Elif Incekara-Hafalir
September, 2015
246 Posner Hall, Tepper School of Business
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
[email protected]
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~incekara/
POSITION:
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, August 2010-present
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, August 2007-August 2010
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
EDUCATION:
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Ph.D., Economics, Penn State University, June 2007
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2001
FIELDS:
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Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Consumer Financial
Decision Making, Applied Microeconomics.
PAPERS:
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“Credit Card Competition and Naïve Hyperbolic Consumers,” Journal of
Financial Services Research, 47 (2015), pp 153-175.
“Self-Control and Awareness: Evidence from a Homeless Shelter” (joint
with Sera Linardi), Revise and resubmit to Journal of Economic
Psychology.
“An Experimental Test of Theories of Behavior in Allais-Type Tasks,”
with Jack Stecher.
“The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment,” with
George Loewenstein
“The Effect of Store Financing and Consumer Impatience on Timing of
New Products.”
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WORK IN
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“Helping People to Exercise Regularly,” with Erte Xiao.
“Demand for Useless Information and Disappointment Aversion,” with
Yigit Gurdal.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
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Tepper School of Business (Behavioral Economics, Microeconomics,
Advanced Microeconomic Theory, Freshman Seminar)
Penn State University (Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate
Microeconomics)
National Institute of Aging, Penn-CMU Roybal Center on Behavioral
Economics and Health (PIs. George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp).
Role: Co-PI for project: “Helping People to Exercise Regularly” (with
Erte Xiao), $47,189. 2010-2011.
Center for Behavioral Decision Research Grants Program, $2,300. Spring
2008.
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49th Annual Conference of the CEA, Toronto, May 2015
ESA North American Meetings, Ft. Lauderdale, October 2015
Foundations of Utility and Risk, Rotterdam, July 2014
Ohio State University-Human Sciences, June 2013
Waseda University, Tokyo-Japan, March 2013
ESA North American Meetings, Tucson, November 2012
Carnegie Mellon University-SDS, Pittsburgh, October 2012
Academy of Behavioral Finance and Economics, New York City, 2012
Southern Economics Association, Washington DC, November 2011
TOBB ETU University, Ankara-Turkey, July 2011
Economics and Finance Workshop, İstanbul Development Institute,
İstanbul, June 2011
Eurasia Business and Economics Society, İstanbul June 2011
Oberlin College, Oberlin, May 2011
ESA North American Meetings, Tucson, November 2010
Carnegie Mellon University-SDS, Pittsburgh, October 2009
Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, State College, November 2009
Carnegie Mellon University-Tepper, Pittsburgh, October 2008
Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, July 2008
University of Melbourne, Melbourne-Australia, May 2008
ESA North American Meetings, Tuscon, October 2007
Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, Minneapolis, April 2007
Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice Conference II, Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston, Boston, July 2006
Society for Economic Design, Bodrum-Turkey, July 2006
8th Int’l Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, IstanbulTurkey, July 2006
16th International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook, Stony
Brook, July 2005