School of Economics

Dr Kenan Kalayci

Senior Lecturer
School of Economics
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Featured ProjectsDuration
Market responses to behavioral consumer policy: Experimental study(2016–2019)
Complexity and bounded rationality in credit markets(2011–2012)

 

Researcher biography

Dr. Kenan Kalaycı is an experimental economist whose research focus is on behavioural economics and industrial organization. Kenan received his PhD in Economics from Tilburg University and is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Queensland. Kenan has been an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow between 2016-208 and a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in 2017-2018. Kenan's main research has been in the growing field of behavioural industrial organization, which is the study of markets incorporating insights from psychology and other related disciplines. Kenan has been one of the pioneers in the empirical study of this field, developing experimental methodology to study issues of spurious product differentiation and price discrimination in markets. His research has been published in the International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, and Experimental Economics.

Publications

Journal Articles (8)

Journal Articles

Bao, Zhengyang, Kalaycı, Kenan, Leibbrandt, Andreas and Oyarzun, Carlos (2020). Do regulations work? A comprehensive analysis of price limits and trading restrictions in experimental asset markets with deterministic and stochastic fundamental values. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 178, 59-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.07.012
Faravelli, Marco, Kalayci, Kenan and Pimienta, Carlos (2020). Costly voting: a large-scale real effort experiment. Experimental Economics, 23 (2), 468-492. doi: 10.1007/s10683-019-09620-3
Leng, Ailin, Friesen, Lana, Kalayci, Kenan and Man, Priscilla (2018). A minimum effort coordination game experiment in continuous time. Experimental Economics, 21 (3), 1-24. doi: 10.1007/s10683-017-9550-3
Tse, Alan, Friesen, Lana and Kalayci, Kenan (2016). Complexity and asset legitimacy in retirement investment. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 60, 35-48. doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2015.12.001
Kalayci, Kenan and Serra-Garcia, Marta (2015). Complexity and biases. Experimental Economics, 19 (1), 31-50. doi: 10.1007/s10683-015-9434-3
Kalayci, Kenan (2015). Price complexity and buyer confusion in markets. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 111, 154-168. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.01.001
Kalayci, Kenan (2015). Confusopoly: competition and obfuscation in markets. Experimental Economics, 19 (2), 299-316. doi: 10.1007/s10683-015-9438-z
Kalayci, Kenan and Potters, Jan (2011). Buyer confusion and market prices. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 29 (1), 14-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2010.06.004

Areas of research

Applied Economics
Behavioural finance
Behavioural industrial organisation
Behavioural political economy
Centre for Unified Behavioural and Economic Sciences
Econometrics
Economic Theory
Experimental, Behavioural, and Evolutionary Methods
Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation