Tilburg University promotie PhD Defense

PhD Defense H.T. Apakan MSc

Date: Time: 10:00 Location: Aula

Essays on Two-Dimensional Signaling Game

This dissertation studies various two-dimensional signaling games. It introduces and uses equilibrium refinements to analyze such games. In Chapters 2 and 3 of the dissertation, (one-sender) two-audience costly signaling games are studied. Chapter 2 introduces two equilibrium refinements for a class of two-audience private signaling games. Chapter 3 studies a costly gift-giving game with two audiences and investigates how observability of gifts affects pro-social behavior. Chapter 4 studies a costly persuasion game with uncertain intentions of the sender and investigates how truthful information sharing is affected by the intentions of the sender.

Hasan Tahsin Apakan (Geneva, Switzerland, 1985) obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (2006) and a Master of Arts degree in Economics (2009) from Bilkent University, Turkey. In 2014, he obtained a Master of Science (Research Master) degree in Economics from CentER, Tilburg University. Immediately afterwards, he became a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics, Tilburg University.

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