Ali Hortaçsu (born 1974) is a Turkish professor of economics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

. He is a member of the

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and a fellow of the

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. He is a specialist in the functioning of markets. He was a member of the team that used statistical methods to interrogate the records of ancient merchants found at Kanes near the modern Turkish city of

Kayseri Kayseri () is a large List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. Historically known as Caesarea (Mazaca), Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since anc ...

to locate the probable location of ancient cities. He gathered micro-level data from the market and use it to estimate preference and technology parameters. This discovers rationalize human behaviors, create “efficient” benchmarks, and make the gap between current market outcomes and the efficient market outcome calculatable. His recent researches are industrial organization; auctions; search and matching models; production and financial networks; applications in finance, energy markets, and the interne

Early trade accounts used to pinpoint lost Bronze Age cities.
Oliver Moody, ''The Times'', 13 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.

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