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Sevin Yeltekin

Professor of Economics Senior Associate Dean, Education at Tepper School of Business

Dean Frontier Communications/Rochester Telephone Professor of Business Administration at Simon Business School

Schools

  • Tepper School of Business
  • Simon Business School

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Tepper School of Business

PHONE

412-268-9622

OFFICE

GSIA - Tepper School of Business - Room 102D

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Economics

EDUCATION

Stanford University - Ph D (Economics) - 1999
Stanford University - MA (Economics) - 1995
Wellesley College - BA (Economics and Mathematics) - 1993

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Macroeconomics, Fiscal Policy Design, Social Insurance Design, Computational Economics, Asset Pricing Implications of Macro Policy

USEFUL LINKS

Research Page

PUBLICATIONS

  • Computing Equilibria of Dynamic Games

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Yongyang Cai, Kenneth Judd) Operations Research 65(2), 2017; 337-356

  • On the Computation of Equilibrium Value Correspondences of Dynamic Games

(author(s): Christopher Sleet, Sevin Yeltekin) Dynamic Games and Applications 6(2), 2016; 174-186

  • Poverty and Self Control

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, B Bernheim, Debraj Ray) Econometrica 83(5), 2015; 1877-1911

  • Monetary Policy, Bond Returns and Debt Dynamics

(author(s): Antje Berndt, Sevin Yeltekin) Journal of Monetary Economics 73, 2015; 119-136

  • "Optimal Rules For Patent Races"

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Kenneth Judd, Karl Schmedders) Internatioal Economic Review 53, 2012; 23-52

  • Nonlinear Capital Taxation without Commitment

(author(s): Christopher Sleet, Emmanuel Farhi, Ivan Werning, Sevin Yeltekin) Review of Economic Studies 79(4), 2012; 1469-1493

  • Comment on "Three Types of Ambiguity"

Journal of Monetary Economics 59(5), 2012; 446-448

  • How Does the U.S. Government Finance Fiscal Shocks?

(author(s): Antje Berndt, Hanno Lustig, Sevin Yeltekin) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 4, 2012

  • Fiscal Hedging with Nominal Assets

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Christopher Sleet, Hanno Lustig) Journal of Monetary Economics 55, 2008; 710-727

  • Politically Credible Social Insurance

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Christopher Sleet) Journal of Monetary Economics 55, 2008; 129-151

  • Recursive Monetary Policy Games with Incomplete Information

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Christopher Sleet) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 31(5), 2007; 1557-1583

  • Credibility and Endogenous Societal Discounting

(author(s): Christopher Sleet, Sevin Yeltekin) Review of Economic Dynamics 9, 2006; 410-437

  • Optimal Taxation with Endogenously Incomplete Debt Markets

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Christopher Sleet) Journal of Economic Theory 127, 2006; 36-73

  • Computing Supergame Equilibria

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Kenneth Judd) Econometrica 71(4), 2003; 1239-1255

  • Dynamic Labor Contracts with Temporary Layoffs and Permanent Separations

(author(s): Christopher Sleet, Sevin Yeltekin) Economic Theory 18(1), 2001; 207-235

WORKING PAPERS

  • Computing Markov Perfect Equilibria of Dynamic Games

  • Optimal Dynamic Taxation with Endogenous Government Debt Limits

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Kenneth Judd, Yongyang Cai)

  • Reluctant Savers and Mortgage Subsidies

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Andres Bellofatto)

  • Supergames with States

(author(s): Sevin Yeltekin, Markus Baldauf, Kenneth Judd)

  • Misery and Luxury: Long run outcomes in private information economies

2010

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Tepper School of Business - Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award (2014)
  • Tepper School of Business - Frank Risch Chair (2007)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Senior Editor, Oxford Research Encylopedia of Economics and Finance (2017 -)
  • Board Member, Quant Econ, Advisory (2016 -)
  • Associate Editor, Quantitative Economics (2016 -)
  • Board Member, Society of Economic Measurement, Advisory (2016 -)
  • Program Organizer, SITE-Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (July 2014 -)
  • Associate Editor, Operations Research, Journal (2014 -)
  • Member, Carnegie Rochester NYU Series on Public Policy, Advisory Board (June 2012 -)
  • Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics (May 2011 - June 2014)

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Emerging Markets (45913) 2017 Mini 4 Section: M
    2016 Mini 2 Section: A, E
    2015 Mini 2 Section: A, E
    2014 Mini 2 Section: A, E
    2013 Mini 2 Section: A, E
    2013 Mini 4 Section: A, E

  • Global Economics (45711) 2016 Mini 1 Section: F, M
    2015 Mini 1 Section: A, F, M
    2014 Mini 1 Section: A, F, M
    2014 Mini 4 Section: A, B
    2013 Mini 1 Section: A, F
    2013 Mini 4 Section: A, B

  • Macroeconomics (45711) 2012 Mini 1 Section: F

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

  • International Money and Finance (73372) 2006 Section: A

Simon Business School

Sevin Yeltekin oversees the administrative and academic functions of the Simon Business School, shapes the school’s vision and priorities, and serves as the leading advocate of its faculty, programs and students to alumni, the business community and other external constituencies. From 2005-2020, she was the Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professor; Senior Associate Dean, Education at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. At Tepper, Yeltekin’s responsibilities included advancing the academic and student experience for the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition to her duties as senior associate dean, she was a Professor of Economics. Immediately prior, she was a faculty member at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Dean Yeltekin is a highly respected macroeconomics scholar, she is well-known for her research in the design of sustainable monetary and fiscal policies in environments where policymakers and the public have informational asymmetry. Her research spans fiscal policy design, social insurance design, computational economics and asset pricing implications of macro policy. She has been a member of the advisory board for the Carnegie Rochester NYU Series on Public Policy since 2012. The series has been a semi-annual event occurring on a rotating basis at each university and encourages the interchange of scientific ideas among analysts with different approaches, and gives greater understanding by academic economists of practitioner's environments.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Fiscal Policy Design, Social Insurance Design, Computational Economics, Asset Pricing Implications of Macro Policy

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

  • Dean University of Rochester - Simon Business School July 2020 -
  • Frontier Communications/Rochester Telephone Professor of Business Administration University of Rochester - Simon Business School July 2020 -

EDUCATION

  • Stanford University - 1999 Ph D Economics
  • Stanford University - 1995 MA Economics
  • Wellesley College - 1993 BA Economics and Mathematics

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