Faruk R. Gül is a

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, and a

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of the

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. Gül did his undergraduate studies at

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1986,Curriculum vitae
from Gül's web site. where he was a student of

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. He has been on the Princeton faculty since 1995. Recently, Gül has specialized in choice theory, working with Wolfgang Pesendorfer on the

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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.

Selected works

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References

External links

Homepage at Princeton University
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