Dr. Kenan Kalaycı on Dr. Kenan Kalayci

Supervision

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If you’re a current UQ student interested in writing Masters, Honours or a PhD thesis with me, send me a short email introducing yourself and suggesting a meeting time. You don’t need to send me a CV or already have a thesis idea.

We will discuss potential research questions based on your interests and skills at the initial meeting. After the meeting, you will need to decide if you’d like to work with me. Choosing not to work with me will generate no hard feelings, and I will be happy to advise you on potential alternatives.

About

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Dr Kenan Kalaycı is an experimental economist and Senior Lecturer in Economics at The University of Queensland. His research sits at the intersection of behavioural economics and industrial organization, with a particular focus on consumer confusion, product and price complexity, and the strategic design of markets.

He develops laboratory and field experiments to study how firms respond when consumers have limited attention or difficulty comparing products. This work examines spurious product differentiation, obfuscation, price discrimination, consumer policy, and competition.

Links and Resources

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Economics experiments

zTree resources

zTree crash course

oTree tutorial

Veconlab for classroom experiments

Writing

Choosing and pursuing unusual research topics

How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time

The introduction formula

Body

Conclusion

Four steps to an applied micro paper.

Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students

Guide to literature reviews

Data Analysis

Code and data for the social sciences: A practitioner's guide.

Grants, awards, fellowships

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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Research Council, $358,000 (2016-2018)

Distinguished Teaching Certificate, UQ School of Economics, International Industry Economics (small postgraduate courses), 2015.

Excellence in Teaching Award, UQ School of Economics, Industrial Economics (small undergraduate courses), 2014.

UQ Early Career Research Grant, $20000 (2013-2014)

Distinguished Teaching Certificate, UQ School of Economics, Experimental Economics (small undergraduate courses), 2012.

Publications

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Selected peer-reviewed publications.

Working papers

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Current working papers and ongoing projects.

Confusopoly: Why companies are motivated to deliberately confuse

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Originally published by The Conversation.

Consumers today have easy access to a wide range of products and services. The task of choosing between hundreds of products or packages each having dozens of different fees however, is the opposite of easy.

Product and price variety gives consumers with varying tastes and usage patterns choice. But the overwhelming complexity of markets may have an anti-competitive effect: competition between firms is weaker when consumers are confused. Recent economic theory recognises the possibility that companies might have incentives to intentionally confuse their consumers by spuriously differentiating their products or by using complex price schedules.

Blog

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Articles and public writing on behavioural economics, consumer decision-making, and competition.

Confusopoly: Why companies are motivated to deliberately confuse

When consumers struggle to compare complicated products and prices, firms may have weaker incentives to compete. This article explains why complexity can become a deliberate market strategy and what policy can—and cannot—do about it.

Read the article →

Teaching

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I teach and supervise across behavioural economics, industrial organization, and experimental methods at the University of Queensland.

Courses

Experimental Economics

International Industry Economics

Prospective Students

If you are interested in Masters, Honours, or PhD research, please see Supervision for how I work with students and how to get started.

For teaching or supervision enquiries, use the details on the Contact page.

Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae

Download full CV (PDF)

Professional Snapshot

Senior Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
PhD in Economics, Tilburg University
Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow (2016-2018)
Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford (2017-2018)

For research collaboration or supervision discussions, please use the Contact page.

Contact

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Contact Details

Dr Kenan Kalayci

Room 510, Colin Clark Building (39)
School of Economics, The University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

Phone: +61 (0) 7 3346 7064
Email: k.kalayci@uq.edu.au

Get in Touch

I welcome enquiries about research collaboration, student supervision, and related academic work.

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