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Elif Incekara-Hafalir
Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Economics
Deputy Director of the UTS Behavioural Lab
UTS Business School
University of Technology Sydney
E-mail: elif.incekarahafalir@uts.edu.au
Publications
Incentives to Persevere, joint with Grace Lee, Audrey Siah, and Erte Xiao. Management Science, 2023, 69(9), pp 5378-5393. [Working paper version]
The Effect of Payment Medium on Effort, joint with Raymond Kumar and Juliana Silva Goncalves. Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60(3), pp 1111-1126. [Working paper version]
Is the Allais Paradox Due to Appeal of Certainty or Aversion to Zero? joint with Eungsik Kim and Jack Stecher. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24(3), pp 751-771. [Working paper version]
Awareness of Low Self-Control: Theory and Evidence from a Homeless Shelter, joint with Sera Linardi. Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 61, pp 39-54. [Working paper version]
Credit Card Competition and Naive Hyperbolic Consumers. Journal of Financial Services Research, 2015, 47, pp 153-175.
Working Papers
A Family of Norms: Related Beliefs about Female Labor Force Participation, joint with Sultan Alkhuzam and Stephanie Wang (under review)
Incentivizing Retention: The Power of Self-Selected Rewards , joint with Grace Lee and Erte Xiao (under review)
Do Generalizations of Expected Utility Explain More than the Zero Effect?, joint with Eungsik Kim and Jack Stecher
The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment, joint with George Loewenstein.
Work in Progress
Three Lab Studies Examining Credit Card Payment Architecture, joint with Hanlin Lou and Robert Slonim (Data collection is complete, the manuscript is in first draft)
Time Preferences and Expectations, joint with Aleksandra Erakhtina and Ben Young (Data collection is complete)
Impatience over Time, joint with Sultan Alkhuzam, Stephanie Wang and Nathan Kettlewell (Data collection is complete)
Effects of Experienced Events on Decision Making, joint with Stephanie Wang (Data collection is complete)
Self-serving Pro-social Lies and Reactions to Beneficiaries, joint with Zafer Akin (Data collection is complete)
Wings of Growth: A Mindset Intervention in Rural China, joint with Juliana Silva Goncalves, Mike Zhiren Wu, Erte Xiao, and Hui Xu (Data collection is in progress)
The role of Social Norms and Misperceptions on Muslim Women’s Work Outcomes in Australia, joint with Anisa Buckley, Rayan Merkbawi, and Ali Vergili (Data collection is in progress)
Gender Differences in Training for Competitions, joint with Emel Filiz-Ozbay (Experimental Design stage)
Teaching
Behavioural Game Theory (UTS Grad Cert)
Behavioural Decision Making (UTS Grad Cert)
Economic Policy and Market Design (UTS Undergrad)
Principles of Microeconomics (UTS Undergrad)
Behavioral Economics (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)
Freshman Seminar on Behavioral Economics (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)
Microeconomics (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)
Advance Microeconomic Theory (Carnegie Mellon University Undergrad)