Rate My Professor Nejat Anbarci

Nejat Anbarci is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Durham University Business School, a position he has held since joining the university in August 2018. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Iowa in 1988. Before moving to Durham, Anbarci taught at Deakin University in Australia from 2008 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he held positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Florida International University in the United States until 2008. His academic career spans over three decades, with extensive experience across leading institutions in the US, Australia, and the UK.

Anbarci's research specializations include Economic Theory, Behavioural Economics, and Political Economy, with particular emphasis on game theory (especially bargaining theory), experimental economics, and the political economy of natural disasters. He has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles published in prestigious journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Experimental Economics. Key publications include "Arbiter Assignment" (Social Choice and Welfare, 2025, with M. O. Afacan and Özgür Kibris), "Ideal Default for Resolving Disputes Efficiently" (International Economic Review, 2025, with G. Celik), "“Storm autocracies”: Islands as natural experiments" (Journal of Development Economics, 2022, with M. H. Rahman and M. A. Ulubaşoğlu), "Designing Practical and Fair Sequential Team Contests: The Case of Penalty Shootouts" (Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, with C.-J. Sun and M. U. Ünver), and "Random-settlement arbitration and the generalized Nash solution: one-shot and infinite-horizon cases" (Economic Theory, 2019, with K. Rong and J. Roy). Anbarci has secured major research grants from the Social Science Research Council of the United States and the Australian Research Council, underscoring his influence in the field.