Phone                             +61 439395152

E-mail                              jonathan.t.levy90@gmail.com

About me

I am a Senior Behavioural Scientist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, with a research career spanning both industry and academia. My work applies theoretical, experimental, and econometric methods to study decision-making, market behaviour, and economic outcomes across the fields of behavioural, financial, labour, and environmental economics.

A central focus of my research is understanding the drivers and consequences of gender inequality in financial and labour markets, alongside the role of decisiveness in shaping economic choices. On this website, you will find a collection of my publications, working papers, and teaching experience accumulated over the course of my career.

Education

2020             Ph.D. in Economics, University of Technology Sydney.

2013             Bachelor of Resource Economics (Honours), University of Sydney.

Research

Publications

"The gender reference point gap: Evidence from a representative sample" (with Olivia Ru and Agnieszka Tymula), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, (2026).

"Promotion and demotion contests" (with Jingjing Zhang), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, (2024).

"It's not you (well it is a bit you), it's me: Self- versus social-image in warm-glow giving" (with Philip Grossman), PLOS ONE, (2024).

Featured in: Faculti (September, 2024), Scientias (March, 2024)

"Mutual monitoring, approval motivation and fostering cooperation in teams'', Journal of the Economic Science Association, (2021).

"Two strikes and you are out! An experiment on exclusion", Economics Letters, (2019).

"International Emission Inequality and Per Capita Abatement Schemes" (with Amnon Levy and Khorshed Chowdhury), Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, (2011). 

Working papers

"Who wants to move first?" (with Lata Gangadharan, Marina Gertsberg, and Erte Xiao) [revise and resubmit at Games and Economic Behavior]

Work in progress

"Measuring decisiveness'' (with Agnieszka Tymula) [includes several papers]

"Handicaps in contests'' (with Qin Wu and Jingjing Zhang)

Teaching 

Lecturer

Foundation in Economics (USydney Postgrad)

Experimental Economics (UTS Undergrad)

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (UOW Undergrad)

Teaching Assistant

Game Theory (UTS Undergrad)

Intermediate Microeconomics (UTS Undergrad)

Mathematics for Economics and Business (UTS Undergrad) 

Commodity and Market Price Analysis (U Sydney Undergrad)

Microeconomic Theory and Policy (UOW Undergrad)  

Mathematics for Business (UOW Undergrad)

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