Faruk R. Gül is a

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. Gül did his undergraduate studies at

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and tw ...

, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986,Curriculum vitae
from Gül's web site. where he was a student of Hugo F. Sonnenschein. He has been on the Princeton faculty since 1995. Recently, Gül has specialized in choice theory, working with Wolfgang Pesendorfer on the revealed preference theory of

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. To date, Gül has 69 publications, his first publication being "Foundations of Dynamic Monopoly and Coase Conjecture," published 1986 in the Journal of economic Theory.

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Homepage at Princeton University
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