Welcome
Hello! I'm Emre Ergin.
I am an academician in the field of theory of economics, an author that combines literature and philosophy, a translator that works in economics and sci-fi and a developer that really values clean code.
Most of my personality is defined by my identity as a Muslim, and the rest is filled with my hunger towards learning new things.
I am gifted in and committed to teaching and learning.
Below, you can find some links that has more information about me, and on the rightabove, you can find more details about my different pursuits.
Literature
Books
Dümeni Göğe Kırmak (Shifting The Helm Into The Sky)
A novella that tells the story of the first 25 years of the life of Pîrî Reis, the famous Ottoman navigator and cartographer.
Ruh Dememi Bağışlayın (I Apologize I Say Soul)
Stories of souls got stuck into gears of mechanisms. Emphasis on sci-fi with some hints of existentialism.
Critiques
Beş Kere Halil (Five Times Khalil)
What does it mean to know a person, or meaning of a word? Inspired by this question, this is a postmodern novel, which earned me 2017 Necip Fazil First Works Award.
Critiques
Acziyetin Tekniği (The Technique of Weakness)
Stories about things that people can not change. Magical realist and kafkaesque.
Critiques
Dördüncü Dilek (The Fourth Wish)
A novel whose protagonist is a time traveller history teacher. A little bit of One Thousand And One Nights, a lot of intertextuality.
Collaborations
Seyyahlar ve Kaşifler Kitabı (Book of Travellers and Explorers)
I joined this story collection that focuses on the theme of exploration by telling the story of a kid who was raised as a scout in the cyberspace.
Acâibü'l Mahlûkât (Fantastic Creatures)
The book consists of stories that is inspired by various mythological creatures from the Turkish Mythology. My story focused on daughter of the fairy sultan, and was named Kaf-Lethe.
Korkut Ata Ne Söyledi? (What Did Korkut Ata Say?)
In this book, which is a rewrite of the Turkish classic, Book Of Dede Korkut, I joined the collection with a story titled Eğrek ile Seyrek'in Hikâyesi (Story of Egrek and Seyrek).
Magazines That Published My Work
- Tuti
- İtibar
- Olağan Hikâye
- Edebiyat Ortamı
- Muhayyel
- Post Öykü
- Havsala
- İhtiyar
- Lacivert
- Perde
- Müfredat
- Vaveyla
- TOBB ETÜ-Küllük
- Cins Dergi
Translation
Even though all my translation work so far was from English, I have been studying Arabic
(MSA) quite a while now. I hope to get Arabic translation jobs as well. So far my literature
translations only consists of two story translations I made for a literature magazine, and I
want to get into that area more in the upcoming years.
Works
Irrational Exuberance
Translation of Shiller, R. J. (2015). Irrational exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition. Published by Nova Yayinlari, May 2023.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Translation of Bogle, J. C. (2017). The little book of common sense investing: the only way to guarantee your fair share of stock market returns. Published by Nova Yayinlari, October 2021.
Remnants of The Precursors
The open source version of Masters of Orion, which itself was really famous amongst turn based strategy lovers. I was hired as a Turkish translator for the game, that required me to invent many non-existing terminology for Turkish.
AquaNimble
This aquatic shoot'em up that got released in September 2016 includes my Turkish translation, and even a custom ship made from my profile picture.
Hyper Rogue
One of the few games that takes place in the Non-Euclidean Space, first releases of HyperRogue included my Turkish translation of it.
Mysterious Space
This space roguelite was released with my Turkish translation in May 2015.
David Brophy - Confronting China’s War on Terror
I translated the article by Brophy to increase the awareness of Turkish public on Uighur. My translation is available here: Çin'in Toplama Kampları, İslamofobi ve Antiemperyalizm
Ann Beattie - Snow
I translated this story for Tuti Dergisi on their request.
Reynold Price - Summer Games
I translated this story for Tuti Dergisi on their request.
Web
If I don't consider the languages I used as a utility, my first serious venture into the
world of programming started in November 2021. Right now, the language I feel most
comfortable is Javascript. As I am an academic, I also used R, Python,
MATLAB
and C++ before.
Websites
Economic Experiment About Beliefs
The website is designed as an experiment which elicitates beliefs of the participants regarding some underlying probabilities. Part of a currently ongoing academic work with professors from Boğaziçi University.
Technologies Used
React
Typescript
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Playwright
Theory of Change Software
I joined as a contractor to the team of Changeroo for a while, a company that provides a software tool for the concept of Theory of Change.
Technologies Used
React
Typescript
Next.js
MySQL
D3
Firebase
Economic Experiment About Risk
The website is designed as an experiment which analyzes risk and higher order risk behaviour of the participants. Part of a currently ongoing academic work with professors from Boğaziçi University.
Technologies Used
Vue
Javascript
Express
R
Personal Webpage/Blog For My Wife
Personal Webpage/Blog for the best and cutest psychologist in the world, my wife, Sena Ergin. Thanks to sveltekit, has amazing pagespeed scores.
Technologies Used
SvelteKit
PostgreSQL
CSS
JSON Web Tokens
Literature Workshop Website
Each member can commit to the automatic weekly writing challenges that the website generates. Once committed, they either send a story link until the deadline, or get removed from the website. Authors are also assigned as commenters to stories of each other. It increased productivity of many authors, some even earned awards for their work.
