Curriculum Vitae

Placement Director: Neil Wallace
    (814) 863-3805
    neilw@psu.edu

Contact Information:
Elif Incekara-Hafalir
 
E-mail: incekara@cmu.edu
Website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/incekara/

CITIZENSHIP:

• Turkish (US permanent resident)

• Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, August 2007-May 2010
  Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Economics, Penn State University, June 2007
• B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2001

FIELDS:

• Primary: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Micro Theory
• Secondary: Game Theory, Industrial Organization

PAPERS:

• “The Impact of Credit Cards on Spending: A Field Experiment,” with George Loewenstein, 2009 (under review).
• “Credit Card Competition and Naïve Hyperbolic Consumers,” 2009 (under review)
• “Time Inconsistency of Consumers and Excessive Upgrades in Software Market,” 2008.

• “Helping People to Exercise Regularly,” with Jeremy Tobacman and Erte Xiao.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Tepper School of Business (Microeconomics, Advanced Microeconomic Theory)
• Penn State University (Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics)
• Teaching Assistant at Penn State University (Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics)

PRESENTATIONS :

• Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, October 2009
• Carnegie Mellon University, Social and Decision Sciences, October 2009
• Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, October 2008
• Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, July 2008
• University of Melbourne, May 2008
• ESA North American Meetings, October 2007
• Midwest Economic Theory Meetings, April 2007
• Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice Conference II, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, July 2006
• Society for Economic Design, July 2006
• 8th Int’l Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, July 2006
• 16th International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook, July 2005

GRANTS:

• Center for Behavioral Decision Research Small Grants Program, Spring 2008
• National Institute of Aging (joint with Jeremy Tobacman and Erte Xiao), 2010-11