Current Position
Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
Dr. Kenan Kalayci is an experimental economist working at the intersection of behavioural economics and industrial organization. His research examines how market complexity, product differentiation, and pricing design influence consumer decisions and competition.
Education
PhD in Economics, Tilburg University, 2011
BA in Economics, Sabanci University, 2005
Research Highlights
- Behavioural industrial organization and consumer confusion in markets
- Experimental methods for studying pricing, product complexity, and competition
- Publications in Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and International Journal of Industrial Organization
Publications
- Pyramid Schemes. 2026. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with Gönül Doğan and Priscilla Man). (pdf)
- Regulating Bubbles Away? 2020. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (with Zhengyang Bao, Andreas Leibbrandt, and Carlos Oyarzun). (pdf)
- Costly Voting: A Large-scale Real Effort Experiment. 2019. Experimental Economics (with Marco Faravelli and Carlos Pimienta). (pdf)
- A Minimum Effort Coordination Game Experiment in Continuous Time. 2018. Experimental Economics (with Ailin Leng, Lana Friesen, and Priscilla Man). (pdf)
- Complexity and Biases. 2016. Experimental Economics (with Marta Serra-Garcia). (pdf)
- Complexity and Asset Legitimacy in Retirement Investment. 2016. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (with Alan Tse and Lana Friesen). (pdf)
- Confusopoly: Competition and Obfuscation in Markets. 2016. Experimental Economics. (pdf)
- Price Complexity and Buyer Confusion in Markets. 2015. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. (pdf)
- Buyer Confusion and Market Prices. 2011. International Journal of Industrial Organization (with Jan Potters). (pdf)
Works in Progress
- No Pain No Gain: An Experiment on Skill Accumulation (with Lana Friesen and Bhagya Gunawardena). (pdf)
- An Experimental Study of Competition in Two-Sided Markets (with Kian N. Loke and Stuart McDonald). (pdf)
- Team Gender Diversity in High-Stake Competitions (with Redzo Mujcic).
- Algorithmic Third-Party Advice in Markets with Complex Goods (with Zhengyang Bao).