Technologies Used
SvelteKit
JSON Web Tokens
MongoDB
NodeJS
Investment Game
Allows the user to test any investing strategy while visualizing both their strategy and the optimal strategy according to the Kelly Criterion. Allows modifying the default risk and reward parameters. Can be used as a teaching material
Technologies Used
Typescript
React
Chart.js
UnoCSS
Election Calculator
Takes some voting profile as input, and finds the winning ranking based on a rule amongst the given rules. Focuses on the concept of Social Welfare Rules, which is one of the main topics from my PhD. Using Canvas API, also visualizes the pairwise comparisons amongst individual alternatives.
Technologies Used
Svelte
Tailwind CSS
Academia
I am currently an assistant professor at Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Economics department. I am mainly interested in decision making both collectively and
individually. I have completed or ongoing research, related to
Game Theory, Social Choice Theory,
Mechanism Design
and Behavioural Economics.
Articles
The Fork Game: A Graphical Interface for Eliciting Higher-Order Risk Preferences
Joint work with Mehmet Yiğit Gürdal and Tolga Umut Kuzubaş.
Abstract: We introduce the “Fork Game,” a graphical interface designed to elicit higher-order risk preferences. In this game, participants connect forked pipes to create a final structure. A ball is then dropped into the top opening of this structure and follows a downward path, randomly turning left or right at each forked joint. This construction is effectively isomorphic to the apportionment of binary-outcome lotteries, allowing participants to construct complex gambles. Furthermore, the game is easily comprehensible, highly modular, and provides a flexible means of assessing risk aversion, prudence, temperance, and even higher-order risk preferences.
How to choose a fair delegation?
Joint work with Burak Can and Péter Csóka.
Abstract: This paper analyzes how to choose a delegation, a committee to represent a society such as in a peace conference. We propose normative conditions and seek Pareto optimal, consistent, neutral, and non-manipulable ways to choose a delegation. We show that a class of threshold rules is characterized by these criteria. The rules do not choose a fixed number of delegates, but instead require different sizes of delegations, depending on the heterogeneity in society. Therefore the resulting delegations are very inclusive, and with t delegates the ratio of individuals whose opinions are not included is always below 0.5t . For instance, a delegation of size two should have at least 75% support from the society and therefore only less than 25% of the opinion pool can be neglected.
The collective sectoral multipliers of the European Union
Joint work with Abdullah Topcuoğlu.
Abstract: In this study, the sectors that would be central in terms of Output, Employment and Income Multipliers in the case where European Union is understood as a unified entity are found. As it has the most up-to-date data of all EU countries, 2014 Input-Output tables from the World Input Output Database (WIOD) are used. In this context, the input-output tables from each of the EU countries are aggregated in order to analyze the EU as a single country. 29 input-output tables, the cumulative input-output table obtained as a result of this aggregation plus the individual input-output tables from each of the 28 individual countries are analyzed separately, then the results are compared with each other. Thus, both the differences and the similarities between the individual member states and the collective EU economy are determined according to the multiplier analyses.
Strategic voting and social welfare rules
Abstract: My PhD that deals with Social Choice Theory. It focuses on validity of using metrics when calculating distances between ideologies, the contradiction between election systems in which it is always beneficial to participate the elections, and the election systems that are consistent with pairwise comparisons, and the non-manipulable delegation sizes given all the opinions in the society.
It was supervised by Arno Riedl, Hans Peters (whose I am the last PhD candidate of) and Burak Can. The committee was consisted of Jean Jacques Herings, Remzi Sanver, Ad van Deemen and Kristof Bosmans.
It was supervised by Arno Riedl, Hans Peters (whose I am the last PhD candidate of) and Burak Can. The committee was consisted of Jean Jacques Herings, Remzi Sanver, Ad van Deemen and Kristof Bosmans.
Affiliations
Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University
I am an assistant professor in this university since November 2019. I am the institutional coordinator of Mevlana and Farabi Exchange Programmes. Gave courses mostly related to microeconomics, in Law, Business, Economics, Finance, Public Management departments. I am also a member of Strategic Planning Committee, Quality Assurance Committee and Committee for Assessment and Examination of International Students.
Maastricht University
I have fond memories of this university, in which I worked as a PhD candidate between 2014-2017, as a tutor between 2017-2018 and as a visiting scholar between 2018-2019. One of my tasks was to lead problem solving sessions that was designed based on Problem Based Learning principles.
Corvinus University
Between January-April 2016, I was a visiting scholar in one of the best universities in Central Europe as a guest of Péter Csóka. The university is just next to the Danube, which I loved the view of.
Bilkent University
I did my masters in Bilkent University, Economics department. My master thesis was titled Epsilon Bayesian Implementation, and completed under the supervision of Nuh Aygün Dalkıran. Furthermore, I was a teaching assistant for Macroeconomics, Experimental Economics, Statistics and Econometrics.
TOBB University of Economics & Technology
I have double major from Economics and Mathematics from TOBB ETU. For a semester, I did an internship for the Economics department in this university. In 2012, I was a teaching assistant for Introduction to Economics course, which can be considered as a first step for my current career.