreign Direct Investment Decisions in
Oligopolies
 Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET) Annual Conference,
Ankara, October 2003
 Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, October 2003
ACADEMIC CONSULTING AND TRAINING SERVICES
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Expert on “New Pricing Measures”, TIDE (Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe)
Consortium, project financed by the European Commission, January 2013.
Expert Training and Exchange Workshop on Parking (cities participated: Budapest,
Brighton, Milan, and Tallinn), the Municipality of Milan, Milan, June 2014.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Sabanci University
 Microeconomic Theory II (Graduate), Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring
2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014
 Microeconomics, Spring 2013 (2), Spring 2014 (2)
 Advanced Microeconomics, Spring 2009
 Games and Strategies, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009 (2), Spring 2010
(2), Fall 2010 (2), Spring 2011, Fall 2011 (2), Spring 2012, Fall 2012 (2), Fall 2013 (2),
Fall 2014 (2)
 Economics of Information, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2012
Boston College
 Principles of Economics – Micro, Fall 2005, Fall 2006
 Principles of Economics – Macro, Summer 2005
Istanbul Technical University
 Microeconomics II (Graduate), Spring 2009 (three weeks)
Pamukkale University, Summer Seminars in Economics
 Mini Course on Game Theory, Summer 2011
THESIS SUPERVISION
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Haluk Citci, PhD: Essays in Applied Economic Theory, 2012 (faculty member at Gebze
Institute of Technology)
Martijn Kobus, PhD (External Examiner, Tinbergen Institute): Economic Studies on Public
Facility Use, 2015
Fulya Yüksel Ersoy, MA: Mode Choice and Shopping Mall Parking, 2012 (PhD student at
Stanford University)
Rifat Ozan Senturk, MA: Numerical Analysis of Entrepreneurial Policy, 2009 (PhD
student at University of Texas at Austin)
Guner Velioglu, MA: A Multifaceted Relationship between Congestion and Accidents on
Highways: Evidence from D-100 Highway in Istanbul, 2014 (PhD student at University of
Florida)
Gokmen Oz, MA: A Model of Valet Parking, 2014 (PhD student at Pennsylvania State University)
REFEREE
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Review of Economics and Statistics
International Economic Review
Journal of Urban Economics
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Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Regional Science and Urban Economics
Urban Studies
Economics of Transportation
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
Journal of Public Economic Theory
The Manchester School
Journal of Transport Geography
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Working Paper Series
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey – BIDEP
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - SOBAG
Iktisat Isletme ve Finans
Economics Bulletin
Managerial and Decision Economics
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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Member, Urban Economics Association (2009 – present)
Member, American Economic Association (2006 – present)
Member, Econometric Society (2005 – present)
Member, International Transportation Economics Association (2012 – present)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Member, Scientific Committee, 6th International Research Meeting in Business and
Management, 2015
Member, Venue Committee, International Transportation Economics Association,
2014 – present
Jury Member, Hakan Orbay Research Award, 2014, 2015
Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd International Transportation and Park Areas
Management Symposium, 2013
Member, Scientific Committee, International Symposium on Parking Policies and
Applications, 2011
Member, Scientific Committee, 37th Annual Congress of the European Association
for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2010
Member, Local Organizing Committee, 37th Annual Congress of the European
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Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), 2010
Organizer, Public Lecture Series in Economics, Sabanci University, 2007 – 2009
ADMINISTRATIVE WORK
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Member, Faculty Board, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, 2014 –
present
Member, Council on Life at Student Housing, Sabanci University, 2014 – present
Member, Student Housing Committee, Sabanci University, 2014 – present
Member, Entrepreneurship Committee, Sabanci University, 2013 – present
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (Economics), Sabanci University, 2008 – 2011
Member, Disciplinary Committee, Sabanci University, 2009 – present
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Boston College (Department of Economics),
2002 – 2005
Student Member, Faculty Board, Istanbul Technical University (Faculty of Management),
1999 – 2000
Chair, Student Council, Istanbul Technical University (Faculty of Management), 1998 –
2000
Member, Faculty Advertising Committee, Istanbul Technical University (Faculty of
Management), 1999 – 2002
REFERENCES
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Available upon request.

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