An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality and Incumbency in Service Procurement Auctions
Topics: Operations Risk Management
Tunay Tunca is Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research interests span a range in economics of Information Technology and procurement markets, including electronic business, economics of software security and digital goods piracy, interaction of supply chain and markets, and procurement auctions. His recent work examines such topics as private information and strategic spot trading for procurement, the role of user incentives on security of computer networks and the impact of P2P file sharing on copyright protection policy for digital goods. Tunay Tunca received his MS in Financial Mathematics (2000) and PhD in Business Administration (2002) from Stanford University, during which time he was twice named the Robert K. Jaedicke Award Scholar for outstanding performance. Tunca also received an MS in Management Science (1997) from the University of Rochester and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics with honors (1994), from Bogazici University, where he was named a Koc Scholar from 1991 to 1994. He has been a faculty member at Stanford GSB since 2001. He also held positions as a visiting scholar at the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania (2003) and the Sloan School of Business at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005). Professor Tunca also currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Information Systems Research.
